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The Summer Slam 19 Final went off big time at Jive Nightclub! Congratulations to our winner Mika Friebel, runner up, Pam Makin, close third, Riley Kamp and all the fine wordsmiths who took part in this year’s events.

KAMI

SARAH JANE JUSTICE

MIKA FRIEBEL

PAM MAKIN

RILEY KAMP

TRACEY O'CALLAGHAN

BRUCE GREENHALGH

TEGAN SABINE

FRANZISKA MARZI

MATT PRITCHARD

SHAINE MELROSE

CARISSA FISCHER

 

The Summer Slam 19 started off in fine fashion with 12 competitors in front of a packed house at the State Library of South Australia. Congrats to winner Pam Makin and runner-up Julia Henning.

There are still three heats to go before the final. Heat 2 is at the Broadcast Bar on Sunday 13th January. Click here for details.

Kelly Cusack, South Australian Poetry Slam finalist performing at the State Final Goodwood Theatre, Goodwood, 20th September 2018.

Writers SA is looking for several writers to read their work at the Feast 2018 ‘Queers Underground’ event on the 22nd of November.

Details here: https://www.feast.org.au/events/queers-underground/

If you’re interested, please send a short sample of your work and a bio or list of relevant experience to matthew@writerssa.org.au ASAP.

This is limited to writers under 30 years of age.

An interesting opportunity to maybe get on SBS TV … see the info on the flyer below.

For more details and applications, go to: http://www.heesomcasting.com/sbscastingcall

Applications close Friday 28th September 2018

Friday 7th September 2018
Woodcroft Community Centre Library
175 Bains Road, Morphett Vale, SA 5162

Sign in at 6:30pm for 7:00pm start

$6

The search is on to find Australia’s best spoken word poet! Speak, sing, howl, whisper or sing your original poem at the South Australian heats of the Australian Poetry Slam, an electric live event where the audience is the judge.

Contestants are given two minutes to speak, scream, howl, whisper or sing their original poem on stage at one of five heats scheduled to take place at different locations around metropolitan Adelaide during the August – September … ... Read more ...

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Well that’s that! The inaugural Rumble SA Youth Slam program is over.  Congratulations to all our finalists and all our poets along the way.  Our very first Rumble SA Youth Slam winner is Audrey Mason-Hyde!  Runner-up was Divya Jacob and Jill Saji came in third.