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Based out of Melbourne, Australia, Joel McKerrow is an award-winning writer, keynote speaker, creativity specialist, children's author, educator and, having performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, is one of Australia’s most successful internationally touring, performance poets.

Full-time in his creative career for the past fifteen years Joel is currently the Director of The School for Creative Development and works extensively with leaders, teams, entrepreneurs and creatives to help them navigate their way forward. He is the Artist Ambassador for the aid and development organisation ‘TEARFUND Australia’, is on teaching staff at the Melbourne Young Writers Studio, is the co-founder/host of the The Deep Place: On Creativity and Spirituality Podcast. Joel is also very passionate about creative education and over the last fifteen years has taught poetry and the creative process to over 100,000 students in schools/colleges all over the world.

Joel was the third ever Australian representative at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships in the USA as well the co-founder of community arts organisation, 'The Centre for Poetics and Justice' (2010-2013) and the host of the Australian National Poetry Slam for the State of Victoria (2017-2019). He is a highly sought after speaker/performer at conferences, festivals and retreats all over the world including: Story Gathering Conference (Nashville), ITEC (International Transforming Education Conference), The Emerging Writer's Festival, Greenbelt festival (UK), Graceland Festival (Netherlands), Somerset Storyfest, The Global Health Summit, Write Around the Murray, Whitsundays Youth Voices Festival, The Justice Conference (AUS, US and NZ), Williamstown Literary Festival, Christian Education National Conference, Anglican Schools Australia Conference, Amnesty International Conference, and many more.

In publishing Joel has released seven spoken word/music albums, five published books of poetry and one creative non-fiction called WOVEN: A Faith for the Dissatisfied. He also has his first Junior Fiction/Graphic novel due for release with Larrikin House publishers in early 2024. Joel has had his work featured in such publications as: Mindfood Magazine, Relevant Magazine, Going Down Swinging Literary Journal, Soul-tread magazine, Spirituality for Youth Work (Cambridge Scholars Press), Australian Stories for the Soul (Strand Publishing), Gestalt Arts and Culture Journal, New Urban World Journal, and many more.