The Writer's Den RVA

The Writer's Den Poetry Slam is a weekly event that offers a poetry slam, open mic with a twist, with a dj, and more. Spoken-word artists from all over compete to earn a spot on the team that will go on represent Virginia regionally and nationally or come and share their poems, songs, jokes, and talents. A poetry slam is a performance spoken-word competition in which poets perform their original work and are scored by 5 judges. These judges are picked randomly out of the audience based on having no affiliation with any of the performers. Every round, judges score the poets on a scale of 0.0 to 10.0 based on the writing and performance of the poem. At the end of 3 elimination rounds our top two finalists walk away with some cash and the chance to come back in March to compete in our Grand Slam for a spot on the team that will represent Virginia on a regional level. Rules
-3 elimination rounds(Ex: 1st round: 10 or more poets, 2nd round: 7 poets, 3rd round: 4 poets)
-poets get 3 minutes and 10 seconds to perform. Anything past that is an automatic disqualification-every round is clean slate. We do not add up the scores from each round-each round is COMPLETELY RANDOM
-no nudity (unfortunately) and no props of any kind. that includes gesturing to clothes or tattoos.
-time when you engage the audience. most of the time that's when you start talking.... but if you start with sign language, jumping jacks, or if you are on "stage" and tell your homeboy something... we've started your time.