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Australian Poetry Slam Victorian Heats

Battle it out for the title of Victorian Slam Poet Champion.

The search is on for Australia’s 2017 poetry slam champion.

Speak, scream, howl, whisper or even sing your poems, stories, lyrics or monologues in this electric live event where the audience is the judge!

Two finalists from each slam heat will compete in their state final, and the winner and runner-up from each state will compete at the national final in Sydney.

The national champion wins an international writers festival tour prize pack worth up to $11,000!

Hosted by Michelle Dabrowski, performance poet and slam champion.

Julia Prendergast / A Dedicated Poem

Julia Prendergast performing ‘A Dedicated Poem’ at the Slamalamadingdong Anything Goes Slam on June 22, 2017.

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Julia Prendergast is a New Zealand born poet, raised around small country towns in Australia. After first discovering a poetry slam in 2012 she has only recently started to share her work. Although primarily being a fine artist, she cannot deny her hand from pen, paper, words, and eventually a stage. Her poetry is a form of expression and consolidation around topics which she finds necessary to create a conversation around. Through lived experiences with mental health, many of her poems invites you into the un-comfort that is the therapy room she wish she had. Julia believes that if you have a platform to stand on, use it to create change and to start a debate with everyone you may or may never meet.

Danny Hutley / Thunderstorm Asthma

Danny Hutley performs ‘Thunderstorm Asthma’ at Melbourne Spoken Word’s Fresh Voices on May 9, 2017.

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Danny Hutley is from Essex in the UK, and has been a regular on Melbourne’s open mics for the last two years. His poetry explores distance, fragmenting relationships and dance-floors. He came second place in the June Shenfield poetry award and was highly commended in the John Shaw Nielson poetry award. He is currently working on a collection of short stories.