Scott-Patrick Mitchell & a (quite) Big Open Mic!

Come along to enjoy an exciting mix of poetic ingredients: two thirds Big Open Mic, and one third a reading from award-winning poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell!

Come along from 6:40pm to sign up for an open mic slot (max. 3mins) with your MC Peter Robinson.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell is a queer non-binary poet living on Whadjuk Noongar Country. They were the recipient of 2022’s Red Room Poetry Fellowship, Westerly’s 2022 Mid-Career Fellowship and the 2023 winner of The XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word. Their debut poetry collection Clean (Upswell Publishing, 2022) was shortlisted for The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, The WA Premier’s Book Awards, The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and internationally in The Read Rainbow’s Best LGBTIQA+ Books of 2022 Awards. Mitchell’ second poetry collection will explore Perth Canyon, houselessness and the incantations that float in dark waters.

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