Paroxysm Press

27/07/2025

This month's Spoke N Slurred book special of the night. From Kerryn Tredrea 'this is no ordinary rapture...' at the very cheap and very lucky price of $13!

See you tonight punters...
https://facebook.com/events/s/spoke-n-slurred-the-zine-audit/1765520987732469/

26/07/2025

A huge thank you to author Lewis Woolston for their contribution to this month's Spoke N Slurred raffle this Sunday 27/07, a copy of their brand new book The Everlasting. Go check it out and his other works:

https://bequempublishing.com/authors/authors-w-z/lewis-woolston/
https://truthserumpress.net/

And see you all real soon:
https://facebook.com/events/s/spoke-n-slurred-the-zine-audit/1765520987732469/

Spoke N Slurred – The Zine, Audition #2

Sunday, 27th July, 2025
5:30pm

A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham St (off Hindley St), Adelaide, SA 5000

Time for the second round of submissions. Spoke N Slurred – The Zine will be a small (A5) old school zine publication. It will be photocopied. Short and sharp will get our attention. So will down and dirty.

We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you. Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fu**ed with email but kerryn would consider a screenshot. If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.

The theme is PAROXYSM. So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.

Do your RESEARCH. Look at our history on the Paroxysm website, check out our YouTube channel, pop into Dymocks Adelaide, Clarity Records, Streetlight or Page & Turner and have a look at what we have already published, take us out for beers….

FREE entry
Spoken word open mic
Book, cocktail and novelty raffle
Beer special of the night
Paroxysm Press book special of the night

13/07/2025

This mate knows his s**t.

29/06/2025

TONIGHT (Sun 29/6)
From 5:30pm
A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham St, Adelaide (off Hindley St.)

FREE entry
Spoken word open mic
Beer special of the night
Book & novelty raffle
$25 copies of TEN YEARS OF THINGS THAT DIDN'T KILL US

We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you.

Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fu**ed with email but Kerryn would consider a screenshot.
If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.

The theme is PAROXYSM. So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.
Do your RESEARCH. Look at our history on the Paroxysm website, check out our YouTube channel, pop into Dymocks Adelaide, Clarity Records, Streetlight or Page & Turner and have a look at what we have already published, take us out for beers….

https://www.facebook.com/events/2524286464579311/

28/06/2025

Your choice of a prize from below and also a COCKTAIL provided by A Social Undertaking. The raffle tomorrow (Sunday 29/6) at 'Spoke N Slurred – The Zine, Audition #1"

PLUS:
FREE entry
Spoken word open mic
Beer special of the night
$25 copies of TEN YEARS OF THINGS THAT DIDN'T KILL US

From 5:30pm
A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham St, Adelaide (off Hindley St.)

We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you.

Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fu**ed with email but Kerryn would consider a screenshot.
If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.

The theme is PAROXYSM. So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.
Do your RESEARCH. Look at our history on the Paroxysm website, check out our YouTube channel, pop into Dymocks Adelaide, Clarity Records, Streetlight or Page & Turner and have a look at what we have already published, take us out for beers….

https://www.facebook.com/events/2524286464579311/

25/06/2025

'Spoke N Slurred – The Zine, Audition #1" this Sunday 29/6 will include a limited number of copies of the Paroxysm Press book TEN YEARS OF THINGS THAT DIDN'T KILL US on special at $25.

PLUS:
FREE entry
Spoken word open mic
Book, cocktail and novelty raffle
Beer special of the night

From 5:30pm
A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham St, Adelaide (off Hindley St.)

We’ve decided to remind you that Paroxysm Press is a publisher that for nearly 30 years has been too stubborn to die. So we want to publish you.

Come along to our open mic and leave us a hard copy of your poem(s) to be considered for a limited edition zine that will be launched in October. That gives you 4 opportunities to submit. Poems can be printed or hand written. Kami can’t be fu**ed with email but Kerryn would consider a screenshot.
If you can throw down a sketch or 2 on the night they will also be considered.

The theme is PAROXYSM. So dig deep, look at the hard stuff, find the next level down. Then tell us why you’re still here.
Do your RESEARCH. Look at our history on the Paroxysm website, check out our YouTube channel, pop into Dymocks Adelaide, Clarity Records, Streetlight or Page & Turner and have a look at what we have already published, take us out for beers….

https://www.facebook.com/events/2524286464579311/

12/06/2025

23/05/2025

'Things I Don't Give A **** About' at Spoke N Slurred.

Three open mic performers will be selected at random for one of the following prizes: $50, $20 and a copy of 'Paroxysm'.

There will also be limited numbers of this first ever Paroxysm Press anthology on sale for only $15.

Sunday May 25th
From 5.30pm
A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham St, Adelaide (off Hindley St.)

