FSP February City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 1st February, 2021
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

Welcome to 2021 and our first meeting for the year!

We are still required to follow a COVID-19 safety plan, which includes social distancing with a corresponding impact on the total number of people who can attend the meeting. Under current rules, this means that a maximum of 48 people can attend. Therefore…

• You need to fill in the following Expression of Interest Form before you attend. This will make life easier for everyone. 

• You will need to check-in via a QR code with your smart phone or by signing in.… Click for more

Editing opportunity – 2021 FSP Anthology

Friendly Street Poets (FSP) has a wonderful opportunity for two volunteer editors for the next poetry anthology based on readings in 2021 but you’ll need to act quickly.

Since its beginnings in 1975, FSP has consistently brought the work of both established and developing writers to a keen readership. The new annual anthology will be the 46th in our proud history.

The positions involve the editors: 

  • attending the monthly (Feb to Dec) readings at the Box Factory in the Adelaide CBD;
  • selecting a Poem of the Month from poems submitted, which will appear on our website — and deciding on Honourable Mentions where warranted;
  • determining poems for inclusion in the anthology;
  • corresponding with the successful poets, gathering bio information, etc.;
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FSP December City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 7th December, 2020
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

We are required to follow a COVID-19 safety plan, which includes social distancing with a corresponding impact on the total number of people who can attend the meeting. This means that a maximum of 20 people can attend. Therefore…

• You need to fill in the following Expression of Interest Form before you attend. This will make life easier for everyone. 

• If you have not registered your intention to attend in advance, you may not be allowed to attend on the night.… Click for more

Book Launch: Marking Time. A Chronicle of Cancer by Valerie Volk

Thursday, 12 November, 2020
7:30pm to 8:30pm

Burnside Library
401 Greenhill Road, Tusmore 5065

Please join us at Burnside Library for Writing from the Shadows with FSP poet Valerie Volk. Valerie will talk about the ways writing can help in difficult times and discuss her tenth book, Marking Time, written during her partner’s cancer journey. Out of the time came a book described by one reviewer as “beautiful, brave and achingly personal” and endorsed by the Cancer Council as “a poignant collection of poems that will help an individual who is currently living with, or supporting someone through, a cancer diagnosis.” … Click for more

New Poets 21 now available

FSP New Poets 21 featuring collections of poems by Mark Ritchie, Tarla Kramer, and Doug Jacquier is now available for purchase. Get a copy for $20 at any FSP meeting or order a copy on-line via the form below.

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