Stay tuned for updates and specific info for each heat.
2019 Australian Poetry Slam : SA dates, new rules & FAQ
Start getting ready for the 2019 Australian Poetry Slam! Here are the SA dates and venues. More details for each event will be announced closer to the dates. Make sure you check out the rules! Some have changed from previous years. Most importantly, if you get to the finals, you must do a new poem different from the one you did in your heat (or the previous final, if you get that far).
Click here to read the rules, terms and conditions in detail.
Frequently Asked Questions – click here for answers!
SA Heat 1 – Adelaide – State Library
Friday 16th August
7pm (6.30pm registration)
State Library Of SA Institute Building
Cnr North Tce/ Kintore Ave, Adelaide, SA 5000
$6
Guest poet: Sarah-Jane Justice
SA Heat 2 – Salisbury
Saturday 24th August
3pm (2.30pm registration)
Salisbury Institute
17-19 Wiltshire Street, Salisbury, SA 5108
$6
Guest poet: Ashlee Karlar
SA Heat 3 – Adelaide – Uni Bar
Friday 30th August
7pm (6.30pm registration)
Uni Bar Ground Level
Union House, North Terrace Campus, University of Adelaide, SA 5000
$6
Guest poet: Eugene Phoa
SA Heat 4 – Morphettvale
Friday 6th September
7pm (6.30pm registration)
Woodcraft Library
175 Bains Road, Morphettvale, SA 5162
$6
Guest poet: Daydream Fever
SA Heat 5 – Adelaide – Jive
Thursday 12th September
7pm (6.30pm registration)
Jive Nightclub
181 Hindley Street, Adelaide, SA 5000
$6
Guest poet: Jon Brooks
SA FINAL
Friday 27 September
8pm (Doors open 7.30pm)
Goodwood Institute Theatre
166a Goodwood Road, Goodwood
$20 Book at Trybooking.com/525187
Empathy and the Body: Poetry Workshops with Chiara Gabrielli
Using the canvas of the human anatomy, explore how to personify and more genuinely connect with the most immediate part of our lives, our bodies. Pulling our focus and vision inwards, towards ourselves, and away from the cacophony of external, larger lens of global news and information. Using the personal stories and relationships we have with our own bodies, and pre-existing text from medical books, advertisements, and other media to creatively spark another way of thinking.
SWSA is proud to present our latest Adelaide City Library Resident, Chiara Gabrielli.
Chiara’s workshop program commences on:
Saturday June 1st
from 2.30pm
Adelaide City Library
3rd Floor, Francis Street (off Rundle Mall).
Workshops will continue on Saturday 8th June and Saturday 15th June at 2.30pm.
The final workshop/performance will happen on Saturday 22nd June from 1pm with performance/presentation at 3pm the same day.
All workshops are free and you can attend as many or as few as you wish or are able to attend.
Click here for the Facebook events.
The Spoken Word SA Poet in Residence Program is made possible through a partnership with Adelaide City Council City Library.
SA Poetry Slam 2018: Emelia Haskey
Emelia Haskey, 2018 South Australian Poetry Slam finalist performing at the State Final, Goodwood Theatre, 20th September 2018.
SA Poetry Slam 2018: Andrew Drake
Andrew Drake, South Australian Poetry Slam finalist performing at the SA Poetry Slam State Final at the Goodwood Theatre, 20th September 2018.
Chiara Gabrielli: 2019 Adelaide City Library Poet-in-Residence
Spoken Word SA and the Adelaide City Library are proud to announce the successful applicant for the Poet in Residence Program for May 2019: Chiara Gabrielli.
We saw a great set of applications with a record number being submitted for just one place. But the program looks like being back in 2019 – 20 and there will be plenty more opportunities.
More information coming soon with regard to what Chiara will be getting up to.