Stepsisters take on Filluel St carpark

Posted: Tuesday Oct 11, 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS - Screenwriting: Fact and Fiction, Truth and the Real

In order to ensure timely notification and subsequent travel planning, please note the deadline: Abstracts for original ...

Posted: Friday Oct 07, 2016

Blanket Hut Braille

This Blind Week Julie Woods is responding to a 7 day challenge put out by the Blind Foundation in conjunction with an or...

Posted: Thursday Sep 29, 2016

Worth the Wait: Alan Roddick’s second poetry collection

After establishing a poetic presence on the literary scene in the early 1960s, Dunedin’s Alan Roddick published his firs...

Posted: Thursday Sep 29, 2016

The Other Side of the Mountain: Rewriting NZ climbing history

The story of Edmund Hillary’s ascent of Everest is familiar to all New Zealanders. Now a new book focuses on the previou...

Posted: Thursday Sep 29, 2016

The Friends of the Hocken Collections 2016 Research Award

In 2016 the Friends of the Hocken Collections celebrate their 25th anniversary of

establishment.

Posted: Monday Sep 12, 2016

Recent publications by Dunedin publisher Paua Press Limited

Sir George Grey and the moa by Bruce Spittle, 2015. Education and fluoridation in New Zealand: an historical study by Jo...

Posted: Thursday Sep 08, 2016

A poem when you park

Next time you pay for parking, your ticket might come with a poem.

Posted: Friday Aug 26, 2016

Michael Harlow’s Winning New Poetry Collection

The poems in Michael Harlow’s new collection, Nothing for it but to Sing, are small detonations that release deeply comp...

Posted: Thursday Aug 11, 2016

Blue Oyster call for proposals

Blue Oyster is pleased to announce a call for solo, duo, group and curated exhibition proposals for the first half of 20...

Posted: Tuesday Aug 02, 2016

 Call for Participation for the forthcoming 5th International Summit of the Book 2016, Limerick City, Ireland

Please note the information below and consider whether you may wish to respond to the call and/or to make suggestions fo...

Posted: Friday Jul 22, 2016

BOOK SHOP ESTABLISHES NEW ZEALAND

WRITERS RESIDENCY

New Zealand’s first writing residency, the Robert Burns Fellowship, was established in 1958 in Dunedin marking the bicen...

Posted: Friday Jul 22, 2016

Two books by local author Beatrice Hale

Two books by local author Beatrice Hale, both available as e-books on Smashwords and on Amazon.com, which also provides ...

Posted: Tuesday Jul 19, 2016

Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections

de Beer gallery, Special Collections, University of Otago, 10 June to 26 August 2016

Posted: Monday Jul 11, 2016

Printer in Residence & Exhibition

 A Matariki Engagement*

Posted: Monday Jul 11, 2016

Lotteries Award to help establish the first writers’ residency in the home of a Māori writer

The Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust has just been awarded $100,000 by the Lottery World War One Commemorations, Environmen...

Posted: Friday Jun 17, 2016

CALL for PAPERS - Book and Place

The University of Otago Centre for the Book announces its 2016 Annual Symposium

University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zeala...

Posted: Wednesday Jun 15, 2016

Corpus: Conversations about Medicine and Life

“Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognise… the true poetry of life.”

Sir William Osler (1849-...

Posted: Wednesday Jun 08, 2016

Director appointed for City of Literature Dunedin

The Dunedin City Council has appointed Nicky Page as Director City of Literature.

Ms Page is currently an Academic Mana...

Posted: Tuesday Apr 19, 2016

MANIFESTO. 

 A political anthology. Call for submissions. 

Posted: Thursday Mar 03, 2016

Thorpe Talbot

Dunedin barely remembers but should honour a pioneer, formerly internationally famous, writer. She is Frances Ellen Talb...

Posted: Friday Dec 11, 2015

Dunedin's Missing Literary Link

Thorpe Talbot (1850-1923) was one of Dunedin’s earliest known writers and journalists and be came a celebrity. She becam...

Posted: Monday Dec 07, 2015

New Zealand Book Council Special Membership Offer

Buy a Book Council membership this Christmas and you will also receive a copy of the annual Book Council Lecture – given...

Posted: Wednesday Nov 25, 2015

A world class UNESCO Creative City

Posted: Friday Nov 13, 2015

DUNEDIN WRITERS SALON

If you’re keen to hear some of Dunedin’s newest stories, then you might want to pop along to the Dunedin’s Writers’ Salo...

Posted: Thursday Nov 12, 2015

Who Cared? Otago Nurses in WWI

This immersive and interactive exhibition tells the story of three nurses as they care for wounded soldiers during the G...

Posted: Thursday Nov 12, 2015

READERS OF DUNEDIN

Readers of Dunedin, was conceived by with a photo-blog in mind: a mash-up
between the widely popular Humans of New York...

Posted: Monday Nov 02, 2015

OUT AND ABOUT IN PRAGUE

Prague, a fellow UNESCO City of Literature, have Dunedin up in lights - and we like it  lot!

