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  • Mōteatea poem

    Mōteatea is a new poem, written and recorded in response to an exhibition by Beth Caird on grief processes, at Blue Oyster Art Project Space in Ōtepoti Dunedin. It has… Read more

  • Publication

    Bonsai. A little beauty that a story of mine has been woven into. Ka pai 🙂 Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand, short form fiction, flash fiction and prose poetry. A… Read more

  • Exciting news

    Kia ora WordPress whānau, it’s finally time to share the aroha   March: ‘then the wind came’ accepted for publication… April: Met my publisher… May: Tweaked the manuscript… June: Edits and… Read more

  • Watch this space…

    Some exciting news is on its way.  All I can say for now is watch this space whānau, and I’ll keep you posted. Mā te wā, Iona x Read more

  • Rabid Dogs

    Stoked to have a new story ‘Rabid Dogs’ in Barely Casting a Shadow – Reflex Fiction Volume 1.  She arrived more swiftly than I imagined she might, having crossed the world… Read more

  • Links

    Exciting news is on the way WordPress whānau.  In the meantime, here a link to a piece I wrote on TBI last year — something I still manage every day.… Read more

  • Nottingham Poetry Fest

    Next week I’m appearing (via Skype) as a guest writer at this fantastic Nottingham Poetry Festival event. It’ll be strange to be 11 hours ahead and into Tuesday morning (and… Read more

  • Easter Weekend

    What a weekend Easter was!  A new story ‘Toetoe’ has been published with the wonderful peeps at Flash Frontier, in their Pasifika issue http://www.flash-frontier.com/pasifika/#Toetoe …and another story ‘Swan’ has been long… Read more

  • Two words

    Two words this morning. SHORT LIST.  I’m stoked to have my Novella-in-Flash get this far with the Bath 2018 Novella-in-Flash Award. No other words today xx Read more

  • Monsters Conversation

    Kia ora WordPress whānau, Sharing a kōrero (conversation) I contributed to, along with other Indigenous writers from the Pacific Monsters Anthology. https://ics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2018/02/24/pacific-monsters/ Kia ora to the Institute of Classical Studies… Read more