Story Week Amplifies: 2026 saw the inaugural run of the Rising Voices Fellowship to support a group of local poets and spoken word artists to deepen and expand their practice. Now, after 6 months of learning, exploring, and applying their skills they are ready to reveal what they have created, with poetry performances, and the launch of an anthology and a podcast.

Story Week Amplifies: Explore the incredible diversity of poetic expression, from slam poetry and spoken word to haiku, free verse, lyric poetry and experimental forms. Every month offers something new, inspiring and unexpected. 

In collaboration with Ubud Writers and Readers Festival: Through poetry and prose, writers have long asked: who am I, and what am I still becoming? Becoming ourselves is not about building something new; it is about uncovering what was always there, waiting in the silence.

Story Week Amplifies: Poetica Collective – Create, listen, laugh, mingle, eat a sanga, delete a bevvy, whatever ya want. As long as you bring yourself and your closest homies.

Story Week Amplifies: The October 2026 chapter of the Sydney Poetry Lounge, featuring poetry from Luke Fischer, Jakob Ziguras, an incredible open mic! Head upstairs at The Glebe Hotel for a night filled with powerful spoken word performances and heartfelt poetry.

In collaboration with Ubud Writers and Readers Festival: Women Poetry Slam returns with the theme Light and Samarasā, inspired by this year's Festival theme. Through poetry, we hope to spark awareness, empathy and action around gender equality and rights, spirituality and the everyday fight against injustice.

In collaboration with Ubud Writers and Readers Festival: What power does poetry have to report on the state of the world? How do poets balance research and fact with feeling?

Story Week Amplifies: SpeakEasy Poetry returns with their soft & powerful monthly poetry open mic in the not so secret Season Three Space, located in the upstairs studio at their lovely home of echo & bounce.

Story Week Amplifies: Sixty seconds. One poem. What will you say? For more than four decades, the Launceston Poetry Cup has been one of Tasmania’s great poetry traditions. Now, after 42 years in Launceston, the Poetry Cup is heading south for the very first Hobart Poetry Cup.

In collaboration with Ubud Writers and Readers Festival: How many stories does it take to hold a room silent? Join us for an afternoon, one stage and eight storytellers.

Story Week Amplifies: TROU (The Rest of Us) hosts a special poetry night at TROU Space with celebrated poet and author Maxine Beneba Clarke and poet and writer Thuy On, with live music from violinist Huich Goh.

In collaboration with Ubud Writers and Readers Festival: From global poets to local sensations, who will win the crowd? In this event, writers unite from around the world to slam, spin and interweave their original words in a fiery battle, judged by a glittering array of global poets.

Story Week Amplifies: What gets you fired up? What will and won't you stand for? Whats happening in the world that you can’t keep quiet about? Whatever it is you stand for, we want to hear it!

Story Week Amplifies: Experience the four distinctive poetic voices of Ellen van Neerven, Luke Patterson, Ed Southorn and Adara Enthaler as they explore memory, imagination and the emotional power of language with Gabrielle Journey Jones.

Story Week Amplifies: Ocean Mic Poets presents their inaugural Poetry Slam! Join for a morning of slammed poetry with the usual slam rules except no randomly selected audience judges. This is an "anti-bell-curve scoring" Personal Best Poetry Slam in which YOU are the only judge of your performance. The winner will be your poetic heart and courage to share.

Two slam champions from every state and territory slam their poetry. Whittled down from heats in tiny towns and metro centres, the crowd now crowns our nation’s next 2026 Australian Poetry Slam (APS) Champion.

Story Week Amplifies: SIMA welcomes acclaimed poet, vocalist, and bandleader aja monet for her highly anticipated Sydney debut for the Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival 2026.