Guest Speaker: Shayne Carter

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes SHAYNE CARTER as guest speaker and delegate. Shayne will be speaking at Cre...

Posted: Wednesday Oct 18, 2017

Book Lovers' Walking Tours

Posted: Wednesday Oct 18, 2017

Guest Speaker: Craig Cliff

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes CRAIG CLIFF as delegate and guest speaker. Craig will be participating in e...

Posted: Tuesday Oct 17, 2017

Guest Speaker: Rosi Crane 

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes ROSI CRANE as guest speaker. Rosi will be speaking at Centre for the Book: ...

Posted: Monday Oct 16, 2017

Guest Speaker: Mayor Dave Cull

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes MAYOR DAVE CULL as delegate and guest speaker. Dave will be participating i...

Posted: Sunday Oct 15, 2017

Guest Speaker: Phillippa Duffy 

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes PHILLIPPA DUFFY as guest speaker. Phillippa will be speaking at Centre for ...

Posted: Saturday Oct 14, 2017

Special Guest: Lawrie Forbes

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes LAWRIE FORBES. Lawrie will generously be opening his Athenaeum building for...

Posted: Friday Oct 13, 2017

Muse: An Exhibition of Artworks Inspired by the Dunedin Public Libraries Collection

Hidden amongst the Dunedin Public Libraries’ collections is a large group of talented artists. To celebrate the Creative...

Posted: Friday Oct 13, 2017

Mayor’s welcome

Kia ora koutou katoa (Greetings, hello to you all) 

Posted: Friday Oct 13, 2017

Virtual Speaker: Alexander Gillespie

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes ALEXANDER GILLESPIE as virtual speaker. Unable to attend the Hui, Alexander...

Posted: Thursday Oct 12, 2017

Guest Speaker: David Goodwin 

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes DAVID GOODWIN as guest speaker. David will be speaking at Centre for the Bo...

Posted: Wednesday Oct 11, 2017

Guest Speaker: Aaron Hawkins

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes AARON HAWKINS as delegate and guest speaker. Aaron will be participating in...

Posted: Tuesday Oct 10, 2017

Guest Speaker: Raymond Huber

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes RAYMOND HUBER as guest speaker. Raymond will be speaking at Centre for the ...

Posted: Monday Oct 09, 2017

Creative Cities Southern Hui

Posted: Monday Oct 09, 2017

Guest Speaker: Welby Ings

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes WELBY INGS as delegate and guest speaker. Welby’s talk, Disobedient voices,...

Posted: Sunday Oct 08, 2017

Guest Speaker: Warwick Jordan 

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes WARWICK JORDAN as guest speaker. Warwick will be opening the Hui for the Ce...

Posted: Saturday Oct 07, 2017

Guest Speaker: Donald Kerr

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes DONALD KERR as guest speaker. Donald will be speaking at Centre for the Boo...

Posted: Friday Oct 06, 2017

Short Story Conference

The New Zealand Short Story had its very own conference in Invercargill in early September and Athenaeum committee membe...

Posted: Thursday Oct 05, 2017

Guest Speaker: Melanie Kidd

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes MELANIE KIDD from Norwich UNESCO City of Literature. Melanie will be speaki...

Posted: Thursday Oct 05, 2017

Mystery guest: David Loughrey

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes DAVID LOUGHREY as delegate and mystery guest. David will be participating i...

Posted: Wednesday Oct 04, 2017

Guest Speaker: Karen McAulay

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes KAREN McAULAY as guest speaker. Karen will be speaking at Centre for the Bo...

Posted: Tuesday Oct 03, 2017

Guest Speaker: Alexandra Newman

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes ALEXANDRA NEWMAN as guest speaker. Alexandra will be speaking at Centre for...

Posted: Monday Oct 02, 2017

Guest Speaker: Guy Ryan

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes GUY RYAN as delegate and guest speaker. Guy will speaking at Creative Conne...

Posted: Sunday Oct 01, 2017

Guest Speaker: Victor Rodger

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes VICTOR RODGER as delegate and guest speaker. Victor will be participating i...

Posted: Sunday Oct 01, 2017

Guest Speaker: Elaine Webster

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes ELAINE WEBSTER as guest speaker. Elaine will be speaking at Centre for the ...

Posted: Saturday Sep 30, 2017

Guest Speaker: Moira White

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes MOIRA WHITE as guest speaker. Moira will be speaking at Centre for the Book...

Posted: Friday Sep 29, 2017

Guest Speaker: Iona Winter

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes IONA WINTER as delegate and guest speaker. Iona will be speaking at Creativ...

Posted: Thursday Sep 28, 2017

Guest Speaker: Sue Wootton 

Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes SUE WOOTTON as guest speaker. Sue will be speaking at Centre for the Book: ...

Posted: Wednesday Sep 27, 2017

Telling tales

Our lives are all made up of many stories and everyone has a tale to tell.

Posted: Friday Sep 22, 2017

LIM - LESS IS MORE 2018

International call for projects

“Created by filmmakers for filmmakers”

Posted: Friday Sep 22, 2017

Festival of Colour hit The Blue Moments Project to perform in Dunedin

It’s a show that brings new meaning to the phrase “music and lyrics”. The Blue Moments Project, an evening of jazz, blue...

