He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Poetry Shelf Lounge: Robyn Maree Pickens’ Finland Residency – a poem, an interview, photographs
Posted: Monday Oct 05, 2020
Read Our Words
An inter-disciplinary group of Māori academics from the University of Otago have released a poster to encourage the publ...
Posted: Monday Oct 05, 2020
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 – winners announced – Third time lucky for Palmerston North poet
The winners of the 2020 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize have been announced. The competition is now in its te...
Posted: Monday Oct 05, 2020
City writer’s ‘Lies’ wins Sargeson Prize
A tale centred on the lies a young woman tells to keep the painful truth at bay has won a Dunedin writer the 2020 Sarges...
Posted: Friday Oct 02, 2020
Climate, community, arts to fore
More than 200 people took part, most of them online, in a symposium devoted to climate change, community and research in...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Tupuranga Lua: A Whole New World is out!
We are fiafia as to be able to share this writing with you all.
Posted: Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Diane Brown’s Every now and then I have another child
Posted: Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Write Spot with Paddy Richardson
Paddy Richardson - Paddy was Noirwich UNESCO Virtual Writer in Residence.
Posted: Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Purpose of Establishment of Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award
Posted: Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
The Québec en toutes lettres Festival spreads poetry across all continents with La grande traversée poétique.
20 countries - 200 poets - a unique event... and it's free!
Posted: Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Literary artists celebrate visual artist
Posted: Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
New Zealand Sign Language Week
Posted: Friday Sep 25, 2020
Generation Kitchen by Richard Reeve. Reviewed by Molly Crighton
Posted: Friday Sep 25, 2020
A Poetry Shelf audio gathering: Dunedin poets celebrate Elizabeth Brooke-Carr (1940 – 2019)
Posted: Friday Sep 25, 2020
Calling all literary innovators!
Posted: Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Can you help?
We're looking for Dunedin writers, in any genre, who are currently living in any of the other Cities of Literature for a...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Dunedin Fringe Festival 18-28 March 2021
Registrations open: now till 27 November
Posted: Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Pasifika Festivals Initiative Tasi Wave
Posted: Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
New Anthology by Slemani UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Kete Books is now live
Love reading? You’ll find plenty to love here, all in one kete.
Posted: Friday Sep 18, 2020
Hub’s aim to make learning te reo Maori non-intimidating
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum visitor programmes co-ordinator Phoebe Thompson sits in a language hub that has been set up ...
Posted: Friday Sep 18, 2020
Lift up the anchor - Hūtia Te Punga
Systems-level change will improve the educational experience and outcomes for Māori learners. Mā te rerekē ā-whakahaerek...
Posted: Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Pupils excited to map Broad Bay’s past
Pupils of a Dunedin school went "berserk" when they learned they had won a grant for a project that will document histor...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Love in the time of Covid: A Chronicle of a Pandemic
Submissions are open August 01 – December 01, 2020.
Posted: Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
New hybrid format for 2020 NZ Young Writers Festival
Posted: Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
New book examines how childhood shapes later life
In his new book, The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life, University of Otago professor Richie Poulton and h...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Kete partners with Stuff to share reviews of New Zealand books
Kete – the new site devoted to the books of Aotearoa which launches on 15 September – will share reviews of New Zealand ...
Posted: Friday Sep 11, 2020
Dick of the Bay on Otago Access Radio
Attention New Zealanders! A new radio drama is coming to take over your airwaves.
Posted: Friday Sep 11, 2020
Congratulations to Max Quinn on the publication of his first book, "A Life of Extremes", coming November 2020!
Posted: Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Misconceptions and Bruce the cat: a Q&A with Kathryn van Beek
Dunedin author and illustrator Kathryn van Beek is launching two new books this month: her short story collection PET an...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Elizabeth Brooke-Carr’s Wanting to tell you everything
Posted: Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Happy International Literacy Day!
