Library hosting Pride Mixer

Posted: Wednesday Mar 16, 2022

Huge congratulations to Emily Duncan, and all the other talented writers, for making the Adam NZ Play Award shortlist!

We are thrilled to celebrate the shortlisted plays and playwrights for the 2022 Adam NZ Play Award.

Posted: Wednesday Mar 16, 2022

Creative NZ Funding Opportunities Open

Posted: Monday Mar 14, 2022

Versopolis Brave New Literature

(20 February – 1 March 2022)

Posted: Friday Mar 11, 2022

6 days and counting...

17-27 March the Dunedin Fringe Festival is taking over Ōtepoti Dunedin and your screens.

Posted: Friday Mar 11, 2022

Resilience - a lockdown theatre response (the film)

The Production of the Year (Dunedin Theatre Awards 2021) by Wow Productions is now a film!

Posted: Friday Mar 11, 2022

Review

Rejoice Instead: the collected poems of Peter Hooper

Posted: Friday Mar 11, 2022

In search of stories from New Zealand’s ‘Silent Army’ during World War II

The silent sacrifice of New Zealand women during World War II and their service in New Zealand and overseas is often ove...

Posted: Friday Mar 11, 2022

International Women's Day

TE RĀ WHAKANUI WĀHINE O TE AO

Posted: Tuesday Mar 08, 2022

PANZ launches Educational Publisher Hub

Posted: Monday Mar 07, 2022

Nominations for the 2022 Sir Julius Vogel awards Open

Sir Julius Vogel Award nominations for the 2021 calendar year are now open. The nomination period will close at 11:59pm ...

Posted: Monday Mar 07, 2022

Portrait: Brian Turner

Jillian Sullivan on her partner, the legendary Brian Turner, living with Alzheimer's in Oturehua

Posted: Monday Mar 07, 2022

Storylines New Zealand Writers and Illustrators' National Hui 2022.

Registrations OPEN!

Posted: Monday Mar 07, 2022

The Possibilities Project

Brave New Literatures Festival

Posted: Monday Mar 07, 2022

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem

Kay McKenzie Cooke ‘below the 45th’

Posted: Monday Mar 07, 2022

Support for Ukraine

Message from Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins

Posted: Friday Mar 04, 2022

Dunedin Fringe Festival

My Grandfather is a Canoe

Posted: Friday Mar 04, 2022

2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards - Finalists Announced

Judges announce 'surprisingly diverse' Ockhams Shortlist

Posted: Wednesday Mar 02, 2022

Ice Escape: Beatrice Hale

Beatrice Hale has relaunched her children’s book, Ice Escape, with The Kellas Cat Press, Aberdeen.

Posted: Wednesday Mar 02, 2022

Beatrice Hale relaunches historical adventure

Aberdeen-born author Beatrice Hale has relaunched an exciting historical adventure, The Resolute Heart, with The Kellas ...

Posted: Wednesday Mar 02, 2022

NZ Booklovers Review

Above the Treeline by Alan F. Mark

Posted: Wednesday Mar 02, 2022

New contributions to Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition

Hurahia ana kā Whetū

Posted: Wednesday Mar 02, 2022

Otago University Press features in book award list

OUP continued its traditionally strong showing in the poetry section of the Ockham New Zealand Books Awards and will hav...

Posted: Wednesday Mar 02, 2022

The Winners of the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Robert Burns Poetry competitions

An opportunity to read the winning poems.

Posted: Tuesday Mar 01, 2022

Landfall Review Online

Featuring Meeting Rita by Jenny Powell (Cold Hub Press, 2021)

Posted: Tuesday Mar 01, 2022

Poetry Shelf celebrates:

Gregory O’Brien’s cover, Bill Manhire’s poem

Posted: Tuesday Mar 01, 2022

Dunedin Pride Month ....

.... is at Dunedin Public Libraries

Posted: Tuesday Mar 01, 2022

We are delighted to announce the release of poet Alan Roddick's latest collection, 'Next'.

Writing from the eighth and ninth decades of his life, Alan examines the past, observes the present and speculates on th...

