Iona Winter

Category: New Zealand Literature

• Aotearoa Bath Flash Fiction flash fiction Māori Writers New Zealand Literature video reading

  Video No.2 ~ Piss Pants

  Kia ora WordPress whānau, Here’s Video Reading No.2 ~ Piss Pants for your viewing pleasure. As published in Bath Flash Fiction’s Anthology No.4 ‘with one eye on the cows’ (2019). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IonaWinter11/videos/510577719832164/ Keep safe, be kind to one another, and stay connected during these difficult times. Me te aroha, Iona…

  April 2, 2020
• 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 creative writing flash fiction Māori Writers New Zealand Literature Queenstown Writers Festival then the wind came women writers

  Queenstown Writers Festival

  I had the privilege of being invited to facilitate a Flash Fiction Workshop this weekend, at the inaugural Queenstown Writers Festival. Imagine my surprise to find the event had sold out before I arrived! E hika! My wonderful group and I spent two hours exploring the form, and headed out…

  November 11, 2019
• Aotearoa flash fiction New Zealand Literature poetry Poetry Postcards short stories then the wind came

  Last stack…and something new

  This is my last stack of my debut pukapuka (book) then the wind came AND I’ve created some poetry postcards from selected poems from the book.         If you are interested in purchasing either the book – signed with aroha (love) and/or the postcards please let me know. Or…

  September 16, 2019
• Aotearoa Dunedin City of Literature New Zealand Literature poetry spoken word Victor Billot

  Part 4: other writers…

  Victor Billot lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin and grew up in Warrington, where he says ‘the natural environment was omnipresent.’ 🌳 With three self-published poetry collections, his work has appeared in anthologies and journals in Aotearoa and Australia. He currently has a manuscript ‘under consideration’ by a publisher, and is reading ‘A…

  September 2, 2019
• Aotearoa Christchurch Gail Ingram New Zealand New Zealand Literature poetry

  Part 3: other writers

  Gail Ingram lives and writes on the Port Hills of Ōtautahi Christchurch. Her first poetry collection Contents Under Pressure was published this year (Pūkeko Publications) ✨ Contents Under Pressure is a novella in poetry that tells a story of a mother-turned-graffiti artist in Christchurch. It blends poetry, narrative and collage,…

  August 12, 2019
• Aotearoa Bruce the Cat Children’s Fiction Kathryn van Beek New Zealand New Zealand Literature short stories women writers

  Part 2: other writers…

  Kathryn van Beek is an Ōtepoti Dunedin based writer. Her children’s book ‘Bruce Finds a Home’ is about ‘New Zealand’s most famous cat’ who she found on the side of the road when he was just one day old Bruce the cat ✨ Kathryn is currently working on the next ‘Bruce the…

  August 5, 2019
• Aotearoa Children’s Fiction creative writing New Zealand New Zealand Literature

  Other writers…

  Over the next wee while I’ll be promoting the work of other writers, mostly from Aotearoa New Zealand. These are people who are possibly lesser known, but have valuable voices in our writing community. I also see this as another way of getting our wonderful work out there in the…

  July 29, 2019