The Sydney Opera House ~
Glastonbury Festival ~
The Royal Albert Hall ~
St Paul's Cathedral ~
Sydney Writers' Festival ~
TEDx ~
The Sydney Opera House ~ Glastonbury Festival ~ The Royal Albert Hall ~ St Paul's Cathedral ~ Sydney Writers' Festival ~ TEDx ~
Since becoming the 2015 Poetry Slam Champion of their hometown in Western Australia, Madison has achieved international acclaim as a performance poet and public speaker.
Highlights include performances at …
- The Sydney Opera House
- Glastonbury Festival (2017)
- St Paul’s Cathedral, London UK
- The Royal Albert Hall, London UK
- TEDx
- Women Of The World Poetry Slam (Brooklyn 2016 + Dallas 2017)
- Bankstown Poetry Slam, NSW
Madison has been invited to share their writing and research at national literary festivals such as …
- Sydney Writers’ Festival, NSW
- National Young Writers’ Festival, Newcastle NSW
- Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival, Katoomba NSW
- Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival, WA
- Perth Festival, Literature & Ideas Program, WA
- Adelaide Writers Week, SA
- Byron Writers Festival, Byron Bay NSW
- Emerging Writers Festival, online
- The inaugural Trans Book Festival, VIC
Above: Madison interviewed in a glass cable car suspended above a mountain gorge, at the 2023 Blue Mountains Writers’ festival.
Photo: Chris Cannell
Above: Madison at the sold-out opening event of Sydney Writers’ Festival 2023, appearing beside Alexis Wright, Bernardine Evaristo, and Benjamin Law.
Photo: Jacquie Manning
In January 2017, Maddie’s solo theatre show ‘If My Body Was A Poem’ debuted to sold-out audiences
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— Isolated Nation
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