He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
20% off store wide on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September at University Book Shop Otago.
In-store only and exclusions and restrictions apply.
Posted: Monday Sep 16, 2024
All about books in Aotearoa – all in te reo Māori
All week Kete will feature reviews of new and exciting books by Māori authors, reviewed in te reo Māori with links to En...
Posted: Monday Sep 16, 2024
Entries for the 2024 Sunday Star-Times short story competition are open
Entries close October 7, 2024 at 11.45pm
Posted: Monday Sep 16, 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
Applications are now open for the University Book Shop Summer Writer in Residence in Association with Robert Lord Writers' Cottage Trust Award.
Applications close 6 October 2024
Posted: Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
Today on Write Spot
New Zealand Young Writers Fest - Amy Grace Laura from Motif Poetry previews the slam poetry events as part of NZ Young W...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
Open Call for Nanjing International Writers’ Residencies 2024
Applications close Monday 30 September 2024
Posted: Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
National Poetry Day Competition Results
Warmest congratulations to the winners and everyone who entered and helped make our night so special
Posted: Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Applications are open for the Kaipukahu University of Waikato Writer in Residence 2025
Applications close on Friday 25 October
Posted: Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Sam Shepherd is back!
Kete Books shares an extract from PREY, Vanda Symon's latest mystery about Detective Sam Shepherd and the long-unsolved ...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Happy International Literacy Day!
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2024
RESIDENCY ALERT! Bremen's virtual residency is now open for applications!
Applications close 30 November 2024
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2024
2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Entries are now open for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, for New Zealand books published between 1 January 2024...
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2024
Applications open for the Mātātuhi Foundation Funding Grant
Up to $20,000 literary grants up for grabs! Apply online before 31 October 24.
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2025 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship
The residency will run from July to December 2025 - applications close Friday 1 November 2024
Posted: Friday Sep 06, 2024
Nine to Noon Short Story competition opens
RNZ are looking for stories of 2000 words, submitted by Friday 29 September.
Posted: Thursday Sep 05, 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
Share a Memorable Moment!
University Book Shop is turning 80! Hear your memory read out at the Birthday High Tea on 6 October 2024. Best memory wi...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Expressions of interest: Caselberg artist residency
With the support of the Caselberg Trust, Blue Oyster is calling for expressions of interest to undertake a summer artist...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Expressions of interest: One-day writing workshop with Cassandra Barnett
The Physics Room and Blue Oyster are calling for applications to join a one-day writing workshop with Cassandra Barnett ...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2024 Tartu City of Literature international residency program
This is a 2-month residency in November-December. Applications close 25 September!
Posted: Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
'But then ... the almost true story of an overdue book'
Award winning author Swapna Haddow is celebrating the release of her first New Zealand picture book by visiting Dunedin ...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 03, 2024
Registrations are open NOW for Dunedin Fringe 2025!
Dunedin Fringe Festival is turning 25 in 2025! Be a part of this amazing milestone. Registrations close Sun 17 Nov 24.
Posted: Monday Sep 02, 2024
The Wellness Gym
When you have treatment for cancer, information sometimes comes to you in a sideways fashion and not from the direction ...
Posted: Monday Sep 02, 2024
Entries are open for the 2024 University of Otago creative writing competition!
The University’s annual creative writing competition for staff, students and alumni - entries close Wednesday 11 Septemb...
Posted: Friday Aug 30, 2024
University Book Shop weekly Top 5
Featuring koe: An Aotearoa Ecopoetry Anthology
Posted: Friday Aug 30, 2024
How to read a poem: Rolling Moon by The Chills
The latest in a semi-regular series that breaks down a poem to analyse what it’s really trying to tell us.
Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024
The Spinoff Essay
Following the Swiss wolf, who walked 2,000 kilometres for love
Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024
A History of Kindness: A poem
Indigo - dive down through the layers, swim back up
Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Winner of the 2024 Janet Frame Prize
Multitalented Whanganui author Airini Beautrais has won the 2024 Janet Frame Prize worth $10,000.
Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Today, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Janet Frame!
Posted: Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
Today is Janet Frame CBE (1924-2004)'s 100th birthday
Hocken Collections are excited to announce that her papers, held at Hocken, have been inscribed into the UNESCO Memory o...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
Rediscover your library
Posted: Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Did you know...?
Dunedin Public Libraries is home to the most extensive collection of hymnology resources in New Zealand, thanks to the g...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100
The New Zealand author channelled her experience of tragedy and mental illness with dazzling results. Now centenary cele...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Writers on Janet Frame event
At an event in Oamaru on Saturday, a group of prominent authors gathered to discuss Janet Frame's writing and its influe...
Posted: Monday Aug 26, 2024
Poetry Shelf celebrates Poetry Day with Janet Frame
∗ an intro and three poems chosen by Paula Green ∗ a poem written by Bill Manhire for Janet ∗ three poems chosen by Pame...
Posted: Friday Aug 23, 2024
Happy Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day!
Today’s the day to celebrate the power of poetry in all its forms.
Posted: Friday Aug 23, 2024
South Dunedin SuperGrans capture their dreams through poetry
Posted: Friday Aug 23, 2024
Celebrating Art and Science: flows like water Book Launch
Weaver, sculptor, photographer and curator Pam McKinlay recently celebrated the launch of her latest book, flows like wa...
Posted: Friday Aug 23, 2024
Meet the Pasifika poet and 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow making history.
Congratulations to Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh ONZM, FRSNZ who has been awarded the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellows...
Posted: Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Rediscover your library
Read what the library means to Jessica Hinerangi Thompson-Carr - Māori Mermaid
Posted: Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Rediscover your library
Read what the library means to Ian Chapman - Dr Glam
Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Heritage Collections has put together two small displays to celebrate Janet Frame's legacy
Dunedin author Janet Frame would have turned 100 this month.
Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
A Poem: Connect - arrival and departure
We're excited that Kirstie will be appearing in our awesome National Poetry Day line-up on Friday
Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
“I was so hungry for anything other than the way I grew up” - writer and poet Sasha LaPointe
Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe from Seattle City of Literature will be appearing in several sessions at the WORD Christchurch ...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist revealed
Congratulations to the 15 fantastic Kiwi storytellers who are this year's finalists, across three categories.
Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Moa in the Matukituki Valley: A Cento
With the lead-up to National Poetry Day, enjoy this wonderful new poetry video by David Eggleton and Richard Wallis
Posted: Monday Aug 19, 2024
Help Me Hera: Is it selfish to RVSP ‘no’ to my good friend’s fancy Spanish wedding?
I can afford it, but not by heaps, and I’d love to go, but I’m unsure how much she values my presence. Help!
Posted: Monday Aug 19, 2024
Beach House Pictures documentary film making internship, Singapore
Applications close 28 August 2024
Posted: Monday Aug 19, 2024