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Enough Said Poetry Slam is a stage for spoken word, where poets new and experienced can get up on stage and share their words with a captive audience. Our monthly event brings together lovers of poetry to share, click, listen, and compete for prizes, as well as some of the biggest names in poetry in Australia and overseas to perform for our audience.Come along for a fun, relaxed evening where you can get as involved as much as you're comfortable with – as a poet, judge or enthusiastic audience member – and support local wordsmiths on the mic.
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FEATURE POET: Jihad Yassine
SUPPORT FEATURE: Ammy Lewis
6:30pm - DOORS OPEN + SLAM SIGN-UP
7:00pm - POETRY BEGINS
ENTRY
$10 - standard
$5 - unwaged/student/concession
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POETRY SLAM RULES
Sign up at the door when you arrive if you'd like to perform. Everyone is welcome, from bedroom poets to experienced performers.
Three-minute time limit, no props or costumes, jump up on stage with a mic and share your original poem with a live and engaged audience. Rapping counts as poetry and singing is allowed, but not for the majority or all of the poem.
Random people from the audience become the judges, and the highest-scoring poet wins! 1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes to be awarded!
But remember: The points are not the point, the point is poetry!
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MEET THE FEATURES:
FEATURE ACT
Jihad Yassine has performed his poetry in different states across the country and has performed in the opera house twice as part of the poetry quartet After All, with whom he won the 2025 Bankstown Poetry Slam Grand Slam. He was the 2021 Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers Poetry Winner, and his debut poetry collection Home Between the Cedar Trees was published by Guest House Publishing in 2025. His work explores the clash of identities in a diaspora and how every subtle influence in our childhood dictates the healing we must seek as adults.
SUPPORT FEATURE
Ammy Lewis is a proud Guringai woman who grew up on Dharawal Country. Ammy is brand new to the world of poetry slams, and her writing is grounded in reflections on life and love.
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VENUE
Side Door Theatre is on Crown St in Wollongong. It has a small door that can be found directly across the road from the Atchison St entry to Spotlight. It's a four-minute walk from Wollongong Train Station and a two-minute walk from the nearest free bus stop. Free parking can be found on surrounding streets, starting with Atchison St, or there is paid parking nearby in the mall.
Side Door Theatre is a licensed venue, there will be drinks and snacks available for sale, please do not bring in outside alcohol. There are a number of toilets inside the venue.
Entry to the venue is down four steps from the front door and is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. Please reach out to us if you have access needs and you'd like to discuss entry into the venue.
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We acknowledge our events take place on the land of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal nation and pay our respects.
Enough Said Poetry Slam is supported by the South Coast Writers Centre.
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Event Venue
Side Door Theatre, 231 Crown St, Wollongong NSW 2500, Australia, Wollongong
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