The winning competition entry that took 20 years to write
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About the episode
Tessa Piper shares the incredible story behind her winning SBS Emerging Writers' Competition entry, and how she mustered the courage to share the ‘heaviest of secrets’. Find out why judge Alice Pung described Tessa’s story as 'like a punch to the face and guts with a stolen, diamond-studded glove'. Also joining her is competition runner up Monikka Eliah, who reveals how digging deep took her writing to new places.