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Gentlemen, gentlewomen and scholars — the Burns Fellows
As Kathryn van Beek’s time as the University of Otago’s Robert Burns Fellow comes to an end, she contemplates the litera...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Read NZ Author Q&A: Ella West
Ella West, author of six YA novels (including the NZ Book Award shortlisted Thieves), chats writing for young adults, le...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
University Book Shop Bestsellers 2023
So many local authors! To celebrate, all of the titles listed here are 15% off in store and online for the rest of the m...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Whimsical ‘click-a-path’ adventure story out now for summer
The ManyEnding Story is a coming-of-age tale with a difference. Written by Robert Burns Fellow Kathryn van Beek, the fre...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Extract: ‘The Tiriti Translator’ and ‘Aloneness’ winners of the 2023 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize
‘The Tiriti Translator’ by Jilly O’Brien and ‘Aloneness’ by Tim Saunders were announced the dual winners of The 2023 Cas...
Posted: Monday Jan 22, 2024
Kyle Mewburn selected by Nanjing City of Literature for its 2023 Residency Programme
Posted: Monday Jan 22, 2024
Emerging Writing Resident Announced
Caselberg Trust Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Resident 2024 is Kate Aschoff
Posted: Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Local author Swapna Haddow leads popular Festival events for tamariki
The 2023 Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival curated a selection of literary experiences based on the central theme Te Pū...
Posted: Friday Jan 19, 2024
Theatre awards to celebrate past two years
The best of local theatre from the past two years will be celebrated at next month’s Dunedin Theatre Awards, which retur...
Posted: Thursday Jan 18, 2024
Write Spot with OAR FM
Poet and novelist Mikaela Nyman, the 2024 University of Otago Robert Burns Fellow, looks ahead to her year in Dunedin.
Posted: Thursday Jan 18, 2024
The 2024 #DublinLitAward longlist has been revealed!
With 70 books nominated by 80 libraries from 35 countries, this year's longlist is a treasure trove of stories and world...
Posted: Thursday Jan 18, 2024
2023 Nanjing International Writers Residency
Enjoy this article and images from Nanjing City of Literature capturing the residency attended by Kyle Mewburn in Novemb...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Call for Applications: Congress of Literature in Vilnius May 6-10, 2024
Applications close 28 January 2024
Posted: Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Art seen: Marilynn Webb
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery is celebrating the life of Bay of Plenty-born Otago artist Marilynn Webb with a comprehen...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
School’s out for summer!
Here’s a great activity to entertain children and help them with their reo. Take a look at this gorgeous colouring page ...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Southern Cross Crime
The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand
Posted: Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
NZSA Mentor Programme 2024 – open for applications
For Writers! Apply now to be mentored by an established writer, poet, playwright.
Posted: Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Delegation for 2024 Festival of Pacific Arts announced by Creative New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand will be represented by 85 artists and performers at the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts (FestPAC) to ...
Posted: Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Phantom Billstickers poem posters in Avondale
Featuring Rain by Hone Tuwhare
Posted: Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Master of Creative Writing
Complete your large-scale creative writing project with an award-winning novelist and a lively, committed and diverse co...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Today marks our final day of the #17Booksfor17SDGs campaign
For 17 days we have shared some of Ōtepoti's recently published books which highlight each of the 2030 Sustainable Devel...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Arts Access Aotearoa announces recipients of fellowships
Artists, a creative space and projects built around access, inclusion and participation in the arts are recipients of Ng...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
#17Booksfor17SDGs
In 2015, the United Nations created 17 Sustainable Development Goals and aimed to achieve them by 2030.
Posted: Tuesday December 19, 2023
Peter Wells Short Fiction Contest
Opportunity for Aotearoa-based LGBTQIA+ authors. Stories must be received by midnight on Friday 5 January 2024.
Posted: Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Inspiring More Teachers To Share Aotearoa's Stories
Tackling 'the Summer Slide' for students is nothing new - but Read NZ CEO Juliet Blyth explains a 'whole-playground' app...
Posted: Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Publishing Scotland launches its 2024 International Publishing Fellowship Programme
Applications close Wednesday 31 January 2024
Posted: Monday Dec 18, 2023
Public Lending Right for New Zealand Authors
Authors, register (between 1 January-1 March 2024) to get payment in recognition of your books being in NZ libraries
Posted: Monday Dec 18, 2023
Xmas: the best poetry books of 2023
Erena Shingade selects the 10 best poetry collections of 2023
Posted: Monday Dec 18, 2023
Bringing Pacific’s artists to the world
Pacific Arts Aotearoa brings together the stories of more than 120 artists, curators and community voices spanning six d...
