Featuring Ben Mason and open mic

Ben’s short fiction has been performed, awarded, and published, including Westerly and Overland (both upcoming).  Home Invasion — his collection of short fiction — was long-listed for the 2019 Fogarty Award.  For spoken word he finished 3rd in the 2019 WA leg of the Australian Poetry Slam State Final, won the Margaret River Writers Festival Slam, and has performed in Fringe and Festival shows through Western Australia.  In 2020 he was a writer-in-residence at Mattie Furphy House for the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA, and in 2021 he won an Emerging Writers Award with Westerly/UWA. 
He is currently working on a novel.

Please join us to celebrate poetry this Saturday afternoon 2pm – 4pm