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Stories reimagined in 3-D form
Award-winning illustrator and writer David Elliot has delved into the art of 3-D drawing, an exciting and original way o...
Posted: Friday Aug 16, 2024
Winners of the 2024 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults announced
Congratulations to all the winners!
Posted: Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Today on Write Spot
National Poetry Day - Michelle Elvy looks ahead to National Poetry Day celebrations to be held at Dunedin City Library o...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
NZ Young Writers Festival Competition
Entries close Thursday 22 August 2024 8.00pm
Posted: Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Melbourne City of Literature Virtual Writer in Residence
Writers from other UNESCO Cities of Literature, including Dunedin, are invited to apply to Melbourne City of Literature’...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
National Poetry Day would not be complete without David Merritt's poetry 'bricks'!
Find out where you can read David's poems on 23 August here:
Posted: Monday Aug 12, 2024
Name the chick competition
The Royal Cam chick needs a name. Submit your name along with an environmental action to be in to win great prizes. Entr...
Posted: Monday Aug 12, 2024
Sunshine Scoop August Issue
Check out the 'Spotlight' featuring our very own Susan Frame
Posted: Thursday Aug 08, 2024
Poetry Box Listening Corner
Elena reads 5 poem + a spooky popUP poem challenge
Posted: Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
Creative Impact Fund 2024 - Round 2 open
For activities taking place between:4 Dec 2024 - 4 Jun 2026. Closes: 17 Sep 2024, 1PM
Posted: Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
Creative Fellowship Fund 2024 - Round 2 open
For activities taking place between:4 Dec 2024 - 4 Jun 2026. Closes: 19 Sep 2024, 1PM
Posted: Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
Bookshop detectives: Gareth and Louise Ward
Listen to this! And then get all hyped up and excited to meet them at UBS August 29.
Posted: Monday Aug 05, 2024
Help Me Hera: Should I publish a creative essay about my ex?
I’m worried my musings will be less Richard Gadd and more Martha.
Posted: Monday Aug 05, 2024
Fiona Kidman documentary screens at New Zealand International Film Festival
A film which holds the camera up to the life and writing work of Aotearoa literary luminary Dame Fiona Kidman has been s...
Posted: Monday Aug 05, 2024
Short story: Hitch, by Emma Neale
A gothic masterpiece by the great Emma Neale
Posted: Monday Aug 05, 2024
Megan Kitching and her Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day Poster!
You can find her poem ‘Botanising’ on George Street here in Ōtepoti and in other locations around the country!
Posted: Friday Aug 02, 2024
'Marimari' - Paul Wolffram interview on OAR FM
Jeff talks with Producer/director Paul Wolffram about his urgent documentary 'Marimari', showing at the Regent Theatre 1...
Posted: Friday Aug 02, 2024
New podcast fund to support media coverage of arts and culture
Applications close 1pm, 9 August 2024
Posted: Friday Aug 02, 2024
100 days of Janet Frame
Poems read on Arrow FM to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Janet's birth
Posted: Friday Aug 02, 2024
Passion for poetry shared through workshops
We were thrilled to collaborate with SuperGrans Dunedin on this series of poetry workshops led by wonderful City of Lite...
Posted: Thursday Aug 01, 2024
Our very own Sue Wooton features in a thrilling new anthology, Forty South Short Story Anthology 2024
'Mandatory' is one of the ten best entries from the Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2024. Congratulations Sue!
Posted: Thursday Aug 01, 2024
Sugar Loafing Arts Cast Podcast
Listen to this interview between Mikaela Nyman and Lola Elvy on Mikaela’s radio show Sugar Loafing Arts Cast
Posted: Thursday Aug 01, 2024
Today on Write Spot - Frances Pavletich talks about the upcoming Small Press Fest
Frances Pavletich from Evening Books is coordinating the Small Press Fest, a three-day programme for small presses and i...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Congratulations Dunedin City Library
Dunedin Public Libraries wins Best Community Library Display in the 2024 Out on the Shelves Display Competiton
Posted: Tuesday Jul 30, 2024
Samoan for Samoa
Starting from scratch to create a dictionary for a language – and a culture
Posted: Monday Jul 29, 2024
BabyHex one of 40 works selected for the international Media Arts Exhibit at the 2024 Electronic Literature Organization conference in Florida
Congratulations to University of Otago English and Linguistics Associate Professor David Ciccoricco for the launch of hi...
