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Applications Now Open: Shape NZ’s Literary Future!
Are you ready to bring your literary project to life? Applications for the Mātātuhi Foundation’s May 2025 funding round ...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Review: Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages
Anuja Mitra explores the kaleidoscopic collection TE MOANA O REO and its 'melody stitching together a number of voices; ...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
The Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize 2025 now open
Entries close Thursday 24 July 2025
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
One - The kindness of protest
Circa 1860-1869 six Scottish rabbits were released with champagne and celebration in Riverton, New Zealand.
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Calling all poets, especially student poets!
Posted: Monday Apr 14, 2025
New Voices of Aotearoa nominations open
Nominations close Wednesday 30 April 2025
Posted: Monday Apr 14, 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Adam NZ Play Awards
Recognising the best in new unproduced writing for the Aotearoa theatre.
Posted: Monday Apr 14, 2025
The 2025 NZ Festival of Nature has officially begun!
Make sure you’ve booked in all your activities—there are loads of free events and some truly unique experiences. It’s ti...
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
$1.25m-plus given out over 30 years
Women and children, the victims of family violence, were dear to the heart of Dunedin artist Patricia France, who died 3...
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
Pukeko stew to eggs with caviar: our community cook books
Community cookbooks are a glimpse of the way we were Tony Eyre writes.
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages
To protect linguistic diversity in the field of children’s literature, IBBY and UNESCO have launched a global call for s...
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
AIR Litteratur Västra Götaland announces residency scholarships
Applications close 23 April 2025
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Call for Youth Creative Writers!
OAR FM is now looking for MORE young people aged 12–24 to join Phase 2 of their whakapapa creative writing & podcast pro...
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Ocean Jade’s Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Applications for the 2026 Robert Burns Fellowship are now open
Applications close 1 June 2025
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Cadence Chung - Cadence is a poet, classical singer and composer. Mad Diva is her first full-length collection of poetry...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Poetry Pen Pals: Poems Connect Dunedin and Québec City
Ōtepoti UNESCO City of Literature is excited to announce a creative collaboration with Québec City UNESCO City of Litera...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Book explores chapter of New Zealand fashion history
Posted: Friday Apr 04, 2025
Landfall Review Online April 2025 Reviews
Sally Blundell reviews: The Defiance of Frances Dickinson by Wendy Parkins (Affirm Press)
Posted: Friday Apr 04, 2025
Submit to Pasefika Presence . . . a magazine for the voices of the Pacific
Submit by Monday 7 April 2025
Posted: Friday Apr 04, 2025
TE HONO: CONNECTION is returning in 2025
Submissions close 28 April 2025
Posted: Thursday Apr 03, 2025
AI Advice: Online Sessions for Screenwriters and those who work with them
NZWG AI Advice Handbook: Presentation with Q&A Zoom Sessions 10-16 April 2025
Posted: Thursday Apr 03, 2025
‘Eden in Dunedin’ brings fashion to Toitu
A carefully curated collection of high-end fashion apparel is now on show at a museum in Dunedin.
Posted: Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
From Beckett to the Quantum World at the Dunedin Arts Festival
Posted: Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Apply for Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho Oral History Grants
Applications close on 15 April 2025
Posted: Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
‘Cattleman, Fashion Fancier’: Central Otago Couture, reviewed
Jessie Bray Sharpin discovers ‘a shining nugget of a book’ in Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Collection by Jane Ma...
Posted: Monday Mar 31, 2025
Asya Ahmadasri’s Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Monday Mar 31, 2025
The Pasifika Books 2025 catalogue has landed
The Coalition for Books, with Kete, has launched their Pasifika Books 2025 catalogue focusing on new books by local Pasi...
Posted: Monday Mar 31, 2025
Call for Applications - University of Exeter Special Collections Ronald Duncan Stipend
Eligible to a writer from Dunedin! Applications close Sunday 15 June 2025
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
Books of Mana at Auckland Writers Festival
The editors join Miriama Kamo (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mutunga) to discuss this important work and reflect on two centuries of ...
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
Poetry Shelf: Michelle Elvy’s poem dispatch from the USA
Driving to North Carolina
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
The Laurel Prize 2025 is open for submissions for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025
Applications close 1 May 2025
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
Broad spectrum of shows highlighted at Fringe Awards
The Dunedin Fringe Festival 2025 wrapped up on Sunday with the Fringe Awards Night, honouring shows across the broad spe...
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
NZSA Kaituhi Māori Mentorship Programme
Applications close 10 April 2025
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
NZSA Kupu Kaitiaki Programme for Kaituhi Māori
The aim of this kaupapa is to provide new and emerging kaituhi with valuable feedback from a skilled Kupu Kaitiaki, for ...
Posted: Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Ripiro Beach Non-Fiction Writing Residency
An opportunity for University of Auckland alumni to have time and space to work towards or complete a creative non-ficti...
Posted: Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award shortlist: Emma Neale
To celebrate the four collections on the Ockham NZ Book Award Poetry Short list I invited the poets to answer a handful ...
Posted: Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Practising Falling
Since writing about falling quiet, I have certainly done that. The poem Walk can be seen as more on this theme. In conte...
Posted: Thursday Mar 27, 2025
A Legal Treat at Dunedin Public Library Heritage Collections
A collection of portraits of New Zealand Chief Justices and Judges will go on display in the Reed Gallery, 3rd floor, He...
Posted: Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Poem: My student flat by Gail Ingram
Posted: Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Today on Write Spot - Laurence Fearnley - At The Grand Glacier Hotel
Laurence Fearnley's book At The Grand Glacier Hotel has been shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Laurenc...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Dunedin Fringe Awards 2025
Heartfelt congratulations to Babyface, winner of the City of Literature Beyond Words Award and all the winners and short...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
The 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Finalists
Explore the finalists in these digital samplers, with extracts from all sixteen shortlisted books including our very own...
Posted: Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Support for College of Education’s Children’s Writer in Residence
New Zealand’s unique and treasured Children’s Writer in Residence is not being offered for 2026, due to loss of external...
Posted: Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Submissions for the 2025 A&U Fiction Prize closing soon!
Entries close 31 March 2025
Posted: Friday Mar 21, 2025
Poetry Shelf review and readings: Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology
To celebrate the anthology, five poets read a poem and Janet Newman answers five questions
Posted: Friday Mar 21, 2025
Enter the 2025 NZPS International Poetry Competition
Entries close midnight Aotearoa New Zealand time on May 31, 2025
Posted: Friday Mar 21, 2025
Call for Applications - University of Exeter Special Collections Ronald Duncan Stipend
Eligible to a writer from Dunedin! Applications close Sunday 15 June 2025
Posted: Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Call for papers, creative contributions, panels or roundtables
Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, November 2025 - rolling deadline until 31 July 2025
Posted: Thursday Mar 20, 2025
2025 Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award – Shortlist Announced
A special congratulations to our very own Samantha Montgomerie!
Posted: Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
The Heidelberg Author Award 2025 is now open for submissions!
Applications close 1 May 2025
Posted: Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship
This is awarded every two years to an established New Zealand literature writer with a significant publication record to...
Posted: Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Poetry Box Review
Go, Scooter, Go!, by Kyle Mewburn, illustrated by Kaye Julian
Posted: Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Wit and wisdom combined in uplifting play
Rare Public Appearance of Miss Georgette Heyer by Terry MacTavish
Posted: Tuesday Mar 18, 2025