Pompano Beach, FL
June 12th – 15th
Join us for the 32nd Annual Southern Fried Poetry Slam taking place in beautiful Pompano Beach, FL!!!! Check back frequently for more details!
Tournament Information
TEAM: SMOKE SLAM
INDIE: DOVE DUPREE & SOLA KUSH
HEAD TO HEAD HAIKU: JOHN BURKE
NERD SLAM: KEITH SOWELL
SLAMMASTERS SLAM: MILLI
UNDERGROUND SLAM: RIEKA SPEAKS
BOUTFIT SLAM: RIEKA SPEAKS
Check team and indie scores here!
Teams
- Verb Benders – Norfolk, VA
- Spellbound – Charlottesville, VA
- Loc’ed and Loaded – Greensboro, NC & Dallas, TX
- Breaking Bad Poetry – DeLand, FL
- Orlando Poetry Slam – Orlando, FL
- Bx3 Poetry Slam – San Antonio, TX
- The Writer’s Den – Richmond, VA
- Rich-Ink – Richmond, VA
- Detour Slam Team – Fayetteville, NC
- Tribe Slam Team – Columbia, SC
- Say What – Greenville, SC
- Smoke Slam – Houston, TX
- HuSTLe City – St. Louis, MO
- Gawd Slam – Houston, TX
- Write About Now – Houston, TX
- Volta Poetry Slam – Indianapolis, IN
- New Jeru – Rahway, NJ
- GrowHouse – Tampa, FL
- The Regulators – Kansas City, MO
- Laredo BorderSlam Poetry – Laredo, TX
- VERBAL SLAP – New Haven, CT
- Native Lives – Detroit, MI
- Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe – New York City, NY
- Pure Ink – Buffalo, NY
- Goosebumps – Dallas, TX
- The Collective – Chicago, IL
- Bull City Slam Team – Durham, NC
- Slam Charlotte – Charlotte, NC
- Detroit Echo – Detroit, MI
- Code Name 313 – Detroit, MI
- Beasts Of The Mountain – Asheville, NC
- The Revolution
Indies
- Andrew Gomez – FL
- Nathan Wallace – Atlanta, GA
- KNZ – Edison, GA
- Jadon – Austin, TX
- Just John – Pompano Beach, FL
- Christelle – Pompano Beach, FL
- “Thee” Charles Hines – Tampa, FL
- Law Bullock – Fayetteville, NC
- Unspoken – Tampa, FL
- Brave Nate – Covington, KY
- Cassandra IsFree – Norfolk, VA
- MaddieG – Chesapeake, VA
- Jerri Hardesty – Montevallo, AL
- Rubix – Charlotte, NC
- Verse – Fayetteville, NC
- Poetry Teacher – Dallas, TX
- Zeda Stew – Covington, KY
- JaySlayOp – Tallahassee, FL
- Lady Brion – Baltimore, MD
- Anna Martinez aka Poetic Justice – Albuquerque, NM
- Lyrical Faith – New York City, NY
- Monarch the Poet – Las Vegas, NV
- AXL – Laredo, TX
- Dove Dupree – Spartanburg, SC
Wait List
- Jenice Pleasant – Greenville, SC
- Shal – Memphis, TN
- Dex McBea – Brooklyn, NY
- KMoney The Poet – Saint Louis, MO
- Anthony Harris – Fayetteville, NC
- James Drudi – Pompano Beach, FL
- Rebekah Lea – Delray Beach, FL
Host Hotel
Tru by Hilton Pompano Beach Pier
200 N Ocean Blvd
Pompano Beach, FL 33062
- $139 a night sleeps up to 4
- $159 a night sleeps up to 6
- Breakfast included
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
100 Terminal Dr,
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315
17mi 25min from the host hotel and overflow hotel
Bailey Contemporary Arts
41 NE 1st St
Pompano Beach, FL 33060
Historic Ali Arts Center
353 Dr Martin Luther King Blvd
Pompano Beach, FL 33060
Historic Blanche Ely House Museum
1500 NW 6th Ave
Pompano Beach, FL 33060
Pompano Beach Cultural Center
50 W Atlantic Blvd
Pompano Beach, FL 33060
Click the button below to sign up for workshops and to get an all access pass to everything poetry!
Click the button below for the bout draw and locations/times for teams and indies.
Volunteers are a vital component of SoFried’s success as a tournament. Please fill the form out below to help out with this year’s festival!
There will be a preview weekend during the Exit 36 Festival Dec 7th – 10th. This is for anyone who wants to check out the venues, the hotels, and the city before SoFried June 12th – 15th. Click the button below for more information.
***PLEASE NOTE: The hotel rates are different for this weekend than what you will see for June.***
