He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
The 2024 NFFD Short List!
Congratulations to the writers of these stories!
Posted: Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
2024 $25,000 Writers' Award now open
Applications are now open for the 2024 CLNZ/NZSA Writers' Award. Applications close at 4pm on Monday 1 July
Posted: Friday Jun 07, 2024
Book Review: At the Grand Glacier Hotel, Laurence Fearnley
'At The Grand Glacier Hotel is a tender and beautifully written story about learning to live again...'
Posted: Friday Jun 07, 2024
Arts Pasifika Awards
Annual awards that celebrate and recognise excellence in Pacific arts across a range of arts practices and career stages...
Posted: Friday Jun 07, 2024
Have you published a book between Matariki 2023 and Matariki 2024?
If so, Māori Literature Trust want to hear from you!
Posted: Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Big Names Feature on National Children's Book Award Shortlist
Check out all the finalists for the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
Posted: Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Final week of Maximum Potential NOW
This is the final week of Maximum Potential NOW, an exhibition with Tāmaki Makaurau-based artists Samantha Cheng, Matt J...
Posted: Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Dunedin writer Laurence speaks about her latest novel, At The Grand Glacier Hotel, launching this month
Posted: Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
The takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2024 is open!
Entries close 30th September 2024
Posted: Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
The Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize is open for submissions
Submissions close 5pm 31 July 2024
Posted: Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Book review: At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley
Lynn Freeman reviews At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley published by Penguin Random House NZ.
Posted: Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
The University of Otago College of Education/Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence Fellow 2024
Feana Tu'akoi
Posted: Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
King's Birthday honours
Congratulations to Lisa Warrington on being made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to the...
Posted: Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Poetry Shelf noticeboard:
A reading to launch ‘Still Is’ by Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted: Friday May 31, 2024
Diversifying video games through creative writing
"Gamers with a passion for creative writing can merge their interests in Aotearoa’s only creative writing paper dedicate...
Posted: Thursday May 30, 2024
Poetry Shelf review and reading:
Iona Winter’s In the shape of his hand lay a river
Posted: Thursday May 30, 2024
Toitoi Quarterly Newsletter
Keep up to date with all the news from Toitoi HQ.
Posted: Thursday May 30, 2024
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008): Climate Coloniality and the Interface Between Humans and Nonhumans
Congratulations to recent English and Linguistics, University of Otago PhD Rakibul Hasan Khan, whose article appears in ...
Posted: Wednesday May 29, 2024
New novel out later this year
Congratulations to Wendy Parkins, who recently completed and defended her second PhD, this time in creative writing. Her...
Posted: Wednesday May 29, 2024
Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Samoa Language Week
Celebrated: 26 May – 1 June
Posted: Tuesday May 28, 2024
Renee Liang announced as judge for the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2024
The prize will be opening on 1st June, so start polishing your best unpublished poems!
Posted: Tuesday May 28, 2024
2024 NFFD Long Lists announced
Posted: Tuesday May 28, 2024
Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident for 2024 announced
Warmest congratulations to Alison Glenny
Posted: Monday May 27, 2024
Did you know you can now add key dates and be notified in MyCreativeRights Catalogue?
This new feature in the Contracts & Agreements section enables you to set reminders of key dates when you add a contract...
Posted: Monday May 27, 2024
2024 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition winner announced
Emma Hughes has been announced as the 2024 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition winner for her moving essay, ‘Fourt...
Posted: Monday May 27, 2024
Book review: Meantime by Majella Cullinane
Harry Ricketts reviews Meantime by Majella Cullinane published by Otago University Press
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Poet teaches pupils to be life detectives
Read about the great mahi of City of Literature South D Poet Lorikeet Jenny Powell with our wonderful young writers! Tha...
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Poetry Shelf
Katūīvei – Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Stunning artwork by David Elliot commemorates Lord Byron
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Stories under the Stars
On at the Otago Museum 1.30pm Saturdays and Sundays
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Are you a passionate, committed young writer hungry for an opportunity to dedicate time to your writing practice?
Applications close on 2 June 2024
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Are you an emerging writer?
NZ Young Writers Festival are looking for expressions of interest from young writers who are keen to deliver an event du...
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Dunedin writer Penelope Todd has just released her new novel, Nell, a fictional re-imagining of her paternal grandmother...
Posted: Thursday May 23, 2024
City of Literature South D Poet Lorikeet visits Dunedin Rudolf Steiner School
The City of Literature South D Poet Lorikeet, Jenny Powell, recently visited Dunedin Rudolf Steiner School’s Class Kerer...
Posted: Thursday May 23, 2024
Applications for the 2024 CLNZ | NZSA Research Grants are now open
Applications close at 4pm on Friday 7 June
Posted: Wednesday May 22, 2024
DCC FYI - GLAM Update May 2024
The Dunedin City of Literature team is excited at the recent announcement of a special collaboration with SuperGrans and...
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Book review: Hopurangi-Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka
Airini Beautrais reviews Hopurangi-Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan published by Auckland Unive...
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Celebrating Mansfield 2023: a Phantom Billstickers series
A set of micros and creative nonfiction works written for a special Katherine Mansfield Phantom Billstickers series with...
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Call for Papers – Reading Janet Frame (for) Today
On 30 August, Otago English will host a symposium to celebrate Janet Frame's centenary. See the Call for Papers below. A...
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Read an extract from 'Heart Stood Still' on Kete!
'Heart Stood Still' is a record of Miriam Sharland's journey towards finding healing in the world's natural beauty, a be...
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Kete Review
OTHERHOOD, edited by Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien and Kathryn van Beek
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Poet ‘surprised, overwhelmed’ by book award
Megan Kitching won the Best First Book Award Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry for her work 'At the Point of Seeing' at the...
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Happy Pink Shirt Day Aotearoa!
The team at the Dunedin City Library proudly wearing pink!
Posted: Friday May 17, 2024
Are you the next NZ Young Writers Festival Guest Curator?
Applications close Sunday 2 June 2024
Posted: Friday May 17, 2024
The ‘Margery Blackman: Weaving, Life’ exhibition
Two events to celebrate the opening - Saturday 19 May 2024
Posted: Friday May 17, 2024
Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Project Fund is open!
Applications close Monday 10 June 2024
Posted: Friday May 17, 2024
Kia hiwa rā - Māori creative (digital) business delegation to China 2024
The Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono is offering up to eight places for emerging Māori creative business lea...
Posted: Friday May 17, 2024
Applications for the 2024 Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature International Residency Program are open
Applications close Friday 14 June 2024
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Submissions are open for Sweet Mammalian
Submissions close 30 June 2024
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Bookmarks with Jacinta Ruru
Professor Jacinta Ruru is with Jesse for Bookmarks this week.
Posted: Thursday May 16, 2024
Book Review: Marilynn Webb - Folded in the Hills
'Marilynn Webb (1927-2021) faced three barriers to success as an artist in the 1960s: she was Māori (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu...
Posted: Wednesday May 15, 2024
Poetry Shelf review
Hopurangi-Songcatcher Poems from the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan
Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024