Word Travels

22/03/2026

All love to Rhoda Roberts and family. Rest in peace Queen.

09/01/2026

Adelaide Festival you are broken. You’ve attempted to shut down public conversation by canceling Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah’s appearance.

You’ve done the opposite.

Australian Poetry Slam and Word Travels stand with the AF boycott.

Censorship of a respected, lauded writer is not the solution. Open discourse is.

BE BRAVER.

Reinstate Dr. Abdel-Fattah’s appearance now.

15/12/2025

OPPORTUNITY: Are you a poet, educator and/or performer with some awesome leadership qualities? Here's a role that invests in your passions. Poetry In Action is seeking 2026 Ambassadors to carry the poetry banner and support young people to find and use their voices.

Applications Close: Feb 13

Ambassador Program APPLY NOW THE WHY BECOME A Poetry in Education AMBASSADOR Qualities of an Ambassador  Experiences of... Read more.

02/12/2025

How will you spend on Giving Tuesday (The antidote to Black Friday)?

Young people typically go unheard. Kids have no power. They can’t vote or legislate. They’re not making the movies, tv, shows or books. Not writing the “news”. Yet they can pick up a mic if we create space, inspiration and support for the ideas that come out.

Where can you see people who aren’t being represented? How can you amplify their voices? How are you handing the mic to the person next to you, listening and creating pathways for new diverse cultural leaders?

Can you do it through Word Travels?

Where can you see people who aren’t being represented? How can you amplify their voices? How are you handing the mic to the person next to you, listening and creating pathways for new diverse cultural leaders?

25/11/2025

Kyiv Social x WordTravels

As part of the Third I Festival, Plate It Forward and WordTravels came together in October to host ‘Story Dinner – Your Moment of Change’ at Kyiv Social — an evening of shared meals and powerful refugee stories that was also one of the first events of the 2026 Story Week program.

Curated by Hani Abdile, and featuring Maryam Zahid and Rataj Abdullah, the night was one of intimate storytelling, discovery, and connection - with food as the portal through which guests were transported into the extraordinary journeys of our speakers.

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25/11/2025

Kyiv Social x WordTravels

As part of the Third I Festival, Plate It Forward and WordTravels came together in October to host ‘Story Dinner – Your Moment of Change’ at Kyiv Social — an evening of shared meals and powerful refugee stories that was also one of the first events of the 2026 Story Week program.

Curated by Hani Abdile, and featuring Maryam Zahid and Rataj Abdullah, the night was one of intimate storytelling, discovery, and connection - with food as the portal through which guests were transported into the extraordinary journeys of our speakers.

📸 noi.land

12/11/2025

Appreciation post for our newest partner on the Word Travels Story Week program: Caption by Hyatt Central Sydney 🙌

Thanks to Caption and their brand new venue we were able to run FIVE free-to-attend events in the heart of the city, as well as accommodate performers from India and Indonesia as well as some of the APS National finalists from far across the country.

We hope to run more storytelling events at Talk Shop in the future! 🎙

11/11/2025

Are you free this Saturday from 6-9pm and keen to (re)connect with friends who love to share and hear stories? 🍽📚🎙

Join Word Travels and for a space where you don't have to put on your networking hat and can just connect.

This end of year event is an opportunity to refresh, reset and reconnect. There will be music, food, an open mic and a panel curated by of Word Travels on the theme 'Who controls the story?'

Tickets from $15, book now through the link in bio!

10/11/2025

Are you free this Saturday from 6-9pm and keen to (re)connect with friends who love to share and hear stories?

Join Word Travels and Our Race for a space where you don't have to put on your networking hat and can just connect.

This end of year event is an opportunity to refresh, reset and reconnect. There will be music, food, an open mic and a panel curated by Hani Abdile of Word Travels on the theme 'Who controls the story?'

Tickets from $15: https://events.humanitix.com/story-connections-our-race-community-end-of-year-get-together

07/11/2025

Did you taste some poetry? 🍽

On 21 and 24 October at Talk Shop Sydney during our Story Week program was Poet-Taster, a spoken word café experience where anyone could order a free live poem with any food or drink purchase from the venue.

Selected poets joined people at their tables and shared intimate moments.

Thank you to our poets Ash Redford and 🙌

04/11/2025

During Story Week, we gathered for Con-Verse: Bring the Community With You with Priya Srinivasin, Antoine Lewis and Catherine Trindall in Conversation with Rob Waters at Talk Shop Sydney.

It was a warm and impactful discussion between four community leaders on the best ways to amplify the voices of people with stories, experiences and languages to share.

Thank you to everyone who came along and sat with us to listen and share 🎤

29/10/2025

Multi-Lingual Story Sharing at Talk Shop Sydney on Friday was such a gorgeous evening!

We had poets from Sydney, Bali, Mumbai and elsewhere on the mic, sharing stories in different languages in the gorgeous setting of the Caption by Hyatt Central Sydney lounge.

Thank you to host Dai Moret, featured poets Ashu Boir, Catherine Trindall, Eva Fernandes, Lizzie Chan, Sabika Abbas, Beni Yanthan and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, and everyone else who got up on the mic to share their story 🙌

Photographer: Zoe Ortiz