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From Millers Flat to Nanjing, China
Ready to fly . . .Millers Flat author Kyle Mewburn contemplates the contrast between her rural home and Nanjing with a p...
Posted: Thursday Nov 16, 2023
All episodes of the Play: Notes Podcast are now available to listen to
Join Dramaturgs Emily Duncan and Allison Horsley as they give you the need-to-know notes on plays that have influenced h...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Landfall Journal are excited to announce a special collaboration with non/fictionLab for 2024
They are joining together to commission a series of essays on the topic of ‘making space’. The essays will be trans-Tasm...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Distinguished Research Medal Lecture
Watch here the stream of the Distinguished Research Medal Lecture with recipient of the 2022 University of Otago disting...
Posted: Monday Nov 13, 2023
Writer 2023
This year’s winners of the University of Otago’s annual creative writing competition read and discuss their works with c...
Posted: Monday Nov 13, 2023
Reading makes life...full of opportunities
Did you know the OECD considers a love of reading to be the most important indicator of the future success of a child--m...
Posted: Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Melbourne-based writer Shu-Ling Chua reflects on her time in Dunedin as Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident.
Listen to this delightful kōrero between Jeff Harford and Melbourne-based writer Shu-Ling Chua on ‘Write Spot with Duned...
Posted: Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Sunday Star Times Short Story Awards 2023
Entries close November 12, 2023 at 11.45pm
Posted: Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
‘Words flowed, sparkled and rippled’
Lovely article by our Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident, Shu-Ling Chua from Melbourne ...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
'Is this all there is?'
Reflecting on the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2023 by Kiringāua Cassidy
Posted: Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
The NZ Summer Reading Guide is here
This summer’s edition is packed with book suggestions and gift ideas for every reader’s interests, needs and whims.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Nonnita Rees: Robert Lord's Diaries
Over the weekend, co-editor Nonnita Rees spoke to Kim Hill about Robert Lord Diaries. They talked about Robert's work, f...
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2023
Family legacy memorialised
The legacy of one of Dunedin’s founding families has been marked with the launch of a publication commemorating the 150t...
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2023
Toponymy project in Quebec City
Québec, ville de littérature have installed this very cool outdoor exhibition in Quebec City
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2023
A thrilling month for speakers of Polish in Aotearoa!
Kraków City of Literature announces CZYTAJ PL 2023 which offers 18 bestselling books for reading free online until 30 No...
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2023
Submissions open for 2024 John O’Connor First Book Award
Submissions close 14 January 2024
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2023
Robert Lord Diaries ed. Chris Brickell, Vanessa Manhire and Nonnita Rees
The diaries of a groundbreaking queer new playwright with ‘an abiding ambivalence about being a New Zealander’.
Posted: Friday Nov 03, 2023
2023 Storylines Notable Book Award winners announced
Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa is delighted to once again celebrate excelle...
Posted: Friday Nov 03, 2023
FestPAC 2024 Delegation EOI Now Open
Māori and Pasifika artists, groups and organisations are invited to express their interest to join the Aotearoa delegati...
Posted: Friday Nov 03, 2023
Lilliput Library for St Kilda Kindergarten
A new larger lilliput library, designed to accommodate picture books for young children, was unveiled outside the St Kil...
Posted: Thursday Nov 02, 2023
2024 Fringe Māori Artist Grants Now Open!
This year Dunedin Fringe is proud to announce a $10,000 grant pool specifically for Māori artists and/or Māori-led proje...
Posted: Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Call for applications - Arts Access fellowships 2023
Applications close at 5pm on Monday November 20th
Posted: Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Dunedin Public Art Gallery is now inviting proposals for the 2024 Rear Window Moving Image Programme
Applications close Friday 24th of November
Posted: Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Publishing Scotland International Publishing Fellowship
The Publishing Scotland International Publishing Fellowship is open for applications until January 2024 for an opportuni...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Shef Rogers appointed Donald Collie Chair
Associate Professor Shef Rogers has been appointed as the English and Linguistic programme’s Donald Collie Chair.
