News and Opportunities
Happy Pink Shirt Day Aotearoa!
The team at the Dunedin City Library proudly wearing pink!
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Are you the next NZ Young Writers Festival Guest Curator?
Applications close Sunday 2 June 2024
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
The ‘Margery Blackman: Weaving, Life’ exhibition
Two events to celebrate the opening - Saturday 19 May 2024
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Project Fund is open!
Applications close Monday 10 June 2024
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Kia hiwa rā - Māori creative (digital) business delegation to China 2024
The Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono is offering up to eight places for emerging Māori creative business lea...
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Applications for the 2024 Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature International Residency Program are open
Applications close Friday 14 June 2024
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Submissions are open for Sweet Mammalian
Submissions close 30 June 2024
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Bookmarks with Jacinta Ruru
Professor Jacinta Ruru is with Jesse for Bookmarks this week.
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Book Review: Marilynn Webb - Folded in the Hills
'Marilynn Webb (1927-2021) faced three barriers to success as an artist in the 1960s: she was Māori (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu...
Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024
Poetry Shelf review
Hopurangi-Songcatcher Poems from the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan
Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024
Expert Feature: Warwick Jordan on looking after books
Warwick Jordan is the founder of the 'Hard to Find: but worth the effort' Second Hand Bookshops... which does exactly wh...
Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024
Whakataukī of the Week with Robert Sullivan
Robert Sullivan is a poet and an associate professor in creative writing at Massey University who has just published his...
Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024
Hocken Collections Foyer Display
Celebrating Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa / New Zealand Music Month 2024
Posted: Monday May 13, 2024
This Week, Those Books featuring Admissions, Mira Harrison
Posted: Sunday May 12, 2024
'Menswear + Manuscripts' exhibition
Special Collections' de Beer Gallery
Posted: Sunday May 12, 2024
Five Wee Pūteketeke
Delightful book illustrated by our very own Jo Pearson
Posted: Thursday May 9, 2024
Explaining Otherhood - childless by choice or circumstance
Listen to the RNZ interview here
Posted: Thursday May 9, 2024
Pasifika Book Hub!
Connecting readers with Pacific storytellers and stories, brought to you by Mila’s Books
Posted: Thursday May 9, 2024
Short story: The boat in the shed, by Kyle Mewburn
“How easy it would be to slip a kayak into the river at the back of Len’s section and glide silently past the row of sle...
Posted: Thursday May 9, 2024
The Rush Cottage Writers’ Residency
Hawke’s Bay Readers and Writers Trust Announce The Rush Cottage Writers’ Residency - Applications close 5pm, 31 May 2024
Posted: Wednesday May 8, 2024
Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence 2024
Applications close Friday, 31 May 2024
Posted: Wednesday May 8, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Poet and Writer Annie Villiers is contributing a poem to the Poetry on the Move initiative, marking Heidelberg City of L...
Posted: Wednesday May 8, 2024
May news from AUP!
Featuring two new poetry collections including Hopurangi—Songcatcher Poems from the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan
Posted: Tuesday May 7, 2024
Poetry Shelf review:
Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 – a review and eight readings
Posted: Monday May 6, 2024
Time to re-read Majella Cullinane's in-depth interview with Vincent O'Sullivan
"The great contradiction in life and in fiction, is we still believe in freedom, even as entanglements throw a net acros...
Posted: Thursday May 2, 2024
Enter the Annual NZPS International Poetry Competition
Entries close midnight 31 May 2024
Posted: Thursday May 2, 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 2, 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 2, 2024
Expressions of Interest for touring with PANNZ in 2025 are NOW OPEN
Submissions close 5pm, Monday 3 June
Posted: Thursday May 2, 2024
Entries for the 2024 PANZ Book Design Awards are now open!
Entries close Friday 31 May 2024
Posted: Thursday May 2, 2024
Call for Granada Writers in Residence Programme November 2024
Applications close 20 June 2024
Posted: Thursday May 2, 2024
Call for UNESCO City of Literature Wonju Residency 2024
Spend eight weeks in South Korea, at the Toji Cultural Centre
Posted: Wednesday May 1, 2024
Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship Applications
Applications close 14 June 2024
Posted: Tuesday April 30, 2024
Kete Book Reviews
Ash, Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand and A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotear...
Posted: Tuesday April 30, 2024
Tūhura photography competition
Otago’s own awards to celebrate our nature, our landscapes, and you, our people, taking images of all of it!
Posted: Tuesday April 30, 2024
Creative Connections Residency 2025 - submissions open
Applications close 5pm 31 May
Posted: Sunday April 28, 2024
Young poets/artists are invited to join WordPlay as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival
Deadline: 6 May
Posted: Sunday April 28, 2024
Congratulations Kimberley Fridd!!
Winner of the Drama NZ Life Membership Award for 2024
Posted: Sunday April 28, 2024
Today on Write Spot
City of Literature South D Poet Lorikeet, Jenny Powell discussing her work as a poet, working with new entrants at prima...
Posted: Sunday April 28, 2024
A History of Kindness
Drawing lights the way - an interview with Claire Beynon
Posted: Sunday April 28, 2024
Our heartfelt condolences and aroha to the whānau and friends of Sir Vincent O'Sullivan
New Zealand Poetry Society announcement
Posted: Sunday April 28, 2024
8-week Creative Writing Workshop for adults with Majella Cullinane
Secure your spot now!
Posted: Sunday April 28, 2024
Look Blue Go Purple - Taite Music Prize 2024 Winner!
Huge congratulations to our City of Literature whānau Look Blue Go Purple on receiving their Independent Music NZ Classi...
Posted: Wednesday April 24, 2024
Oar FM 'Māori Gods' podcast
Youth Zone broadcaster and podcaster Ajax Banstola (10) received some goodies from author Gavin Bishop
Posted: Tuesday April 23, 2024
Poetry Shelf Ockham NZ Book Award feature
Megan Kitching – a reading, a review, a poem
Posted: Tuesday April 23, 2024
Poetry Shelf Weekly Newsletter
This week - a poem by Vaughan Rapatahana and a musing on The Poet Laureate role
Posted: Tuesday April 23, 2024
Sun Gum Saan – New Gold Mountain Digital Lesson Plans
Resources designed to help your ākonga learn about and explore the world of Cantonese settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Posted: Sunday April 21, 2024
NZ artists win prestigious Venice Biennale award
Mataaho collective have been awarded the Golden Lion by a jury at the 60th Venice Biennale for their large scale work in...
Posted: Sunday April 21, 2024
"Contribution to Field"
An exhibition by English PhD candidate Liz Breslin - zines, cut & paste poems and very badly done cross stitch!
Posted: Sunday April 21, 2024
Poetry Shelf pays tribute to John Allison
Posted: Thursday April 18, 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: Thursday April 18, 2024
This week’s bestselling books – April 19
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, with occasional pithy remarks
Posted: Thursday April 18, 2024