Spoke N Slurred – The Zine, Audition #4 (LAST CHANCE)

This is your last chance to submit your short, sharp pieces of literature to our hand crafted little zine. come along and read your little word bombs, listen to your fellow terrorists and participate in the first publication birthed exclusively from our spokenslurred mic.

Spoke N Slurred – The Zine will be a small (A5) old school zine publication. It will be photocopied. Short and sharp will get our attention. So will down and dirty.

We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you.

Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fucked with email but kerryn would consider a screenshot.

If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.

The theme is PAROXYSM*

So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.

Do your RESEARCH. Look at our history on the Paroxysm website, check out our YouTube channel, pop into Dymocks AdelaideClarity RecordsStreetlight or Page & Turner and have a look at what we have already published, take us out for beers…

* paroxysm: (n) a sudden strong feeling or expression of an emotion that cannot be controlled

* Paroxysm Press: (n) Australian publisher of the extreme and unusual

Spoke N Slurred – The Zine, Audition #3 

They’re spinning around quickly so it’s time for the third round of submissions. 

Spoke N Slurred – The Zine will be a small (A5) old school zine publication. It will be photocopied. Short and sharp will get our attention. So will down and dirty. 

We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you. 

Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fucked with email but kerryn would consider a screenshot. 

If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered. 

So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here. 

Do your RESEARCH.

Do your RESEARCH. Look at our history on the Paroxysm website, check out our YouTube channel, pop into Dymocks AdelaideClarity RecordsStreetlight or Page & Turner and have a look at what we have already published, take us out for beers….

paroxysm: (n) a sudden strong feeling or expression of an emotion that cannot be controlled

Paroxysm Press: (n) Australian publisher of the extreme and unusual

Spoke N Slurred – The Zine, Audition #2 – Special Raffle Prize!

A huge thank you to author Lewis Woolston for their contribution to this month’s Spoke N Slurred raffle this Sunday 27/07, a copy of their brand new book The Everlasting. Go check it out and his other works:

https://bequempublishing.com/authors/authors-w-z/lewis-woolston/

https://truthserumpress.net/

Sunday, 27th July, 2025
5:30pm

A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham St (off Hindley St), Adelaide, SA 5000

Click here for more info.

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Spoke N Slurred – The Zine, Audition #2

Time for the second round of submissions. Spoke N Slurred – The Zine will be a small (A5) old school zine publication. It will be photocopied. Short and sharp will get our attention. So will down and dirty.

We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you. Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fucked with email but kerryn would consider a screenshot. If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.

The theme is PAROXYSM. So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.

Do your RESEARCH. Look at our history on the Paroxysm website, check out our YouTube channel, pop into Dymocks Adelaide, Clarity Records, Streetlight or Page & Turner and have a look at what we have already published, take us out for beers….

Click here for the Facebook event.

Spoke N Slurred – The Zine, Audition #1

We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you.

Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fucked with email but Kerryn would consider a screenshot.

If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.

The theme is PAROXYSM. So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.

Do your RESEARCH. Look at our history on the Paroxysm website, check out our YouTube channel, pop into Dymocks Adelaide, Clarity Records, Streetlight or Page & Turner and have a look at what we have already published, take us out for beers….

Click here for the Facebook event.

Spoke N Slurred – all open mic… but with a difference…

Sunday 25th May 2025
from 5:30pm

A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham St, Adelaide (off Hindley St.)

All open mic, but…

… at least one of two spoken word pieces to be on the theme of ‘Things I Don’t Give A **** About‘.

Now we all know what the **** means. But at the same time feel free to get creative with what YOU want it to mean.

Three open mic performers will be selected at random for one of the following prizes: $50, $20 and a Paroxysm Press publication.

Click here for the Facebook event.

A top shelf review of all three of Kami’s novels on Paroxysm Press!

A top shelf review of all three of Kami’s novels published by Paroxysm Press including his latest, FISTS OF LOVE…

    It took him 22 years, but Adelaide writer/poet/zinester/friend Campbell “Kami” McInnes finally got around to writing another book. In anticipation of its arrival in the post, I reread his first two releases. Bunk Beds & Chilli Vodka is a (slightly) fictionalized account of the Paroxysm Press crew’s memorable weekend attending the 2001 National Young Writers Festival in Newcastle. Neither young nor sober, the trio caused chaos wherever they went, which makes for a very entertaining read. Helen and I were also at NYWF that weekend – in fact, we make cameo appearances in the book. Reading this Hunter S. Thompson-esque laff-fest brought back lots of fond memories.

    Next up was S.F.&T. (aka Sucked, Fucked and Tattooed), a gritty look at a particular subculture that inhabited the inner-city pub scene in Adelaide back in the 1980s and 90s. I had forgotten much of it, but rereading this take-no prisoners novella, I could identify a few of the characters and venues. There is a semi autobiographical feel to the sordid life of drunken record store owner and fuck-up Jason. S.F.&T. rattles along at a fair clip. Oddly, the book sets itself up for a happy ending (of sorts), then suddenly hits the reader with a gut punch in the last two paragraphs that had me thinking, “Fuck! What just happened?”

    So I moved onto Fists of Love, a sequel to S.F.&T., which sees Jason driving his slightly psycho ex Cindy back to Queensland so she can be with her family. Cindy is dying from cancer and Jason is the only person she can trust to get her home safely. Adventures happen along the way, most notably Jason unexpectedly bumping into his deadbeat dad. Like the first book, the sequel managed to hold my attention throughout. And then came the ending. As I wrote to Kami soon afterwards, “I woke up at 2am and couldn’t sleep for an hour thinking about your book. Fuck you. You got me with that last paragraph before the epilogue, you bastard. Excuse me while I wipe this grit from eyes.”

    Kami remains one of the great underground writers in this country and it is really worth your time picking up all three books at ParoxysmPress.com.

    Get your copy of Fists of Love and other Paroxysm Press titles from Page & Turner in Adelaide. Click here for more info.

    Cover art Red Wallflower.

    Paroxysm pays tribute to Murder Ballads


    Featuring:
    Ian Gibbins
    Kami
    Matthew Pankhurst 
    Mei Szetu
    Kerryn Tredrea

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    Kathryn Reese at Spoke N Slurred

    FREE entry
    Spoken Word OPEN MIC
    Book raffle
    Lotsa booze including a ‘beer of the month’ Spoke N Slurred special thanks to A Social Undertaking.

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    Photo credit: Jazzman Fechner-Lante