He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
New Citywide Event Calendar
The new citywide event calendar is now live on DunedinNZ.com.
Posted: Monday Oct 01, 2018
Wordsmith course: Radio Drama II
This is a short course proposed for February 2019. The focus would be on writing radio drama but, depending on interest,...
Posted: Thursday Sep 27, 2018
Auckland Writers Festival Launches Literary Foundation
A new Foundation established by the Auckland Writers Festival aims to strengthen Aotearoa’s literary landscape.
Posted: Monday Sep 24, 2018
Dunedin City Of Magic
Anyone living in Dunedin knows the magic of our city. Kura Carpenter thought she’d share that with the world. Her debut ...
Posted: Monday Sep 24, 2018
A decade of New Zealand Bestsellers to celebrate this NZ Bookshop Day
Seven NZ novels, eight children’s & YA books and five non-fiction titles comprise the Top 20 Bestsellers voted as favour...
Posted: Monday Sep 24, 2018
Robert Burns Fellows get-together frequency could double
The success of a reunion of University of Otago Robert Burns Fellows, means that their next get-together could come soon...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 11, 2018
New Zealand Young Writers Festival Launches 2018 Programme
Robot poetry, decolonising literature, and feminism in the age of #metoo are among the hot button topics at this year’s ...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
Robert Burns Fellowship Exhibition, University of Otago, Dunedin
‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ Charles Brasch, ‘Notes...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
September sees Saxons and sorcery in German drama
A modern adaptation of a traditional Saxon tale about a sorcerer’s apprentice is coming to the Dunedin stage in Septembe...
Posted: Monday Aug 13, 2018
Opportunity for Southern Screenwriters in China
Local screenwriters are being sought for a two-month residency in Shanghai as part of a new joint initiative of the Dune...
Posted: Monday Aug 06, 2018
Blue Oyster Proposals open for submissions
Blue Oyster are currently accepting proposals for their 2019 Annual Programme as well as proposals towards the 2019 Blue...
Posted: Friday Aug 03, 2018
Painted Poems at Portobello School
Posted: Wednesday Aug 01, 2018
UBS Otago Summer Writer in Residence Applications Open Now!
Are you an emerging writer? Do you know an emerging writer who’d appreciate a summer sojourn in our fantastic little Cit...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Exhibition showcases early New Zealand women writers in suffrage tribute
The latest Reed Gallery exhibition at Dunedin Public Library showcases early women writers and other creative women of t...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
CLNZ Writers’ Award 2018
The $25,000 CLNZ Writers’ Award is one of the investments made through CLNZ’s Cultural Fund. The Writers’ Award is offer...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 10, 2018
Hostage: One Gun, Many Triggers
Experience the thrill of the live radio play, live to air on Otago Access Radio.
Posted: Tuesday Jul 10, 2018
Brockville School Final Week
Posted: Monday Jul 02, 2018
WriteNow opens to young poets
Dunedin poet Sue Wootton, co-organiser and judge of this year's WriteNow poetry competition for secondary school pupils,...
Posted: Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Concord School Final Week
Posted: Thursday Jun 28, 2018
Pine Hill School Final week
Posted: Tuesday Jun 26, 2018
Poland visit highlighted Dunedin as creative city
Dunedin was certainly taken notice of during a world creative cities event in Poland earlier this month, the mayor says.
Posted: Tuesday Jun 26, 2018
Concord School update 15 June
Posted: Monday Jun 18, 2018
Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Research Grant – 2018
The Dorothy Neal White Collection (9,000 books), in the National Library of New Zealand, is a research collection of chi...
Posted: Thursday Jun 07, 2018
Looking for poems by writers with a migrant/former refugee background
Landing Press, a small Wellington publisher, is inviting migrant and former refugee poets to send in their work for a co...
Posted: Tuesday Jun 05, 2018
New local drama asks: Who’s really responsible?
A dramatic new radio play by a local playwriting group will be heard live at the Dunedin Public Library later this month...
Posted: Friday Jun 01, 2018
Four plays will take the stage
Four short plays are to get their moment on stage, despite Fortune's closing, writes Kim Dungey.
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
Science in crime novels should be real - writer
Readers are keen for accurate forensic science to be conveyed through crime fiction, Dunedin researcher and crime noveli...
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
Joint exhibition to celebrate 'Landfall'
Landfall’s position as New Zealand’s pre-eminent literary and art journal is being celebrated in a unique way by the Ota...
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
PINE HILL SCHOOL - Week 1
Posted: Tuesday May 15, 2018
Landfall exhibition connects art and literature
The Otago Art Society and Otago University Press are joining forces to present a unique exhibition that celebrates the c...
Posted: Thursday May 10, 2018
Winner of Young Writers' Essay Competition announced
Landfall, New Zealand’s leading journal of arts and literature, is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2018 Cha...
Posted: Thursday May 03, 2018
Freedom Song
Emma Farry’s Freedom Song is a powerful and beautiful panacea for the world we live in. It’s a go-to book in times of tr...