Posted: Friday Dec 15, 2023
Psychological thriller wins inaugural Phoenix Prize
A pacy psychological thriller set in contemporary Sydney has won the inaugural Phoenix Prize for its author Rachel Paris...
Posted: Friday Dec 15, 2023
Adventures in bookland: From paperbacks to first editions
Dunedin collector Tony Eyre looks back on a life with literature
Posted: Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
The judges for the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced
And what a fine line-up they make
Posted: Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
An extraordinary life
Mākaro Press remembers writer, mentor, teacher, and taonga Renée, who died this week
Posted: Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Nominations are now open for the The Arts Foundation Springboard
Springboard aims to kickstart arts careers for artists at a formative stage of their career in Aotearoa - nominate an ar...
Posted: Monday Dec 11, 2023
NZSA is delighted to announce Barbara Else as 2024 President of Honour
This prestigious honour is bestowed on a senior writer and long-serving NZSA member in recognition of their contribution...
Posted: Monday Dec 11, 2023
All in for Arts: He waka toi e eke noa nei tātou is back
Register now via the link below to join this free breakfast series coming to a town near you, Feb – May 2024
Posted: Friday Dec 08, 2023
Write Spot with David Elliot
Award winning illustrator and writer David Elliot has an intriguing commission for Nottingham City of Literature that br...
Posted: Thursday Dec 07, 2023
The whimsy and magic of Dunedin's second-hand bookstores
The Book Collector is a memoir about Tony Eyre’s lifelong passion for reading and collecting books. In this extract he d...
Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023
Celebration of writers, readers
Listen to the 2023 Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Podcasts
Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023
Auckland Writers Festival announces New Programme Manager
Auckland Writers Festival | Waituhi o Tāmaki is thrilled to announce the appointment of Jennifer Cheuk as Programme Mana...
Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023
Open Call for Ljubljana City of Literature International Residency - Writer in the Park
*DEADLINE EXTENDED to 10 January 2024*
Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023
Plaque added for Gaelic bard
The Otago Scottish Heritage Council, Dunedin Public Libraries and the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature celebrated the u...
Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023
Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2023
Submissions close 15 December
Posted: Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Winner of the Sargeson Prize schools division
A Nigerian girl and her Pākehā boyfriend at a swimming pool
Posted: Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Goodbye for now to the inaugural Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident
The City of Literature team recently farewelled the first-ever Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writer...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Winner of the 2023 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
Congratulations to Jo McNeice, for her manuscript, Blue Hour
Posted: Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Winner of the 2023 Landfall Essay Competition
Congratulations to Siobhan Harvey for her powerful essay, ‘A Jigsaw of Broken Things’
Posted: Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Internetnz Web Accessibility Grant open
This grant will help charities and Māori organisations to make their websites more accessible. Applications close 15 Dec...
Posted: Monday Nov 27, 2023
Reflections on 2023 Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency
It was an absolute joy and honour to live and write in the Caselberg House, as the inaugural recipient of the Caselberg ...
Posted: Monday Nov 27, 2023
Dr April-Rose Geers - University Book Shop Emerging Writer in Residence
Dr April-Rose Geers has been announced as the University Book Shop Emerging Writer in Residence. She will take up the re...
Posted: Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Much-loved bard travelled a hard road
Otago’s own Gaelic bard, Angus Robertson, has been rescued from obscurity and his literary achievements are about to be ...
Posted: Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Write Spot with OAR FM - WONDERlust project for World Braille Day
A book by That Blind Woman Julie Woods, illustrated by husband Ron Esplin, is being gifted to several Cities of Literatu...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Bridport Prize International Creative Writing Competition
Deadline 31 May 2024
Posted: Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
A History of Kindness
Read Kirstie Mckinnon's latest Substack, When Kindness Hurts and create your own Substack to connect your publication wi...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Let the little ones colour in kiwi creatures, and learn te reo along the way
Starring native birds, insects, plants and sea animals, the Reo Pēpi Bilingual Colouring Book will teach te reo vocabula...
Posted: Monday Nov 20, 2023
Wheeler Books - Book of the Week
𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗵 by beloved author Joy Cowley is an evocative and beautiful book that distils the essence of summer at the ba...
Posted: Monday Nov 20, 2023