Iona Winter

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• Aotearoa Dunedin City of Literature Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature events grief guest writer laughter love mental health New Zealand New Zealand Literature

  New Zealand Young Writers Festival

  In September the New Zealand Young Writers Festival, held in Ōtepoti Dunedin, marked its 10th year. I was invited as a guest writer, on the other side of fifty, to participate in three panel discussions: Writing Grief with Ruby Macomber and Rushi Vyas, Te Ao Kāi Tahu with Tessa Patrick and Rauhina Scott-Fyfe, and How…

  October 3, 2024
• Aotearoa creative writing Dunedin City of Literature events flash fiction indigenous Kamau Taurua/Quarantine Island Landfall multimedia Māori New Zealand New Zealand Literature poetry Queenstown Writers Festival reviews social issues Te Hau Kāika The Best Small Fictions then the wind came

  November…the month of surprises

  October was exceptionally difficult, with the ending of a relationship I had given myself fully to, health issues that resurfaced requiring serious management, and on top of that a tonne of preparation for the Te Hau Kāika exhibition. ‘Bring on freaking November,’ I said (in a surreptitious manner under my…

  November 28, 2019
• Aotearoa events film indigenous multimedia music Māori poetry Te Hau Kāika

  Te Hau Kāika

  Nau mai haere mai. A warm welcome to everyone who can make this exciting exhibition I am part of next month. Te Hau Kāika – where is home? 16 – 23 November 2019.   Gallery on Blueskin, Waitati, Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. Iona, Reuben and Grace invite you to join…

  October 15, 2019
• Aotearoa events flash fiction poetry short stories then the wind came

  Books on shelves

  Four months on and I’m delighted to report that then the wind came is making an appearance on library shelves, in bookstores, and on loved ones bookshelves too. Mission accomplished…getting her out into the world and people’s hands. It still feels surreal, the fact that I’ve had an actual book…

  April 10, 2019