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Today on Write Spot - Books of Mana - 180 Māori Authored Books of Significance
Books of Mana celebrates the rich tradition of Māori authorship in Aotearoa New Zealand. Co-editors Angela Wanhalla and ...
Posted: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Learnings from Nepal subject of new book
Associate Professor Susan Heydon’s new book ‘Implementing a global health programme’ will be published this February.
Posted: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency
Applications are open now and close at 5 PM, Friday 7 March
Posted: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Early Career Fund - Toi Tipu Toi Rea
Funding for artists and practitioners at the early stage of their career, to develop new work, new skills and to share t...
Posted: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Funding: Translation Grant
Closing date soon! Friday 28 February 2025
Posted: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Poetry Shelf celebrates Mary and Peter Biggs Poetry Long List
Robert Sullivan
Posted: Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
More local content on morning radio
Radio listeners can now hear more Dunedin stories over their morning bowl of cornflakes.
Posted: Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Poetry Shelf celebrates the Mary and Peter Biggs long list
Alison Glenny (2024 Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident)
Posted: Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
‘My story with taonga begins in 1984’: an excerpt from Books of Mana
Books of Mana: 180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance, edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira ha...
Posted: Monday Feb 10, 2025
‘Remarkable’ year of performances
A "remarkable" year of quality theatre in the midst of hard times will be celebrated at the 13th Otepoti Dunedin Theatre...
Posted: Monday Feb 10, 2025
Festival throws down challenge
The Dunedin Arts Festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a special offering of theatre, dance, circus, cabaret...
Posted: Monday Feb 10, 2025
Poetry Shelf: Brian Turner (1944 – 2025)
Posted: Monday Feb 10, 2025
The highest peak: a eulogy for Brian Turner
Philip Temple pays tribute to his friend, the great writer Brian Turner (1944-2025)
Posted: Monday Feb 10, 2025
Accent on hilarity in Shakespeare in park
The dedicated Dunedin Summer Shakespeare team is back for another silly season of hi-jinks in a production of The Comedy...
Posted: Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Tuned In to All the Sounds
Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb reviews: At the Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley (Penguin Books NZ, 2024)
Posted: Wednesday Feb 05, 2025
Extra-special cameo appearance at Dunedin Summer Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
Dunedin Summer Shakespeare have got something extra-special on tap for this year's hilarious rendition of THE COMEDY OF ...
Posted: Wednesday Feb 05, 2025
Samesame But Different 10th Anniversary
Posted: Wednesday Feb 05, 2025
Applications are now open for the 2025 Tartu City of Literature international residency program
This is a 2-month residency in April - May. Applications close 20 February!
Posted: Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Reflections on 2024 Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency
From the moment I arrived in Ōtepoti Dunedin to begin my residency at the Caselberg House, I was made to feel at home.
Posted: Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Poetry Shelf celebrates the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry 2025 Longlist
Emma Neale
Posted: Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
This is the place where souls come to be mended
These are the words of poet Annie Villiers, who recently represented Ōtepoti City of Literature in Heidelberg’s “Poetry ...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
The Ockham NZ Book Awards 2025 longlist is announced!
Warmest congratulations to all the nominees ...
Posted: Thursday Jan 30, 2025
Today on Write Spot - Neville Peat
Neville Peat recently received the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (Non-Fiction) 2024. He di...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 29, 2025
Enrolments are open for the Whitireia Graduate Diploma in Publishing (Applied)
Start date: 24 February 2025
Posted: Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Review: Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit by Emma Neale
Anuja Mitra admires the empathy and reminder of our shared humanity within Emma Neale's new poetry collection, LIAR, LIA...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Collection
A fascinating record of high-end New Zealand fashion and an enigmatic collector.
Posted: Monday Jan 27, 2025
Books of Mana: 180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira
Out on 3 February 2025
Posted: Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
Dunedin Fringe '25 Programme Preview
Dunedin Fringe co-directors Ruth Harvey and Kate Schrader preview this year's festival, with online ticket sales now und...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
Applications are invited for the 2025 University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship
Applicants can apply any time; however, all applications will be reviewed after 31 January each year for that year's sch...
