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Word Travels runs the massive Australian Poetry Slam (APS). APS is so big it’s got its own website and acronym. Workshops, Heats, Finals – they’re on the APS site.
On this page you’ll find bespoke events, projects and Story Week events.
STORY WEEK 2026
Story Week asks: Whatcha got?
This year Word Travels is not just asking for your stories. We want to amplify your activities. Are you running a poetry slam, a storytelling event, a literary diamond in the vast quarry of Australian venues? We want to celebrate your wild (or tame) gathering in a national calendar during Story Week: 9–25 October 2026.
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STORY SHARING CIRCLE – COFFS HARBOUR
Bring a story, a poem, a memory, or simply yourself. Together we'll gather over a cuppa to listen deeply, celebrate our diverse cultures, and honour the stories that connect us.
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STORY SHARING CIRCLE – LOGAN
Bring a story, a poem, a memory, or simply yourself. Together we'll gather over a cuppa to listen deeply, celebrate our diverse cultures, and honour the stories that connect us.
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STORY WEEK 2025
Story Week – Grow Deeper
Story Week asks what stories are we telling now, how, why, when and where? We meet people where they are. Simply asking people during one week a year to host spaces for stories and make this your community’s focus.
Featuring Australian Poetry Slam Finals in Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales.
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STORY SHARING CIRCLE – COFFS HARBOUR
Bring a story or a poem. We are creating spaces for creators and emerging storytellers to yarn over a cuppa. The mic is yours—share, inspire, and celebrate our diverse voices!
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STORY WEEK 2024
Story Week is Common-Unity.
Story Week innovates the ways we tell stories finding a common unity. People are sharing: some slam in big rooms, some yarn in dining rooms. Not celebrities. We close the distance between artist and audience, exchange stories in new intimate ways.
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STORY WEEK 2023
Join Story Week 2023: Be Heard. Be Seen
Story Week is made of words that must be spoken – your Story Weak, Story Work, Story Woke, Story Wick.
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NEWCASTLE – HEARD: SHARING CIRCLE AND OPEN MIC
Word Travels and Newcastle Libraries invite you to share your own story of feeling heard or unheard. Our guest writers Joanna Yang, Luke Patterson and Miles Merrill will share their stories and open the mic for you to share yours.
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STORY WEEK 2022
Join Story Week 2022 to Share Circles and Stories that grow.
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Multilingual Stories - A Sharing Circle
Multilingual Stories is a sharing circle where we celebrate languages other than English, share stories and poems about being new to a place and weave diverse perspectives into a vibrant evening mesh.
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Writing Through Fences Book Launch with Southerly
Celebrate World Poetry Day Monday the 21st of March with the launch of Writing Through Fences. With readings by Hani Abdile, Behrouz Boochani, and more contributing artists to be announced.
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STORY WEEK 2021
Join Word Travels for Story Week 2021 as we Incubate, Create & Celebrate.
Write to Perform - 3 Hour Spoken Wordshop
Knowing how to speak your words is essential and adds to your professional development, how you market your work and build your confidence.
Australian Poetry Slam - National Final
Eight states, sixteen poets, but only one will be named the 2020 Australian Poetry Slam Champion.
Aloud w/ Hani Abdile
Hani Abdile travelled from Somolia to Australia by land, sea and Christmas Island detention. Through this journey she found herself writing poetry.
Word Travels 10th B-day Party Online Auction
On November 14th, Word Travels celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Join us for a celebration of this organisation’s role in paving the way for spoken word in Australia.
First Person Voice
Indigenous artists throw their words and songs into the stream with their own micro shows highlighting their flow and their powerful messages.
Answer Story
Answers tore me / ancestry / answers or me / ANSWERSTORY poets, a hip hop artist and House of Silky join forces for the first time.
Aloud Friday Night Double Bill w/ Arielle Cottingham + Hollie McNish
Live from Berlin, the 2016 Australian Poetry Slam Champion, digs into her repertoire.
My Latest Epiphany w/ Ruby Singh + Silla Rise
Silla and Rise blend Inuit throat singing with dance floor beats. Ruby Singh's creativity crosses music, poetry, visual art, photography and film. Watch them unpack cases of creative flow-etry.
Word Travels Round the World
A big showcase where wordy wild things spit and gyrate across lands near and far.
Aloud w/ Joshua Ip + Charlene Shepardson
Live from Singapore and London with Joshua Ip, Charlene Shepherdson and Zohab Zee Khan. In the heart of Singapore lives a busting literary arts organisation, Sing Lit Station. They’ve been making great waves in the their city’s pool of writers and readers since 2016.
Songlines on Screen - Footprints Screening with Q&A
It's 2014 and a group of young Aboriginal men from a tribe on the verge of losing their songlines have just discovered that a law boss from a neighbouring tribe knows some of their cultural songs and dances.
My Latest Epiphany w/ reg e gaines + Ian Keteku
Live from New York and Toronto - reg e gaines, legend of New York’s poetry slam community and Ian Keteku, World Poetry Slam Champion from Toronto. They open their notebooks for Miles Merrill
Habla
Primary kids get all multilingual; sharing poetry in languages other than English.
