News and Opportunities
Kate di Goldi - creating our first Reading Ambassador
Here in New Zealand we rather pride ourselves in our enthusiasm for reading. But it doesn't happen by accident, here or ...
Posted: Monday August 17, 2020
Dunedin Writer Diane Brown previews Ten Perspectives, a National Poetry Day celebration.
Posted: Thursday August 13, 2020
Entries are now open for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Entries are now open for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, for New Zealand books published between 1 January 2020...
Posted: Thursday August 13, 2020
Truthteller: Inside the war on truth with Stephen Davis
Posted: Thursday August 13, 2020
Readings from the latest issue of Landfall
To celebrate the arrival of Landfall 239, edited by Emma Neale, NZ Poetry Shelf invited a few poets to read their poems ...
Posted: Thursday August 13, 2020
Author Shirley Deuchrass has just released her new book, Kicking Goals.
Posted: Tuesday August 11, 2020
Applications for the second round of 110 projects in 2021 are now open.
The Ministry of Education is looking for professional artists and creative practitioners to partner with schools and kur...
Posted: Monday August 10, 2020
Allen & Unwin announces major new Crime Fiction Prize worth $25,000
ATTENTION ALL CRIME AND THRILLER WRITERS! Why wait to make crime pay? Is there a manuscript in your bottom drawer just w...
Posted: Monday August 10, 2020
Precious package
A special book in a box celebrates botanist Daniel Solander's contribution to New Zealand's history.
Posted: Monday August 10, 2020
Fragile but beautiful: Otago academic’s COVID-19 bubble concept
The creator of New Zealand’s bubble concept, introduced early on in the COVID-19 response to ensure Kiwis maintained soc...
Posted: Sunday August 9, 2020
New Zealand Reading Ambassador Role Announced
Te Puna Foundation are thrilled to support the New Zealand Reading Ambassador for children and young people. This exciti...
Posted: Friday August 7, 2020
Writer-illustrators share craft with pupils
Purakaunui School pupils were joined by two special visitors this week.
Posted: Thursday August 6, 2020
Manatū Taonga has established three new funds to support the arts, culture and heritage sector across the board.
Overall, this funding will support the sector through retaining and creating jobs, increasing earning potential, develop...
Posted: Thursday August 6, 2020
ILFU launches worldwide story contest
The ILFU (International Literature Festival Utrecht) is launching a worldwide storytelling contest.
Posted: Wednesday August 5, 2020
NZSA announces 2020 President of Honour - Paula Morris
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa announces that writer, academic and literary sector stalwa...
Posted: Wednesday August 5, 2020
New role to champion reading for children
A new role of New Zealand Reading Ambassador for children and young people is being established, Prime Minister and Mini...
Posted: Wednesday August 5, 2020
Local Authors to Inspire Children via Workshop Tour
Dunedin primary school children will have the opportunity to be inspired by two of Dunedin’s most engaging children’s wr...
Posted: Wednesday August 5, 2020
Dunedin literary app bilingual
A literary app that links New Zealand writers and their stories to specific Dunedin places has doubled in size and gone ...
Posted: Tuesday August 4, 2020
A love letter to the mighty Mataura River
Dougal Rillstone's new book, Upstream in the Mataura details his 70-year fascination for the Mataura River from his chil...
Posted: Tuesday August 4, 2020
Creative New Zealand opens first of its funding opportunities under 12-month investment plan
Today, Monday 3 August, Creative New Zealand opens the first opportunities in its 12-month investment plan, announced in...
Posted: Monday August 3, 2020
Applications open for Te Papa Tupu 2020
Te Papa Tupu is a unique opportunity for Māori writers to build their confidence in a programme developed by the Māori L...
Posted: Monday August 3, 2020
$80,000 FUND FOR FILMMAKERS TO MAKE DOCUMENTARIES FOR KIDS.
Submissions are open for the second round of the Doc Edge and Rei Foundation Film Fund.
Posted: Monday August 3, 2020
Rebirth of programme aims to grow next generation of literary critics
A programme dedicated to literary reviews for and by young people has been adopted by Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly ...
Posted: Sunday August 2, 2020
Poetry Shelf interviews Kay McKenzie Cooke
Posted: Wednesday July 29, 2020
Issue 21 of Down in Edin Magazine is now online.
Posted: Tuesday July 28, 2020
Today we're introducing our third ŌTL Playwright Programme writer for 2020.
Posted: Friday July 24, 2020
Introducing the second of our ŌTL Playwright Programme writers for 2020.
Posted: Friday July 24, 2020
Tonight we’re introducing the first of our ŌTL playwright programme writers for 2020.
Posted: Friday July 24, 2020
Artist Kerry Mackay's Autumn Lamb
Posted: Thursday July 23, 2020
New Writers at Ōtepoti Theatre Lab
Posted: Wednesday July 22, 2020
Community of writers to host retreat
They all live on the same street, drawing inspiration daily from the Hawkdun Range standing guard at the end of the road...
