August Bankstown Poetry Slam ft. Huda the Goddess & Amuor Malou

Welcome to Australia's largest regular poetry slam!

We are so excited to announce this month’s feature, 2021 Australian Poetry Slam champ Huda the Goddess with support from Amuor Malou ❤️‍🔥

Huda Fadlelmawla (aka Huda The Goddess) is a spoken word poet, educator, and community activist. Huda is the Australian Poetry slam champion 2021. Alongside being the 2021 QLD poetry slam champion and the 2020 QLD poetry slam champion, she has been a poet for over 6 years and is a nationally recognised poet.

Amuor Malou is a South Sudanese Australian proudly living on Dharug land. With a passion for creativity and an appreciation for life, She loves to explore the fun, weird and interesting experiences the world has to offer. Amuor’s creative expression lies in capturing the beautiful and peculiar moments of life through words and art. Drawing inspiration from nature, human interaction, culture and identity, she creates art exploring both simple and complex experiences; particularly through painting, writing and performing.
Amuor was a feature artist at Fairfield City Museum & Gallery “Tick the Box” community event, 2023. Alongside her team, she won peoples choice award at Bankstown Poetry Slam Grand Slam, hosted at the Art Gallery of NSW, 2023. In 2021 she published her novella “Devils’ Spawn” with the Story Factory.

Please join us at our new time of 6:30 pm!

Your ticket gets you access to the slam, fresh watermelon, world class poetry and some bad dad jokes, courtesy of our MC Bilal.

For rules on participating in the slam, please see below.

🍉 If you are intending to sign up to perform at the slam, please book a ticket and arrive at 6:15 pm to sign up at the door. We generally do not offer free artist tickets but if you you have special circumstances/are experiencing financial difficulty, please get in touch so that we can issue you a free ticket.

🍉 Regular slam rules apply: No age restrictions/ STRICT 3 minute time limit (try to limit poem introductions)/ no props or music/ poetry must be your original work.

🍉 The top 4 scoring artists will be granted a spot at the Grand Slam.

🍉 Please note that signing up does not guarantee a performance spot. We have a lottery system in place whereby we randomly draw names so that it is fair for everyone, given the high sign up numbers!

Poetry aficionados, appreciators of HipHop and literature that beats with a thunderous heart — you absolutely do not want to miss this!

Thank you to Outloud for their venue support. Please note that after hours access to the Bankstown Arts Centre is via the back gate on the left hand side of the building (via the car park on Olympic Pde).

Please note that BPS is a volunteer run organisation so any extra donations go a long way in helping us support our artists! Thank you for your generosity ❤️‍🔥

If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask away or email info@bankstownpoetryslam.com