Girls on Key is back with our online zoom event featuring Helen Hopcroft and open mic.

$5 entry as part of our anthology fundraiser. NOTE: Please click on the humanitix link above to access tickets.

All genders welcome on the open mic (5 minute time limit) - sign up on the day. Girls on Key features women and non-gender conforming poets in a supportive, inclusive environment. Established in 2014, Girls on Key is a feminist poetry reading organisation and host to Girls on Key Press, a poetry publishing imprint. Zoom link available by email the day before the event.

Helen Hopcroft is an artist, writer and performer with a MA in Painting from London’s Royal College of Art, and a Creative Writing PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the producer of the hit cabaret show Mad Bitches Inc., a ‘gender equity tantrum’
which received Best Show nominations at Newcastle and Dubbo Fringe Festivals. Proudly supported by City of Newcastle, Mad Bitches Inc. will be part of the 2022 New Annual Festival.Helen has written non-fiction books for the University of Newcastle and Hunter Valley Grammar School, with her publication list including The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Art Monthly and The Griffith Review.

This year she was shortlisted for the Spineless Wonders and Newcastle Writers Festival’s Joanne Burns Microlit award, and the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing for her poem, The Howling. She occasionally writes reviews for ArtsHub.com Helen once spent a year dressed as Marie Antoinette, in full replica costume 24/7, for a piece of performance art titled My Year as a Fairy Tale. She is now writing a memoir about the experience. American novelist Debra Spark wrote about Helen’s performance in her latest collection, And Then Something Happened.During the early stages of writing her memoir, Helen was mentored by Kathryn Heyman, a highly regarded writer and teacher. Helen is the poet/frontwoman for The Majishans, a new art rock band who launched their Nashville show at this year’s Newcastle Fringe Festival.