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Monthly open mic night on Wednesdays. Anything can be poetry. In partnership with WestWords. Other performance art forms are also welcome.

West Side Poetry Slam is a monthly hybrid open mic night where you can sign up on the night and perform an original piece of writing to open minds, hearts, and arms. Audience members score with a fun line of feedback and you could win a support feature slot at the next slam. Run & hosted by DEFNE in partnership with Westwords.

13/10/2026

SLAMOWEEN IS TONIGHT! And it's not too late to throw together a last minute costume 🥸 Come to the fun side 🤪 Best dressed gets a lil prize🏆

🗓️ Oct 14 Wednesday
⏰6:40pm Poet Sign-Up, 7pm Event Start
*3 minute time-limit, no gurantee to perform due to high number of sign-ups
📍Parramatta Leagues Club, Level 3, 1 Eels Place, Parramatta NSW
🪪 Bring photo ID to sign in as it's a club! If you are under 18 and not coming with an adult please DM us so we can sign you in.
🎟️ Pay at Door: $12 Standard, $10 Concession. No one turned away for lack of funds.

In partnership with WestWords WestWords. This event celebrates StoryWeek by Word Travels Word Travels
📸: Maharani Sirris (Rani)🌷🍓 ty!

10/10/2026

We're on the hunt for some art for NEXT WEDNESDAY'S SLAM! 🐺 Not only can you buy our feature 王 's book but YOU could also sell some of your own art? 👀 Can be poetry, zines, visual art, crafts etc. Bonus points if it's Halloweeny 🎃 We'll have a table and you can sell via your own PayID.

Please DM if interested and share with somebody who you think might be!

🗓️ Oct 14 Wednesday
⏰6:40pm Poet Sign-Up, 7pm Event Start
*3 minute time-limit, no gurantee to perform due to high number of sign-ups
📍Parramatta Leagues Club, Level 3, 1 Eels Place, Parramatta NSW
🪪 Bring photo ID to sign in as it's a club! If you are under 18 and not coming with an adult please DM us so we can sign you in.
🎟️ Pay at Door: $12 Standard, $10 Concession. No one turned away for lack of funds.

In partnership with WestWords WestWords This event celebrates StoryWeek by Word Travels Word Travels

📸:Full On Fotography

Cobweb graphics designed by macrovector / Freepik

06/10/2026

Introducing our support feature! Sarah Scorzè was our August slam winner but we've had to wait to hear more. We're sure it'll have been worth the wait.

Sarah Scorzè is a q***r poet and writer, a failed academic, unproductive painter, occasional public speaker, and sometime musician. Being a trans woman, their written work often explores themes of identity, transformation, love, gender and the complexities of a lengthy lived experience. She writes mostly to make sense of herself, her journey and her relationship with the external world. Many of Scorzè's poems, essays and stories draw on the ongoing experience of transition. Others draw on the natural world, family, self and relationships. Scorzè also writes q***r romantic fiction, and has published a small volume of short stories entitled, The Girl and The Garden. More recently, she was amazed and delighted to be awarded Writer of the Month in Catharsis Chronicles for poetry and Top Writer in The Lark for June.

🗓️ Oct 14 Wednesday
⏰6:40pm Poet Sign-Up, 7pm Event Start
*3 minute time-limit, no gurantee to perform due to high number of sign-ups
📍Parramatta Leagues Club, Level 3, 1 Eels Place, Parramatta NSW
🪪 Bring photo ID to sign in as it's a club! If you are under 18 and not coming with an adult please DM us so we can sign you in.
🎟️ Pay at Door: $12 Standard, $10 Concession. No one turned away for lack of funds.

In partnership with WestWords WestWords. This event celebrates StoryWeek by Word Travels Word Travels

📸: Full On Fotography

Cobweb graphics designed by macrovector / Freepik

01/10/2026

SO WHO IS TROY WONG?

Troy Wong is an Australian poet born to Singaporean parents. His poems, written on unceded Dharug and Gadigal land, have appeared in Antipodes, Australian Book Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Griffith Review, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He was shortlisted in the 2026 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and won the 2025 Nomad Review Poetry Prize. Off the page and on the stage, he is the founder and creative director of Bread & Butter Poetry Slam, the Inner West's biggest monthly poetry event. His debut full-length poetry collection, Three Durians (Cordite, 2026) is out now.

HIS BOOK WILL BE FOR SALE on the night and maybe you could even get it signed? 👀

🗓️ Oct 14 Wednesday
⏰6:40pm Poet Sign-Up, 7pm Event Start
*3 minute time-limit, no gurantee to perform due to high number of sign-ups
📍Parramatta Leagues Club, Level 3, 1 Eels Place, Parramatta NSW
🪪 Bring photo ID to sign in as it's a club! If you are under 18 and not coming with an adult please DM us so we can sign you in.
🎟️ Pay at Door: $12 Standard, $10 Concession. No one turned away for lack of funds.

