Iona Winter

Tag: creative writing

• A Counter of Moons book reviews grief suicide bereavement

  YouTube Review

  My deepest gratitude to Pallas Hupé Cotter, for the review of A Counter of Moons. Thank you for the work you’re doing in the areas of grief, suicide bereavement and loss. It warms my heart to know that there are wonderful people also working in this space. Iona x

  February 2, 2026
• A Counter of Moons creative writing grief guest writer Lifting the Lid Festival New Zealand social issues suicide bereavement

  Speaking to suicide bereavement – A Counter of Moons at Lifting the Lid Festival (audio)

  Heartfelt thanks and my deepest respect to the 2025 Lifting the Lid Festival last weekend. Thank you for providing such a generous and inclusive space to discuss all things death and dying. Thanks to Dr Annetta Mallon for having a fearless conversation with me, about suicide bereavement and my creative…

  November 20, 2025
• A Counter of Moons creative writing grief Lifting the Lid Festival love New Zealand Literature parenting poetry Reuben Samuel Winter social issues suicide bereavement women writers

  Lifting the Lid Festival 2025

  I’m delighted to share that I’ll be presenting at the Lifting the Lid International Festival of Death and Dying again this year. The 5th annual festival lifts the lid on everything death and dying, through conversations, interactive events, workshops, art and craft sessions, live music, poetry and performance from around the…

  November 3, 2025
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  Grief and the healing powers of creativity: Interview with Helen Lehndorf

  Helen Lehndorf and I recently had a slow cooked interview via the ether, and she has generously shared it on her blog this week (link below). Once again, I am grateful, indebted, thankful, relieved (insert any other useful descriptor here) that a writerly friend hasn’t shied away from speaking about…

  August 21, 2025
• 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 grief New Zealand NZ Books suicide bereavement

  Companionship in the Hard Places

  Last week at the New Moon, good friend, poet and artist, Kirstie McKinnon had a chat with me about A Counter of Moons (link below). We shared a gorgeous heart-centred conversation about the book, suicide bereavement and its complexities, the coexistence of pain and love, and the importance of breaking…

  July 29, 2025
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  Tarot Poetry Journal – new poems and audio

  It’s been a while since my last post, May is a write-off, being the month of Mother’s Day and another birthing day for a no longer living child. I seem to become more of a hermit each year at this time, the build up often being worse than ‘the dates’.…

  June 3, 2025
• Aotearoa creative process creative writing Māori Māori Writers New Zealand poems poetry

  Poipoia te Kākano

  In February, I was invited to respond to a mixed media exhibition Poipoia te Kākano at the Forrester Gallery in Oamaru, Otago https://www.culturewaitaki.org.nz/Whats-On/Poipoia-te-Kakano Poipoia te Kākano showcases work from Kāi Tahu artists Caitlin Rose Donnelly, Allison Beck, Kate Stevens West, Jess Nicholson, Megan Brady, and Emma Kitson. At the exhibition…

  March 8, 2025
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  The curve of the hill home

  Heartfelt thanks and aroha to takahē Magazine, for publishing a new flash fiction story The curve of the hill home as part of their Matariki Short Short Story Celebration, in Issue 111.

  August 12, 2024
• Aotearoa Elixir & Star Press grief Grief Almanac New Zealand Literature

  Elixir & Star Press fundraising

  The Elixir & Star Press Boosted campaign is now launched https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/a-liminal-gathering Kia ora, in advance, for your support with our fundraising. This will enable the inaugural Elixir & Star Press Grief Almanac to be printed, our multimedia contributors from New Zealand given a koha, and to hold two book launches…

  August 14, 2023