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2021
The thriller from Manila, Ronna Grace Funtelar is a graphic designer and dancer living in Whakatāne. She describes her writing as those hard conversations we don’t know how to start, pieced together with metaphors and hip-hop inspired rhythm. Sometimes she just misses romance and writes about that too. She published her book, Stuck: Friends, Lovers and the Obscurity of In Between in 2017 and is currently writing her second.
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Spirit of the Slam Award
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2021
Papua New Guinea born, Aotearoa raised Melody Tuck has enjoyed writing her whole life. Her passion for the art of Spoken Word was ignited during her time at Excel School of Performing Arts. She’s currently studying a Diploma of Creative Writing and has hopes to self publish children’s books in the near future.
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