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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
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
Robert Lord Residency: Where the unexpected happened
Posted: Monday Mar 14, 2022
Creative NZ Funding Opportunities Open
Posted: Monday Mar 14, 2022
NZSA Mentorships 2022 announced from record field of entries
Posted: Monday Mar 14, 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
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
Kyiv Classic Orchestra performs concert on Maidan Square
Posted: Thursday Mar 10, 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
The list of 163 books nominated for the 2022 IBBY Honour List has been released!
Posted: Monday Mar 07, 2022
Storylines New Zealand Writers and Illustrators' National Hui 2022.
Registrations OPEN!
Posted: Monday Mar 07, 2022
Kiwis love to read to their children, new report finds
Posted: Monday Mar 07, 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
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
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