He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
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
Cheese is not a vegetable
With slightly less than a week until I depart for my Unesco Cities of Literature residency in Krakow, Poland, as a repre...
Posted: Monday Aug 26, 2019
From 'margins' to Poet Laureate
Dunedin poet, writer, reviewer and former Burns Fellow David Eggleton has been appointed as the latest New Zealand Poet ...
Posted: Friday Aug 23, 2019
Ngā Kura o Ōtepoti Kapa Haka
OAR FM visits Dunedin Schools kapa haka groups as they get ready for Polyfest in honour of Te Marama Pūoru Waiata Māori ...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Celtic Noir Crime Writing Festival - Tickets now on sale!
Posted: Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 WriteNow poetry competition
Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Te Mahi Tamariki
In 2018, He Waka Kōtuia ran a series of waiata composition workshops facilitated by Troy Kingi and Mara TK, resulting in...
Posted: Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Please nominate for 2020 International Literary prize, named after Ivan Goncharov (Ulyanovsk)
The International Annual Literary prize, named after I. A. Goncharov - Ulyanovsk, The Russian Federation - REGULATIONS 2...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 13, 2019
More than 150 years of choral ambitions in Dunedin covered
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A CHORAL SOCIETY: DUNEDIN’S CITY CHOIR 1863-2013
Posted: Monday Aug 12, 2019
PoARTry@Mercy - a Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ) exhibition
Posted: Friday Aug 09, 2019
DCC Funding 'How To' Sessions
Applications for the Dunedin City Council’s Community, Community Events, Community Arts, Professional Theatre and Creati...
Posted: Friday Aug 09, 2019
David Howard in Ljubljana UNESCO City of Literature discussing his libretto for the chamber opera Water Globe
Posted: Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
Ara Toi Creative - registration of interest
Posted: Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
Artist’s Residence Dilsberg
Writer in Residence Program - Call for applications is open!
Posted: Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
NZIFF NEWSLETTER
Big Nights & Audiences Favourites in Dunedin + Win Tickets
Posted: Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Poetry: “a long document about the species”
Posted: Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Otago 'brains trust' credited in Ellis fight
Posted: Friday Aug 02, 2019
CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award
Posted: Friday Aug 02, 2019
Call for Proposals (January-June 2020)
Proposal deadline: Friday 30 August 2019
Posted: Thursday Aug 01, 2019
Two dames vie for NZ crime novel awards – only one can prepare a speech
The 2019 Ngaio Marsh Awards shortlist is revealed
Posted: Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
Currently on show at Bellamy's Gallery is 'Winter Oils', a collection of new and old paintings by Pauline Bellamy.
Posted: Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Chinese Social Media Competition
Promoting Dunedin as a Tourist Destination to Chinese Tourists
Posted: Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Printer in Residence project, Otago, 2019
Posted: Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
UNI NEWS
Family friendly Hocken exhibition inspires record numbers of visitors
Posted: Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Cities of Literature Short Play Festival
Posted: Monday Jul 29, 2019
Enter the Zephyr Short Story Competition
Posted: Monday Jul 29, 2019
From Mansfield to Morris, writing in Menton
As the 49th recipient of the Mansfield Menton Fellowship, Associate Professor Paula Morris has spent the past four month...
Posted: Monday Jul 29, 2019
A University of Otago creative writing competition for staff and students
Do you love to write? Here’s a competition for you.
Posted: Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
The Stone and the Star - Review: David Howard - The Ones Who Keep Quiet
Posted: Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
The 'revelation' that was Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival
Posted: Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
2019 Symposium Call for Papers, 14–15 November, 2 September Abstract Deadline
Posted: Tuesday Jul 23, 2019