Posted: Monday Jan 20, 2025
Fringe event to celebrate 25 years
The Dunedin Fringe Festival team have hit the ground running, as they work to bring together more than 85 shows and even...
Posted: Monday Jan 20, 2025
Nine Dots Prize - The 2024/2025 question: Is data failing us?
Applications close 27 January 2025
Posted: Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Check out the prestigious 2025 Dublin Literary Award Longlist
Congratulations to our very own Laurence Fearnley, nominated by Dunedin Public Libraries, for At The Grand Glacier Hotel...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Book Review: The Pets We Have Killed by Barbara Else
Posted: Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Prime Minister’s Award - Neville Peat
Posted: Monday Jan 13, 2025
Coming out in 2025 Books of Mana
180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira
Posted: Monday Jan 13, 2025
Submit your work for the Storylines Te Kahurangi Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira Award
Entries close 31 October – get your manuscript in today!
Posted: Friday Jan 10, 2025
NZ Booklovers Review - Landfall 248
The spring 2024 edition of Landfall reaffirms its place as Aotearoa New Zealand’s preeminent arts and literary journal, ...
Posted: Friday Jan 10, 2025
Write On with Beverly Martens
With guests Stacey Teague, UBS Summer Writer in Residence and Rob Foote
Posted: Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Julie Woods: Connecting the world by dots
Julie Woods is "connecting the world with dots" by aiming to write one million names in Braille
Posted: Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Literary Lifelines
Pouhere Taonga — Heritage New Zealand has a story about the Tuwhare Crib and Residency in their summer 2024 edition of t...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 08, 2025
Apply for a 1 month residency in Ljubljana!
Ljubljana City of Literature are offering two 1 month residencies in in April and November 2025 to writers from UNESCO C...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 07, 2025
Praise the Lord playwright residency
Entries due midnight 17 January 2025
Posted: Monday Jan 06, 2025
Medical experience informs novel
Mira Harrison’s first novel, One In Three, deals with the challenges of being a new doctor
Posted: Monday Jan 06, 2025
Calling all young writers!
Rod Oram Memorial Essay Prize - entries close Friday 28 March 2025
Posted: Friday Dec 20, 2024
Round One of the Arts Practitioners Fund is now open for 2025 activities!
Applications close Monday, 13 January 2025
Posted: Friday Dec 20, 2024
Open call for international writing residencies at Vil·la Joana (Barcelona) 2025!
Submit your application before 24 January 2025 and live a unique experience in the heart of Collserola Park.
Posted: Thursday Dec 19, 2024
Today on Write Spot: Mira Harrison - Doctor and Writer
Mira Harrison has released her first novel, One In Three, based on her experiences as a junior doctor in NHS hospitals i...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Paula Green Honoured with 2025 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal
Storylines is delighted to announce poet Paula Green as the 2025 recipient of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal.
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Book review: Perch edited by Michelle Elvy
Ash Davida Jane reviews Perch edited by Michelle Elvy published by At the Bay | I te Kokoru
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
#17Booksfor17SDGs 2024 Campaign
Shining a light on SDGs and our Ōtepoti authors
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Read A Conversation with the Emperor by Kirstie McKinnon
the inner critic goes outside
Posted: Tuesday Dec 17, 2024
Importance of literary award ‘slightly dawning’
We are so thrilled for our very own Neville Peat - recognised with the 2024 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievem...
Posted: Monday Dec 16, 2024
Calling all young writers!
It's that time again! Entries for the 2025 Landfall Young Writers' Essay Competition are open - Entries close 31 March 2...
Posted: Friday Dec 13, 2024
Poetry Shelf summer readings: Emma Neale
Over the summer months Poetry Shelf is hosting a series of readings from the incredible range of poetry collections publ...
Posted: Thursday Dec 12, 2024