Iona Winter

Category: CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award

• 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 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award grief loss love New Zealand Literature Non-fiction NZ Books Reuben Samuel Winter Steele Roberts Aotearoa suicide suicide bereavement

  New Book: A Counter of Moons

  Kia ora friends, whānau and writerly colleagues. Today’s news is that my new book A Counter of Moons has been printed and published with Steele Roberts Aotearoa. A Counter of Moons shares my initial grief experiences, after my son Reuben Winter took his life in 2020. Each chapter explores a…

  June 11, 2025
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  CLNZ/NZSA 2022 Writers’ Award

  https://www.copyright.co.nz/about/news-and-event/25000-clnz-nzsa-writers-award-awarded-to-otepoti-writer-and-poet-iona-winter My deepest gratitude to Copyright Licensing New Zealand and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa for the CLNZ/NZSA 2022 Writers’ Award. Thank you for seeing the importance of this mahi, and for facing into the subject matter alongside me. It’s particularly poignant being this…

  September 11, 2022