Australian Poetry Slam Workshop with DEFNE

Before you enter your local Australian Poetry Slam heat, polish up your poetry, write your words, modify your meter and shine up your stanzas at this workshop.

DEFNE will guide you in writing words that electrify the imagination. Express your creative ideas or reshape existing work into competition-ready pieces. Learn about poetry slams and how to use your voice and body to bring the house down on stage. Whether this is your first time experimenting with thoughts to the page or you have been writing for years, this workshop is for you.

Content Warning: Most poetry slams are open to all ages and some content may not be suitable for children. Performances may include strong language and/or adult themes.

Supported by: The Australian Government through Creative Australia, and the NSW Government through Create NSW. Also supported by Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Mumbai LitFest, Singapore Writers Festival and Byron Writers Festival.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment for all. If you require any accommodations to attend this event please contact 4732 7891.

The workshop costs $5 per person. Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be provided. Bookings are essential. 

About DEFNE

DEFNE is a queer Turkish-Australian multidisciplinary artist with a style that’s definitely hers. She is the Creative Director and Host of West Side Poetry, a monthly hybrid slam in Parramatta and online. DEFNE has featured at State Library NSW, Art Gallery NSW, Story Week, ‘23 Adelaide Writers’ Week, and been published in UNSWeetend. Her Bankstown Grand Slam team performance at the Sydney Opera House won bronze. She performed her poetry and song show, “DEFNE Opens Up”, at Flight Path Theatre, and her play, “Stomach It”, under OutLoud’s Levitate Mentorship.

DEFNE’s work explores relationships in all their forms—be it romantic, familial, platonic, or with ourselves and mental health, abuse, and culture. The world’s her runway as she overruns it with shared vulnerability and revolutionary intimacy.