He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Best Books 2016
What will you be reading in 2017? Choose from our library staff’s Best Books of 2016 list.
Posted: Wednesday Jan 18, 2017
Poems in the Waiting Room
Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ) distributes 8000 free poetry cards every season to medical waiting rooms, rest homes, hos...
Posted: Monday Jan 16, 2017
The University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship
The Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago invites applications for a new doctoral scholarship...
Posted: Friday Jan 13, 2017
A town trod by Poets: The search for truth on Dunedin streets
A paper by Roger Hickin delivered at the University of Otago Centre for the Book 2016 Symposium: Book and Place
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
Stories from our Vibrant Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
A Tale of Two Cities (Of Literature)
‘Chance is a fine thing’, the title of my 2009 memoir would have it, and chance had it that the start of our 2016 travel...
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
That Blind Woman said "Why Not?!" to the 7-day challenge!
When the 7-day challenge was first mooted, my ears pricked up...
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
The Star Regent 24-hour Book Sale: a Great Literary Event
A City of Literature is not something Dunedin has just become: Dunedin has been a city of literature for a long time. Wh...
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
Opening Doors in Rockfaces: David Howard’s poetics
David Howard is a prominent New Zealand poet and co-founder of the literary journal takahē. After 13 years at Purakaunui...
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
Heritage Matters on Otago Access Radio
Twenty episodes of "Heritage Matters", the programme produced on behalf of Southern Heritage Trust for Otago Access Radi...
Posted: Friday Dec 23, 2016
Aotearoa Summer Reads to inspire nation to choose home-grown talent
A cast of New Zealand writers have selected their top picks from the Aotearoa-grown bookshelves to help guide kiwis in t...
Posted: Friday Dec 09, 2016
Cast of storytellers to delight with tales in many tongues
Dunedin (Thursday, 8 December) – The organisers of Dunedin’s inaugural International Storytelling Festival have been ove...
Posted: Friday Dec 09, 2016
Dunedin, New Zealand
Posted: Thursday Dec 08, 2016
Airini Beautrais wins Landfall Essay Competition 2016
Airini Beautrais has been named the winner of the 2016 Landfall Essay Competition for her essay ‘Umlaut’.
Competition j...
Posted: Thursday Nov 03, 2016
First complete edition of Katherine Mansfield’s poems
Oh God! I am divided still. I am bad. I fail in my personal life. I lapse into impatience, temper, vanity & so I fail as...
Posted: Thursday Nov 03, 2016
Announcing the 2016 Blue Oyster Summer Writing Resident:
Robyn Maree Pickens
With support from the Quarantine Island Kamau Taurua Community, Dunedin-based writer Robyn Maree Pickens will be spendin...
Posted: Monday Oct 17, 2016
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
Book and Place: University of Otago Centre for the Book Symposium 2016
Posted: Tuesday Sep 27, 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
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
A Call for Project/Products for 2016 Bologna Design Week
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
Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Research Grant – 2016
Posted: Tuesday Mar 22, 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
Otago University Press authors longlisted for 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Posted: Wednesday Dec 02, 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
Worldly Literature exhibition and Poetry Projections at Vogel Street Party
Posted: Tuesday Oct 13, 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
Events coming your way from Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Thursday Sep 10, 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