Posted: Friday Sep 08, 2017

Navigator by Anne Moir

NAVIGATOR, Anne’s first novel, was inspired by her experiences as a child during the post-World War Two era, when many m...

Posted: Tuesday Sep 05, 2017

September 2017 Script Call

Short Film Otago has a new funding round open for new writers and filmmakers.

It is calling for scripts/film ideas/outl...

Posted: Monday Sep 04, 2017

The third New Zealand Young Writers Festival to be held in Dunedin - UNESCO City of Literature.

Sex, dairy farming and feminism are among the unlikely bedfellows at this year’s New Zealand Young Writers Festival, fif...

Posted: Wednesday Aug 16, 2017

City author wins book awards

Port Chalmers author and illustrator David Elliot has won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the New Zealand Bo...

Posted: Tuesday Aug 15, 2017

Announcement of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award 2017

Waikato novelist Catherine Chidgey has been named as the recipient of a Janet Frame Literary Trust Award worth $5,000. 

Posted: Friday Jul 21, 2017

Bird Dog Hot Dog

‘Tītī hotdog with horopito pickled onions and mānuka smoked chilli relish’.

Posted: Thursday Jul 20, 2017

Reed Gallery exhibition showcases diverse examples of bookbindings

The latest Reed Gallery exhibition at Dunedin Public Library explores the outer covers of books - their bindings.

Posted: Tuesday Jul 18, 2017

Savoir Faire

Posted: Monday June 26, 2017

Spotlight on colonial feminist ‘fanatic’ Mary Ann Colclough 1836–1885

Polly Plum is a biography of one of New Zealand’s earliest feminists, Mary Ann Colclough, whose publicly voiced opinions...

Posted: Monday Jun 12, 2017

Dunedin author and illustrator shortlisted in prestigious awards

Dunedin author and illustrator David Elliot is a finalist in 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults ...

Posted: Wednesday Jun 07, 2017

How We Survive: A Feminist Poetry Show

Lift Women’s Voices. Burn The Patriarchy Down.

Posted: Wednesday Jun 07, 2017

Rescued moggie kickstarts children’s book

When I found the rat on the ground I had no idea it would change my life.

Posted: Monday May 29, 2017

Playwright Robert Lord to be honoured with Dunedin Writers Walk Plaque

Playwright Robert Lord (1945–1992) is to be honoured with a plaque in the Dunedin Writers Walk in the Octagon.

Posted: Friday May 12, 2017

Hall of Fame (and Fortune)

Posted: Tuesday May 02, 2017

Landfall celebrates 70th anniversary with new prize for young writers

Landfall, New Zealand’s leading journal of arts and literature, has announced the winner of the inaugural Charles Brasch...

Posted: Thursday Apr 27, 2017

An Interview With Laurence Fearnley

Landscape is the most exquisite aspect of our country, and Laurence Fearnley’s writing is influenced by it. An author of...

Posted: Thursday Apr 27, 2017

Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen By Jocelyn Harris

In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues that Jane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-wa...

Posted: Monday Apr 24, 2017

‘Capturing Light – Roy Miller – New Zealand Stained Glass artist’, 

‘Capturing Light – Roy Miller – New Zealand Stained Glass artist’, has just won a bronze medal in the Australasian non-f...

Posted: Wednesday Apr 19, 2017

Taking our Children's Books to Bologna

UNESCO City of Literature Dunedin were offered an opportunity they couldn't ignore: to bid to have a stand at the Bologn...

Posted: Thursday Apr 13, 2017

Bologna showcases local writers

Dunedin is stealing the show in Bologna this week after the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature won a stand at the iconic ...

Posted: Wednesday Apr 05, 2017

Getting the Play Right

Bios for the panel of Fringe Festival playwrights

Posted: Thursday Mar 16, 2017

Students living up to literary reputation

With Dunedin’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature and its well-known legacy in publishing, it should come as no ...

Posted: Monday Mar 13, 2017

Writers Residency Opportunities in 2017 / 18 in Dunedin - City of Literature

The Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust, Dunedin announces the closing dates for residencies available at the historic Rob...

Posted: Tuesday Feb 28, 2017

Poetry Trail launches in Port Chalmers

Posted: Tuesday Feb 28, 2017

A tribute to Catriona Ferguson

Statement from Peter Biggs, Chair of the New Zealand Book Council 

Posted: Tuesday Feb 21, 2017

Poems on the Street: Dunedin’s Poetic Parking Machines

In response to Dunedin’s status as a UNESCO City of Literature, lead designer Benjamin Alder and the team at Poetick est...

Posted: Tuesday Feb 14, 2017

Many steps involved in launching new Literary Walking Tours

Developing a new venture conducting literary walking tours through the University of Otago campus took the best part of ...

Posted: Tuesday Feb 14, 2017

Issue 8 of Down in Edin Magazine is now online

Posted: Wednesday Feb 01, 2017

University of Otago to offer City of Literature scholarship

The University of Otago and Dunedin City Council are excited to announce the launch of a new doctoral scholarship in lit...

Posted: Thursday Jan 26, 2017