Posted: Monday Apr 30, 2018
CALLING ALL MUSICIANS AND SONGWRITERS
Youth Zone Unplugged is back for 2018! This year we are giving ten young musical acts the opportunity to record and prod...
Posted: Friday Apr 06, 2018
Why Go Girl needed to be written
New Zealand's answer to Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls is in bookshops now. It's called Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic ...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 03, 2018
Dunedin Opera Company Inc./Opera Otago AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
Opera Otago seeks a suitably qualified person to carry out a project to develop audiences for its productions.
Posted: Monday Mar 19, 2018
Literary flagstones well worth looking down on
The Dunedin Writers’ Walk has maintained a low profile for the past 25 years but Tony Eyre argues it is worth more than ...
Posted: Monday Mar 19, 2018
Novel shines fresh light on women’s suffrage as New Zealand celebrates 125 years
“Before I could stop myself I stood up in my seat and boasted that I had met Mrs Sheppard when we berthed in Christchurc...
Posted: Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Heidelberg - City in Focus
Being asked about their first associations with Heidelberg, most people all over the world would probably name the castl...
Posted: Thursday Mar 08, 2018
Otago well represented in 2018 Ockhams shortlist
A widely praised collection from a leading New Zealand poet, and an exciting new environmental history of the settlement...
Posted: Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Reed Gallery exhibition celebrates A.H. Reed’s original gift to Dunedin
The latest Reed Gallery exhibition marks the seventieth anniversary of A.H. Reed’s original gift of his rare book and ma...
Posted: Friday Mar 02, 2018
Muse, an exhibition of artworks inspired by the Dunedin Public Libraries Collection.
Hidden amongst the Dunedin Public Libraries collection is a large group of artists.
To celebrate the Creative Cities So...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
Ara Toi Community Hui - Community Presenters Lineup
Join the Creative Dunedin Partnership to present, enjoy and discuss progress on Ara Toi Ōtepoti – Our Creative Future, D...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 29, 2017
Exclusive invitation to celebrate the recently launched Otago Fonebook 1.
Creative Cities Southern Hui are thrilled to offer this exclusive invitation to our delegates.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Norwich: 900 years a literary city
Ōtepoti – He Puna Auaha, Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
is excited to welcome you to the
Creative Cities Southern H...
Posted: Monday Nov 20, 2017
Transforming creativity, collaboration and community
Ōtepoti – He Puna Auaha, Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature is excited to welcome you to the Creative Cities Southern Hu...
Posted: Thursday Nov 16, 2017
Dunedin City of Literature welcomes Bologna City of Music
Ōtepoti – He Puna Auaha, Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature is excited to welcome you to the Creative Cities Southern Hui...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 14, 2017
Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award winner inspired by polar experience
Kāpiti poet Alison Glenny has won the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Award with ‘The Farewell Tourist’, a poetry collection inspi...
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2017
Landfall Essay Competition winners share prize for radically different topics
Two New Zealand essayists writing on very different topics – life as an army recruit and the power of scent – are joint ...
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2017
Exhibition by Sam Foley at the Artist’s Room Fine Art Gallery
The exhibition by Sam Foley at the Artist’s Room Fine Art Gallery is a collection of paintings in, of and around about D...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Invitation to the Artist’s Room Fine Art Gallery
Delegates are warmly invited to stroll with us to the Artist’s Room Fine Art Gallery (nearby at 2 Dowling Street) on 30 ...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 31, 2017
Jealous Saboteurs Teen Writing Competition
Open to young people in years 9-13 of high school
Posted: Friday Oct 27, 2017
A Heritage Christmas
This Reed Gallery exhibition showcases a Christmas-themed assortment of variegated works for all ages from the Heritage ...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 25, 2017
Guest Speaker: Steven Edmund Winduo
Creative Cities Southern Hui is excited to welcome STEVEN EDMUND WINDUO as delegate and guest speaker. Steven will be vi...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Guest Speaker: Anna Maria Lorusso
Creative Cities Southern Hui is excited to welcome ANNA MARIA LORUSSO as delegate and guest speaker. Anna Maria will be ...
Posted: Monday Oct 23, 2017
Guest Speaker and Facilitator: Noel Waite
Creative Cities Southern Hui is excited to welcome NOEL WAITE as guest speaker and facilitator. Noel will be speaking at...
Posted: Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Guest Speaker: Sue Bidrose
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes SUE BIDROSE as delegate and guest speaker. Sue will be speaking at Creative...
Posted: Saturday Oct 21, 2017
MC: Victor Billot
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes VICTOR BILLOT as delegate and MC. The local writer and poet will be partici...
Posted: Friday Oct 20, 2017
Guest Speaker: Hera Lindsay Bird
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes HERA LINDSAY BIRD as delegate and guest speaker. Hera will be participating...
Posted: Thursday Oct 19, 2017
Centre for the Book Symposium: Books & Users
Join the University of Otago Centre for the Book for a day of scholarly presentations and discussions.
Posted: Wednesday Oct 18, 2017
Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Association Building Open Day
Come by and view the interior of this art deco fronted, Victorian-built gem in Moray Place.
Posted: Wednesday Oct 18, 2017