He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
The Back of the Painting by Linda Waters, Sarah Hillary and Jenny Sherman.
Posted: Friday Mar 12, 2021
PLAYWRIGHTS B4 25
Posted: Friday Mar 12, 2021
New Landfall editor sought
Expressions of interest are sought for the position of editor of Landfall (two issues per year)
Posted: Friday Mar 12, 2021
Paula Green reviews Vincent O’Sullivan’s substantial new poetry book Things OK with you? for Kete Books
Posted: Friday Mar 12, 2021
Alan Roddick on David Eggleton's blog
Posted: Friday Mar 12, 2021
All Saints' Church
All Saints’ Church is a building of exceptional significance” Salmond Reed Heritage Architects.
Posted: Friday Mar 12, 2021
Shared experience
For two Dunedin first-time playwrights seeing their plays on the stage at Dunedin’s Fringe Festival this year will be th...
Posted: Thursday Mar 11, 2021
WAIRUA’S Boosted NZ campaign is now LIVE!
Posted: Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
THE ANNUAL TEXT PRIZE FOR YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S WRITING
Awarded annually to the best manuscript written for young readers, the $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Richard Reeve on David Eggleton's Blog
Posted: Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
DPAG Rear Window 2021...
Posted: Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Prize-winning Dunedin playwright Emily Duncan on RNZ
Posted: Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
CARGO BIKE ART SPACE
Cargo Bike Art Space brings artists and art to the streets, cycle ways and public spaces in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
Posted: Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Juliet Blyth's World Book Day Lecture (excerpt)
Posted: Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
OTAGO MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
Otago’s own awards to celebrate our nature, our landscapes, and you, our people, taking images of all of it!
Posted: Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Calling all writers, poets and playwrights! CompleteMS manuscript assessment programme on offer
The NZSA CompleteMS Programme is supported by Creative NZ and is open to financial members of the NZSA.
Posted: Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Caselberg Trust farewells Kim Morton
Posted: Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Sometimes Playful, Always Compelling
Harry Ricketts reviews Nouns, Verbs, Etc: Selected poems by Fiona Farrell (Otago University Press, 2020), 211pp, $35 for...
Posted: Monday Mar 08, 2021
Tapestry documents ‘ODT’ newspaper since 1861
Dunedin's influence on the history of daily newspapers in New Zealand has been woven into tapestry.
Posted: Monday Mar 08, 2021
Navigators’ ‘untold’ stories presented for young people
Abel Tasman, James Cook, Jean Francois Marie de Surville — stories of the explorers’ lives and achievements are well tra...
Posted: Monday Mar 08, 2021
NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 Shortlist
The winner in each category will be announced on 18 March 2021, and each winner receives $500 from NZ Booklovers.
Posted: Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Globe goes back to the future
Sixty years after The Glass Menagerie was first performed at Dunedin’s Globe Theatre, it is being revisited. Rebecca Fox...
Posted: Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Arts Grants
Arts Grants offer short-term project funding for New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations (includi...
Posted: Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Toi Ake – Mātauranga Māori Te Awe Kōtuku Fund
This fund supports marae, hapū, iwi, whakapapa-based rōpū and mātāwaka to protect, cultivate and retain mātauranga Māori...
Posted: Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary 2021
The annual Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary provides a stipend that enables a published writer or playwright at an ear...
Posted: Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Nominations for Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2021
Arts Access Aotearoa is calling for nominations to Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2021. There are six awards, plus th...
Posted: Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Hotere biography among finalists
One of Dunedin’s best known and most prolific authors can add to a long list of accolades after being shortlisted for a ...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
2021 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS - FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Finalists Reveal a Shift in New Zealand Writing and Publishing
Posted: Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Top Adam award for Dunedin playwright
A ‘‘shocking, lacerating and wicked’’ writing style has won Emily Duncan another major playwriting award.