Posted: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Poetry Shelf poets on their own poems: David Eggleton reads and responds to ‘Heraldry’
David Eggleton reads ‘Heraldry’ from Time of the Icebergs (Otago University Press 2011). This poetry performance video w...
Posted: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Robert Lord Writers Cottage 2020 residencies announced
Canterbury flash fiction writer Sandra Arnold and Wairarapa children’s writer Di Batchelor have been awarded residencies...
Posted: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Kānapanapa mai ana a Matariki
Matariki is the Māori new year and an important time in New Zealand. Lawrence Wharerau, our Outreach Curator Māori Speci...
Posted: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Director Ngā Toi Māori
Tāwhiri (the producer of New Zealand Festival of the Arts, Wellington Jazz Festival, Second Unit and Lexus Song Quest) w...
Posted: Monday July 20, 2020
Go NZ: A detour through Dunedin's literary past
Gather round, readers, and let me tell you a story about Dunedin. Actually, would you rather hear one by Janet Frame? Ho...
Posted: Monday July 20, 2020
Is it a workshop? No, it's a bookshop. Welcome to Dead Souls in Dunedin
Dean Havard, owner of Dunedin’s Dead Souls Bookshop, does his best to try and detail his place of work.
Posted: Monday July 20, 2020
Reviews Editor appointed for KETE: New books from Aotearoa New Zealand
The Coalition for Books is delighted to announce that Mark Broatch, former deputy editor and books and culture editor of...
Posted: Monday July 20, 2020
Diane Brown Poems in New Zealand Poet Laureate blog
Posted: Friday July 17, 2020
Book link to Hodgkins’ father
A small piece of Dunedin’s literary history has been uncovered by a Dunedin man clearing out his garage.
Posted: Tuesday July 14, 2020
Poetry Shelf poets on poems: Kay McKenzie Cooke and Rachel McAlpine read and respond to new poems
Posted: Tuesday July 14, 2020
Kā mihi mahana nui o te wā o te Tau Hou Māori – Happy New Year!
Our Visitor Programmes Organiser, Lynda Cullen, interviews Vicki Lenihan, coordinator of the Dunedin Puaka Matariki Fest...
Posted: Monday July 13, 2020
Plays for the Young Competition
Do you have an original and inventive play written for young people, whether you are new or experienced in writing for t...
Posted: Monday July 13, 2020
Content Presenter: 2020 New Zealand Young Writers Festival
The NZ Young Writers Festival is four days of free, fun literary focused events held annually in Ōtepoti/Dunedin.
Posted: Monday July 13, 2020
Young Writer in Residence
A four week residency (13 September to Friday 9 October) in the Robert Lord Writers Cottage (Dunedin) to write, and part...
Posted: Monday July 13, 2020
Positions vacant at the New Zealand Poetry Society
The NZPS is looking for two lovely people to join us at the New Zealand Poetry Society.
Posted: Sunday July 12, 2020
Details of Creative New Zealand’s 12-month investment plan, ahead of August openings
Following its announcement on Friday 3 July, Creative New Zealand can now provide more details about its COVID-19-driven...
Posted: Friday July 10, 2020
Poetry Shelf picks from new books
Poetry greetings from gale, hail, rain, sun!
Posted: Thursday July 9, 2020
Memories and regrets explored in Scott play
Laughter and tears flow in iconic New Zealand play, The Daylight Atheist, by award-winning satirical cartoonist Tom Scot...
Posted: Wednesday July 8, 2020
Book Launch: That Blind Woman
Thank you for saying WHY NOT to coming to my book launch on Saturday!
Posted: Tuesday July 7, 2020
NZ Young Writers Festival Opportunities
Having recently obtained CNZ funding through the Arts Continuity Grant, the NZ Young Writers Festival is currently adver...
Posted: Monday July 6, 2020
Creative New Zealand announces its COVID-19-driven investment plan for the next 12 months
Close on the heels of a heavily subscribed $29 million emergency response to COVID-19, Creative New Zealand has announce...
Posted: Friday July 3, 2020
New Publisher for Reo Pēpi
We have HUGE news regarding Reo Pēpi; our books, our business model, our future and our brand new publishing partnership...
Posted: Friday July 3, 2020
Landfall announces new reviews editor
We are delighted to welcome Michelle Elvy to the Landfall team in the newly created role of reviews editor. She will cur...
Posted: Wednesday July 1, 2020
Regent books sold through pop-up shop
The Regent Theatre and Central Rotary Club launch a pop-up fundraising book sale from today.
Posted: Wednesday June 24, 2020
International exhibition "A City as a Writer's Workplace" opens online
The International online exhibition “A City as a Writer's Workplace” brought together 100 photographs and texts from wri...
Posted: Tuesday June 23, 2020
Write while there is still a chance. New Zealand poet is convinced that the book will not win social networks
The 19th International Forum of Young Writers of Russia, the CIS Countries and Abroad has opened in Ulyanovsk. One of th...
Posted: Monday June 22, 2020
A television bridge with a writer from New Zealand was held in Ulyanovsk
David Howard told local students how to write their own book, where to find inspiration and how to engage in self-develo...
Posted: Monday June 22, 2020