Iona Winter

PUBLISHED COLLECTIONS

INTERVIEWS

A Counter of Moons at the 2025 Lifting the Lid Festival November 2025 https://ionawinter.com/2025/11/03/lifting-the-lid-festival-2025/

Grief and the healing powers of creativity August 2025 https://helenlehndorf.com/2025/08/20/writer-iona-winter-talks-grief-the-healing-powers-of-creativity-and-her-new-book-a-counter-of-moons/

Keep the kōrero open August 2025 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/

Companionship in the Hard Places July 2025 https://kirstiemckinnon.substack.com/p/companionship-in-the-hard-places

Poetry for Mental Health July 2025 https://www.poetryformentalhealth.org/interview-with-iona-winter

Rewild Grief with Hannah May 2024 https://youtu.be/FW4jUhbijDA

Write Spot Otago Access Radio March 2024 https://tinyurl.com/IonaWinter

Writing the last taboo Flash Frontier March 2024 https://flashfrontier.com/writing-the-last-taboo-alex-reece-abbott-talks-with-iona-winter/

OARsome Morning Show   Otago Access Radio    November 2023   https://accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=8e6bf332-e228-4d2f-88b1-c7d9bb1d79c1 

Deathwalker’s Guide to Life   https://www.deathwalkersguidetolife.com/s3-ep05-grief-and-creativity 2023

Gaps in the Light Podcast Series    Otago Access Radio  2021  https://oar.org.nz/gaps-in-the-light/

Write On with Vanda Symon   Otago Access Radio   May 2021  https://accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=032fef41-3a08-4f16-9673-a2c5717fcaa5

POETRY 

Iona Winter Earth Heart October 2025 (written and audio) https://ionawinter.com/2025/10/20/earth-heart-poem-audio/

Poetry for Mental Health UK The sound of raupō in the wind July 2025 https://www.poetryformentalhealth.org/interview-with-iona-winter

Tarot Poetry Journal #10 A house of bones and Confessions of importance June 2025 http://www.tarotpoetry.nz/tarot10/

Poipoia te Kākano Exhibition The Forrester Gallery Oamaru Kōkōwai | Pigments March 2025 https://ionawinter.com/2025/03/08/poipoia-te-kakano/

Australian Poetry Journal 13.2. Unearther December 2024 https://www.australianpoetry.org/australian-poetry-journal/

Underbelly Press Motherwort August 2024 https://underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/issue-one

Pure Slush DEATH Lifespan Vol. 12 Don’t wake me up I’m trying to find you July 2024 https://pureslush.com/store/anthologies-themed/death-lifespan-vol-12/

Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Lodestone March 2024 https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/poetry-aotearoa-yearbook-2024

Te Awa o Kupu Portal to the Stars August 2023 https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/te-awa-o-kupu-9780143777953

Tarot – NZ’s Online Poetry Journal   Forgotten Paths, Whare pūrākau tāuhu (the house of serial stories), and Your voice in concentric circles June 2023   http://www.tarotpoetry.nz/

Poetry for Mental Health ~ Suicide Vol.2   Amputated Limbs and Blackbird  April 2023   https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0C1HXZRRN

University of Huddersfield Galaxiid and this precipitous embrace 2023

NZ Poetry Society 2022 Anthology   Heavy-limbed tree after rain, and Ara Toi   December 2022   https://poetrysociety.org.nz/2022/12/01/how-to-order-the-nzps-2022-anthology/

Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing   Inhalations  2022 https://www.snapdragonjournal.com/product-page/winter-2022-elements  

Grief Dialogues  Zealandia  2022 https://griefdialoguesstories.com/2022/12/09/zealandia/

Love in the Time of COVID   Cadences, and To cleave the elements  2022 https://loveinthetimeofcovidchronicle.com/2022/09/30/poetic-nonfiction-diane-brown-vaughan-rapatahana-charlotte-hamrick-sophia-wilson-iona-winter/  

takahē Magazine  Blackbird   2022   https://www.takahe.org.nz

Vernacular   Heartbeat   2022  https://vernacular-online.nz/Heartbeat

NZ Poetry Shelf readings    Morass, Book of the dead, and Protest  2022 https://nzpoetryshelf.com/2022/03/11/poetry-shelf-video-readings-iona-winter/

Love in the Time of COVID   Book of the dead  2022   a-recital-of-poems-diane-brown-robert-beveridge-pris-campbell-iona-winter-vaughan-rapatahana

a fine line   Protest  2022  https://poetrysociety.org.nz/poems-reviews/a-fine-line-quarterly-magazine/

NZ Poetry Society 2021 Anthology   Morass 2022 https://poetrysociety.org.nz/2021/11/29/kissing-a-ghost-nzps-2021-anthology-is-available-for-pre-order/

FICTION

Poto | Short Tōrea 2025 https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/short-poto

Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages Tōrea 2025 https://thecubapress.nz/shop/te-moana-o-reo-ocean-of-languages/

takahē Magazine Vol. 111 The curve of the hill home 2024 https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-curve-of-the-hill-home/

Flash Frontier 2023 Wounded Bird https://flashfrontier.com/celebrating-mansfield-2023-a-phantom-billstickers-series/

A Cluster of Lights Anthology Lost Marbles and Madwoman 2023 https://pureslush.com/store/anthologies-themed/a-cluster-of-lights/

NFFD Micros in Translation Tōrea 2023

Gaps in the Light Podcast Series  2021   Otago Access Radio   https://oar.org.nz/gaps-in-the-light/

NON FICTION

Otherhood Anthology Stranded on a shore I never wanted to visit 2024 https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/otherhood https://www.ketebooks.co.nz/all-book-reviews/otherhood

Landfall Review Online Beats of the Pa’u and Peninsula book review 2022 https://landfallreview.com/short-stories-big-pictures/

NZ Author Magazine Massive not small 2022

Scoop Review of Books Love and Pain mō taku tama book review 2022

Landfall Review Online Liminal States Kurangaituku book review 2022 https://landfallreview.com/liminal-states/

Flash Frontier Kai Issue On the road 2022 https://flashfrontier.com/iona-winter-gaps-in-the-light/

Kete Books  https://www.ketebooks.co.nz/all-interviews-articles-and-more/is-flash-enough-iona-winter  2021

Otago Daily Times  https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/mother-who-counts-months  2021

REVIEWS

Landfall Review Online  https://landfallreview.com/she-was-driving-a-scream-into-distance/#more-6294

NZ Poetry Shelf https://nzpoetryshelf.com/2024/05/29/poetry-shelf-review-and-reading-iona-winters-in-the-shape-of-his-hand-lay-a-river/

Flaxroots Productions  http://www.flaxroots.com/flaxflower/a-little-treasure

Landfall Review Online   https://landfallreview.com/volumes-for-the-heart/

Radio New Zealand Nine to Noon https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018804069/book-review-gaps-in-the-light-by-iona-winter

NZ Poetry Shelf   https://nzpoetryshelf.com/2021/07/08/poetry-shelf-review-iona-winters-gaps-in-the-light/

NB Magazine  https://hail.to/dunedin-public-libraries-k-kete-wnaka-o-tepoti/publication/mGVzxQk/article/ANoAROM

SkyLightRain http://www.skylightrain.com/book-review-gaps-in-the-light-by-iona-winter/?fbclid=IwAR2_H3ToUpxT30g5EqTmHUw9LQoo43YHQYFr91nmuLRiljnUjfyNrXjo8xs