Once you find your voice, you become unstoppable. - Selina Tusitala Marsh

Join us for Write-Off: a free half day workshop with prize-winning poets Tracey O'Callaghan (SA) and Sarah Temporal. We'll get your creativity flowing with techniques drawn from freewriting, slam poetry, and improv, as well as giving performance demonstrations. You'll leave with bold writing, improved confidence and new friends!

Includes pizza lunch and all materials.

Who is it for: Ages 12-18, all abilities welcome.

Cost: FREE, bookings essential.

What to expect:

Safe space
Expert facilitators
Fun activities
Lunch included
Accessible venue
Support for additional needs

About the facilitators

Tracey O’Callaghan "The Queen of Sass" is visiting the Northern Rivers on tour with Poets Out Loud. She has performed in five SA slam finals, on stages in Dublin, at Sydney Opera House and as a guest for “Hear me Roar” at Adelaide Writers Week. With passion, zeal and energy, she is a firebrand that will hold you transfixed. Tracey self-published her first book “Brains Balls & Banter" and created a one-woman show of the same name.

Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet, educator, and arts producer residing in the Northern Rivers NSW. Ever since live poetry allowed her to find a voice as a shy nineteen-year-old, she has been fascinated with the power of poetry to reveal our hidden selves. With a background in education, she has taught poetry to hundreds of people from ages 8 to 89, delivering workshops for Byron Writers Festival, Red Room Poetry, Australian Poetry Slam and more. She runs the annual Poets Out Loud Youth Slam to empower regional young voices.

Accessibility:

Murwillumbah Youth Centre is an accessible venue. For more info see https://mccentre.org.au/youth-centre/

Please contact us for additional access needs. e.g. Auslan interpreter, scribe or assistant provided with notice. contactpoetsoutloud@gmail.com

For more information on Poets Out Loud Youth Slam head to poetsoutloud.org/youth

This project is proudly supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.