Jessica Alice performing ‘Long Island’ at Melbourne Spoken Word’s leg of the Heir Loom tour at Howler, on June 3, 2016.
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Jessica Alice is a writer, editor, broadcaster and speaker from Melbourne. She is Poetry Editor of Scum and was a Director of the National Young Writers’ Festival in 2014 & 15. Jessica’s work has been featured in The Guardian Australia, VICE, The Lifted Brow, Junkee, Spook Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review and Metro Magazine, among others.
Annie Solah is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, activist and the Director of Melbourne Spoken Word. She grew up in Western Sydney before calling Melbourne home in 2008, where she's performed since 2010 around Melbourne's regular spoken word and poetry nights including Passionate Tongues, The Dan Poets, Voices in the Attic and House of Bricks as well as the NGV and White Night. She's released a chapbook, broken bodies, and two spoken word albums, Duel Power with Santo Cazzati and The World Doesn't Make Sense EP.
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