My conversation with author Iona Winter about Iona’s Elixir & Star 2023 Grief Almanac – a liminal gathering, grief, suicide bereavement and living with the absence of loved ones.

Image: ‘True’ by Kaye Winter, as appeared in a liminal gathering 2023. Photo Credit: Iona Winter.

Blog: Writing the Last Taboo

Crew / Kāhui

Blog: KEEPING IT SHORT – CREW / KĀHUI

Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize 2026

Alex Reece Abbott

Blog: THE RIGHT HAND GIRL

I kōrero with Iona Winter, the Elixir and Star publisher and writer about being here and there as a diasporic writer.

Photo: Alex Reece Abbott

Blog: Sins of Omission

Garden of Paradise, Redux about gardens ......

About – TABATHA FORBES

Blog: GARDEN OF PARADISE, REDUX

Ned Kelly in 1871 while in custody at Kyneton, arrested for associating with bushranger Harry Power and charged with armed robbery. (Source: National Museum of Australia)

Blog: NED KELLY

Gumfield Wāhine, Round Houhora Way. An ekphratic flash fiction.

Photograph: Woman with a shovel and gum spear by Arthur James Northwood used with kind permission of Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand.

Blog: Gumfield Wāhine, Round Houhora Way

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