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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

Emma Farry receives international recognition through the NEW YORK CITY BIG BOOK AWARD®!

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

Outstanding Pasifika artists to be celebrated at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards 2019

Posted: Thursday Nov 07, 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

Starting a national conversation about arts and creativity

Posted: Thursday Nov 07, 2019

Blue Oyster Arts Trust is pleased to announce curator and writer from Murihiku Southland, Hope Wilson, as our incoming director.

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

Let there be light: macular degeneration and me

Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2019

The Big Red Ride: a community bike programme

Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2019

Expressive Arts Therapy: Arts-based research and new motherhood

Posted: Monday Nov 04, 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

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