31 Thursday July 7.00pm

Assorted Sporks Poetry & Performance feat. Tim Loveday

Assorted Sporks is a free queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen’s on Thursday the 31st of July

Featuring: Tim Loveday

Theme: Leisure
Themes are not mandatory, they are just to encourage you to experiment with your writing and improvisation. Feel free to make it weird.

Tim Loveday is a poet, writer and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation and climate collapse. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in the 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize, the 2024 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Prize, the 2024 Best Australian Yarn and the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize. Tim teaches Creative Writing at Unimelb and RMIT. He is a current PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Unimelb. Find out more at: timloveday.com.

7:00 pm for a 7:30 pm start, sign up will be available on the night.5 minute limit.

Perform your poetry, creative writing or performance art on the open mic to a friendly audience or come and be part of the crowd. There are going to be themes, writing prompts and improvised creativity (2 lines to a theme to music). Completely free.

Hosted by Loran Steinberg (they/them) Music by George O’Hara (he/they). To keep this event a safe space for everyone, there will be no hate speech or your mic will be turned off and you may be asked to leave the stage.