Posted: Monday Jul 29, 2024
Stories of past sought by group
South Dunedin Oral History Project members hope to capture homespun tales of people from the area
Posted: Monday Jul 29, 2024
New Zealand's most beautifully designed books revealed
The most beautifully designed books in Aotearoa have been revealed with the announcement today of the 2024 PANZ Book Des...
Posted: Thursday Jul 25, 2024
2024 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose competition
Entries close 31 July 2024
Posted: Thursday Jul 25, 2024
University Creative writing competition open
Entries close at midnight on Wednesday 11 September 2024
Posted: Monday Jul 22, 2024
2024 New Zealand Churchill Fellowship round
Applications for the next round are now open, closing 14 August
Posted: Monday Jul 22, 2024
NZIFF returns with a bumper selection
Film fans rejoice! The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) is just a month away, and printed programmes have...
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Otago's medical hero
'Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly' is written by Mark Derby (right) and published by Massey ...
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
ACICIS journalism professional practicum
Applications close 11 August 2024
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Nominations are open for the 2024 Keep Dunedin Beautiful Awards!!
Know a neighbour who has been a community garden rockstar? Pop in a nomination, let their mahi be recognised!
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Book Review: Claire Williamson reviews NELL, a new novel by Penelope Todd
'Eleanor Preston – aka Nell – is born in 1897 on a South Island sheep farm homestead. During childhood, her world is the...
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Seven questions with Five Wee Pūteketeke illustrator Jo Pearson
'I like the metaphor of breathing for creative work – sometimes you’re able to breathe out (and produce your own work), ...
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
David Elliot artwork displayed in exhibition in Newstead Abbey
Check out this cool Spotlight featuring our very own David Elliot. We just love this artwork.
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Today on Write Spot - Pam McKinlay's book flows like water
Pam McKinlay has published flows like water, an illustrated anthology of projects she has made, curated or been involved...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
New addition to the City of Literature collection at Dunedin Public Libraries
Check out the newest recommendations from the DPL fiction collections, including a beautifully written addition to the C...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Connection between art and science fostered
Art and science rarely intertwine, but a "speed date" in Dunedin between artists and scientists sparked a magical collab...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Apply Now! Prague UNESCO City of Literature Residency 2025
An opportunity for writers and translators to live and work in the beautiful city centre where historical architecture m...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
'Leap' Poetry for Children Competiton
The nationwide competition is for adults who write poetry for children. Entries close Friday 2nd August 2024
Posted: Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
'The Aotearoa New Zealand children’s book that inspired me'
Finalists for the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults on the Aotearoa New Zealand children’s book...
Posted: Monday Jul 15, 2024
Beautiful Bookmark Art
Dunedin Public Libraries are excited to share some treasures found in their archives from the collected papers of A. H. ...
Posted: Monday Jul 15, 2024
Poetry Shelf Noticeboard
Poetry and The Art & Science Exhibition in Ōtepoti Dunedin
Posted: Thursday Jul 11, 2024
The Mahy Questionnaire
Featuring former librarian and award-winning writer and poet Elena de Roo. Her latest title Ring Ting Tūī—a cheeky rhymi...
Posted: Thursday Jul 11, 2024
New Exhibition in the Hocken Gallery
ARTISTS and LETTERS, PICTURES and WORDS
Posted: Thursday Jul 11, 2024
BEE Creative Workshops during the Memory and Mind exhibition
There are still spaces to sign-up, workshops are running Monday to Friday, daily until 20 July, 10:30am-12pm
Posted: Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Quiet Hour at the NZ International Science Festival Hub
Enjoy the Festival Hub in a sensory-friendly manner
Posted: Wednesday Jul 10, 2024
Waha Kōrero - Speech Competition
Waha Kōrero is an opportunity for native and highly proficient speakers of te reo Māori. This unique speech competition ...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Listen to Giselle Clarkson on RNZ
Why little things are worth looking at
Posted: Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Paper to Pixels
Listen to Anna Blackman (Head Curator Archives), and Rauhina Scott-Fyfe (Māori Archivist) from Hocken Collections speak ...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 09, 2024