He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Announcing the Selected Pieces for the Matariki Short Short Story Celebration
Posted: Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Te Tauihu Short Story Awards winning entries
What a fabulous group of shortlisted and winning stories!
Posted: Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Virtual Writer in Residence
Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature is now open for applications for our virtual writers in residence program
Posted: Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Writer 2022: The University’s annual creative writing competition for staff and students – and now also alumni
Do you love to write? Here’s a competition for you.
Posted: Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Medieval manuscripts enter the digital age
A cache of medieval manuscripts, once owned by former publisher AH Reed, have been transferred to the digital age, repor...
Posted: Monday Aug 01, 2022
Residencies begin at new theatre space
A large team of actors and creatives will take up a residency at Te Whare o Rukutia theatre space next week, as work con...
Posted: Monday Aug 01, 2022
Creative New Zealand launches new business capability programme for emerging Māori artists
Open for applications today, Toi Tipu Toi Rea is Creative New Zealand’s emerging Māori artists’ programme. In 2022 Toi T...
Posted: Monday Aug 01, 2022
In Conversation with Writer in Residence, Swapna Haddow
Dunedin Public Libraries’ Reading Promotion Coordinator, Jackie McMillan, interviews Swapna Haddow, the award-winning ch...
Posted: Saturday Jul 30, 2022
The Secrets of Others
Posted: Friday Jul 29, 2022
Friends of Ukraine Hub
Please drop into the Friends of Ukraine Hub next to I Love Paris in the Golden Centre Mall in Dunedin between 25-31 July...
Posted: Friday Jul 29, 2022
Drawn to Dunedin
Settling in to her new job as head of Dunedin’s Hocken Collections, Catherine Hammond is also discovering Dunedin. She t...
Posted: Thursday Jul 28, 2022
✨ANNOUNCEMENT! ✨
Tickets for the New Zealand International Film Festival are now on sale for Dunedin!
Posted: Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Have you seen tomorrow?
Posted: Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Review of 'Voices of World War 2: New Zealanders share their stories' by Renee Hollis
Posted: Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Ōtepōti Theatre Lab's Playwright Programme 2022
Today we're introducing our third ŌTL Playwright Programme writer for 2022, Tia Hibbert!
Posted: Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES OPEN
See an overview of what's on offer between July 2022 - June 2023
Posted: Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Once upon a time
Babytime is one of several regular children’s activities at the library. It resumed yesterday after the school holidays.
Posted: Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
'WRITE SPOT’, OAR FM: DUNEDIN’S TULIP MEETS A PRINCE
Posted: Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Friends of the Hocken Collections Award 2023
Application period 1 July - 15 October
Posted: Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Rāwaho: the Completed Poems
David Howard's new book features Croat artist Katarina Ivanisin Kardum's painting ‘The Eye of the Grasshopper’ on the co...
Posted: Friday Jun 17, 2022
Centre for the Book Symposium: Books and the Pacific - Call for Papers
Posted: Monday Jun 13, 2022
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