He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Tou Hou Hari Haina! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Chinese New Year in the Year of the Ox!
The Kotahitaka Trust Board is collaborating with the Dunedin Multi Ethnic Council (“DMEC”) on a special project to help ...
Posted: Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
NZPS International Poetry Competition
Posted: Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Dunedin art in unexpected spaces
Off The Ground is a new project that's given Dunedin events stymied by the pandemic the funding they need to proceed.
Posted: Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
The Sets by Victor Billot out now
Posted: Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Residency Opportunity in Dunedin
Posted: Monday Mar 01, 2021
Discover a new city through books
Recommended reading lists from our UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence
Posted: Monday Mar 01, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award poetry long list
Elizabeth Morton reads from This is your real name
Posted: Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Issue 11 of Starling Magazine is online now
Posted: Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Read two poems by Ruth Arnison - Silent Lyrics and Driving to Wanaka’s Festival of Colour for David Eggleton's blog
Posted: Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Reo Pēpi
Two Ngāi Tahu cousins from Otago are behind the Reo Pēpi bilingual board books - writing and illustrating them. Kitty Br...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Poetry Shelf review: Richard Langston’s Five O’Clock Shadows
Posted: Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Dunedin dream brokerage is proud to present..
Posted: Monday Feb 22, 2021
Creative Engagement/Design Development: Mosgiel Safer Streets
As part of the Mosgiel Safer Schools project, DCC wishes to work with the community to create painted asphalt art on tri...
Posted: Monday Feb 22, 2021
New OUP publisher named
Dr Sue Wootton has been named the new publisher for Otago University Press and will officially take up the role in April...
Posted: Monday Feb 22, 2021
Advice for writers, from writers
Tips for improving your craft and productivity from our UNESCO Virtual Writers in Residence
Posted: Monday Feb 22, 2021
Eggleton to judge Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
New Zealand Poet Laureate David Eggleton will judge the Kathleen Grattan prize for 2021.
Posted: Friday Feb 19, 2021
NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 Shortlist Announced
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of well-known authors and new writers.
Posted: Friday Feb 19, 2021
Murals for Bath St Pump Surround – Expression of Interest
Posted: Friday Feb 19, 2021
Te Tahua Whakahaumaru Creative Arts Recovery and Employment (CARE) Fund
Posted: Friday Feb 19, 2021
Kidman Otago's Irish Writing Fellow
Wellington author Dame Fiona Kidman has been appointed as the University of Otago’s inaugural Irish Writing Fellow.
Posted: Friday Feb 19, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award Poetry Longlist: A Bill Manhire poem and audio link
Posted: Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Laura Jean McKay: winning Australia's richest literary prize
Palmerston North-based writer Laura Jean McKay recently won $125,000 at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, taking ...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Centre for the Book World Book Day Lecture and Dinner, 4 March
The Centre for the Book is delighted to offer the annual World Book Day Lecture, this year on Thursday, 4 March, at 5:30...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Pacific celebrated at Dunedin festival
The colour and vibrancy of Pasifika returned in style at the inaugural Moana Nui Festival in Dunedin at the weekend.
Posted: Monday Feb 15, 2021
Underwater series tells NZ’s maritime stories
A joint project for Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Heritage New Zealand, and Fiordland-based tourism operator Fiordland Ex...
Posted: Monday Feb 15, 2021
Taking up residency in a blizzard
My screen time is up 46%. I have divested myself of Facebook, cancelled my ongoing TradeMe favourite searches (NomD, fut...
Posted: Monday Feb 15, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award poetry long list: Rhian Gallagher reads from Far-Flung
Posted: Friday Feb 12, 2021
Feast of Riches: A Review of The Dark Is Light Enough
Dr Benjamin Pittman on the richness of the life of Ralph Hotere.
Posted: Friday Feb 12, 2021
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
Free Webinar Series for emerging writers on short fiction writing skills
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
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 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlists for 2021 have been announced
Posted: Tuesday Feb 02, 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
Around the World in 80 Tales Storytelling Festival
Posted: Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
***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
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Sophia Wilson’s ‘Foreign’
Posted: Monday Dec 14, 2020
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Anna Jackson reviews Bill Manhire’s Wow at ANZL
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