Posted: Tuesday Mar 01, 2022

Introducing Nuku Collective

A collective based in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa dedicated to showcasing local creatives through an online community, aiming to f...

Posted: Tuesday Mar 01, 2022

Landfall Review Online

From the Centre: A writer’s life by Patricia Grace - reviewed by Jacinta Ruru

Posted: Tuesday Mar 01, 2022

Bloodways of Papatūānuku

David Young’s new book Wai Pasifika explores Indigenous views, values and practices about water across the Pacific. It c...

Posted: Monday Feb 28, 2022

2022 Te Teuihu Short Story Awards

Open to all New Zealanders writing in English or te reo Māori

Posted: Monday Feb 28, 2022

Vincent O'Sullivan: Frankenstein’s creature in Fiordland

"How we cope with life is finding an appropriate way to talk about it." Lovely chat with Vincent O'Sullivan about his ne...

Posted: Monday Feb 28, 2022

SOME GOOD NEWS FOR THE ARTS:

Major New Prize Announced for Aotearoa’s Live Performance Industry

Posted: Monday Feb 28, 2022

Hysterical

A two-woman, feminist poetry show which confronts the narrative that women are too emotional and celebrates the hysteria...

Posted: Friday Feb 25, 2022

The Regent Book Sale is Happening!

April 1st - 10th, Advance Bookings Essential

Posted: Thursday Feb 24, 2022

Dunedin Pride focusing on events

Dunedin Pride secretary Trak Gray is looking forward to celebrating the rainbow community during March.

Posted: Thursday Feb 24, 2022

Diana Noonan wins Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal 2022

Writer Diana Noonan, author of more than 100 titles for children and young adults, is the 2022 winner of the Storylines ...

Posted: Thursday Feb 24, 2022

Kathryn van Beek's Honey Babe 🍊🍒

Featured in Overland Literary Journal

Posted: Wednesday Feb 23, 2022

Cats Work Like This

Exisle Publishing Mother's Day Promotion

Posted: Wednesday Feb 23, 2022

OPEN CALL FOR THE INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS!

Kraków UNESCO City of Literature announces the 2022 call for applications for the International Residency Program for wr...

Posted: Wednesday Feb 23, 2022

EK Books shortlisted for the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2022 Prize Best Children's Publishers of the Year

Smashing! 🤸‍♀️🤸🤸‍♂️

Posted: Wednesday Feb 23, 2022

The Secret History of Flight149

Number one on the Apple true crime podcast chart...

Posted: Wednesday Feb 23, 2022

Veteran poet Alan Roddick looks back - and forward

The past, present and even speculation about the future all find a place in the latest poetry collection Next by Ōtepoti...

Posted: Monday Feb 21, 2022

Two additions for Dunedin Writers' Walk

Two Dunedin writers have been added to the Dunedin Writers’ Walk.

Posted: Monday Feb 21, 2022

Dunedin Fringe

presents a premiere-packed programme for 2022

Posted: Tuesday Feb 15, 2022

Read NZ Review

1947 Torn Apart: The Partition of India

Posted: Tuesday Feb 15, 2022

Read NZ Review

Bumblebee Grumblebee

Posted: Tuesday Feb 15, 2022

Two new names on Dunedin's Writers' Walk

Lynn Freeman speaks to Roger Hickin who is Peter Olds' long-time friend and publisher, and to Ted Middleton's widow, poe...

Posted: Tuesday Feb 15, 2022

Happy Library Lovers' Day!

Library Lovers' Day is observed on the 14th of February to honour libraries, librarians and book lovers.

Posted: Monday Feb 14, 2022

NZSA Youth Mentorship Programme 2022 Seeks Emerging Young Writers

Four secondary school students will each have the opportunity to be mentored by one of New Zealand’s best professional a...

Posted: Friday Feb 11, 2022

Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Project Fund

The arts project fund supports New Zealand professional arts companies, events and organisations to deliver projects tha...

Posted: Friday Feb 11, 2022

Stories of silence, anxiety, retreat

Paddy Richardson reviews Emma Neale’s The Pink Jumpsuit, an extraordinary short story collection, longlisted for the Ock...

Posted: Thursday Feb 10, 2022