He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Ian Cross, novelist, editor and former head of NZ Broadcasting
Posted: Sunday Nov 03, 2019
Transition to retirement 'very important'
Posted: Saturday Nov 02, 2019
A life behind the lens
Newspaper photographers are in a privileged position, says Stephen Jaquiery, whose career is the focus of a new book. Ki...
Posted: Saturday Nov 02, 2019
Celtic Noir a criminally good time
Posted: Friday Nov 01, 2019
Wellington becomes a UNESCO City of Film
Posted: Thursday Oct 31, 2019
David Howard's Residency in Ulyanovsk Unesco City of Literature
Posted: Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
A Seattle Playwright in Dunedin
Posted: Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Best Nest Design Competition
Presented by the Ignition Children's Festival www.ignitionkids.nz
Posted: Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Paper's history and characters recorded
Dunedin writer Ron Palenski has been indefatigable in writing the history of the Evening Star newspaper, first published...
Posted: Monday Oct 28, 2019
Marking Halloween's Celtic roots
Posted: Saturday Oct 26, 2019
say WHY NOT to WHY NOT!
Can you support this amazing woman and her book?
Posted: Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Winners of the Lan Yuan Dunedin Chinese Garden Student Essay Competition
Posted: Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2019 – winners announced
Posted: Friday Oct 11, 2019
2019 Scottish Arts Trust Story Awards
Posted: Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Down in Edin Magazine - Issue 18
Check out this article highlighting the Celtic Noir Festival 10-13 October 2019
Posted: Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Honour to join 'roll call of New Zealand literature'
Posted: Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
New Zealand Young Writers Festival
Listen to panel discussions and readings from the New Zealand Young Writers Festival on OAR FM Dunedin
Posted: Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
New Zealanders are distracted readers, new research finds
Posted: Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Mr Red Light in Dunedin
Mr Red Light was shortlisted for the Adam New Zealand Play Awards in 2019 and writer Carl Bland was the recipient of the...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Emergency Accommodation
Posted: Monday Oct 07, 2019
Crossing to surgery’s side
Posted: Monday Oct 07, 2019
“The Track”: word-walking through pain
Posted: Monday Oct 07, 2019
No Friend But The Mountains: seeking the human in asylum
Posted: Monday Oct 07, 2019
2019 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement: winners announced
An illustrated memoir for children, a novel which inspired a screen adaption starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, and translat...
Posted: Monday Oct 07, 2019
Celebrating with words
Posted: Monday Oct 07, 2019
Sue Wootton announced as 2020 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow
Posted: Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Janet Frame's debut novel retold for the theatre
The creators of a stage version of Owls Do Cry explain how their non-literal retelling pays tribute to Janet Frame’s ori...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Landfall essay competition joint winners profound and persuasive
Posted: Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Issue 18 of Down In Edin Magazine
This issue features: Arts, Culture and Natural Lifestyles of Dunedin and Otago in the South Island of New Zealand. Liter...
Posted: Monday Sep 30, 2019
Dyslexic author Paul Russell is on a mission to unleash the creativity of children with dyslexia
Posted: Monday Sep 30, 2019
Secrets of the dark art
There’ll be murder in the library next month as top crime writers from Scotland, Ireland and closer to home gather for t...
Posted: Monday Sep 30, 2019
Pair added to festival line-up
Posted: Sunday Sep 29, 2019
Poetry performed
Posted: Saturday Sep 28, 2019
International Week of the Deaf
Posted: Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
David Howard meeting Ulyanovsk composer Sofia Filyanina as she arrives by train from Moscow.
Sofia has set a sequence of my poems to music, and was preparing to rehearse musicians for a formal presentation (and wo...
Posted: Monday Sep 23, 2019
Judge not the nuance navigators
Unesco City of Literature residency writer Liz Breslin finds a way to cool off in Krakow. Or does she?
Posted: Monday Sep 23, 2019
An interview with David Howard from his special residency in Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Saturday Sep 21, 2019
Stimulating variety in festival
Posted: Saturday Sep 21, 2019
Heritage Festival fun returns next weekend
Posted: Friday Sep 20, 2019
Changing Minds: Memories Lost and Found
The Winner of the Poetry Competition
Posted: Friday Sep 20, 2019
REGISTER NOW for the WILD Imaginings Children’s Writers’ and Illustrators’ Hui!
WILD Imaginings promises a scintillating programme delivered by some of the country’s most celebrated children’s book cr...
Posted: Thursday Sep 19, 2019
Chinese Moon Festival
Moon Festival Poetry Competition - 15 September - 18 October 2019
Posted: Thursday Sep 19, 2019
Lighthearted variety in three short plays
Barbara Frame reviews Cold Season, The Poisoners and Noble Endurance
Posted: Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
'The Getaway' - a short play by young playwright Paul Liedvogel. It will be performed at the UNESCO Play Festival in Dunedin in September 2019 (and a preview in Heidelberg on 31 August)
Below are a series of Vlogs posted by The Getaway - enjoy their journey!
Posted: Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Robert Burns Poetry Competition: The Far Foreign Land
Posted: Monday Sep 16, 2019
Rap Like Robbie Poetry Competition
Write a poem inspired by Robert Burns and score yourself $500, sponsored by the Dunedin-Edinburgh Sister City Society!
Posted: Monday Sep 16, 2019
All the world's a stage
Posted: Friday Sep 13, 2019
Curtain rising on short play festival
Posted: Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Writer Returns for 2020 Residency
Posted: Thursday Sep 12, 2019
A tribute to Dunedin poet: Elizabeth Brooke-Carr (1940 – 2019)
Posted: Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Guiding a privileged journey
Knowing your family's stories can be profoundly grounding, says publisher Gareth St John Thomas. So he has set out to he...
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2019
Kezia Field - Art Nesting Shapes Illustrated Book
"My daughter and I are creating an illustrated book in honour of my late husband Hunia, who we recently lost to suicide....
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2019
British playwright and dramaturg Fiona Graham
28 Plays from around the world are about to be performed in Dunedin, over just three days. There's a Jacobean farce, the...
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2019
Challenging the audience
Chicago-based producer and director Tanya Palmer will have some advice for young playwrights when she visits Dunedin for...
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2019
Foundation laureate awarded to Fearnley
Posted: Friday Sep 06, 2019
David Howard has just arrived in Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature to take up his residency!
Posted: Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
Are you the next Director of Blue Oyster?
Blue Oyster Art Project Space exists to enable emerging and experimental arts practitioners to work in an innovative, ex...
Posted: Monday Sep 02, 2019
Students prepare for Short Play Festival
Posted: Monday Sep 02, 2019