Readings, events and launches
Bonny Cassidy at The Paperback Salon
13 June 6PM - 7PM The Paperback Bookshop 60 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000 An evening of reading and conversation with poet and critic, Bonny Cassidy. The Salon Series brings together our community of writers and readers in a program of informal readings...
Sporting Poets #34: Jill Jones, Louise Carter & Benjamin Laird
Sunday, June 17th 5.30 PM Compass Pizza 319 Lygon St, Brunswick East VIC 3057 Not one but two interstate visitors this month! Come along to Compass for readings from three incredible poets followed by pizza and that all-important poetry debrief over a glass of vino...
Natalie Harkin and Evelyn Araluen: Aboriginal Resistance Poetics
Wednesday, May 30 6 PM - 8 PM John Woolley Building Sydney, Australia 2050 Join Wingara Mura Visiting Indigenous Writers' Program for what promises to be a very special reading by two of Australia's most exciting new Aboriginal poets. Dr Natalie Harkin is a Narungga...
Saturdays with Rosalind Russell: Shastra Deo, Rae White, Ella Jeffery, Jake Goetz
Saturdays is back featuring: * Shastra Deo * Rae White * Ella Jeffery * Jake Goetz Join us for a drink and hear some of Brisbane's best young poets read.
Sick Leave: Elena Gomez, Alex Griffin, Harry Reid, Ursula Robinson-Shaw & Melody Paloma
Monday June 4, 6pm-8pm KINGS Artist-Run 171 King Street, Level 1, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000 FREE A night of poetry at KINGS artist run gallery in the CBD. Elena Gomez is a poet and book editor living in Melbourne. Alex Griffin is a poet and...
Carlton, afterhours: Poetry Readings
16 May at 18:30–19:30 Yarra Libraries (Carlton Library) 667 Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia 3054 A triple reading in partnership with Australian Poetry . Jeanine Leane‘s Walk Back Over (Cordite Publishing Inc.) was launched...
Sporting Poets #33
5.00pm Sunday May 20th Compass Pizza 319 Lygon Street, Brunswick East Poets. Pizza. Beer Jennifer Compton Phillip Hall Sian Vate
Writers’ Escape Day Retreat
Get a head start on your goals with our day-long writer’s retreat.
That Poetry Thing At Smith’s
Monday 7 May - 7pm to 9pm Laurie McDonald + Andrew McDonald $5 on the door; open mic A double serve of McDonalds. Poetic. Nutritious. Canberra poet, performer, raconteur and Folk Festival stalwart Laurie McDonald will join us to show the range of his...
Rabbit 24
Thursday May 24 6pm-8pm Collected Works Bookstore Nicholas Building Level 1, 37 Swanston Street Melbourne • Sydney: 18th May, 6-8pm Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road As part of the Melbourne Spoken Word and Poetry Festival, Rabbit will be celebrating its 24th...
La Mama Poetica
La Mama Courthouse Theatre 349 Drummond St, Carlton. 7.30pm for an 8pm start. Tickets $15/$10 La Mama Poetica featuring Dominique Hecq, Eleanor Jackson, Magan Magan and Ray Liversidge
Voicebox at Café@The Rose
Monday 28 May Voicebox at Café@The Rose featuring Angelina Bong & Carol Millner + open mic + fab food & drinks ground floor Rose Hotel 78 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle (parking front and rear, 200m from North Freo train station) 6:30 for café,...
Owning Your Story
WHEN Sunday, May 6, 2018 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM ENTRY Full$20 Concession$10 BOOKINGS Telephone 02 9824 1121 Throughout history, writers, artists and intellectuals have used freedom of expression as a platform to resist those in power. Hear a panel of emerging...
First Nations producer callout
We are looking for a First Nations poet or storyteller to join our team as the Cultural Liaison Manager / Producer. The position is flexible, based on your interests and availabilities, and could involve Contributing to team meetings With the rest of the...
Going Down Swinging Presents in Full Swing
Friday, May 25, 2018 6:00 pm 9:00 pm Rokeby Studios 90-94 Rokeby Street, Collingwood, VIC (MAP) GOOGLE CALENDAR ICS Going Down Swinging brings you a night of readings and performances from Fury, Soreti Kadir and Andy Jackson, MC’d by past editor Geoff...
Book Launch: Flood Damages by Join Eunice Andrada
Thursday 10 May, 6pm The Red Rattler Theatre 6 Faversham St Marrickville NSW 2204 About the book: In Flood Damages, Eunice Andrada explores the open wounds of colonial occupation, diaspora and inheritance. Through the figure of a young Filipina-Australian...
The Inaugural Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival
Running for 18 days, from Thursday, May 17 to Sunday, June 3, with 74 poets featured in 36 events, with at least one event every day. The inaugural Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival is hosted by Melbourne Spoken Word and a range of independent...
Book Launch: Look at the Lake, by Kevin Brophy
Wednesday 23 May 2018 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm 4th Floor Linkway, John Medley, University of Melbourne, Parkville campus School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts,
GOLFO #2 Antipodean Launch Party, Melbourne
Welcome to the first ever Australian launch of GOLFO magazine, celebrating GOLFO #2! A rapscallion zine of poetry, art and photography
Alice’s Salon presents Brechtfast a morning to eat up Brecht
Alienate your Sunday breakfast and join us at the specially early opening time of 10am, for Brechtfast at Alice’s Bookshop.