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

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

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

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

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

First Kiwi writer to win coveted residency

Award-winning New Zealand poet Alison Glenny has been selected for a writers’ residency in Dunedin.

Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024

Hope festival will be city’s biggest yet

A cultural group aims to create the largest Diwali celebration the city has ever seen.

Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2024

Writer new artist in residence

Congratulations to Laurence Fearnley - selected as the latest artist in residence at Henderson House in Alexandra

Posted: Friday Oct 25, 2024

Original songs feature in theatre production

The first outing for Dunedin-based director Lara Macgregor’s newly founded theatre company Birds of a Feather will be aw...

Posted: Friday Oct 25, 2024

Humorous celebration of Regency romance ‘queen’

A large audience was treated to a delightfully witty walk down literary memory lane on Saturday at Dunedin Public Librar...

Posted: Thursday Oct 17, 2024

Paula Morris wins Surrey

Paula Morris has won the distinguished Surrey Hotel Writers Residency Award in association with Newsroom and Jude and Di...

Posted: Wednesday Oct 16, 2024

Lilliput Libraries: The little libraries packing a big punch

Lilliput Libraries are celebrating nine years

Posted: Thursday Oct 10, 2024

NZ Young Writers Festival marks two milestones this year

A poetic reimagining of the Dunedin Sound and lessons on writing grief are just some of the events on offer at a Dunedin...

Posted: Thursday Sep 12, 2024

Poet returns for third time, staging hit show

The New Zealand Young Writers Festival brings the cutting edge of contemporary writing to Dunedin this weekend, where th...

Posted: Thursday Sep 12, 2024

Anthology unveiled on poetry day

Dunedin’s National Poetry Day celebrations marked a very special milestone, as about 40 creatives — poets, authors, musi...

Posted: Thursday Sep 05, 2024

160 performances at upcoming Otago Polyfest

9 - 13 September 2024 at the Edgar Centre

Posted: Thursday Sep 05, 2024

Stories reimagined in 3-D form

Award-winning illustrator and writer David Elliot has delved into the art of 3-D drawing, an exciting and original way o...

Posted: Friday Aug 16, 2024

Short story: Hitch, by Emma Neale

A gothic masterpiece by the great Emma Neale

Posted: Monday Aug 05, 2024

Passion for poetry shared through workshops

We were thrilled to collaborate with SuperGrans Dunedin on this series of poetry workshops led by wonderful City of Lite...

Posted: Thursday Aug 01, 2024

Stories of past sought by group

South Dunedin Oral History Project members hope to capture homespun tales of people from the area

Posted: Monday Jul 29, 2024

NZIFF returns with a bumper selection

Film fans rejoice! The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) is just a month away, and printed programmes have...

Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024

Connection between art and science fostered

Art and science rarely intertwine, but a "speed date" in Dunedin between artists and scientists sparked a magical collab...

Posted: Tuesday Jul 16, 2024

Memories central to Art+Science

Exploring the concept of memory, as it relates to humans and the planet, is at the heart of the Art+Science 2024 project...

Posted: Monday Jul 08, 2024

Mission fulfilled to publish brother’s poetry

After her younger brother’s sudden death, a Dunedin woman made it her mission to share his poems with the world.

Posted: Monday Jul 08, 2024

Obituary: master wordsmith won it all

Sir Vincent O’Sullivan - Author

Posted: Monday Jul 01, 2024

I love Invercargill – and its poetry festival, too

A diary of the Dan Davin Literary Foundation Poetry Festival that took place Invercargill over the first weekend of June...

Posted: Monday Jul 01, 2024

Play turns to the past to guide the present

Ōtepoti-based director, casting agent and writer Cindy Diver (Kāi Tahu) is bringing to the stage her first full-length p...

Posted: Thursday Jun 20, 2024

King's Birthday honours

Congratulations to Lisa Warrington on being made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to the...

Posted: Tuesday Jun 04, 2024

Poet teaches pupils to be life detectives

Read about the great mahi of City of Literature South D Poet Lorikeet Jenny Powell with our wonderful young writers! Tha...

Posted: Friday May 24, 2024

Poet ‘surprised, overwhelmed’ by book award

Megan Kitching won the Best First Book Award Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry for her work 'At the Point of Seeing' at the...

Posted: Monday May 20, 2024

Otago cancer researchers win PM's Science Award

When Parry Guilford is asked why he has spent nearly 30 years looking for the genetic cause of stomach cancer, he loves ...

