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Hello! My name is Adara, I’m a chronic microphone-holder, living on Dharawal Land (Wollongong, NSW) and hopping onto stages wherever I can along the eastern coast of NSW.

I’m a spoken word poet, MC, arts administrator, proofreader, and soon-to-be celebrant. I’ve worked in the literary arts my entire adult life, and it is my absolute pleasure to organise, host and perform at events centred around creativity and vulnerability.

My favourite thing from any side of a microphone is to be a part of the conversation between audience and performers, feeling the crackle of energy and the kiss of intimacy between people providing a peek into their souls, and folks creating a warm and understanding space in which to share that glimpse.

Whether hosting, performing, or organising from behind the scenes, I treasure the active creation of creative community.

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Poet Bio

Adara has featured at writers festivals, folk festivals and poetry slams across NSW, and her writing has appeared in numerous anthologies from Baby Teeth Journal and Heroines Festival, as well as her poetry zines Equidistant (2018) and Crowdsourced Poems (2022). She performed in the Bankstown Poetry Slam Grand Slam in 2023 and 2024, and won in 2026 at Sydney Opera House with her team In Other Words.

MC Bio

Adara has hosted, stage-managed and MCed events for all creative types over the last decade. She has hosted book launches, variety nights, open mics, singles mixers, and Enough Said Poetry Slam every month since 2020, as well as running poetry workshops. She has facilitated panels at the Headland Writers Festival and The Business of Publishing, and MCed stages at the Illawarra Folk Festival, the South Coast Readers and Writers Festival, Heroines Festival, Word Travels’ Story Week and more.