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The Dark is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere: A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O’Sullivan.
Reviewed by Ian Wedde.
Posted: Monday Apr 12, 2021
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Emma Neale’s ‘Indicator’
Posted: Monday Apr 12, 2021
Newspaper has proud history of supporting literary talent
A local commitment to fostering writing talent must be applauded, Tony Eyre writes.
Posted: Monday Apr 12, 2021
Māori and Pasifika Books to feast your mind on.
Posted: Friday Apr 09, 2021
Judy Darleys' review for 'Gaps in the Light' by Iona Winter
Posted: Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Lies and ill will
A new play to debut at the Dunedin Arts Festival is not about telling the truth, but might have truths to tell, writes T...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Welcome return to Dunedin for award-winning show
"An unapologetic, sometimes humorous, sometimes confronting feast for the eyes, ears and soul."
Posted: Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Dunedin Fringe 2021 Award winners
Posted: Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Dark Dunedin: Season Two, Episode One
Posted: Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Poet Laureate David Eggleton's selection of Best NZ Poems 2020
Posted: Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
New publisher at University Press
Dunedin poet and prose writer Dr Sue Wootton has been appointed as the new publisher at Otago University Press.
Posted: Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
The directors’ cut
As the Dunedin Fringe Festival closes and two other arts festivals loom, their directors peruse each other’s offerings.
Posted: Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Help The Playhouse Theatre get a refurbishment
Posted: Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
2021 Bucheon Residency Program
Posted: Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Thief! - Dunedin Fringe Festival
Posted: Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Dispatches from the fringes
Posted: Monday Mar 29, 2021
Chinese Garden documentary given to southern schools
Posted: Monday Mar 29, 2021
Prison creative-writing stimulus
The Otago Daily Times prison creative-writing competition is back and promises to be bigger than ever.
Posted: Monday Mar 29, 2021
Significant Archibald Baxter poetry find
A Dunedin student’s discovery and publication of poems by World War 1 conscientious objector Archibald Baxter is sheddin...
Posted: Monday Mar 29, 2021
Pupils put favourite things to verse
Anderson’s Bay School pupils prefer climbing trees and writing poetry.
Posted: Friday Mar 26, 2021
UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature join forces to celebrate World Poetry Day 2021
Posted: Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Memoir tells the story of a Dunedin family
A new book, Mornington Memoirs, delves into the lives of the Jelley family, their friends and neighbours.
Posted: Friday Mar 19, 2021
Multitude of events for Race Relations Week
Race Relations Week will celebrate diversity, Dunedin Multi-Ethnic Council president Lux Selvanesan says.
Posted: Thursday Mar 18, 2021
New festival celebrates women’s art and music
The Dunedin Festival of Women’s Art and Music (DfestWAM) will be launched this weekend, as part of the Dunedin Fringe Fe...
Posted: Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Festival showcasing homegrown diversity
As New Zealand travellers pile into camper vans to discover beaches and bistros across the country, the Dunedin Writers ...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
2021 Camperdown Robert Burns Scottish Festival
Posted: Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival Programme
Posted: Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
NZSA Oral History Podcast – New Season
Posted: Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Small town boy
Michael Metzger’s Dunedin Fringe Festival play examines rural masculinity through the lens of his own story, he tells To...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Five visual writing prompts
Inspired by everyday items in a beautiful city – from nature webcams to abandoned shopping lists
Posted: Friday Mar 12, 2021
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