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Launch of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020

Massey University Press will be launching Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 on 10th of March in Auckland.

Posted: Sunday February 23, 2020

NEW ZEALAND’S RICHEST LITERARY AWARD DONOR REVEALS HER IDENTITY

The anonymous benefactor responsible for funding the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards’ $50,000 annual fiction prize is rea...

Posted: Saturday February 22, 2020

Two new writing fellowships build connections with Ireland and Scotland

Two new University of Otago writing fellowships will facilitate and encourage literary and cultural exchange between Ire...

Posted: Thursday February 20, 2020

Launch of inspiring new award for Aotearoa’s freelancers and creatives

The Big Idea is proud to be partnering with the new Hnry Awards to celebrate creativity and independence. With $25,000 i...

Posted: Monday February 17, 2020

Writer in the Park, Ljubljana UNESCO City of Literature International Literary Residency

Posted: Friday February 14, 2020

The International Literary Residency in Ulyanovsk for writers and artists from the UNESCO Cities of Literature Network

Posted: Friday February 14, 2020

Kraków UNESCO City of Literature announces the 2020 call for applications for the International Residency Program for writers and translators.

The Program is dedicated to all emerging writers, and poets working currently on a writing project and willing to learn ...

Posted: Friday February 14, 2020

Call for applications 2020 - Tartu City of Literature International Residency Program

Tartu City of Literature Office announces the 2020 call for applications of Tartu City of Literature International Resid...

Posted: Friday February 14, 2020

Your child’s brain on books

Have you ever wondered what’s going on inside your child’s brain as you’re reading to them? For the first time, scientis...

Posted: Monday February 3, 2020

Behrouz Boochani and Alison Phipps in conversation

The Centre for Global Migrations and Mornington Methodist Church are co-hosting a conversation between writer, filmmaker...

Posted: Sunday February 2, 2020

Performances excellent in great setting

REVIEW: Romeo and Juliet Woodhaugh Gardens Friday, January 31

Posted: Saturday February 1, 2020

ODT Summer Times Short story: Invisible Ink by Lara M. Hewn

The stage is set at the Regent Theatre for Merryn's performance - but will she go on? We find out in part one of Lara M....

Posted: Monday January 20, 2020

ODT Summer Times Short story: Paper Butterflies by Kura Carpenter

As the long school holidays draw to an end, Summer is left wondering if Fin even knows she exists in the first part of P...

Posted: Monday January 20, 2020

ODT Summer Times Short story: The Shark Bell by R.L. Stedman

A fortnight after her husband left her for his personal trainer, Petra took up running. She told herself it was nothing ...

Posted: Monday January 20, 2020

Warm congratulations to Hawthornden Castle Fellow Majella Cullinane!

Posted: Wednesday January 15, 2020

Speaking Russian with a New Zealand Accent: Gala Uzryutova interviews David Howard

Conducted in late 2019 after David Howard held a “UNESCO City of Literature” residency in Ulyanovsk, Russia, this conver...

Posted: Tuesday January 14, 2020

Moa Imaginarium Competition

Upload a picture, poem, or short-story inspired by the moa footprints on display at Otago Museum and be in to win!

Posted: Friday January 3, 2020

The International Annual Literary prize, named after I. A. Goncharov

Ulyanovsk announces the open call for The International Literary prize, named after a great writer Ivan Goncharov, who w...

Posted: Monday December 23, 2019

2019 TAKAHE MONICA TAYLOR POETRY PRIZE – RESULTS AND JUDGE’S REPORT

Posted: Monday December 23, 2019

Robyn Maree Pickens awarded writing residency at Saari Residence in Finland

Posted: Friday December 20, 2019

Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2020

Blue Oyster is pleased to announce Owen Connors as Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2020

Posted: Friday December 20, 2019

Commission offered for art project

Dunedin artists will have the chance to create a project bringing art and the natural world together through the third a...

Posted: Thursday December 19, 2019

2020 Reykjavik City of Literature Writer‘s Residency

Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2019

Residency program for book operators 9 - 19 March

Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2019

Truthteller

Truthteller, an exploration of how out-of-control social media, conspiracy theories and viral journalism are damaging so...

Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2019

Dance and performance residency takes centre stage in 2020

Caselberg Trust Creative Connections resident 2020 – Lucy Marinkovich

Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2019

Call for Symposium:

Mapping the Anthropocene in Ōtepoti/Dunedin: climate change, community and research in the creative arts

Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2019

Genealogist one of NZ’s foremost due to huge effort

Posted: Tuesday December 17, 2019

On our best behaviour

We need to change and change big. Environmental psychology can help, Dr Wokje Abrahamse says. Tom McKinlay tries to get ...

Posted: Monday December 16, 2019

On closer inspection

The small and overlooked becomes larger than life in Suus Agnes Claessen's art, writes Tom McKinlay.

Posted: Monday December 16, 2019

Securing the future

Ngai Tahu’s takiwa encompasses the dry Canterbury Plains, the wet West Coast and sun-baked Marlborough. Kaiwhakahaere Li...

Posted: Monday December 16, 2019

Time for action

As we hit the critical decade in the effort to curb planetary heating, it might just be that we're ready to act, writes ...

Posted: Monday December 16, 2019

Expert Feature: Jane Austen

Posted: Monday December 16, 2019

Masters Games Opportunity

The Masters Games kick off on the 1st of February 2020. We are looking for a PR person to join our team from 28 January ...

Posted: Friday December 13, 2019

Hospital showcases southern artworks

Posted: Thursday December 12, 2019

Christmas tree adorned with care

The Regent Theatre Christmas tree is bursting with colour, including 100 Hospice baubles

Posted: Wednesday December 11, 2019

Water Globe

On 9 December Dunedin writer David Howard was at Ljubljana Town Hall for the premiere of 'Water Globe', a chamber opera ...

Posted: Wednesday December 11, 2019

Just announced... the judges for the 2020 Awards.

Learn more about them here...

Posted: Wednesday December 11, 2019

Guide for grieving wins award

Posted: Tuesday December 10, 2019

New from Ad Hoc Fiction | the everrumble

A poetic imagining of intense focus and sweeping ideas, Zettie’s story is fluid and in motion, transcending geographies ...

Posted: Monday December 9, 2019

Excerpts from ‘The Church That Is Not There’

‘…there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been ban...

Posted: Sunday December 8, 2019

Theatrical Quality Acknowledged

Posted: Thursday December 5, 2019

Keepers of History has been selected for the Auckland Libraries Top 100 list. Congratulations!

We're thrilled to announce Keepers of History has been selected for the Auckland Libraries Top 100 list. Congratulations...

Posted: Thursday December 5, 2019

Forty artist scholarships on offer for groundbreaking conference

“People don’t have time to listen to anyone anymore,” Lemi Ponifasio tells me in a crowded Auckland cafe humming with ha...

Posted: Wednesday December 4, 2019