Thursday, May 30, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.
The wait is over! FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe returns for 2019 on a new night: the last Thursday of the month.
We are starting the season with three diverse voices: Steve Evans, long-standing FSP member, winner of the 2019 Satura Prize, published far and wide; Maria Vouis, one of FSP’s New Poets 19, and Amelia Walker, widely published, performed, and involved in the poetry community.
The fabulous Halifax Cafe will be open for meals and beverages. Come early, stay late, enjoy!
$5 at the door to pay the poets.
Click here for the Facebook event.
Steve Evans ran the Creative Writing Program at Flinders University for several years. His output includes general adult fiction, romance, detective fiction, poetry and nonfiction. After major prizes and 12 books, new titles Animal Instincts (poetry) and Easy Money (short stories) are due in 2019. He is one of five finalists for the 2019 Penguin Novel Manuscript Prize. Steve is a reviewer of live music, stage performances and movies, a longstanding literary editor, a fiction reader for Overland, and past member of literary festival committees and arts panels. He has been a writer-in-residence in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Japan. Besides writing and reading, he is kept happy by good company, music, and motorcycling.
Maria Vouis is an emerging, prize-winning performance and page poet, vocalist and teacher. She recently won one of three manuscript prizes for FSP’sNew Poets 19. She graduated with honours from Flinders University Creative Writing and Education Departments, and holds a Certificate IV in Music–Voice from Flinders Street School of Music. Experience as a musician and vocalist underpins her poetic practice and she teaches the scary craft of prosody through percussion: a lateral approach. Maria co-manages SPIN with Julia Wakefield and directed Eclectica, an A Cappella / Performance Poetry band at the 2017 Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Amelia Walker has published four poetry collections, most recently Dreamday. She is also the author of three educational resource books on poetry (in Macmillan’s All You Need to Teach series). At present, Amelia works as a lecturer for the University of South Australia. She is also co-editor of the reviews section for TEXT, the peer-reviewed journal of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, and a member of the general editing committee for the gender and diversity studies journal Writing From Below.