NSW Poetry Slam Final
Join the best spoken wordsmiths from across NSW as they lay their stories on the line.
Aloud w/ Daiane Moret
Daiane Moret is abandoning the pretty words, the metaphors and the camouflage. She reminds us that crying is not like bleeding and salt can illuminate the dark.
My Latest Epiphany w/ Nisha Patel + Darian Dauchan
Live from New York and Edmonton - Beatboxing Loopstation Vice Champion and The Canadian Poetry Slam Champion unveil their newest stuff.
First Person View: Concepts of Country Screening with Q&A
Concepts of Country - Screening with Q&A. Concepts of Country is a collection of 5 x 1 minute videos made in the Kimberley region of Western Australia to explain the meaning of words that are vital to living with Country.
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October 2026
- 9 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026 STORY WEEK 2026 9 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026
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August 2026
- 11 Aug 2026 STORY SHARING CIRCLE – COFFS HARBOUR 11 Aug 2026
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July 2026
- 31 Jul 2026 STORY SHARING CIRCLE – LOGAN 31 Jul 2026
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October 2025
- 11 Oct 2025 – 26 Oct 2025 STORY WEEK 2025 11 Oct 2025 – 26 Oct 2025
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August 2025
- 11 Aug 2025 STORY SHARING CIRCLE – COFFS HARBOUR 11 Aug 2025
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October 2024
- 3 Oct 2024 – 18 Oct 2024 STORY WEEK 2024 3 Oct 2024 – 18 Oct 2024
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October 2023
- 2 Oct 2023 – 8 Oct 2023 STORY WEEK 2023 2 Oct 2023 – 8 Oct 2023
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August 2023
- 23 Aug 2023 NEWCASTLE – HEARD: SHARING CIRCLE AND OPEN MIC 23 Aug 2023
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October 2022
- 15 Oct 2022 – 23 Oct 2022 STORY WEEK 2022 15 Oct 2022 – 23 Oct 2022
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April 2022
- 14 Apr 2022 Multilingual Stories - A Sharing Circle 14 Apr 2022
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March 2022
- 21 Mar 2022 Writing Through Fences Book Launch with Southerly 21 Mar 2022
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November 2021
- 7 Nov 2021 – 28 Nov 2021 STORY WEEK 2021 7 Nov 2021 – 28 Nov 2021
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May 2021
- 12 May 2021 Write to Perform - 3 Hour Spoken Wordshop 12 May 2021
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November 2020
- 14 Nov 2020 Australian Poetry Slam - National Final 14 Nov 2020
- 14 Nov 2020 Aloud w/ Hani Abdile 14 Nov 2020
- 14 Nov 2020 Word Travels 10th B-day Party Online Auction 14 Nov 2020
- 14 Nov 2020 First Person Voice 14 Nov 2020
- 13 Nov 2020 Answer Story 13 Nov 2020
- 13 Nov 2020 Aloud Friday Night Double Bill w/ Arielle Cottingham + Hollie McNish 13 Nov 2020
- 13 Nov 2020 My Latest Epiphany w/ Ruby Singh + Silla Rise 13 Nov 2020
- 13 Nov 2020 APS Youth 13 Nov 2020
- 12 Nov 2020 Word Travels Round the World 12 Nov 2020
- 12 Nov 2020 Aloud w/ Joshua Ip + Charlene Shepardson 12 Nov 2020
- 12 Nov 2020 Songlines on Screen - Footprints Screening with Q&A 12 Nov 2020
- 12 Nov 2020 My Latest Epiphany w/ reg e gaines + Ian Keteku 12 Nov 2020
- 12 Nov 2020 Habla 12 Nov 2020
- 11 Nov 2020 NSW Poetry Slam Final 11 Nov 2020
- 11 Nov 2020 Aloud w/ Daiane Moret 11 Nov 2020
- 11 Nov 2020 My Latest Epiphany w/ Nisha Patel + Darian Dauchan 11 Nov 2020
- 10 Nov 2020 First Person View: Concepts of Country Screening with Q&A 10 Nov 2020
- 10 Nov 2020 Aloud w/ DOBBY and Barkaa 10 Nov 2020
- 10 Nov 2020 My Latest Epiphany w/ Jillian Christmas + J. F. Seary 10 Nov 2020
- 9 Nov 2020 Aloud w/ Hear My Voice 9 Nov 2020
- 9 Nov 2020 My Latest Epiphany w/ Brandon Wint + Lucia Misch 9 Nov 2020
- 8 Nov 2020 WORDSMITH Podcast Launch 8 Nov 2020
- 8 Nov 2020 Aloud w/ Pomegranate 8 Nov 2020
- 8 Nov 2020 Word for Word 8 Nov 2020
- 7 Nov 2020 Sydney Poetry Slam Final 7 Nov 2020
- 7 Nov 2020 Aloud w/ Zohab Zee Khan 7 Nov 2020
- 7 Nov 2020 Spoken Word for a Living 7 Nov 2020
- 6 Nov 2020 Opening Night House Party 6 Nov 2020