Something different for Spoke N Slurred. All open mic, at least one of two spoken word pieces to be on the theme of 'Things I Don't Give A **** About'. Now we all know what the **** means. But at the same time feel free to get creative with what YOU want it to mean.

FREE entry
Spoken word open mic
Book, novelty & cocktail raffle
Paroxysm beer special of the night

https://m.facebook.com/events/692165556508395

07/05/2025

A top shelf review of all three of Kami's novels (Paroxysm Press) including his latest, FISTS OF LOVE...

Another Fifty Two Books – Dann Lennard

29. Bunk Beds & Chilli Vodka by Kami (Paroxysm Press, 2002) 30. S.F.&T. by Kami (Paroxysm Press, 2001) 31. Fists of Love by Kami (Paroxysm Press, 2024)
It took him 22 years, but Adelaide writer/poet/zinester/friend Campbell “Kami” McInnes finally got around to writing another book. In anticipation of its arrival in the post, I reread his first two releases. Bunk Beds & Chilli Vodka is a (slightly) fictionalized account of the Paroxysm Press crew’s memorable weekend attending the 2001 National Young Writers Festival in Newcastle. Neither young nor sober, the trio caused chaos wherever they went, which makes for a very entertaining read. Helen and I were also at NYWF that weekend – in fact, we make cameo appearances in the book. Reading this Hunter S. Thompson-esque laff-fest brought back lots of fond memories. Next up was S.F.&T. (aka Sucked, Fu**ed and Tattooed), a gritty look at a particular subculture that inhabited the inner-city pub scene in Adelaide back in the 1980s and 90s. I had forgotten much of it, but rereading this take-no prisoners novella, I could identify a few of the characters and venues. There is a semi autobiographical feel to the sordid life of drunken record store owner and f**k-up Jason. S.F.&T. rattles along at a fair clip. Oddly, the book sets itself up for a happy ending (of sorts), then suddenly hits the reader with a gut punch in the last two paragraphs that had me thinking, “F**k! What just happened?” So I moved onto Fists of Love, a sequel to S.F.&T., which sees Jason driving his slightly psycho ex Cindy back to Queensland so she can be with her family. Cindy is dying from cancer and Jason is the only person she can trust to get her home safely. Adventures happen along the way, most notably Jason unexpectedly bumping into his deadbeat dad. Like the first book, the sequel managed to hold my attention throughout. And then came the ending. As I wrote to Kami soon afterwards, “I woke up at 2am and couldn't sleep for an hour thinking about your book. F**k you. You got me with that last paragraph before the epilogue, you bastard. Excuse me while I wipe this grit from eyes.” Kami remains one of the great underground writers in this country and it is really worth your time picking up all three books at ParoxysmPress.com.

Cover art Red Wallflower

26/04/2025

Our monthly Spoke N Slurred 'book raffle' now includes a FREE COCKTAIL thanks to A Social Undertaking.

Sunday 27th April from 5.30pm.
A Social Undertaking. 25 Gresham St, Adelaide SA 5000, off Hindley St & North Tce.

Kathryn Reese guest poet
FREE entry
Spoken Word OPEN MIC
Book raffle
Lotsa booze including a 'beer of the month' Spoke N Slurred special thanks to A Social Undertaking.

Kathryn Reese is a poet living on Peramangk land in Adelaide, South Australia. She works in medical microbiology and enjoys solo road trips, hiking and chasing frogs to record their calls for science. Her poems can be found in The Engine Idling, Epistemic Literary, Kelp Journal and Australian Poetry Journal. She was a winner of the Red Room Poetry’s competition & the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize 2024.

Photo credit: Jazzman Fechner-Lante

06/04/2025

Page & Turner in Myer Centre, Rundle Mall are now stocking Paroxysm Press books...

Fists Of Love (Kami)
This Is No Ordinary Rapture... (Kerryn Tredrea)
Spitting Teeth (anthology)
100 Lightnings (anthology)

https://www.pageandturner.com.au/
https://www.facebook.com/share/15Vn9FfJNX/

29/03/2025

TONIGHT!!!

Pam Makin at Spoke N Slurred
https://facebook.com/events/s/pam-makin-at-spoke-n-slurred/660014563072225/

Sunday 30th March 2025
from 5:30pm.

A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham Street, Adelaide (between Hindley St and North Tce)

Spoken word OPEN MIC
FREE entry
Book raffle
Booze, booze and more booze

Pam Makin has been a regular on the Adelaide Spoken Word circuit since 2019 but was writing and performing much earlier. She has had her work published in various journals and anthologies, in print and online. She has had her work rejected by many more. You can find out more about Pam and her writing at pammakin.com.au

Pic by Jazz at Ellipsis Oct 2024.