Ruben Mita has been awarded a free years’ NZSA membership for taking out top spot in the ‘a fine line’ student poet competition.

Ruben Mita is a poet, musician and ecology student in Pōneke.

Ruben Mita

He has been published in Starling, Landfall, takahē, Tarot and Sweet Mammalian and won the 2022 Story Inc. IIML Poetry Prize.

‘In the last memory of shade / a painter sits at her easel.’ 

– from “Milk Street” by Ruben Mita – Student Featured Poet, a fine line Winter 2023.

A further six shortlisted poets, will also be published in this edition –

Ruby Macomber

Maia Armistead

Miranda Yuan (Write On!!!)

Sarah-Kate Simons (Write On!!!)

Oshadha Perera

Loredana Podolska-Kint

NZSA offered this prize in support of a fine line, and to support emerging writers.