Auburn Poets & Writers meets monthly at WestWords Centre for Writing in Parramatta. It is a body of writers from various linguistic backgrounds dedicated to composing poetry and writing for performance and publication. This includes sharing work at its monthly meetings and devising and developing multi-lingual shows around a common theme, engaging with the wider community through outreach and collaboration. It has participated in the Sydney Writers Festival every year from 2006 to the present (save 2020 when the event was cancelled by COVID). APW has also performed at the Sydney Festival, the (now defunct) BEAMS Street Festival, the Sacred Music Festival, Art and About and numerous community events and local festivals. It has produced three anthologies of writing – ‘Letters to Auburn’, ‘Mosaic’ and ‘Grandma’s Bed’. Plans for the coming year include the 2022 Sydney Writers Festival and at least 2 other public performances (COVID willing) and several key in-house development programs.
We include in our ranks several published authors, convenors of writing events and organisations as well as musicians and artists. We have featured Turkish, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Russian and Bahasa Malaysian – even French and Dutch – languages (along with English!) in our programs of verse, story and music.
Contact details
p 0422 263 373 and (landline) (02) 98966956
e gardnermedia@bigpond.com.
Membership queries: willemtibben@gmail.com
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As part of Sydney Writers’ Festival 2022 Auburn Poets & Writers performed their piece, Shadows & Reflections
The next Open Mic night, hosted by Auburn Poets and Writers, is on Monday 28th August, 7pm-9pm.
All welcome to come along, share and perform!