Fringe offers eclectic selection

Dunedin Fringe Festival is the first major event out of the box for 2021, and has a huge programme to offer local audien...

Posted: Thursday Feb 11, 2021

Live-streams to boost festival’s ‘fringe factor’

If New Zealand’s fringe artists are not "fringey" enough this year, Dunedin Fringe Festival goers will for the first tim...

Posted: Thursday Feb 11, 2021

Youth Mentorship Programme 2021 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: Wednesday Feb 10, 2021

FUND TO PROTECT TAONGA ON MARAE

Posted: Wednesday Feb 10, 2021

The Adam NZ Play Award Shortlist is out.

Congratulations to everyone.

Posted: Tuesday Feb 09, 2021

2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal awarded to publisher Julia Marshall

Julia Marshall has been selected as the 2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner for lifetime achievement and distingu...

Posted: Tuesday Feb 09, 2021

Dublin City Council announces the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award Longlist of Library Nominations

Four novels from Ireland are among the 49 books nominated by libraries around the world for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Awa...

Posted: Friday Feb 05, 2021

Applications open for Michael King Writer's Fellowship

Creative New Zealand is calling for applications from established New Zealand writers for the Michael King Writer's Fell...

Posted: Thursday Feb 04, 2021

Waewae Kai Pakiaka is back for 2021.

Posted: Thursday Feb 04, 2021

Virtual Writer’s Residency – Norwich City of Literature

Dunedin poet Liz Breslin was selected by Norwich UNESCO City of Literature for a virtual writer’s residency, ‘Imagining ...

Posted: Wednesday Feb 03, 2021

Five Writers. One Month.

We are delighted to welcome five writers from UNESCO Cities of Literature around the world to Norwich for a virtual resi...

Posted: Wednesday Feb 03, 2021

The Pursuit of Freedom

Political protest and Te Reo has featured strongly in this year’s Robert Burns Poetry Competition entries.

Posted: Tuesday Feb 02, 2021

OU Press books long-listed

Three Otago University Press titles have made the long list for this year’s national book awards.

Posted: Tuesday Feb 02, 2021

2021 BOOK SALE UPDATE

Posted: Wednesday Jan 27, 2021

Read Share Grow Update

Posted: Thursday Jan 21, 2021

Poetry Shelf review: Fiona Farrell’s Nouns, verbs, etc

Nouns, verbs, etc. Fiona Farrell, Otago University Press, 2020

Posted: Wednesday Jan 20, 2021

CURRENT CALLS FOR SUBMISSION

Paper Road Press is calling for submissions to the third annual Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fanta...

Posted: Wednesday Jan 20, 2021

NZSA Auckland Museum Research Grant + Residency

The New Zealand Society of Authors in association with the Auckland Museum is delighted to offer a grant that gives the ...

Posted: Wednesday Jan 20, 2021

Historic temporary home for bookshop

A stockpile of cardboard boxes awaits 38,000 books as staff at a landmark Dunedin bookshop prepare to pack up and move i...

Posted: Wednesday Jan 20, 2021

***Calling all UNPUBLISHED POETS***

For the first time ever, we are running a Phantom Poetry Open Mic contest!

Posted: Tuesday Dec 15, 2020

Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Voucher

Posted: Tuesday Dec 15, 2020

Otago academic 'giant' Jim Flynn dies

Internationally renowned academic and University of Otago Emeritus Professor of Political Studies Jim Flynn has died age...

Posted: Monday Dec 14, 2020

Te Tahua Whakakaha | Cultural Sector Capability Fund

Manatū Taonga is now accepting applications for round one of the Capability Fund. Applications for round one must be sub...

Posted: Monday Dec 14, 2020

Short story: The undertaker’s story, by Owen Marshall

"It was almost dark on the evening I witnessed Carl strike his wife": a story of high gothic by New Zealand's master of ...

Posted: Monday Dec 14, 2020

Work on indexing ‘ODT’ files recognised

An autistic Dunedin man who delights in reading old copies of the Otago Daily Times has gained a special honour.

Posted: Friday Dec 11, 2020

Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Ursula Bethell Residency 2021

The writers in residence in the University of Canterbury’s (UC) College of Arts will be Vana Manasiadis and Behrouz Booc...

Posted: Friday Dec 11, 2020

The Dunedin Dream Brokerage is currently calling for proposals for their latest initiative, Off The Ground.

The Dunedin Dream Brokerage is looking to fund collaborative art projects that activate the places we live and work in a...

Posted: Friday Dec 11, 2020

Te Awhi Rito NZ Reading Ambassador nominations open

Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand and our partners are calling for nominations for Te Awhi R...

Posted: Wednesday Dec 09, 2020

The Suitcases (Part Two)

Posted: Tuesday Dec 08, 2020

Dr Smith of Rawene

Posted: Tuesday Dec 08, 2020

To Medicine via Paradise

Posted: Tuesday Dec 08, 2020

New Poems Hit The Streets Of Aotearoa

As 2020 enters its final phase, Phantom has curated a selection of original works by Becky Woodall, Eamonn Tee, Simon Sw...

Posted: Thursday Dec 03, 2020

Tagaloa Scholarships

Growing Pacific capacity and capability within communities and the education sector.

Posted: Thursday Dec 03, 2020

Te Tahua Whakakaha | Cultural Sector Capability Fund overview

The Capability Fund supports the cultural sector to adapt to the COVID-19 environment by funding activities that build s...

Posted: Wednesday Dec 02, 2020

After 30 years, a ‘Dunedin institution’ set to close

It has been said that a room without books is like a body without a soul.

Posted: Wednesday Dec 02, 2020

2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is calling for entries for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adu...

Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020

Vacancy at Exisle Publishing

Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020

Expand your mind

What's coming up – Professional Development

Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020

Greatness is Infectious

Their written words have made long-lasting, generational impacts on this country - and beyond.

Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020

A river runs through him

We only truly know one river in our lives. US writer Thomas McGuane said so and even this struck him as too expansive. S...

Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020

Landfall Review Online

Reviews by Piet Nieuwland

Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020

Poetry Shelf noticeboard: The inaugural recipient of The Caselberg Trust’s new Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Residency in 2021

The Caselberg Trust announced today that the inaugural recipient of its new Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Resid...

Posted: Friday Nov 27, 2020

Playwright wins top award, $10K prize

Emily Duncan’s sharp, sophisticated, passionate, quirky, evocative and unsettling writing style has won her yet another ...

Posted: Thursday Nov 26, 2020

Two awards in a month for local writer

Prolific, award-winning Wanaka writer Liz Breslin has had a stellar month: picking up prizes from both the International...

Posted: Tuesday Nov 24, 2020

POETRY PRIZE 2020 WINNERS ANNOUNCED...

Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 – winners announced – Third time lucky for Palmerston North poet...

Posted: Tuesday Nov 24, 2020

Give a kid a book and you give them the world

Last year the fledgling charity scheme Kiwi Christmas Books gave 1600 children’s books to Auckland Women’s Refuge and th...

Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020

SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR 2021 NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS

The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is now inviting submissions for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Youn...

Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020

Landfall 240 has arrived!

Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020

Poetry Shelf review: Bill Manhire’s Wow

Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020