Nada Hassin Ali – photo credit: Faris Mindal

Nada Ali is 20 year old poet from northern Iraq. She writes about her experience as a young Yazidi women, and brings light to the injustice the Yazidi community continues to experience after the 2014 Genocide by ISIS. Nada Ali was a 2023 Australia Slam Poetry NSW finalist and the winner of the 2024 Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival poetry competition.

 

– See the APS National Finalists compete for the crown of Australian Poetry Slam Champion 2025 at the 2025 APS National Final on 26 October at Sydney Opera House.


UPDATE: The 2025 APS National Final is now sold out! There are still tickets available for the NSW APS State Final.