Posted: Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Two poems from 'Whisper of a Crow's Wing' by Majella Cullinane translated into Italian.
Posted: Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Tou Hou Hari Haina! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Chinese New Year in the Year of the Ox!
The Kotahitaka Trust Board is collaborating with the Dunedin Multi Ethnic Council (“DMEC”) on a special project to help ...
Posted: Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
NZPS International Poetry Competition
Posted: Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Dunedin art in unexpected spaces
Off The Ground is a new project that's given Dunedin events stymied by the pandemic the funding they need to proceed.
Posted: Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
The Sets by Victor Billot out now
Posted: Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Residency Opportunity in Dunedin
Posted: Monday Mar 01, 2021
Discover a new city through books
Recommended reading lists from our UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence
Posted: Monday Mar 01, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award poetry long list
Elizabeth Morton reads from This is your real name
Posted: Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Issue 11 of Starling Magazine is online now
Posted: Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Read two poems by Ruth Arnison - Silent Lyrics and Driving to Wanaka’s Festival of Colour for David Eggleton's blog
Posted: Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Reo Pēpi
Two Ngāi Tahu cousins from Otago are behind the Reo Pēpi bilingual board books - writing and illustrating them. Kitty Br...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Poetry Shelf review: Richard Langston’s Five O’Clock Shadows
Posted: Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Dunedin dream brokerage is proud to present..
Posted: Monday Feb 22, 2021
Creative Engagement/Design Development: Mosgiel Safer Streets
As part of the Mosgiel Safer Schools project, DCC wishes to work with the community to create painted asphalt art on tri...
Posted: Monday Feb 22, 2021
New OUP publisher named
Dr Sue Wootton has been named the new publisher for Otago University Press and will officially take up the role in April...
Posted: Monday Feb 22, 2021
Advice for writers, from writers
Tips for improving your craft and productivity from our UNESCO Virtual Writers in Residence
Posted: Monday Feb 22, 2021
Eggleton to judge Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
New Zealand Poet Laureate David Eggleton will judge the Kathleen Grattan prize for 2021.
Posted: Friday Feb 19, 2021
NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 Shortlist Announced
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of well-known authors and new writers.
Posted: Friday Feb 19, 2021
Murals for Bath St Pump Surround – Expression of Interest
Posted: Friday Feb 19, 2021
Te Tahua Whakahaumaru Creative Arts Recovery and Employment (CARE) Fund
Posted: Friday Feb 19, 2021
Kidman Otago's Irish Writing Fellow
Wellington author Dame Fiona Kidman has been appointed as the University of Otago’s inaugural Irish Writing Fellow.
Posted: Friday Feb 19, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award Poetry Longlist: A Bill Manhire poem and audio link
Posted: Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Laura Jean McKay: winning Australia's richest literary prize
Palmerston North-based writer Laura Jean McKay recently won $125,000 at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, taking ...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Centre for the Book World Book Day Lecture and Dinner, 4 March
The Centre for the Book is delighted to offer the annual World Book Day Lecture, this year on Thursday, 4 March, at 5:30...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Pacific celebrated at Dunedin festival
The colour and vibrancy of Pasifika returned in style at the inaugural Moana Nui Festival in Dunedin at the weekend.
Posted: Monday Feb 15, 2021
Underwater series tells NZ’s maritime stories
A joint project for Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Heritage New Zealand, and Fiordland-based tourism operator Fiordland Ex...
Posted: Monday Feb 15, 2021
Taking up residency in a blizzard
My screen time is up 46%. I have divested myself of Facebook, cancelled my ongoing TradeMe favourite searches (NomD, fut...
Posted: Monday Feb 15, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award poetry long list: Rhian Gallagher reads from Far-Flung
Posted: Friday Feb 12, 2021
Feast of Riches: A Review of The Dark Is Light Enough
Dr Benjamin Pittman on the richness of the life of Ralph Hotere.
Posted: Friday Feb 12, 2021