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Ia Literary Journal
WRITERS IN RESIDENCE
AUGUST-OCTOBER 2020
Eliana Gray (they/them) is a poet from Ōtepoti. They have had words in: SPORT, Landfall, Minarets, Mayhem and others. Their debut collection, Eager to Break, was published by Girls On Key Press in 2019 and in 2020 they will be both a writer in residence at Villa Sarkia, Finland; and artist in residence at St Hilda's Collegiate, Ōtepoti.
Jordan Hamel is a Pōneke-based poet and performer. He was the 2018 New Zealand Poetry Slam champion and represented Aotearoa at the World Poetry Slam Champs in the US. He is the co-editor of Stasis Journal and co-editor of a forthcoming Climate Change Poetry Anthology from AUP. He has words in Poetry NZ, Landfall, The Spinoff, takahē, Sport, Mayhem, Mimicry and elsewhere.
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