DEFNE

DEFNE is a queer Turkish-Australian multidisciplinary artist with a style that’s definitely hers. She is the Creative Director and Host of West Side Poetry, a monthly hybrid slam in Parramatta and online.

DEFNE has featured at State Library NSW, Art Gallery NSW, Story Week, ‘23 Adelaide Writers’ Week, and been published in UNSWeetend. Her Bankstown Grand Slam team performance at the Sydney Opera House won bronze.

She performed her poetry and song show, “DEFNE Opens Up”, at Flight Path Theatre, and her play, “Stomach It”, under OutLoud’s Levitate Mentorship.

DEFNE’s work explores relationships in all their forms—be it romantic, familial, platonic, or with ourselves and mental health, abuse, and culture. The world’s her runway as she overruns it with shared vulnerability and revolutionary intimacy.