News and Opportunities
Poet laureate's tenure extended after Hawke's Bay inauguration
David Eggleton was inaugurated as New Zealand's poet laureate at Matahiwi Marae near Clive on Saturday, with his tenure ...
Posted: Wednesday October 14, 2020
NZ Bookshop Day is Saturday 17 October 2020
2020 will see us celebrate NZ Bookshop Day for the sixth time, drawing thousands of people into their local bookshops to...
Posted: Tuesday October 13, 2020
Global Media and Information Literacy Week
Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week, commemorated annually, is a major occasion for stakeholders to review ...
Posted: Tuesday October 13, 2020
HONE TUWHARE – The People's Poet
Posted: Tuesday October 13, 2020
Poetry Shelf Lounge: Richard Langston reads from his new collection, Five O’Clock Shadows
Posted: Tuesday October 13, 2020
Bilingual Māori literature journal launches in Te Reo heartland
This week the literary community celebrates the online launch of the new bilingual Māori literature journal Te Whē – te ...
Posted: Monday October 12, 2020
Poet laureate, David Eggleton, has tenure extended due to Covid-19 disruption
New Zealand’s poet laureate, David Eggleton, will get more time to write and perform after Covid-19 compromised his two-...
Posted: Monday October 12, 2020
Prose Politics
Distinguished Otago Alumna Returning to Ōtepoti for UBS Emerging Writer in Residence
Posted: Thursday October 8, 2020
Dunedin poet’s book translated
In an unusual twist, Taking My Jacket for a Walk, a recent book by Dunedin poet Peter Olds, has just stepped out in a Sp...
Posted: Wednesday October 7, 2020
New writing competition judged by Exisle Publishing editors
Posted: Tuesday October 6, 2020
From bitterness to gratitude
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
Still reading: turning the pages for health and wellbeing in teens
This digital world has a few tricks. It’s fast, lightning quick, bringing rewards with a few quick clicks. We skim and s...
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
A loaded skip: moving in a pandemic
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
Poetry Shelf Lounge: Robyn Maree Pickens’ Finland Residency – a poem, an interview, photographs
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
Read Our Words
An inter-disciplinary group of Māori academics from the University of Otago have released a poster to encourage the publ...
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 – winners announced – Third time lucky for Palmerston North poet
The winners of the 2020 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize have been announced. The competition is now in its te...
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
City writer’s ‘Lies’ wins Sargeson Prize
A tale centred on the lies a young woman tells to keep the painful truth at bay has won a Dunedin writer the 2020 Sarges...
Posted: Thursday October 1, 2020
Climate, community, arts to fore
More than 200 people took part, most of them online, in a symposium devoted to climate change, community and research in...
Posted: Wednesday September 30, 2020
Tupuranga Lua: A Whole New World is out!
We are fiafia as to be able to share this writing with you all.
Posted: Wednesday September 30, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Diane Brown’s Every now and then I have another child
Posted: Tuesday September 29, 2020
Write Spot with Paddy Richardson
Paddy Richardson - Paddy was Noirwich UNESCO Virtual Writer in Residence.
Posted: Tuesday September 29, 2020
Purpose of Establishment of Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award
Posted: Tuesday September 29, 2020
The Québec en toutes lettres Festival spreads poetry across all continents with La grande traversée poétique.
20 countries - 200 poets - a unique event... and it's free!
Posted: Monday September 28, 2020
Literary artists celebrate visual artist
Posted: Monday September 28, 2020
New Zealand Sign Language Week
Posted: Friday September 25, 2020
Generation Kitchen by Richard Reeve. Reviewed by Molly Crighton
Posted: Friday September 25, 2020
A Poetry Shelf audio gathering: Dunedin poets celebrate Elizabeth Brooke-Carr (1940 – 2019)
Posted: Thursday September 24, 2020
Calling all literary innovators!
Posted: Tuesday September 22, 2020
Can you help?
We're looking for Dunedin writers, in any genre, who are currently living in any of the other Cities of Literature for a...
