iWPS 2009, Berkeley, CA, October 8-10, 2009

Welcome to the official website for iWPS 2009. This is the website is the one stop shop for all things iWPS, please check back from time to time, as the site will continue to be updated.

 RESULTS: iWPS 2008 Charlotte, NC  Dec 11-13, 2008

FINAL RANKS
MCGLOLON THEATER
CHARLOTTE, NC

iWPS 2008 Champion Joaquin Zihuatanejo
2nd Place Jason McBeth
3rd  Place 6 is 9
4th Place Buddy Wakefield
5th Place Joshua Bennet
6th Place Andrew Tyree
7th Place Lizz Straight
8th Place Tara Hardy
9th Place Colin Gilbert
10th Place Bobby LeFebre
11th Place Queen Sheba
12th Place  The Original Woman

So what is iWPS?
The Individual World Poetry Slam, or iWPS is a performance poetry tournament much like NPS, though designed for individual competition.  Poets from all over the world meet and compete in a multi-day performance poetry contest. iWPS got it’s start in April 2003, when Poetry Slam Inc. voted to start a new event: the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship. The idea was to pull poets from both certified poetry slam venues around the world and individual poets not affiliated with any certified venues (storm poets). These poets would compete to declare who was THE number one poet in the world.

Prizes
1st place $1000
2nd place $600
3rd place $400
4th place $300

The winner of iWPS will also receive a book deal from The Wordsmith Press and will receive an invitation and plane ticket to the World Cup Poetry Slam Championship. There will be 15 representatives from 15 counties at the World Cup Poetry Slam Championship.