CHAMPIONS
2024: Jo Giles
2023: ROB WATERS
2023: K.J. HAYWARD
2021: HUDA FADLELMAWLA
2022: JOANNA YANG
2020: REN ALESSANDRA
2019: Wāni Le Frère
2019 (YOUTH): FERGUS CLARKSON
2018: Melanie Mununggurr-Williams
2017 (Adult): Jesse Oliver
2017 (Youth): Solli Raphael
2016: ARIELLE COTTINGHAM
2015: Philip Wilcox
2014: Zohab Zee Khan
2013: Jesse John Brand
2012: CJ Bowerbird
2011: Luka Lesson
2010: Kelly-Lee Hickey
2009: Sarah Taylor
2008: Omar Musa
2019 AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM
WĀNI LE FRÈRE - “ON TELLING THE TRUTH”
EMERSON WILDE - “I AM YOUR NURSE”
DAMIEN BECKER - “THAT WHITE GUY”
ALICE BLACKWOOD - “I TAKE A BREATH”
SOPHIE L. MEREDITH - “STILL”
SARAH TEMPORAL - “MY VAGINA IS FUCKING HUGE”
SARA CRANE - “CULTURAL NARRATIVE”
SAHAR SALAHSHORI - “WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL”
NIKKI HEAVY - “I DID NOT WRITE A POEM THIS YEAR”
MITCHEL MURPHY - “IN A STRANGER’S IRIS”
MICHAEL JOHN BLACK - “LOVE IS NOT OWNERSHIP”
BOY RENAISSANCE - “HER THROAT WAS THE FLINT OF GOD”
2018 AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM
POLA FANOUS - “U CAN FLY”
FABLE GOLDSMITH - “THE DAY WE MET”
FABLE GOLDSMITH - “WHEN I DIE”
TIFFANY HARRIS - “IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD”
SARAH JANE JUSTICE - “LOCK AND KEY”
ALLISOIN KEPHART - “BRIDGE TALK”
David Knobel - “When Word Don’t Work”
YASMIN MCQUADE - “AUSTRALIAN DAMAGE, AUSTRALIAN MADE”
YASMIN MCQUADE - “OVERTHINKING UNDERACHEIVER”
Melanie Mununggurr - "Double Threat”
Matilda Pohlmann
Mallory Potash - “Georgia Sunlight”
Brielle Quigley - “Little Sister”
Caroline Reid - “Stars”
Caroline Reid - “Being Human”
Andi Stewart - “Satellite”
Andi Stewart - “White GIrl”
wāni Le Frère
Kaie Kellough & Alon Ilsar - Feature Artists
2017 AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM
Victoria Alondra
Victoria Alondra - 2nd performance
Vivi Baker
Jerzy Beaumont
Jenny Campbell
Chip Douglas
Andrew Drake
Chiara Gabrielli
Emma Graham
Jesse Oliver - “Wake Up”
Jesse Oliver - ”Designer Soulmates”
Matilda Pohlmann
Solli Raphael - “Embrace Our Differences”
Kai Schweizer
Srisha Sritharan - “Fake News”
Srisha Sritharan - “Australia, as a Tamil”
Andi Stewart
Sharifa A Tartoussi
Daniel Townsend
Daniel Townsend - 2nd Performance
Janice Williams
2016 AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM
Rob Alston
Zoe Beaumont
Arielle Cottingham - “Hurricanes”
Aisling Doyle
Wil Johnston
Stevie Kyriacou
Anisa Nandaula
2015 AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM
Zoe Anderson
Josh Donellan
Josh Donellan - 2nd Performance
Ed Carlyon
Ed Carlyon - 2nd Performance
Oliver Garden
Madison Godfrey
Jacqui Malins
Jason Marsiglia
Jason Marsiglia - 2nd Performance
Ashley McGregor
Ashley McGregor - 2nd Performance
Abe Nouk
Fred Van't Sand
Zainab Zahra Syed
Matilde Wiese
Troy Wong
Sanya Yorth
Sanya Yorth - 2nd Performance
Philip Wilcox - 2nd Performance