People are standing up and speaking out. From small communities to capital cities, they are electrifying audiences using their voices, a mic and imagination. The nation's mightiest wordsmiths face-off in an epic finale - part of Word Travels Story Festival: 3 days packed with poetry, stories, lyrics and monologues.

Now celebrating 11 years, Australian Poetry Slam is one of largest and most respected performing writers programs in the world. It combines stories and poems with theatre and hip-hop.

Who will this nationwide search unearth in 2015? What stories will explode in your mind, cause you to run onto stage, pump your fist and shout, "Hell yeah! Me too!"

Judged by randomly chosen members of the crowd, one person will get the chance to perform their own words at the China Bookworm, Ubud, Byron and Sydney International Readers' and Writers’ Festivals in 2016.

The finals are the closing event of the Word Travels' Story Festival, 3-days of spoken word, poetry, stories lyrics and monologues.

Tickets: $44/36 general admission