Spoken Word SA (SWSA) exists to connect poets and communities, nurture their development, and provide a platform through which poets can share their work via open readings, workshops, invited performance opportunities, and networking, with the long-term aim of leading SA’s spoken word culture into a strong and sustainable future.
SWSA is caretaker of the SA component of the Australian Poetry Slam and co-ordinates Spoken Word in South Australia. It also supports a Poet-in-Residence program in collaboration with the Adelaide City Library.
Spoken Word SA operates on the unceded lands of the Kaurna people. We acknowledge Kaurna people as the original storytellers of this place, who have led a culture of storytelling for thousands of years and we recognise their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land and waters. We pay our respects to Kaurna elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on whose lands we live, work and create. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
SWSA supports and adheres to the principles of workplace safety for women in the arts.