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Rod Oram Memorial Essay Prize - entries close 14 March 2025
Posted: Friday Dec 20, 2024
Round One of the Arts Practitioners Fund is now open for 2025 activities!
Applications close Monday, 13 January 2025
Posted: Friday Dec 20, 2024
Open call for international writing residencies at Vil·la Joana (Barcelona) 2025!
Submit your application before January 10th and live a unique experience in the heart of Collserola Park.
Posted: Thursday Dec 19, 2024
Today on Write Spot: Mira Harrison - Doctor and Writer
Mira Harrison has released her first novel, One In Three, based on her experiences as a junior doctor in NHS hospitals i...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Paula Green Honoured with 2025 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal
Storylines is delighted to announce poet Paula Green as the 2025 recipient of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal.
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Book review: Perch edited by Michelle Elvy
Ash Davida Jane reviews Perch edited by Michelle Elvy published by At the Bay | I te Kokoru
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
#17Booksfor17SDGs 2024 Campaign
Shining a light on SDGs and our Ōtepoti authors
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Read A Conversation with the Emperor by Kirstie McKinnon
the inner critic goes outside
Posted: Tuesday Dec 17, 2024
Importance of literary award ‘slightly dawning’
We are so thrilled for our very own Neville Peat - recognised with the 2024 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievem...
Posted: Monday Dec 16, 2024
Poetry Shelf summer readings: Emma Neale
Over the summer months Poetry Shelf is hosting a series of readings from the incredible range of poetry collections publ...
Posted: Thursday Dec 12, 2024
The 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults judges have been announced!
Two highly experienced panels that include bestselling and award-winning authors, illustrators, editors, book reviewers,...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Landfall 248: Spring 248 is here!
Landfall 248: Spring 2024 is dedicated to the late Vincent O’Sullivan, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most influential wr...
Posted: Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
Short story: Annie, My Anne, by Barbara Else
One of the best and most beautiful short stories of the year by a master of the form
Posted: Monday Dec 09, 2024
Nominations for Springboard 2025 are open!
Make Your Nomination before Friday 13 December
Posted: Monday Dec 09, 2024
Reducing sickness anxiety for children
Demystifying the world of bacteria for children is the goal for one Dunedin medical laboratorist.
Posted: Friday Dec 06, 2024
Poetry Shelf celebrates Brian Turner’s Literary Award with three poems
Posted: Friday Dec 06, 2024
Less than a week left to donate a book to a child in need this Christmas
If you've been thinking about buying a book or two to donate, now is the time to do it.
Posted: Thursday Dec 05, 2024
2024 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement
Heartfelt congratulations to our very own Neville Peat, who has been recognised with the 2024 Prime Minister’s Award for...
Posted: Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Review: The Pets We Have Killed, by Barbara Else
Accomplished storyteller Barbara Else has a wide-ranging body of work. Anna Scaife considers how the attention-grabbing ...
Posted: Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Today on Write Spot - The Pets We Have Killed
Author Barbara Else discusses her most recent work, adult short-fiction collection, The Pets We Have Killed.
Posted: Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
Publication of writing, art ‘pretty cool’
Two Dunedin secondary school pupils agree having their work featured in a national magazine is a pretty cool accomplishm...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
New OAR FM Show!
Borsch Club - Immerse yourself in Ukrainian culture and stories!
Posted: Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
My Sore Throat – Demystifying Medical Laboratory Science for Children
Manu Scripts Publishing announces with great pride the launch of its second book, My Sore Throat, written by Dr Heather ...
Posted: Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
Ōtepoti writers make the world a better place
Discover Local Taoka in the City of Literature Collection
Posted: Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
2025 Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award - Call for Nominations
Nominations close 13 Dec 2024
Posted: Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
Poetry on the Move
Our very own Annie Villiers has represented Ōtepoti in Heildelberg City of Literature’s Poetry on the Move initiative to...
Posted: Monday Dec 02, 2024
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust announces early 2025 residencies and invites applications for 2025–26
Six writers have been awarded 2025 residencies at the historic cottage in Ōtepoti Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature, and...
Posted: Friday Nov 29, 2024
David Hill reviews Owen Marshall's new collection of short stories, NEW STORIES, published by Penguin
David Hill considers the masterful writing and predominantly male protagonists in Owen Marshall's latest book, the lacon...
Posted: Friday Nov 29, 2024
A huge congratulations to Franchesca Walker and Hannah August, joint-winners of the 2024 Landfall Essay Competition
Landfall Essay Competition judge Lynley Edmeades has announced the joint winners of this year’s competition: Franchesca ...
