June 8th – June 11th
Festival Director: Lance Newman, III
Event Guide
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Tournament Information
TEAM: SLAMMAGEDDON BALTIMORE
INDIE: GABBY
HEAD TO HEAD HAIKU: EDDIE VEGA
NERD SLAM: JORDAN BAILEY
SLAMMASTERS SLAM: ROSCOE BURNEMS
WOMEN OF SOUTHERN FRIED SLAM: CARLYNN NEWHOUSE
**Southern Fried Poetry, Inc. encourages you to do your own research and take the necessary health precautions that will allow you to maximize your participation in the tournament, expand your experience of the festival as a whole, and to learn about our beautiful host city. Southern Fried reserves the right to update these protocols as more information is available.**
- All participants must get tested no more than 2 days before checking in at registration. Letters from pharmacies/doctors are acceptable. Home test results will be accepted with a photo with verified timestamp for date/time.
- Masks are required any time members/participants of the SF community are indoors in the presence of others, or moving through space (indoor or outdoor) occupied by others, regardless of the distance between themselves and others during active competition and side events.
- Physical distancing guidelines require that attendees maintain at least six (6) feet of distance between themselves and others where possible indoors.
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Click the button below for the bout draw and schedule.
Check out the schedule of events and the virtual brochure for more information on prelims, side events and final stage!
Holiday Inn Express & Suites: Louisville Downtown
800 West Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202
Rate: $129/night
Teams
- Say What?!? – Greenville, SC
- Exit 36 – Pompano Beach, FL
- Louisville Lip – Louisville, KY
- VOCAB – Indianapolis, IN
- Verb Benders – Norfolk, VA
- Writers Den – Richmond, VA
- Detour Slam Team – Fayetteville, NC
- Rich-Ink – Richmond, VA
- Puro Slam – San Antonio, TX
- The Saint Louis Poetry Slam – St. Louis, MO
- WAN – Houston, TX
- Pure Ink – Buffalo, NY
- The Regulators – Kansas City, MO
- Bull City Slam Team – Durham, NC
- New Jeru – Rahway, NJ
- Slammageddon Baltimore – Baltimore, MD
- BamaSlam – Montevallo, AL
- Blood Speaks – Lexington, KY
- Lyrically Inclined – Lafayette, LA
- Cafe Creative Slam Team – Indianapolis, IN
- Secret City Slam – Knoxville, TN
- Slam Charlotte – Charlotte, NC
- The Greatest Slam Team – Westend Louisville, KY
Indies
- Law Bullock – Fayetteville, NC
- Liv – Baltimore, MD
- Chev – Atlanta, GA
- Sunny Ray – Baltimore, MD
- A.S. Minor – Port Orange, FL
- Big Bailey – Aiken, SC
- Ed Mabrey – Planet, Earth
- Nova – Dallas, TX
- Sanova – Baltimore, MD
- Brandon Leake – Stockton, CA
- Y the Poet – Dayton, OH
- Dre Brew – Louisville, KY