UNESCO Cities of Literature are excited to celebrate with a collective social media campaign led by Bucheon City of Lite...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Cilla McQueen’s ‘Gossamer’
Posted: Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
2020 Nanjing International Writers’ Virtual Residency
Posted: Friday Sep 04, 2020
Māori Language Moment: Be the 1 in a million
Honour the past, keep ourselves safe now and prepare for the future together!
Posted: Friday Sep 04, 2020
Recordings of Hone Tuwhare
Posted: Friday Sep 04, 2020
THOMAS POTTS OF CANTERBURY Colonist and conservationist by Paul Star
Posted: Thursday Sep 03, 2020
A Poetry Shelf gathering: A handful of Starlings read from the latest issue
Starling 10 is not long out so I decided to celebrate this fabulous issue with a wee poetry reading. Starling was founde...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Teenage poet bags another top award
Darcy Monteath has a way with words.
Posted: Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Rhian Gallagher's poetry collection Far flung
Poet Rhian Gallagher's latest collection Far Flung takes us from South Island bush to Dunedin's notorious Seacliff Menta...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Having the goods
Choie Sew Hoy was one of Otago’s most prominent entrepreneurs. Raised in Guandong, China, Sew Hoy came to Dunedin in 186...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Stories in words and pictures
Comic artist Veronica Brett is capturing her world in words and pictures.
Posted: Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival announces two UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival today announced two virtual UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence for t...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Call for proposals for January–December 2021
Blue Oyster Art Project Space invites proposals from arts practitioners for projects between January–December 2021.
Posted: Monday Aug 17, 2020
Arts Pupils’ ideas brought to life
Kids say the darndest things – especially when it comes to creating their own story books.
Posted: Monday Aug 17, 2020
Kate di Goldi - creating our first Reading Ambassador
Here in New Zealand we rather pride ourselves in our enthusiasm for reading. But it doesn't happen by accident, here or ...
Posted: Monday Aug 17, 2020
Dunedin Writer Diane Brown previews Ten Perspectives, a National Poetry Day celebration.
Posted: Friday Aug 14, 2020
Entries are now open for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Entries are now open for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, for New Zealand books published between 1 January 2020...
Posted: Friday Aug 14, 2020
Truthteller: Inside the war on truth with Stephen Davis
Posted: Friday Aug 14, 2020
Readings from the latest issue of Landfall
To celebrate the arrival of Landfall 239, edited by Emma Neale, NZ Poetry Shelf invited a few poets to read their poems ...
Posted: Friday Aug 14, 2020
Author Shirley Deuchrass has just released her new book, Kicking Goals.
Posted: Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Applications for the second round of 110 projects in 2021 are now open.
The Ministry of Education is looking for professional artists and creative practitioners to partner with schools and kur...
Posted: Monday Aug 10, 2020
Allen & Unwin announces major new Crime Fiction Prize worth $25,000
ATTENTION ALL CRIME AND THRILLER WRITERS! Why wait to make crime pay? Is there a manuscript in your bottom drawer just w...
Posted: Monday Aug 10, 2020
Precious package
A special book in a box celebrates botanist Daniel Solander's contribution to New Zealand's history.
Posted: Monday Aug 10, 2020
Fragile but beautiful: Otago academic’s COVID-19 bubble concept
The creator of New Zealand’s bubble concept, introduced early on in the COVID-19 response to ensure Kiwis maintained soc...
Posted: Monday Aug 10, 2020
New Zealand Reading Ambassador Role Announced
Te Puna Foundation are thrilled to support the New Zealand Reading Ambassador for children and young people. This exciti...
Posted: Friday Aug 07, 2020
Writer-illustrators share craft with pupils
Purakaunui School pupils were joined by two special visitors this week.
Posted: Friday Aug 07, 2020
Manatū Taonga has established three new funds to support the arts, culture and heritage sector across the board.
Overall, this funding will support the sector through retaining and creating jobs, increasing earning potential, develop...
Posted: Thursday Aug 06, 2020
ILFU launches worldwide story contest
The ILFU (International Literature Festival Utrecht) is launching a worldwide storytelling contest.
Posted: Wednesday Aug 05, 2020