Posted: Friday Nov 29, 2024
Buy local this holiday season with BookHub!
Over one million books are ready for delivery or click-and-collect from NZ bookstores around the motu. BookHub is local....
Posted: Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Hot books summer: NZ fiction for holiday reading
The New Zealand Summer Reading Guide is packed with reading recommendations and book gift ideas for Christmas — brought ...
Posted: Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn named in the New Zealand Listener 100 best books of 2024
In fantastic company with the incredible pukapuka that came out this year!
Posted: Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
Ōtepoti Writers Lab – it’s been a HOOT!
Final meeting of the Octagon Poets Collective for 2024 and Book Launch!
Posted: Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Poetry Shelf Monday poem
‘Voice carried my family, their names and stories’ by Robert Sullivan
Posted: Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Solomon Aelan Pijin Langguis Wik - Celebrate Solomon Islands Pidgin Language week 24 - 30 November
Learn some Solomon Islands Pidgin to use this week!
Posted: Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Pukapuka Māori o te tau 2024-2025
Are you a kaituhi Māori who published a book since Matariki 2024? If so, Māori Literature Trust | Te Waka Taki Kōrero wa...
Posted: Monday Nov 25, 2024
Short story: second place in the Sargeson Prize
Our warmest congratulations to Dunedin author Craig Cliff for winning second place in this year’s Sargeson Prize Short S...
Posted: Monday Nov 25, 2024
Real Life: How having kids led author Vanda Symon to life of crime writing
“Had babies. Drove me to crime.”
Posted: Monday Nov 25, 2024
Music for the Bard
The Globe Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is infused with the Dunedin Sound.
Posted: Monday Nov 25, 2024
Ōtepoti poets top The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems
Posted: Friday Nov 22, 2024
Matatuhi Foundation Supports the Promotion of the Literary Legacy of Hone Tuwhare
Stay up to date on the Hone Tuwhare Legacy Project
Posted: Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Submissions Now Open for 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Books released between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025 can be entered. There are two submission deadlines!
Posted: Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Enrolments are now open for the Whitireia Graduate Diploma in Publishing
Learn the publishing process by working on real books with real publishing clients.
Posted: Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Asia New Zealand Arts Practitioners Fund
Next application round opens Monday, 2 December 2024. Applications close Monday, 13 January 2025
Posted: Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Today on Write Spot - Julie Woods' Wish List Coasters
That Blind Woman Julie Woods and her husband Ron Esplin, a watercolour artist, have produced a set of coasters depicting...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
A 'masterclass in the art of the short story'
Sally Blundell reviews NEW STORIES by Owen Marshall
Posted: Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
2025 NZ Booklovers Awards
NZ Booklovers are still accepting entries - Entries close 10 December 2024
Posted: Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Record Funding Round ends 2024 on a high note
Following the release of a new set of funding criteria in July 24, including an increase in grant size from $5,000 to $2...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Turner made NZ Poet Laureate of Nature
Our warmest congratulations to Brian Turner, awarded the title of NZ Poet Laureate of Nature for his lifetime’s work in ...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
Applications are invited for the 2025 University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship
Applicants can apply any time; however, all applications will be reviewed after 31 January each year for that year's sch...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
Notes from a literary life
Papers left by Janet Frame illustrate a life of literature and adventure, write Anna Blackman and Kirstie Ross.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
Transgender Awareness Week, Nov 13–19, is a celebration leading into Trans Day of Remembrance Nov 20
To celebrate, Dunedin Public Libraries have put together a booklist of YA books that feature trans characters living the...
Posted: Monday Nov 18, 2024
The winners of the 2024 University of Otago Creative Writing Competition have been announced
This year's theme/writing prompt was “A place of many firsts” and was judged by the 2024 Robert Burns Fellow, Mikaela Ny...
Posted: Monday Nov 18, 2024
Māori on the home front
Listen: Lachy Paterson and Angela Walhalla, editors of Te Hau Kāinga and Raupanga, companion books that explore the tran...
Posted: Monday Nov 18, 2024
The Library of Ralph Hotere is now open
Dunedin Public Libraries hope visitors to the Reed Gallery on the 3rd floor of the Dunedin City Library will enjoy the e...
Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2024
School Library: Term Four giveaway
To be in to win any of these incredible titles, just email communications@read-nz.org with the book's title in the subje...
Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2024