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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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