He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Ursula Bethell Residency 2021
The writers in residence in the University of Canterbury’s (UC) College of Arts will be Vana Manasiadis and Behrouz Booc...
Posted: Friday Dec 11, 2020
The Dunedin Dream Brokerage is currently calling for proposals for their latest initiative, Off The Ground.
The Dunedin Dream Brokerage is looking to fund collaborative art projects that activate the places we live and work in a...
Posted: Friday Dec 11, 2020
Te Awhi Rito NZ Reading Ambassador nominations open
Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand and our partners are calling for nominations for Te Awhi R...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
The Suitcases (Part Two)
Posted: Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Dr Smith of Rawene
Posted: Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
To Medicine via Paradise
Posted: Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Rhian Gallagher’s Far-Flung
Posted: Monday Dec 07, 2020
December from the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
Posted: Thursday Dec 03, 2020
New Poems Hit The Streets Of Aotearoa
As 2020 enters its final phase, Phantom has curated a selection of original works by Becky Woodall, Eamonn Tee, Simon Sw...
Posted: Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Tagaloa Scholarships
Growing Pacific capacity and capability within communities and the education sector.
Posted: Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Elaine Wills, Library manager, Enner Glynn School, Nelson reviews Bruce Goes Outside by Kathryn van Beek
Posted: Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Te Tahua Whakakaha | Cultural Sector Capability Fund overview
The Capability Fund supports the cultural sector to adapt to the COVID-19 environment by funding activities that build s...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Read for animals this summer with the SPCA Reading Challenge
Posted: Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
After 30 years, a ‘Dunedin institution’ set to close
It has been said that a room without books is like a body without a soul.
Posted: Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is calling for entries for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adu...
Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020
Vacancy at Exisle Publishing
Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020
Greatness is Infectious
Their written words have made long-lasting, generational impacts on this country - and beyond.
Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020
A river runs through him
We only truly know one river in our lives. US writer Thomas McGuane said so and even this struck him as too expansive. S...
Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: The inaugural recipient of The Caselberg Trust’s new Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Residency in 2021
The Caselberg Trust announced today that the inaugural recipient of its new Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Resid...
Posted: Friday Nov 27, 2020
Playwright wins top award, $10K prize
Emily Duncan’s sharp, sophisticated, passionate, quirky, evocative and unsettling writing style has won her yet another ...
Posted: Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Two awards in a month for local writer
Prolific, award-winning Wanaka writer Liz Breslin has had a stellar month: picking up prizes from both the International...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
POETRY PRIZE 2020 WINNERS ANNOUNCED...
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 – winners announced – Third time lucky for Palmerston North poet...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Give a kid a book and you give them the world
Last year the fledgling charity scheme Kiwi Christmas Books gave 1600 children’s books to Auckland Women’s Refuge and th...
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR 2021 NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is now inviting submissions for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Youn...
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
Landfall 240 has arrived!
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Sue Wootton’s ‘At Moeraki’
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Bill Manhire’s Wow
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
A World History of Bluff: Dr Michael Stevens
Ngāi Tahu historian Dr Michael Stevens has just been recognised by the Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Kōpūnui with a Māori...
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
Following Colin McCahon
Everything seems to come a little late to Aotearoa New Zealand, and even later to Dunedin, its southernmost university t...
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
Read Share Grow — children’s books for South Dunedin
Something big is happening in South Dunedin! It's happening in schools and early childhood centres, in community organis...
Posted: Friday Nov 20, 2020
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Newsletter
Posted: Thursday Nov 19, 2020
te haerenga o reo pepi – the next chapter
The Reo Pēpi series is one of the real success stories in the Aotearoa world of publishing for littlies. The popularity ...
Posted: Monday Nov 16, 2020
Book review - Landmarks by Grahame Sydney and Owen Marshall
Posted: Monday Nov 16, 2020
Poetry Shelf Lounge: Alison Wong reads and discusses her poem ‘Earth’
Posted: Monday Nov 16, 2020
Celebrating continuing relevance that is Hotere
Dunedin Public Art Gallery will this week open the first major exhibition of Ralph Hotere’s work in 20 years. Rebecca Fo...
Posted: Friday Nov 13, 2020
2020 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement: winners announced and live online literary panel
A lifetime of insights on Māori dance arts told in te reo Māori, a comprehensive anthology of New Zealand poetry in Engl...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Baxter memorial to be installed in new year
A long-awaited memorial commemorating prominent pacifist Archibald Baxter is set to be installed in Dunedin early next y...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Down in Edin Issue 22 - Online now!
Literature, Poetry, Music, Art, Photography, Nature, Politics and Environment in the South Island of New Zealand
Posted: Monday Nov 09, 2020
South Otago-born writer wins national award
A South Otago-born author has scooped a major national crime-writing award.
Posted: Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Creative Rights = Creative Reads
Posted: Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Publishers Association launches platform for digital match making
October usually sees a large swathe of the book industry depart Aotearoa’s shores for the biggest and most prestigious e...
Posted: Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Reo Pēpi's new series Toru is out now!
Posted: Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
APPLICATIONS CLOSING FOR THE 2021 PANNZ ARTS MARKET
A reminder that applications to pitch and showcase at the 2021 PANNZ Arts Market close this Friday, 6 November at 5pm.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Artsenta Creative Writing Sessions
Posted: Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Kiwi Christmas Books
We believe in the power of stories, and in the power of giving.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Reading fun in any language
Finding children’s books written in the numerous languages spoken by South Dunedin’s increasingly diverse residents has ...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Wallace Arts Trust Internship Programme 2020-2021
The Wallace Arts Trust Internship Programme 2020-2021 is now calling for applications from students or recent graduates ...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Jude Thomas weaving Threads of Gold
The prejudice faced by Dunedin's early Lebanese settlers and the skills they brought to their new home are highlighted i...
Posted: Monday Nov 02, 2020
✨✨✨TODAY IS THE DAY!✨✨✨✨
Headland is now open to submissions, and we cannot wait to read the amazing short fiction and creative non fiction you'v...
Posted: Monday Nov 02, 2020
Ida Valley writer Jillian Sullivan interviewed on Otago Access Radio
Ida Valley writer Jillian Sullivan has released a collection of essays inspired by the Central Otago environment and its...
Posted: Monday Nov 02, 2020
John Newton: Escape Path Lighting
Posted: Monday Nov 02, 2020
Fiona Farrell on 30 years behind the pen
Posted: Monday Nov 02, 2020
Max Quinn: The life and times of a polar film maker
Renowned polar photographer, director and cameraman Max Quinn covers a 50-year career spent working in the world's colde...
Posted: Monday Nov 02, 2020
Through the eyes of children: debut tales win Ngaio Marsh Awards
Fresh voices came to the fore at WORD Christchurch Spring Festival on Saturday afternoon as Becky Manawatu and RWR McDon...
Posted: Monday Nov 02, 2020
Québec en toutes lettres
Québec City was the first French-speaking city to be designated a UNESCO City of Literature in 2017. Québec City is one ...
Posted: Friday Oct 30, 2020
Theatre Review: Partially Furnished
Posted: Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Dunedin Fringe 2021 Resource Files
Posted: Thursday Oct 29, 2020