In partnership with WestWords WestWords. This event celebrates StoryWeek by Word Travels Word Travels

🕸️ Cobweb graphics designed by macrovector / Freepik

25/09/2026

This is a West Side Halloween! NOT ONLY is our next slam the Western Sydney launch of Troy Wong's debut poetry collection Three Durians (!!!), an excuse to dress up with a prize for best dressed 🍭, but poets can also be accompanied by Serenade on the double bass for some extra vibes?! Get ready for a truly haunting evening 👻

🗓️ Oct 14 Wednesday
⏰6:40pm Poet Sign-Up, 7pm Event Start
*3 minute time-limit, no gurantee to perform due to high number of sign-ups
📍Parramatta Leagues Club, Level 3, 1 Eels Place, Parramatta NSW
🪪 Bring photo ID to sign in as it's a club! If you are under 18 and not coming with an adult please DM us so we can sign you in.
🎟️ Pay at Door: $12 Standard, $10 Concession. No one turned away for lack of funds.

In partnership with WestWords WestWords. This event celebrates StoryWeek by Word Travels Word Travels

🕸️ Cobweb graphics designed by macrovector / Freepik

20/09/2026

Our HALLOWEEN SLAM is on Oct 14 Wednesday featuring THE Troy Wong! More details coming soon but save the date and start thinking about your costume noww 👀

Throwback to these two slam hosts at last year's Bread & Butter Poetry Slam's Halloween slam!

16/09/2026

Congratulations to the winners of our Australian Poetry Slam Parramatta Heat! 1st place went to Louise T and 2nd to Harrison Vesey (both West Side regulars! 🥰) Here they are with their Dymocks gift card prizes like we're at a school award ceremony 😆 These brave poetic souls will now go on to the APS Sydney Final on the 9th of October so get your tickets now to see them again and cheer them on!

Thank you to our partners Word Travels Word Travels and WestWords WestWords. This event was presented as part of Parramatta's Lit! Festival.

📸: Thank you to Parramattas.Lit's photographer James A.M. Crawford James Crawford

Save the date for our next slam Oct 14!

14/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to our Australian Poetry Slam Parramatta heat last Wednesday! We had the max of 20 poets perform 🤯 Congratulations to all of you on your bravery and thank you for gifting us with your poems 💕

And thank you to our partners Word Travels Word Travels and WestWords WestWords. This event was presented as part of Parramatta's Lit! supported by Creative Australia.

📸: Thank you to Parramattas.Lit's photographer James Crawford James Crawford

Save the date for our next slam Oct 14!

04/09/2026

ARTS MARKET CALL OUT FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY! At our Australian Poetry Slam Parramatta Heat you can sell your art and have it seen by more people! This can be poetry, zines, photography, jewellery etc. We'll have a table and to can sell via your own PayID.

Please DM if interested and share with somebody who you think might be!

🗓️ 9 Sept Wednesday
⏰6:40pm Poet Sign-Up, 7pm Slam Starts
📍Parramatta Leagues Club (Level 3), 1 Eels Place, Parramatta NSW
🪪 Bring photo ID to sign in as it's a club! If you are under 18 and not coming with an adult please DM us so we can sign you in.
🎟️ Pay at Door: $12 Standard, $10 Concession

Throwback to our beautiful table from our Feb Valentine's slam!

📸: DEFNE (don't worry I've edited out y'alls PayID 😅)

This event is in partnership with WestWords WestWords and Word Travels, presented as part of Parramatta's Lit! Festival.

28/08/2026

We're SO EXCITED to have Western Sydney poet BEA feature for our APS heat!

BEA is a poet and multidisciplinary artist of subversion, survival, and sass living on unceded Darug land. Their poetry collection “i love you in the most platonic way possible” was published with Illographo Press in 2024. They’ve had work in places such as the Australian Poetry Journal and Frankie Press, and in 2025 BEA won the Blacktown City Council Mayoral Creative Writing Prize for poetry. Beyond the page, BEA has won various medals at Bankstown Poetry Slam’s Grand Slam and National Youth Poetry Slam. Raised in Mount Druitt, BEA is passionate about connecting with and supporting young Western Sydney creatives.

🗓️ Sep 9 Wednesday
📍Parramatta Leagues Club, Level 3, 1 Eels Place, Parramatta NSW
⏰6:40pm Poet Sign-Up, 7pm Event Start
*2-MIN TIME LIMIT, 20 spots max. Poems will be numerically-scored.
🪪 Bring photo ID to sign in as it's a club! If you are under 18 and not coming with an adult please DM us so we can sign you in.
🎟️ Pay at Door: $12 Standard, $10 Concession. No one turned away for lack of funds.

In partnership with WestWords WestWords, Word Travels Word Travels and presented as part of Parramatta's Lit! Parramattas.Lit

📸: photo of BEA by Light Navigating Studio

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