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For Summer Slam 2024, we’ve had a great bunch of sponsors offering prizes for the heat and final. This time we thank Big Crit Energy for tickets to their 2024 Adelaide Fringe show: Live Dungeons and Dragons.

“It’s time to roll initiative for this chaotically queer D&D adventure! Our performers will be rolling dice live on stage in epic fights with mythical beasts, sneaking their way past deadly traps, and making truly terrible decisions that will make the dungeon master question everything. If you don’t know anything about D&D don’t worry – neither do half of our players! … ... Read more ...

Heat 3 Winners

Winner – River Hill (with Snow)

Runner-up – Courtney Hunter

Third – Annette Swain

Alice Robinson

Ginny Thorne

Avalanche

Carissa Fischer

John Thompson

Holly Peters

Brooklyn Saliba

Steven Pappin

Thomas Cassidy

Charlie Thorne

Cate Banbury

John McGuiness

Radhe Krishna

audience

MC Sarah Jane Justice under the Magic Tree

 

Pics: Ian Gibbins

Heat 3 of the 2024 Summer Slam at the Campbelltown Library brought out another fabulous mix of new talent, regular performers, and appreciative audience. Congratulations to winner, River Hill, runner-up, Courtney Hunter, and third place, Annette Swain: they are all off … ... Read more ...

In a great year for Summer Slam prizes, we want to give a huge thanks to Adelaide based publisher Wakefield Press. They have been a long time supporter of the event and Spoken Word SA in general. Go check them out for a slew of great books including poetry, novels, Australian histories and more.

Click here to visit the Wakefield press website. Sign up and subscribe to their email newsletter to keep up with their latest releases, news and events.

Jive
175 Hindley Street, Adelaide

Thursday 1 February, 2024
7:00pm

$10 at trybooking or at the door.

Slam it into 2024! Spoken Word SA’s annual Summer Slam is back. In a friendly, low stakes – but high fun -competition, poets will bring their words and voices to stages around Adelaide. The top three scoring poets from each heat make it to the final… along with two “wild card” entrants! Our wild cards are stand-out performers from any heat that didn’t otherwise get through to the final, hand-picked by the SWSA team.

The final will … ... Read more ...

What a phenomenal night of poetry we had last night! Heat Two of our 2024 Summer Slam saw sixteen talented competitors, a completely full house of poetry fans, and a beautiful selection of treats from Sarah’s Sister’s Sustainable Cafe.

A tie between first and second place gave us a SLAM OFF… which resulted in a second bout of tied scores! With a handshake and the true spirit of poetry at play, our two highest scorers agreed to share equal first position. Congratulations to our next three confirmed finalists:

Equal First: Conor Brown and … ... Read more ...

For the 2024 Summer Slam, we have some quite amazing prizes from our very generous donors. We’ll be letting you know about every one of our supporters.

First cab off the rank is The Finest Filth Variety Hour. We’re talking two tickets to each of two shows at Adelaide Fringe: Camp Crush and Show Pony.

Click on the pics for more info about the shows.

Heat 1 Winners

Winner – Nicola Watson

Runner-up – Kerry Cook

Third – Terry Anne

Adam Paul B

Helium Liu

Izzy Rogers

Thomas Cassidy

Kerryn Tredrea

John McGuiness

Mel Chatfield

Erin Franklin

Luke Baker

Gail

Annette Swain

MC and Sacrifice – Sarah Jane Justice

 

Great start to the 2024 Summer Slam! Fabulous audience and poets featuring a bunch of new faces! Congrats to winner Nicola Watson, runner-up Kerry Cook and third place Terry Anne, who have all qualified for the Summer Slam Final at Jive on Thursday 1st February.

If you missed this one or if … ... Read more ...

Campbelltown Public Library
171 Montacute Road, Newton

Saturday 27 January 2024
Doors and sign-up from 6:30pm for 7:00pm start

$10 entry at trybooking or at the door for both audience and competitors. 

Slam it into 2024! Spoken Word SA’s annual Summer Slam is back. In a friendly, low stakes – but high fun – competition, poets will bring their words and voices to stages around Adelaide. The top three scoring poets from each heat will make it to the final… along with two “wild card” entrants! Our wild cards will be stand-out performers from any heat that didn’t get through … ... Read more ...