Enough Said Poetry Slam ft. After All

Enough Said Poetry Slam is a stage for spoken word, where poets new and experienced can get up on stage and share their words with a captive audience. Our monthly event brings together lovers of poetry to share, click, listen, and compete for prizes, as well as some of the biggest names in poetry in Australia to perform for our audience.

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FEATURE POET: After All
SUPPORT FEATURE: Claire Della Marta

6:30pm - DOORS OPEN + SLAM SIGN-UP
7:00pm - POETRY BEGINS

ENTRY

$10 - standard
$5 - unwaged/student/concession

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VENUE

Our venue in 2025 is the Side Door Theatre on Crown St in Wollongong. It has a small door that can be found directly across the road from the Atchison St entry to Spotlight. It's a four-minute walk from Wollongong Train Station and a two-minute walk from the nearest free bus stop. Free parking can be found on surrounding streets, starting with Atchison St.

Side Door Theatre is a licensed venue, there will be drinks and snacks available for sale, please do not bring in outside alcohol. There are a number of toilets inside the venue. 

Entry to the venue is down four steps from the front door and is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. Please reach out to us if you have access needs and you'd like to discuss entry into the venue.

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POETRY SLAM RULES

Sign up at the door when you arrive if you'd like to perform. Everyone is welcome, from bedroom poets to experienced performers. 

Three-minute time limit, no props or costumes, jump up on stage with a mic and share your original poem with a live and engaged audience. Rapping counts as poetry and singing is allowed, but not for the majority or all of the poem.

Random people from the audience become the judges, and the highest-scoring poet wins! 1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes to be awarded!

But remember: The points are not the point, the point is poetry!

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FEATURED POET

After All are the 2025 Bankstown Poetry Slam Grand Slam Champions, a quartet of poetic misfits hailing from across Western Sydney. Jihad Yassine is a two-time National Youth Poetry Slam finalist and an Australian Poetry Slam state finalist, who devotes his poetry to expressions of language and self. Antoinette Luu seeks to locate the global in the local, lived poetry, which she brings into her study of English, Creative Writing and Screen Production at UNSW. With a background writing and directing sketch comedy, Olly Moore offers critiques of politics and personal adversities, knowing when to take life seriously and when to delight in the absurd. And Elliot York Cameron is a perpetually coming-out-of-retirement performing writer and educator whose work has been published in Bare Knuckle Poet and Baby Teeth Journal.

SUPPORT FEATURE

Claire Della Marta is a Horticulturist and poet who is inspired by the threads of similarity between botanical biology, and the human experience. With an interweaving of mythology and folklore, she navigates illness, heartache, and her connection to nature through her writing, giving deep emotions a place to settle on the page. 

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We acknowledge our events take place on the land of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal nation and pay our respects.

Enough Said Poetry Slam is supported by the South Coast Writers Centre.