National Youth Poetry Slam 2025

Australia’s national youth slam competition, founded by Bankstown Poetry slam

Join Us At The Poetry Event Of The Year

Bankstown Poetry Slam proudly presents the fourth annual National Youth Poetry Slam featuring Genesis Owusu! NYPS is a one-night-only nationwide competition to find Australia's boldest and most urgent voices. Twenty fearless young poets from across Australia will reclaim the narrative with raw honesty, fierce imagination and stories drawn from the frontline of what it means to grow up in this moment.

These poets are not waiting to be heard. They are shaping the story now. From cultural identity to climate anxiety, from love to liberation, this stage becomes a battleground for perspectives that matter. One of them will walk away with the NYPS crown and $1,500, yet every voice here rings with the sound of Australia's future.

Show up. Listen closely. Leave changed for the better.

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The National Youth Poetry Slam is proudly presented in partnership with State Library of NSW and supported by Multicultural NSW and Sydney Writers' Festival.