Fleassy Malay

Poet | Speaker | Coach

Two times TEDx speaker and award winning poet, Fleassy Malay is an Internationally renowned, evocative and powerful spoken word artist, speaker and coach. A global advocate for Women’s rights, LGBTQI+ visibility, and a fierce voice for the power of authenticity and courage as a social change tool.

Founder and CEO of Melbourne’s acclaimed Women’s Spoken Word organisation, Mother Tongue, she has guided the voices of thousands of women into the world. A passionate, powerful, vulnerable and honest performer who’s words, workshops and courses leave a profound impression.

A British artist now based in Melbourne, Australia; Fleassy studied at the famous London stage institution, The BRIT School, which birthed many strong talents such as Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kae Tempest and more.

Fleassy has a theatrical and yet deeply authentic performance and writing style, renowned for captivating her audiences with depth, honesty, and humour. She now writes and presents regularly to her online community of over 20k followers with poetry, talks, and opinion pieces as well as producing creative and artistic projects that support advocacy and community development.

Notable moments:

In 2017 she published her first book, Sex and God, performed internationally, was a grand slam finalist and represented Australia at the National Poetry Slam, USA.

In 2018 her poem, Witches, went viral on International Women’s Day with over 3.5 million views to date.

In 2020 she successfully crowdfunded her second book Virago: A Poetic Manifesto, reaching over 200% of her original goal and pre-selling over 300 copies across 4 continents.

In 2022 Fleassy co-wrote a poem with a group of women living with HIV for Positive Women Victoria which was screened in Fed Square, and internationally, for World AIDs Day. Fleassy has published 2 poetry books, a children’s book, an adults colouring book and two albums of spoken word. That same year she won Reciter Of The Year at the National Folk Festival.

In 2023 her show Fierce-Gentle was awarded two Judges Picks at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

In 2025 Fleassy won the Slama semi final and their poem “Touch Tourist” was nominated into Slam-o-vision hosted by the UNESCO Cities of Literature. 

Fleassy Malay

Poet | Speaker | Coach

Two times TEDx speaker and viral poet, Fleassy Malay is an Internationally renowned, evocative and powerful spoken word artist, speaker and coach. A global advocate for Women’s rights, LGBTQI+ visibility, and a fierce voice for the power of authenticity and courage as a social change tool.

Founder and CEO of Melbourne’s acclaimed Women’s Spoken Word organisation and monthly event, Mother Tongue, she has guided the voices of thousands of women into the world. A passionate, powerful, vulnerable and honest performer who’s words, workshops and courses leave a profound impression.

A British artist now based in Melbourne, Australia; she studied at the famous London stage institution, The BRIT School, which birthed many strong talents such as Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kae Tempest and more.

Fleassy is renowned for captivating her audiences with depth, honesty, and humour. She now writes and presents regularly to her online community of over 20k followers with poetry, talks, and opinion pieces as well as producing creative and artistic projects that support advocacy and community development.

Notable moments:

In 2017 she published her first book, Sex and God, performed internationally, was a grand slam finalist and represented Australia at the National Poetry Slam, USA.

In 2018 her poem, Witches, went viral on International Women’s Day with over 3.5 million views to date.

In 2020 she successfully crowdfunded her second book Virago: A Poetic Manifesto, reaching over 200% of her original goal and pre-selling over 300 copies across 4 continents.

In 2022 Fleassy co-wrote a poem with a group of women living with HIV for Positive Women Victoria which was screened in Fed Square, and internationally, for World AIDs Day. Fleassy has published 2 poetry books, a children’s book, an adults colouring book and two albums of spoken word. That same year she won Reciter Of The Year at the National Folk Festival.

In 2023 her show Fierce-Gentle was awarded two Judges Picks at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

In 2025 Fleassy won the Slama semi final and their poem “Touch Tourist” was nominated into Slam-o-vision hosted by the UNESCO Cities of Literature. 

Fleassy Malay

Poet | Speaker | Coach

Two times TEDx speaker and viral poet, Fleassy Malay is an Internationally renowned, evocative and powerful spoken word artist, speaker and coach. A global advocate for Women’s rights, LGBTQI+ visibility, and a fierce voice for the power of authenticity and courage as a social change tool.

Founder and CEO of Melbourne’s acclaimed Women’s Spoken Word organisation and monthly event, Mother Tongue, she has guided the voices of thousands of women into the world. A passionate, powerful, vulnerable and honest performer who’s words, workshops and courses leave a profound impression.

A British artist now based in Melbourne, Australia; she studied at the famous London stage institution, The BRIT School, which birthed many strong talents such as Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kae Tempest and more.

Fleassy has a theatrical and yet deeply authentic performance and writing style, renowned for captivating her audiences with depth, honesty, and humour.

She now writes and presents regularly to her online community of over 20k followers with poetry, talks, and opinion pieces as well as producing creative and artistic projects that support advocacy and community development.

Notable moments:

In 2017 she published her first book, Sex and God, performed internationally, was a grand slam finalist and represented Australia at the National Poetry Slam, USA.

In 2018 her poem, Witches, went viral on International Women’s Day with over 3.5 million views to date.

In 2020 she successfully crowdfunded her second book Virago: A Poetic Manifesto, reaching over 200% of her original goal and pre-selling over 300 copies across 4 continents.

In 2022 Fleassy co-wrote a poem with a group of women living with HIV for Positive Women Victoria which was screened in Fed Square, and internationally, for World AIDs Day. Fleassy has published 2 poetry books, a children’s book, an adults colouring book and two albums of spoken word. That same year she won Reciter Of The Year at the National Folk Festival.

In 2023 her show Fierce-Gentle was awarded two Judges Picks at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

In 2025 Fleassy won the Slama semi final and their poem “Touch Tourist” was nominated into Slam-o-vision hosted by the UNESCO Cities of Literature.