Posted: Tuesday September 22, 2020
Dunedin Fringe Festival 18-28 March 2021
Registrations open: now till 27 November
Posted: Tuesday September 22, 2020
Pasifika Festivals Initiative Tasi Wave
Posted: Tuesday September 22, 2020
New Anthology by Slemani UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Monday September 21, 2020
Kete Books is now live
Love reading? You’ll find plenty to love here, all in one kete.
Posted: Friday September 18, 2020
Hub’s aim to make learning te reo Maori non-intimidating
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum visitor programmes co-ordinator Phoebe Thompson sits in a language hub that has been set up ...
Posted: Friday September 18, 2020
Lift up the anchor - Hūtia Te Punga
Systems-level change will improve the educational experience and outcomes for Māori learners. Mā te rerekē ā-whakahaerek...
Posted: Wednesday September 16, 2020
Pupils excited to map Broad Bay’s past
Pupils of a Dunedin school went "berserk" when they learned they had won a grant for a project that will document histor...
Posted: Wednesday September 16, 2020
Love in the time of Covid: A Chronicle of a Pandemic
Submissions are open August 01 – December 01, 2020.
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
New hybrid format for 2020 NZ Young Writers Festival
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
New book examines how childhood shapes later life
In his new book, The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life, University of Otago professor Richie Poulton and h...
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
Kete partners with Stuff to share reviews of New Zealand books
Kete – the new site devoted to the books of Aotearoa which launches on 15 September – will share reviews of New Zealand ...
Posted: Friday September 11, 2020
Dick of the Bay on Otago Access Radio
Attention New Zealanders! A new radio drama is coming to take over your airwaves.
Posted: Friday September 11, 2020
Congratulations to Max Quinn on the publication of his first book, "A Life of Extremes", coming November 2020!
Posted: Wednesday September 9, 2020
Misconceptions and Bruce the cat: a Q&A with Kathryn van Beek
Dunedin author and illustrator Kathryn van Beek is launching two new books this month: her short story collection PET an...
Posted: Tuesday September 8, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Elizabeth Brooke-Carr’s Wanting to tell you everything
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
Happy International Literacy Day!
UNESCO Cities of Literature are excited to celebrate with a collective social media campaign led by Bucheon City of Lite...
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Cilla McQueen’s ‘Gossamer’
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
2020 Nanjing International Writers’ Virtual Residency
Posted: Friday September 4, 2020
Māori Language Moment: Be the 1 in a million
Honour the past, keep ourselves safe now and prepare for the future together!
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
Recordings of Hone Tuwhare
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
THOMAS POTTS OF CANTERBURY Colonist and conservationist by Paul Star
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
A Poetry Shelf gathering: A handful of Starlings read from the latest issue
Starling 10 is not long out so I decided to celebrate this fabulous issue with a wee poetry reading. Starling was founde...
Posted: Tuesday September 1, 2020
Teenage poet bags another top award
Darcy Monteath has a way with words.
Posted: Wednesday August 26, 2020
Rhian Gallagher's poetry collection Far flung
Poet Rhian Gallagher's latest collection Far Flung takes us from South Island bush to Dunedin's notorious Seacliff Menta...
Posted: Monday August 24, 2020
Having the goods
Choie Sew Hoy was one of Otago’s most prominent entrepreneurs. Raised in Guandong, China, Sew Hoy came to Dunedin in 186...
Posted: Monday August 24, 2020
Stories in words and pictures
Comic artist Veronica Brett is capturing her world in words and pictures.
Posted: Monday August 24, 2020
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival announces two UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival today announced two virtual UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence for t...
Posted: Wednesday August 19, 2020
Call for proposals for January–December 2021
Blue Oyster Art Project Space invites proposals from arts practitioners for projects between January–December 2021.
Posted: Monday August 17, 2020
Arts Pupils’ ideas brought to life
Kids say the darndest things – especially when it comes to creating their own story books.
Posted: Monday August 17, 2020