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The Heat is On
THE HEAT IS ON: Young Writers on the Climate Crisis
A creative response to the climate emergency by extraordinary writers under…
Posted: Sunday June 5, 2022
Call for Ockhams Judges
Applications close at 5pm on Wednesday 29 June
Posted: Thursday Jun 02, 2022
How are Ukrainians doing at this unthinkable time, and how can the power of books and words strengthen our connections?
Posted: Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Support for Ukraine
Posted: Friday May 27, 2022
Counting down till World Environment Day 2022!
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature is thrilled to be releasing The Heat is On: Young Writers on the Climate Crisis
Posted: Monday May 23, 2022
2023 Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award
Nominations for 2023 Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award are now open
Posted: Monday May 23, 2022
Call for UNESCO City of Literature Wonju Residency 2022
Posted: Wednesday May 11, 2022
Shooting Folly as it Flies
The Life and Lines of New Zealand’s First Political Cartoonist James Brown
Posted: Wednesday May 11, 2022
Poltavshchyna from above · Ukraїner
Our dear friends in Lviv City of Literature have collaborated with Lviv Public Libraries, Ukraїner and the Ukrainian Lib...
Posted: Thursday Apr 21, 2022
The power of none: New book explores childfree perspectives
Posted: Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Application forms and information for the 2023 University of Otago Fellowships are now available
Posted: Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Caselberg Trust Creative Connections Residency
Applications will open for the 2023 Caselberg Trust Creative Connections Residency on 1 May-31 May
Posted: Monday Apr 11, 2022
How to run a bookstore in Manapōuri
Ruth Shaw is the bookseller at the end of the world
Posted: Monday Apr 11, 2022
Board Members wanted!
Posted: Monday Apr 11, 2022
A Recital of Poems
Kirsten Le Harivel, Mary Cresswell, Keith Nunes, Darryl Price & Kirstie McKinnon
Posted: Monday Apr 11, 2022
Call for submissions for the 2023 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award
The award is open to previously unpublished illustrators. This years story has been provided by Heather Haylock.
Posted: Friday Apr 08, 2022
Bucheon City of Literature has opened a call for their 2022 Residency Program
7-week stay for 2 writers and artists in October
Posted: Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Public Programme
Introducing a new collaboration with Toitū Otago Settlers Museum
Posted: Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Calling Speakers, Workshops and Educators to submit your EOI's to be part of Matariki Festival 2022
Applications close April 14
Posted: Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
A message from Lviv City of Literature, a city of unbreakable poetry
Thank you to our friends Богдана Брилинська and Pavlo Koriaga from Lviv City of Literature for sharing this message abou...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Alan Roddick has published NEXT, his third collection of poems in 50 years, with Otago University Press
Listen to him here on the OAR FM Morning Show
Posted: Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award 2022 Winner is ...
Samantha Montgomerie
Posted: Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Landfall Review Online
The Outrageous and the Everyday: Kerry Lane reviews The Pink Jumpsuit: Short fictions, tall truths by Emma Neale (Quenti...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
New Zealand women in World War II: Author puts out call for letters, diaries
Posted: Monday Apr 04, 2022
How cool is this!
Posted: Monday Apr 04, 2022
I Know a Published Author
The New Zealand Women's Weekly ran a short story competition which Christine Athenaeum from Dunedin Athenaeum & Mechanic...
Posted: Monday Apr 04, 2022
Exhibition - The Four Seasons (Spring)
Posted: Monday Apr 04, 2022
Te Papa Tupu 2022 – applications open!
Posted: Friday Apr 01, 2022
2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Samplers
Posted: Thursday Mar 31, 2022
5,000 words, $10,000
Entries open for NZ’s richest short story competition
Posted: Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Listen to Swapna Haddow on the OARSome Breakfast Show
Posted: Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Dunedin Fringe Festival Beyond Words Award sponsored by the City of Literature
.... and the winner is ....
Posted: Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Entries are now open for the Secret Lives Short Story Competition.
Posted: Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Win for Dunedin playwright
Dunedin playwright Emily Duncan has won the McNaughton South Island Play Award at the Adam Foundation New Zealand Play A...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
My Grandfather is a Canoe wins prestigious Dunedin Fringe Festival’s Touring Award to perform at Auckland Fringe
Posted: Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Poet well versed in taking it to street
Do you wish you were quick, concise and confident in your speaking? It can be hard enough stringing together a sentence,...
Posted: Monday Mar 28, 2022
Mātātuhi Foundation's Biannual Seed Funding round is NOW OPEN
Do you know some new and imaginative ways to increase the reach and engagement of NZ writers with NZ readers? The Mātātu...
Posted: Monday Mar 28, 2022
Centuries of Ngai Tahu history in 50 stories
Posted: Monday Mar 28, 2022
Adam NZ Play Awards announced
Congratulations to all the wonderful winners in the Adam NZ Play Awards, including our own Emily Duncan who again won th...
Posted: Monday Mar 28, 2022
Contributions sought for centenary limited-edition hand-printed publication
Posted: Monday Mar 28, 2022
New Zealand writers under 25
Starling are seeking submissions for the 14th issue of Starling
Posted: Friday Mar 25, 2022
The subversive compassion of Vincent O’Sullivan
Emma Neale, something of a literary polymath herself, reviews Vincent O’Sullivan’s new short story collection Mary’s Boy...
Posted: Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Reading group aims to help
Book lovers living with dementia will be supported to enjoy their reading with the launch of dementia-friendly reading g...
Posted: Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Puaka Matariki Festival
Event Registration and Contestable Funding Application forms are live!
Posted: Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Books galore filling the store
Books are piling so high in storage for the Regent Book Sale organisers reckon it is starting to look like the New York ...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Grant Funding available to become a Library and Information Professional
A grant of up to $10,000 may be available to help you get your qualification.
Posted: Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Arts Project Fund Round One Now Open
The arts project fund supports New Zealand professional arts companies, events and organisations to deliver projects tha...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Call for submissions for new Māori story anthology, including both established and emerging writers
Deadline Monday 2 May 5.00pm
Posted: Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Exciting news for Dunedin book lovers!
Alzheimers Otago and Dunedin Public Libraries are starting Dementia Friendly Reading Groups.
Posted: Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Nature festival focusing on sea
Posted: Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Book of the Week: Crime is endless, time is short
Britain's best crime novelist who lives in Dunedin
Posted: Friday Mar 18, 2022
Dunedin Youth Writers’ Group
Hear all about the Dunedin Youth Writers’ Group in this excellent conversation between Jeff Harford and Shima Jack on OA...
Posted: Friday Mar 18, 2022
A year of poetry and a patchwork of poetic languages
red blossoms flower as seasons unfold, children inhale the warm fragrance forgetting there ever was a blood-longing gibb...
Posted: Friday Mar 18, 2022
Action time here for Fringe Festival
Dunedin artists are in the final phases of assembling their shows as the Dunedin Fringe Festival starts today.
Posted: Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Dunedin brothers helping refugees
Brothers from Dunedin have opened their homes in Bulgaria to Ukrainian refugees and they are eager to do more to help.
Posted: Thursday Mar 17, 2022