⚡VOLTA is co-presented monthly by Queensland Poetry and Brisbane Square Library, bringing you electric poetry, spoken word, and the unexpected.
Free, but BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL.
VOLTA JULY 2022 features Svetlana Sterlin, Chloe Louise Mills and Beata Mazur, and will be held in-person at the Brisbane Square Library.
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Svetlana Sterlin (she/her) is based in Meanjin, where she completed a BFA, contributes to Our Culture Magazine, and reads for Split Rock Review. Her writing appears in Cordite, Voiceworks, the anthology Within/Without These Walls (AndAlso Books), and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of swim meet lit mag.
Chloe Louise Mills is a Lesbian Meanjin-based writer. Chloe graduated QUT with a Bachelor of Creative and Professional Writing in 2018 and is continuing her research to raise awareness and break the stigma of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) within queer relationships. From 2018-2020, Chloe was the co-founder and co-editor of Concresence literary zine and was shortlisted for Overland’s Single Mothers residency. Her writing has been published both digitally, in anthologies and within numerous journals and zines. Chloe’s ghostwriting has appeared in The Guardian, and Vogue Australia. In 2021, Chloe collaborated with Gurls Talk for their #MakeTheAsk campaign.
Beata Mazur is a Polish born writer, poet and a soulful wealth mentor. Bea uses words as spells, calling beauty and love into form through the power of language. She often says she doesn't write poetry but it's the poetry that writes her life into existence.