Posted: Wednesday Oct 14, 2015

The Toji Cultural Foundation International Writers’ and Artists’ Residency Program

Programme for Supporting Creative Works and Cultural Exchanges by Foreign Writers,
Artists and Scholars. 

Posted: Sunday Oct 11, 2015

Baxter Memorial a Step Closer

Public recognition of WWI war resister Archibald Baxter is a step closer following the selection of three finalists in a...

Posted: Friday Oct 02, 2015

Community Read. UNESCO City of Literature booklist

This Summer we invite you to work your way through this recommended list of great reads from the 11 UNESCO Cities of Lit...

Posted: Wednesday Sep 23, 2015

NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship – Recipient Announced!

We are delighted to announce the winner of the Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2016 is award-winning Otago poet Michae...

Posted: Thursday Sep 17, 2015

Aliens, Androids & Unicorns. 

During March to May 2015, the University of Otago Library mounted an exhibition highlighting the Science Fiction and Fan...

Posted: Monday Sep 14, 2015

SPEED DATE AN AUTHOR

Imagine spending four hours picking the brains of some of New Zealand’s best poets, authors, illustrators, journalists a...

Posted: Friday Sep 11, 2015

Dunedin

In October, Dunedin launched Ara Toi Otepoti - Our Creative Future, Dunedin's Arts and Culture Strategy.  

At the openi...

Posted: Friday September 11, 2015

Michael King Writers’ Centre Open for Applications

The Michael King Writers’ Centre invites applications from New Zealand writers for four supported residencies in 2016, w...

Posted: Thursday Sep 03, 2015

DUNEDIN WRITER SCORES 2016 PRAGUE RESIDENCY

Local Dunedin writer and editor David Howard has been announced as the successful applicant for the 2016 Prague residenc...

Posted: Friday Aug 28, 2015

Mitre 10 raises $92,000 for Hone Tuwhare Trust

Charity auction generosity contributes towards building new creative residence. 

Posted: Sunday Jul 26, 2015

A World Class UNESCO City of Literature

Dunedin is well known as a creative literary city that treasures its past, celebrates its present and looks forward to i...

Posted: Sunday Jun 21, 2015

eMultipoetry Project Krakow UNESCO City of Literature

In May a slice of Dunedin editor and writer Emma Neale’s poetry featured on a wall, at a corner of the Main Square and B...

Posted: Saturday Jun 20, 2015

2015 UNESCO Creative City Conference 

Dunedin joined 68 other UNESCO Creative Cities in the UNESCO Craft and Art City of Kanazawa, Japan on 25 May. 

Posted: Saturday Jun 20, 2015

Flying Nun connects UNESCO Creative Cities

At the UNESCO Creative Cities Network meeting in Kanazawa, Japan, the music of Flying Nun and Xpressway provided a creat...

Posted: Friday Jun 19, 2015

Literature and Light: Vogel Street Party 2015

The date has been set for the return of the popular Vogel Street Party and preparations are well underway for the event ...

Posted: Friday Jun 19, 2015

New Zealand Young Writers Festival 

The first ever New Zealand Young Writers Festival was held in Dunedin in June, and the critically acclaimed weekend has ...

Posted: Thursday Jun 18, 2015

New Writer Residency Opportunity in Prague UNESCO City of Literature

Prague is currently looking for applications from writers connected to the UNESCO City of Literature network, with an in...

Posted: Wednesday Jun 17, 2015

The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival 2015...

built on the success of the inaugural festival in 2014 and has secured its place on the Dunedin events calendar. 

Posted: Wednesday Jun 17, 2015

Blue Oyster Online Publications 

A new and exciting creative arts initiative by Dunedin's very own Blue Oyster Art Project Space.

Posted: Wednesday Jun 17, 2015

Creative Cameo Writing School

At Macandrew Bay primary school on the beautiful Otago Peninsula, they take creativity seriously! Students are encourage...

Posted: Tuesday Jun 16, 2015

We are writing our own future and it's a great future as we launch our first online digital magazine in Dunedin, New Zea...

Posted: Tuesday Jun 16, 2015

Dunedin

ISSUE 1 JULY 2015 We are writing our own future and it's a great future as we launch our first online digital magazine in Dunedin, New Zealand's only UNESCO Creative City of Literature.

Posted: Monday June 15, 2015

An International Pop-up Exhibition

Dunedin launched an international Worldly Literature project at the Vogel Street Party in October.

Posted: Wednesday Jun 10, 2015

Creative Cities of Literature 

All 11 Cities of Literature were represented at the IXth annual meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network meeting in...

Posted: Tuesday Jun 09, 2015

WHAT'S ON...

A lot of happenings are a-happening in our beloved and great small city. If you have any events you would like published...

Posted: Monday Jun 08, 2015

The Hard To Find Bookshop

In 2013, Warwick Jordan moved 250,000 books the length of the New Zealand to Dowling St, Dunedin and is now the proud ow...

Posted: Monday Apr 27, 2015