Posted: Thursday May 02, 2024

‘Sheer glitter ringing about’: Emma Neale remembers Vincent O’Sullivan

News that the great writer Vincent O’Sullivan has died has spurred a wave of tributes. Here, fellow writer Emma Neale re...

Posted: Thursday May 02, 2024

Edible delights all year

At the Dunedin City Library from 6pm on Tuesday, Jason Ross, Rory Harding and Sue Novell will talk about how to grow foo...

Posted: Friday Apr 19, 2024

Dunedin history brought to life in a novel centred around Larnach's Castle

Dunedin's history is front and centre of a new book by Karen McMillan

Posted: Thursday Apr 18, 2024

Tale of famous Baldwin St updated

The Steepest Street in the World, Ian Dougherty Saddle Hill Press - reviewed by Jim Sullivan

Posted: Monday Apr 08, 2024

Thousands expected to attend Pacific festival

A Dunedin festival which brings the Pacific "to people's backyards" is expected to continue its rapid growth and attract...

Posted: Thursday Mar 21, 2024

Women play men in caricature of toxic masculinity

Five Dunedin women are tackling toxic masculinity by stepping into the shoes of white men.

Posted: Wednesday Mar 20, 2024

Far away city, but also close to home

Far away they may be but Dunedin and Edinburgh share a special bond, Sarah Boyack writes.

Posted: Monday Mar 18, 2024

City’s theatre scene celebrated

Huge congratulations to all the winners of the 12th Dunedin Theatre Awards

Posted: Thursday Feb 15, 2024

Taranaki author wins international award for poetry

Wonderful recognition for the 2024 University of Otago Robert Burns Fellow, Mikaela Nyman. Congratulations Mikaela.

Posted: Thursday Feb 15, 2024

University appoints first deputy vice-chancellor Māori

Distinguished Māori legal scholar Prof Jacinta Ruru is ready to start her new role as the first deputy vice-chancellor M...

Posted: Monday Feb 12, 2024

Actors prepare to take on complete works of Shakespeare

Actors prepare to take on the entire works of William Shakespeare in their 90 minute performance in Chingford Park over ...

Posted: Friday Feb 09, 2024

Awards finalists announced

The Dunedin Theatre Reviewers Collective has announced the finalists for this month’s 12th Dunedin Theatre Awards.

Posted: Thursday Feb 08, 2024

Quicksand in Portobello

Today is the last day of the novelist Kathryn van Beek’s year-long tenure as Dunedin’s Robert Burns Fellow

Posted: Wednesday Jan 31, 2024

Freedom in ‘high speed’ Bard play

Three actors, 37 plays, 100 props and hundreds of characters will come together in a high-energy mashup, as Dunedin Summ...

Posted: Thursday Jan 25, 2024

Gentlemen, gentlewomen and scholars — the Burns Fellows

As Kathryn van Beek’s time as the University of Otago’s Robert Burns Fellow comes to an end, she contemplates the litera...

Posted: Wednesday Jan 24, 2024

Recent works of poetry

Hamesh Wyatt reviews recent works of poetr

Posted: Friday Jan 19, 2024

Theatre awards to celebrate past two years

The best of local theatre from the past two years will be celebrated at next month’s Dunedin Theatre Awards, which retur...

Posted: Thursday Jan 18, 2024

Art seen: Marilynn Webb

The Dunedin Public Art Gallery is celebrating the life of Bay of Plenty-born Otago artist Marilynn Webb with a comprehen...

Posted: Wednesday Jan 17, 2024

Xmas: the best poetry books of 2023

Erena Shingade selects the 10 best poetry collections of 2023

Posted: Monday Dec 18, 2023

Bringing Pacific’s artists to the world

Pacific Arts Aotearoa brings together the stories of more than 120 artists, curators and community voices spanning six d...

Posted: Friday Dec 15, 2023

Psychological thriller wins inaugural Phoenix Prize

A pacy psychological thriller set in contemporary Sydney has won the inaugural Phoenix Prize for its author Rachel Paris...

Posted: Friday Dec 15, 2023

Celebration of writers, readers

Listen to the 2023 Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Podcasts

Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023

Plaque added for Gaelic bard

The Otago Scottish Heritage Council, Dunedin Public Libraries and the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature celebrated the u...

Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023