FSP August City Meeting and Open Mic

The next FSP City Meeting and Open Mic is on

Monday 6th August 2018

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street, Adelaide.

Sign-in from 6:00pm for a 6:20pm start. Second session starts around 7:30pm.

$5 to read; free to just come and listen.

There is a strict time limit of 3 minutes per reader. This ensures everyone gets a fair go and an opportunity to read to an audience!

Bring two copies of your poems if you’d like to submit them to the next Anthology. Make sure your poems have your name, email and phone number on the back of the page, otherwise they will not be considered.… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe in July: Rachael Mead, Manal Younus, Aidan Coleman

 

Join us for another night of fabulous poetry, food and company at the Halifax Cafe, featuring three of Adelaide’s leading poets…

Wednesday, 25th July, 6:00-7:30pm.

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide

$5 at the door to support the poets.

Come early, stay late, enjoy the fine food and beverages at the Halifax Cafe.

 

Rachael Mead is a poet, short story writer, arts reviewer, writing mentor and bookseller living in South Australia. She has an Honours degree in Classical Archaeology, a Masters in Environmental Studies and a PhD in Creative Writing. Her poetry collections include The Flaw in the Pattern(UWAP 2018),The Sixth Creek(Picaro Press 2013) and two chapbooks.… Click for more

June Poem of the Month

Congratulations to Erica Jolly for her Poem of the Month for June, This Business of Learning, and to Pat Lee for her Commended Poem, I Am One.

This Business of Learning by Erica Jolly

It seems as if I have to wait till now
trying to find out how the process works.
One thing I think I know at last
is this. Probably it began unspoken
the day my father did not come home.

Was that the moment I lost it –
joy in laughter, delight, trust in love
since comfort in my childhood was gone?
Was that the day my childhood died?… Click for more

Ian Coulls book launch

 

Ian Coulls’ new book On the Road to Somewhere Else, published by Ginninderra Press, will be launched by Rob Walker.

Tuesday 24 July, 6:00 pm

Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide.

Live music. Fabulous food and beverages. All welcome!

FSP July City Meeting and Open Mic

The next FSP City Meeting and Open Mic is on

Monday 2nd July 2018

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street, Adelaide.

Sign-in from 6:00pm for a 6:20pm start. Second session starts around 7:30pm.

$5 to read; free to just come and listen.

There is a strict time limit of 3 minutes per reader. This ensures everyone gets a fair go and an opportunity to read to an audience!

Bring two copies of your poems if you’d like to submit them to the next Anthology. Make sure your poems have your name, email and phone number on the back of the page, otherwise they will not be considered.… Click for more

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