News and Opportunities
In search of untold stories from World War II
War divides us | War unites us | War changes us
Posted: Monday July 8, 2019
Young poets invited to find ‘voice’ via contest
Posted: Sunday July 7, 2019
The Flick - Theatre Review
Significant Issues Smuggled in under the Seemingly Innocuous Dialogue
Posted: Saturday July 6, 2019
Issue 17 of Down In Edin Magazine
New Issue! Hot off the digital press!!! A special bumper Issue 17 of Down in Edin Magazine is now up. Enjoy!
Posted: Friday July 5, 2019
Bellbirds, books and baroque architecture: visiting New Zealand’s oldest city Dunedin
The South Island destination has gothic buildings and golden beaches, with plenty of wildlife, delicious food and live m...
Posted: Friday July 5, 2019
Have you got YOUR 'University of Otago - FONEBOOK 150' yet?
Posted: Thursday July 4, 2019
At home in the movies
Posted: Thursday July 4, 2019
Archibald Baxter Memorial Peace Garden Crowdfunding Campaign - Update
Posted: Wednesday July 3, 2019
High-flying life recalled in memoir
Posted: Sunday June 30, 2019
A Voice from Manus Island
An Evening with Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian - Sunday 30th June @ 4pm
Posted: Friday June 28, 2019
Literary Tram 2019 in Ulyanovsk: photos and video
June 21, Literary tram drove through Ulyanovsk. For the fourth time, the townspeople traveled around the night city and ...
Posted: Tuesday June 25, 2019
West Papua: The Pacific Crisis we can no longer ignore
Meet Rosa Moiwend, West Papuan activist, human rights defender, and researcher
Posted: Monday June 24, 2019
Carnival attracts record crowd
Posted: Monday June 24, 2019
Art with a heart will help refugees
Posted: Thursday June 20, 2019
First comic venture award-winner
Posted: Wednesday June 19, 2019
The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History
‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the ...
Posted: Tuesday June 18, 2019
Landers lend a hand
Posted: Monday June 17, 2019
Archibald Baxter Memorial Peace Garden Crowdfunding Campaign
Posted: Friday June 14, 2019
The Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2019 Judged by Dinah Hawken
Posted: Thursday June 13, 2019
WOW PRODUCTIONS presents THE FLICK by ANNIE BAKER
NZ PREMIERE / Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize
Posted: Wednesday June 12, 2019
Congratulations to Robyn Maree Pickens from Dunedin on becoming a finalist of the University of Leeds Inaugural Brotherton Poetry Prize ....
Robyn is fourth from the left
Posted: Tuesday June 11, 2019
Flour to oats; 150 years of milling
Jim Sullivan reviews Going for Grain, a history of the last 150 years of the iconic Dunedin company Harraway and Sons Lt...
Posted: Monday June 10, 2019
Making Winter Sparkle
Posted: Monday June 10, 2019
'A Hundred Words for Snow' by Tatty Hennessy
Posted: Sunday June 9, 2019
Dunedin's vanishing cinemas
Posted: Sunday June 9, 2019
Dunedin authors make book awards shortlist
Posted: Sunday June 9, 2019
The best of New Zealand crime writing
Posted: Sunday June 9, 2019
At The End of Holyrood Lane by Dimity Powell and Nicky Johnston
WINS THE SCWBI CRYSTAL KITE MEMBER CHOICE AWARD 2019
Posted: Friday June 7, 2019
Access, Inclusion and Participation Advisor
Arts Access Aotearoa | Putanga Toi ki Aotearoa is looking for a networking expert to fulfil the role of Access, Inclusio...
Posted: Thursday June 6, 2019
Exilse Publishing - Made in NZ Catalogue
Posted: Thursday June 6, 2019
City Choir's complex 150-year history charted in new book
Posted: Thursday May 30, 2019
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival - Thanks for joining us!
Posted: Friday May 24, 2019
Call for expressions of interest - major grant funding
The New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO is inviting expressions of interest (EOI) for major grant funding from or...
Posted: Tuesday May 21, 2019
Top prize for Hudson & Halls book
Posted: Wednesday May 15, 2019
5 questions with: Stacey Morrison
Posted: Monday May 13, 2019
Privilege to hear from two of the best writers in the business
Review: John Boyne and Markus Zusak - OBHS Auditorium Saturday, May 11
Posted: Monday May 13, 2019
Writers tackle moral dilemma
Posted: Saturday May 11, 2019
Taking young on journey of growth
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival programme director Claire Finlayson throws some questions to Australian Children's La...
Posted: Saturday May 11, 2019
Packed venue for Akala
Posted: Saturday May 11, 2019
Plenty of advice for aspiring young writers
Posted: Friday May 10, 2019
2019 Midwinter Carnival’s public lantern building workshops
Registrations for the 2019 Midwinter Carnival’s public lantern building workshops open today, and are expected to fill f...
Posted: Monday May 6, 2019
2019 WriteNow Poetry Competition for Dunedin secondary school students OPEN for entries
Posted: Monday May 6, 2019
Gender-bending solo performance
Posted: Thursday May 2, 2019
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fund
Do you have an area of interest that you’ve always wanted to pursue overseas? Do you have a research question that could...
Posted: Wednesday May 1, 2019
Haere mai! Meet Marten Rabarts our new Film Festival Director – Kaiurungi
Posted: Monday April 29, 2019
Book reveals story of brothers
Posted: Thursday April 25, 2019
Carnival Theme Honours Continent of Never Ending Night
Posted: Tuesday April 16, 2019
A Scattering of Words – Creative Writing from Artsenta
Posted: Tuesday April 16, 2019
University welcomes this year's arts fellows
Posted: Friday April 12, 2019
Pop-up Globe coming to Dunedin
Posted: Thursday April 11, 2019
Dunedin duo finish short film
Posted: Thursday April 11, 2019
UNI NEWS: 150th history firmly grounded with the people at the heart of Otago
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2019
Writing residency in Poland for author
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2019
2019 Poetry Competition Results
Time to announce the winners of the 2019 Poems in the Waiting Room Poetry Competition
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2019
Gröndalshús Writer's Home
Posted: Monday April 8, 2019
The Gulf Between Book Launch
The launch of Maxine Alterio’s third novel The Gulf Between (Penguin Random House, 2019) was held at Manaaki restaurant,...
Posted: Monday April 8, 2019
Translation workshop LitTransformer - July 8-18, 2019
Call for participation
Posted: Thursday April 4, 2019
Announcing our 2019 Krakow UNESCO City of Literature Residency Programme Writers!
Posted: Thursday April 4, 2019
Ambitious local war film to Premiere in Dunedin
Posted: Wednesday April 3, 2019