Merlijn Huntjens

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Merlijn Huntjens is a writer. Between 2013 and 2018, Merlijn was active as a Poetry Slammer, performing widely across the Netherlands, Belgium, and occasionally Germany. He himself landed in the (Dutch) National Championship Poetry Slam Finals in 2016, 2017, and 2018. He was City Poet Laureate of Heerlen from 2017-2019. Merlijn is one of the Makers at Wintertuin and artistic director of PANDA.  Poems written by his own hand are regularly published in literary magazines such as De Revisor, Het Liegend Konijn, and Tirade, and in 2022, he released his chapbook De zee zwaait terug with Wintertuin.

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