SA Summer Slam

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 ...

Sarah’s Sister’s Sustainable Cafe
117 Semaphore Road, Semaphore, SA 5019

Friday 19 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 … ... Read more ...

State Library of South Australia
cnr North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide SA 5000

Saturday 13 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 … ... Read more ...

Runner-up Arantza Garcia and winner Yeeel

Winner Yeeel

Runner-up Arantza Garcia

Guest Rainey Madeleine

Cam Casey

Stella Newland

John McGuiness

Cayley Ferguson

Paul Kohn

Matthew Pankhurst

Tori

Jake Rayner

Sacrifice Ian Gibbins

Emcee Sarah Jane Justice

Jive

Finalists

 

A fantastic final for the 2023 Summer Slam last night at Jive: a great line-up, enthusiastic audience, and a very close call for the top two places!

Congratulations to winner, Yeeel, and runner-up Arantza Garcia. Big cheers to everyone who came, competed, judged, cheered, sponsored, and generally supported the Summer Slam this year!!

Pics by Ian Gibbins.

Thursday 2nd March 2023
Doors open at 7:00 pm

Jive
181 Hindley Street, Adelaide, SA 5000.

$10 at trybooking or at the door.

After three heats of fresh voices and fiery words, we will have our ten Summer Slam finalists for 2023!

Come watch our ten finalists battle it out with words and wits to win the top spot. Competitors will have two minutes to impress the judges who will be randomly selected from the audience.

If you’ve never been to a Poetry Slam before, this will be the perfect introduction! Bring along some friends and experience the excitement of … ... Read more ...