Word Travels and Newcastle Libraries invite you to share your own story of feeling heard or unheard. Our guest writers Joanna Yang, Luke Patterson and Miles Merrill will share their stories and open the mic for you to share yours.

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Multilingual Stories is a sharing circle where we celebrate languages other than English, share stories and poems about being new to a place and weave diverse perspectives into a vibrant evening mesh.

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Celebrate World Poetry Day Monday the 21st of March with the launch of Writing Through Fences. With readings by Hani Abdile, Behrouz Boochani, and more contributing artists to be announced.

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Knowing how to speak your words is essential and adds to your professional development, how you market your work and build your confidence.

Eight states, sixteen poets, but only one will be named the 2020 Australian Poetry Slam Champion.

Hani Abdile travelled from Somolia to Australia by land, sea and Christmas Island detention. Through this journey she found herself writing poetry.

On November 14th, Word Travels celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Join us for a celebration of this organisation’s role in paving the way for spoken word in Australia.

Indigenous artists throw their words and songs into the stream with their own micro shows highlighting their flow and their powerful messages.

Answers tore me / ancestry / answers or me / ANSWERSTORY poets, a hip hop artist and House of Silky join forces for the first time.

Live from Berlin, the 2016 Australian Poetry Slam Champion, digs into her repertoire.

Silla and Rise blend Inuit throat singing with dance floor beats. Ruby Singh's creativity crosses music, poetry, visual art, photography and film. Watch them unpack cases of creative flow-etry.

High school students dive into the deep end of spoken word.

A big showcase where wordy wild things spit and gyrate across lands near and far.

Live from Singapore and London with Joshua Ip, Charlene Shepherdson and Zohab Zee Khan. In the heart of Singapore lives a busting literary arts organisation, Sing Lit Station. They’ve been making great waves in the their city’s pool of writers and readers since 2016.

It's 2014 and a group of young Aboriginal men from a tribe on the verge of losing their songlines have just discovered that a law boss from a neighbouring tribe knows some of their cultural songs and dances.

Live from New York and Toronto - reg e gaines, legend of New York’s poetry slam community and Ian Keteku, World Poetry Slam Champion from Toronto. They open their notebooks for Miles Merrill

Primary kids get all multilingual; sharing poetry in languages other than English.

Join the best spoken wordsmiths from across NSW as they lay their stories on the line.

Daiane Moret is abandoning the pretty words, the metaphors and the camouflage. She reminds us that crying is not like bleeding and salt can illuminate the dark.

Live from New York and Edmonton - Beatboxing Loopstation Vice Champion and The Canadian Poetry Slam Champion unveil their newest stuff.

Concepts of Country - Screening with Q&A. Concepts of Country is a collection of 5 x 1 minute videos made in the Kimberley region of Western Australia to explain the meaning of words that are vital to living with Country.

“I Can’t Breathe is a song that Australia needs to hear. It’s a direct reflection of our country’s disregard for the health of our indigenous people.” - DOBBY

Showtime in New York and Canada meets Australian lunchtime - one of Canada’s most remarkable poets Jillian Christmas and Nuyorican Poetry star J.F. Seary chat with Emily Crocker about where their craft comes from.

Live from South Africa and London with Phomolo Sekamotho from Hear My Voice, Thando Fuze and Zohab Zee Khan - boom cha! Meet members of Hear My Voice, the South African spoken word organisation. They give us insight into what it’s like on ground for young black poets in Tshwane.

Canada showtime meets Australian lunchtime - meet Brandon Wint and Lucia Misch, two Canadian spoken word poets published by Write Bloody North.

Join us for the launch of WORDSMITH - the poetry podcast. Listen and learn from an eclectic mix of Australian and international poets as they reveal what's behind their words.