Iona Winter

Category: Aotearoa

  • 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 first typeset copy received…  July: Cover artwork in progress… RELEASE DATE tbc 

  • 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

  • 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 from the UK to Aotearoa New Zealand. Some wonderful stories are contained within these pages, so here’s the Amazon link…

  • 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. https://corpus.nz/wairoro-unwired-on-being-concussed/

  • 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 possibly just out of my autumnal pj’s) when everyone there will be enjoying a glass of wine on Monday night!…

  • 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 listed with Reflex Fiction https://www.reflexfiction.com/spring-2018-long-list/ …and there’s something else, but I’ll save that for later, watch this space.  

  • 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

  • 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 in London, for the opportunity to contribute to this wonderful and enriching kōrero. Iona x

  • Ode to You

    I remember when you were young so full of tenderness and wonder a deep chuckle far beyond your years you knew things that we’d forgotten but now an enraged beast resides hacking away beneath the surface of your beautiful skin religiously I bargain with gods grateful when my outstretched hands…

  • 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