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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

Entries for The Novel Prize are open

Entries close 1 June 2024

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

2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Winners announced

Posted: Wednesday May 15, 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

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem

Megan Kitching’s ‘Skeletal’

Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024

Expert Feature: Warwick Jordan on looking after books

Warwick Jordan is the founder of the 'Hard to Find: but worth the effort' Second Hand Bookshops... which does exactly wh...

Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024

Whakataukī of the Week with Robert Sullivan

Robert Sullivan is a poet and an associate professor in creative writing at Massey University who has just published his...

Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024

Hocken Collections Foyer Display

Celebrating Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa / New Zealand Music Month 2024

Posted: Monday May 13, 2024

'Menswear + Manuscripts' exhibition

Special Collections' de Beer Gallery

Posted: Monday May 13, 2024

Te Tauihu Short Story Awards 2024

Entries close 31 May 2024

Posted: Friday May 10, 2024

Five Wee Pūteketeke

Delightful book illustrated by our very own Jo Pearson

Posted: Friday May 10, 2024

Explaining Otherhood - childless by choice or circumstance

Listen to the RNZ interview here

Posted: Thursday May 09, 2024

Pasifika Book Hub!

Connecting readers with Pacific storytellers and stories, brought to you by Mila’s Books

Posted: Thursday May 09, 2024

Short story: The boat in the shed, by Kyle Mewburn

“How easy it would be to slip a kayak into the river at the back of Len’s section and glide silently past the row of sle...

Posted: Thursday May 09, 2024

The Rush Cottage Writers’ Residency

Hawke’s Bay Readers and Writers Trust Announce The Rush Cottage Writers’ Residency - Applications close 5pm, 31 May 2024

Posted: Wednesday May 08, 2024

Te Hono: Connection in 2024

Applications close 4 June 2024

Posted: Wednesday May 08, 2024

Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence 2024

Applications close Friday, 31 May 2024

Posted: Wednesday May 08, 2024

Today on Write Spot

Poet and Writer Annie Villiers is contributing a poem to the Poetry on the Move initiative, marking Heidelberg City of L...

Posted: Wednesday May 08, 2024

Massey University Press 10 Questions

... with the editors of Otherhood

Posted: Tuesday May 07, 2024

May news from AUP!

Featuring two new poetry collections including Hopurangi—Songcatcher Poems from the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan

Posted: Tuesday May 07, 2024

Book review:

Ash by Louise Wallace

Posted: Monday May 06, 2024

Landfall Essay Competition

Entries close 31 July 2024

Posted: Monday May 06, 2024

Poetry Shelf review:

Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 – a review and eight readings

Posted: Monday May 06, 2024

Time to re-read Majella Cullinane's in-depth interview with Vincent O'Sullivan

"The great contradiction in life and in fiction, is we still believe in freedom, even as entanglements throw a net acros...

Posted: Friday May 03, 2024

Enter the Annual NZPS International Poetry Competition

Entries close midnight 31 May 2024

Posted: Friday May 03, 2024

Otago cancer researchers win PM's Science Award

When Parry Guilford is asked why he has spent nearly 30 years looking for the genetic cause of stomach cancer, he loves ...

Posted: Thursday May 02, 2024

‘Sheer glitter ringing about’: Emma Neale remembers Vincent O’Sullivan

News that the great writer Vincent O’Sullivan has died has spurred a wave of tributes. Here, fellow writer Emma Neale re...

Posted: Thursday May 02, 2024

Expressions of Interest for touring with PANNZ in 2025 are NOW OPEN

Submissions close 5pm, Monday 3 June

Posted: Thursday May 02, 2024

Entries for the 2024 PANZ Book Design Awards are now open!

Entries close Friday 31 May 2024

Posted: Thursday May 02, 2024

Call for Granada Writers in Residence Programme November 2024

Applications close 20 June 2024

Posted: Thursday May 02, 2024

Call for UNESCO City of Literature Wonju Residency 2024

Spend eight weeks in South Korea, at the Toji Cultural Centre

Posted: Thursday May 02, 2024

Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship Applications

Applications close 14 June 2024

Posted: Tuesday Apr 30, 2024

Kete Book Reviews

Ash, Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand and A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotear...

Posted: Tuesday Apr 30, 2024

Tūhura photography competition

Otago’s own awards to celebrate our nature, our landscapes, and you, our people, taking images of all of it!

Posted: Tuesday Apr 30, 2024

Creative Connections Residency 2025 - submissions open

Applications close 5pm 31 May

Posted: Monday Apr 29, 2024

Congratulations Kimberley Fridd!!

Winner of the Drama NZ Life Membership Award for 2024

Posted: Monday Apr 29, 2024

Today on Write Spot

City of Literature South D Poet Lorikeet, Jenny Powell discussing her work as a poet, working with new entrants at prima...

Posted: Monday Apr 29, 2024

A History of Kindness

Drawing lights the way - an interview with Claire Beynon

Posted: Monday Apr 29, 2024

Our heartfelt condolences and aroha to the whānau and friends of Sir Vincent O'Sullivan

New Zealand Poetry Society announcement

Posted: Monday Apr 29, 2024

8-week Creative Writing Workshop for adults with Majella Cullinane

Secure your spot now!

Posted: Monday Apr 29, 2024