Please note a couple of amendments from the print program.

The first Overload Slam Heat has changed venues. This heat will be held at the Newtown Workers' Club (old Rob Roy Hotel) on the corner of Brunswick St and Gertrude St in Fitzroy. Same time, same date: 6 September @ 7.30 - 9.30 pm.

Also, a terrible typo on our behalf: the Last Chance Heat at Lentil as Anything, is not on the 13 (as it says on the slam page), but on the 15.

For full details on the Overload Slam, including registrations, click here.

The Melbourne Poetry Map Launch has had slight changes to the line up. For an uptaded list of performers, click here.

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The Overload Poetry Festival is teaming up with the Victoria Writers Centre to launch the 2010 Screening the Word Festival Program at the Doris Leadbetter Poetry Cup!  Please join us Saturday, August 14th for a grab at our hot-off-the-presses Program and some lively poetics!

We've extended the submission deadline for Electric Text - our poetry on Fed Square tickers project - until 20 August.

Please see guidelines on what we're after (please note this is for short form poetry only) on the submissions menu. Or more conveniently, by clicking here.

Congratulations to IQ who took the honours for Melbourne in Round 1 of the Tri-Nations Skype Slam. IQ edged out Singapore's Marc Nair in a tight final round. This was a coup for IQ as Marc is no stranger to the form: a finalist in the Indian Ocean Slam and the World Cup Slam in Paris.

Submissions / Nominations are now open for the third annual Overload Awards. There are five categories: Best Cd (Aural Text Award), Best New Media (Poetronica Award), Best Programming (Ted Lord Award), Best Group Performance & Best Solo Performance (Shelton Lea Awards). For the first time we are accepting nominations for performances held throughout the year for the Shelton Lea awards. See the Awards section for details.