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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
Puaka Matariki Festival Saturday 14 June to Saturday 12 July 2025
Register to be part of the festival and apply for funding
Posted: Monday Mar 17, 2025
Today on Write Spot
No No No at Dunedin Fringe - Reva Grills from Gammelot Productions previews sci-fi dark comedy No No No, coming to Duned...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Southern authors in final cut for top literary prizes
Posted: Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards - shortlist announced
Heartfelt congratulations to our very own Laurence Fearnley, Emma Neale, Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) and all the...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
A life in letters
Posted: Monday Mar 03, 2025
The Rush Cottage Writers' Residency
Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Trust, in conjunction with Black Barn Retreats, is excited to invite applications for the ...
Posted: Friday Feb 28, 2025
Museum commemorates The Chills founder
The staff at Tūhura Otago Museum hope a new exhibition dedicated to Martin Phillipps will "fill people with warmth".
Posted: Friday Feb 28, 2025
2025 Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency
Applications are now invited from established writers and translators with at least one published work from other Cities...
Posted: Friday Feb 28, 2025
Review: Books of Mana edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira
Posted: Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Enjoy this wonderful tribute to Brian Turner (1944 – 2025)
"Poetry Shelf invited twelve friends to choose a favourite poem by Brian and write a few words to go with their choice.....
Posted: Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Dunedin writer Jenny Powell talks about her role as South D Poet Lorikeet and some of the publications that have arisen ...
Posted: Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Only 2 weeks until Dunedin Fringe Festival 2025 kicks off
Check out their latest news
Posted: Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Mobile Library Service 75th Anniversary 1950-2025
Tell your bookbus Story! Submission deadline: 14 March 2025
Posted: Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
Get your Limited Edition Dunedin Fringe Festival 25th Birthday Merch!
Posted: Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
Interview: the BOOKS OF MANA editors speak with Kete
Posted: Monday Feb 24, 2025
Youth writing mentorships open for 2025
Deadline for applications: 6 April 2025
Posted: Monday Feb 24, 2025
Marisel and Panna Kota: The Museum Cats of Odesa
On 24 February 2022, life changed forever for the people and animals of Ukraine.
Posted: Monday Feb 24, 2025
Dunedin in ‘Uttate’ – Okayama’s Beautiful Celebration of Stories
Posted: Friday Feb 21, 2025
The Heat is On: Young Writers on the Climate Crisis in print
To celebrate International Mother Language Day (21 February), we are thrilled to announce the print publication of The H...
Posted: Friday Feb 21, 2025
Reviewers ‘filled with admiration’
Dunedin’s theatre community members came out in force on Monday night to celebrate the achievements of their peers at th...
Posted: Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Eleven things I learnt while writing a novel about alpaca breeders
Duncan Sarkies’ latest novel, Star Gazers, is about the collapse of democracy in a society of alpaca breeders. Here are ...
Posted: Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Blue Oyster is looking for a Gallery Manager to join the team!
Applications close: 5pm Monday, March 3
Posted: Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Let's Celebrate is the theme for Neighbours Aotearoa 2025
Neighbours Aotearoa will take place 1–31 March 2025 but you can participate year round!
Posted: Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
Submissions for the Moana Nui Microfiction Comp '25 are NOW OPEN!
Submissions close Monday 10 March 2025
Posted: Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
‘Remarkable’ year of performances
A "remarkable" year of quality theatre in the midst of hard times will be celebrated at the 13th Otepoti Dunedin Theatre...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
The falcon on Taieri Ridge
Posted: Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2025
Awarded for the best piece of writing on the theme of Fear - Applications close: 1st April 2025 at 23:59 (UK time)
Posted: Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Jacinta Ruru: Books of Mana
Listen to this incredible interview between co-editor Jacinta Ruru and Mihingarangi Forbes about Books of Mana for Satur...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Creative New Zealand Playmarket Moana Pacific Trainee Script Advisor Residency 2025
Applications close Friday 21 February 2025
Posted: Monday Feb 17, 2025