Iona Winter

Tag: interview

• A Counter of Moons creative writing grief suicide bereavement

  Grief and the healing powers of creativity: Interview with Helen Lehndorf

  Helen Lehndorf and I recently had a slow cooked interview via the ether, and she has generously shared it on her blog this week (link below). Once again, I am grateful, indebted, thankful, relieved (insert any other useful descriptor here) that a writerly friend hasn’t shied away from speaking about…

  August 21, 2025
• A Counter of Moons CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award creative writing Flash Frontier grief NZ Books Reuben Samuel Winter social issues suicide bereavement women writers

  ‘Keep the kōrero open’ book interview

  Recently, I had the privilege to speak with friend and writerly colleague Michelle Elvy at Flash Frontier, about A Counter of Moons (interview link below). https://flashfrontier.com/keep-the-korero-open-iona-winter-talks-with-michelle-elvy-about-her-new-book-a-counter-of-moons-artwork-by-kirstie-mckinnon/ Responding to interviews about this book, while welcomed, hasn’t been easy. A Counter of Moons is the most vulnerable kind of writing I’ve done,…

  August 11, 2025
• A Counter of Moons grief New Zealand NZ Books suicide bereavement

  Companionship in the Hard Places

  Last week at the New Moon, good friend, poet and artist, Kirstie McKinnon had a chat with me about A Counter of Moons (link below). We shared a gorgeous heart-centred conversation about the book, suicide bereavement and its complexities, the coexistence of pain and love, and the importance of breaking…

  July 29, 2025
• Aotearoa Elixir & Star Press grief Grief Almanac interview

  Podcast

  Yesterday morning I had the pleasure of speaking with Jeff Harford at Otago Access Radio, about a liminal gathering. Here’s the podcast link in case you missed it https://accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=8e6bf332-e228-4d2f-88b1-c7d9bb1d79c1

  November 2, 2023
• Aotearoa indigenous interview New Zealand Pacific Monsters PhD

  The Future Fire

  This week it was awesome to be interviewed by The Future Fire, where we discussed the stunning Pacific Monsters book, my childhood fear of the dark, and a new doorway into the world of PhD’s in Creative Writing. http://press.futurefire.net/2018/02/interview-with-iona-winter.html

  February 10, 2018