Speaking Russian with a New Zealand Accent: Gala Uzryutova interviews David Howard

Conducted in late 2019 after David Howard held a “UNESCO City of Literature” residency in Ulyanovsk, Russia, this conver...

Posted: Tuesday Jan 14, 2020

Moa Imaginarium Competition

Upload a picture, poem, or short-story inspired by the moa footprints on display at Otago Museum and be in to win!

Posted: Friday Jan 03, 2020

The International Annual Literary prize, named after I. A. Goncharov

Ulyanovsk announces the open call for The International Literary prize, named after a great writer Ivan Goncharov, who w...

Posted: Tuesday Dec 24, 2019

Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2020

Blue Oyster is pleased to announce Owen Connors as Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2020

Posted: Friday Dec 20, 2019

Commission offered for art project

Dunedin artists will have the chance to create a project bringing art and the natural world together through the third a...

Posted: Thursday Dec 19, 2019

Truthteller

Truthteller, an exploration of how out-of-control social media, conspiracy theories and viral journalism are damaging so...

Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2019

Dance and performance residency takes centre stage in 2020

Caselberg Trust Creative Connections resident 2020 – Lucy Marinkovich

Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2019

Call for Symposium:

Mapping the Anthropocene in Ōtepoti/Dunedin: climate change, community and research in the creative arts

Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2019

On our best behaviour

We need to change and change big. Environmental psychology can help, Dr Wokje Abrahamse says. Tom McKinlay tries to get ...

Posted: Monday Dec 16, 2019

On closer inspection

The small and overlooked becomes larger than life in Suus Agnes Claessen's art, writes Tom McKinlay.

Posted: Monday Dec 16, 2019

Securing the future

Ngai Tahu’s takiwa encompasses the dry Canterbury Plains, the wet West Coast and sun-baked Marlborough. Kaiwhakahaere Li...

Posted: Monday Dec 16, 2019

Time for action

As we hit the critical decade in the effort to curb planetary heating, it might just be that we're ready to act, writes ...

Posted: Monday Dec 16, 2019

Expert Feature: Jane Austen

Posted: Monday Dec 16, 2019

Masters Games Opportunity

The Masters Games kick off on the 1st of February 2020. We are looking for a PR person to join our team from 28 January ...

Posted: Friday Dec 13, 2019

Hospital showcases southern artworks

Posted: Thursday Dec 12, 2019

Christmas tree adorned with care

The Regent Theatre Christmas tree is bursting with colour, including 100 Hospice baubles

Posted: Wednesday Dec 11, 2019

Water Globe

On 9 December Dunedin writer David Howard was at Ljubljana Town Hall for the premiere of 'Water Globe', a chamber opera ...

Posted: Wednesday Dec 11, 2019

Just announced... the judges for the 2020 Awards.

Learn more about them here...

Posted: Wednesday Dec 11, 2019

Guide for grieving wins award

Posted: Tuesday Dec 10, 2019

New from Ad Hoc Fiction | the everrumble

A poetic imagining of intense focus and sweeping ideas, Zettie’s story is fluid and in motion, transcending geographies ...

Posted: Monday Dec 09, 2019

Excerpts from ‘The Church That Is Not There’

‘…there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been ban...

Posted: Monday Dec 09, 2019

Theatrical Quality Acknowledged

Posted: Thursday Dec 05, 2019

Keepers of History has been selected for the Auckland Libraries Top 100 list. Congratulations!

We're thrilled to announce Keepers of History has been selected for the Auckland Libraries Top 100 list. Congratulations...

Posted: Thursday Dec 05, 2019

Forty artist scholarships on offer for groundbreaking conference

“People don’t have time to listen to anyone anymore,” Lemi Ponifasio tells me in a crowded Auckland cafe humming with ha...

Posted: Wednesday Dec 04, 2019

New Zealand Author

Issue 319 | Summer 2019

Posted: Monday Dec 02, 2019

The 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize Short List

With warm congratulations to our own Jilly O’Brien for her shortlisted poem Laying drainage ditches.

Posted: Monday Dec 02, 2019

“Will I walk again?”

Posted: Monday Dec 02, 2019

Circles

Posted: Monday Dec 02, 2019

Dreaming with my body

Posted: Monday Dec 02, 2019

Menstruation, myth, and medicine

Posted: Monday Dec 02, 2019

Te Tahua Whakatinana Papakāinga | Lottery Community | Grants that help improve the quality of people’s lives in their communities

Lottery Community grants are available for not-for-profit organisations with a community or social service focus for ong...

Posted: Monday Dec 02, 2019

Become a refugee support volunteer and support new Kiwis as they resettle in your community

Our refugee support volunteers do an extraordinary job and are a core part of the services we offer to former refugees.

Posted: Monday Dec 02, 2019

HAPPY FIFTH BIRTHDAY OTEPOTI HE PUNA AUAHA | DUNEDIN UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE!

Check out this beautiful festival of pink on the Ground Floor, Dunedin City Library courtesy of the wonderful Jill Bowie...

Posted: Monday Dec 02, 2019

Julie gives the Dark Destroyer his 10,000 names in braille sash!

When the opportunity came along to go to the Kensington Tavern here in Dunedin to meet the Dark Destroyer, Shaun Wallace...

Posted: Tuesday Nov 19, 2019

WRITER - Winning words from the University of Otago’s inaugural creative writing competition

In 2019, the University of Otago held a creative writing competition as part of the University’s 150th celebrations.

Posted: Monday Nov 18, 2019

Heritage work excellence to be celebrated

Posted: Saturday Nov 16, 2019

Manus Island refugee Behrouz Boochani not seeking NZ asylum - for now

Prominent Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani, who landed in New Zealand last night, will not seek asylum here for ...

Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2019

Ian Cross, celebrated Listener editor, 1925-2019

The former Listener editor turned around a magazine going through turbulent times – which he discussed in a previously u...

Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2019

Call for Auditions

A unique opportunity for actors to engage with and present the work of one of the 20th century’s most colossal yet contr...

Posted: Monday Nov 11, 2019

Sinéad Gleeson: sickness, health, motherhood & writing

Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish writer and the author of the critically acclaimed work of creative non-fiction Constellations...

Posted: Thursday Nov 07, 2019

Welcome Dunedin Fringe Artists!

The next festival is 19 - 29 March 2020 and Registrations are NOW OPEN!

Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2019

Communities of Readers

The Communities of Readers project is an initiative designed to connect more children and young people to reading. This ...

Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2019

Neighbour writers win award each

Posted: Tuesday Nov 05, 2019

Residency stimulating for artistic couple

Posted: Tuesday Nov 05, 2019

Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks

Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2019

say WHY NOT to WHY NOT! ONLY 2 DAYS TO GO

Can you support this amazing woman and her book?

Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2019

Writer alights in the land of birds

Prize-winning children's author Swapna Haddow has arrived in Dunedin in the nick of time, writes Karen Trebilcock.

Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2019