Posted: Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Creative Impact Lab Ōtepoti / Dunedin 2023-24
Open Call for Participants
Posted: Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Kete Books and RNZ announce new partnership targeting more readers for Aotearoa New Zealand books
Kete Books has partnered with RNZ in a new content sharing agreement that will expand coverage about books in Aotearoa a...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Update from the Kiwi Christmas Books kitchen table postage and packaging department
Hundreds of these lovely posters & bookmarks are heading out the door this week, bound for bookstores, schools and busin...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Magnolia tree star of competition-winning story
A magnolia tree whose flowering heralds the arrival of spring for University of Otago staff is the unlikely star of one ...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Centre for the Book Symposium 16-17 November 2023
Theme: Books and Resistance
Posted: Thursday Oct 26, 2023
BOOKHUB: THE NEXT CHAPTER IN BOOK BUYING FOR NZ BOOKLOVERS
The Sapling co-founder Sarah Forster shares her thoughts on the new platform.
Posted: Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Dunedin author Ian Dougherty's latest book has just been released
The Steepest Street in the World: Baldwin Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
Posted: Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Local writer heading to Nanjing!
Super exciting news that Kyle Mewburn has been selected as one of six writers/poets/translators from around the world to...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Ōtepoti literary community welcomes Shu-Ling Chua
We are delighted that the inaugural Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident, Shu-Ling Chua h...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
'The child in me will never die': Author Joy Cowley on embracing life and moving house
Much-loved author Joy Cowley is packing up and moving away from the Wairarapa town she has called home for 20 years.
Posted: Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
A History of Kindness
Check out Kirstie McKinnon’s blog post A History of Kindness that gently weaves histories together thanks to the gift of...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Write Spot with Oar FM - Shu-Ling Chua
Melbourne-based writer Shu-Ling Chua is in Dunedin as the first-ever Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature ...
Posted: Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Two Centre for the Book activities to mark in your diary
Public Talk - Monumentum Regale: King Charles I in the John Emmerson Collection, State Library Victoria, Melbourne and C...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival
From Jewelled Fantasies to Splendid Rags: Reflecting on Kākā Point Presented by the Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust
Posted: Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
What is BookHub?
BookHub is the fast and easy way to browse and buy books from NZ bookstores, it's local, it supports NZ businesses, it’s...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
An open secret - Dunedin’s hidden library
Librarian Christine Powley celebrates the Southern Heritage Trust open day in one of the oldest buildings in Dunedin, th...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
The stories that got bookworm Tony Eyre hooked
Tony Eyre is a book lover. Now, he is a book writer. His bibliomemoir, The Book Collector, tells the story of a lifetime...
Posted: Monday Oct 09, 2023
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival
If mushrooms, foraging, baking, food and health is up your street, then make sure you snap up these tickets
Posted: Monday Oct 09, 2023
Boosted x Moana
A month-long campaign championing the Pacific arts in Aotearoa New Zealand
Posted: Monday Oct 09, 2023
Creative NZ Capability Grants 23/24
Māori Arts Festival and Pacific Arts Festival
Posted: Monday Oct 09, 2023
Old banners made into book bags
Local pre-schoolers have beautiful, colourful bags to carry their books in, thanks to a collaboration between the Read S...
Posted: Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw’s three wee bookshops in Manapōuri
In this special session, join Ruth and Lynn Freeman for a conversation about the bond between humans and canines – and h...
Posted: Thursday Oct 05, 2023
David Eggleton reviews:
A Roderick Finlayson Reader edited by Roger Hickin (Cold Hub Press, 2020) and Roderick Finlayson: A Man from Another Wor...
Posted: Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Listen to Bookworm Tony Eyre on his passion for second-hand books
Tony Eyre is a proud bibliophile and has taken a lifetime of loving books and wrapped it into a bibliomemoir called The ...
Posted: Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Submissions are now open for the 2024 Adam NZ Play Award
Submissions close 1 December
Posted: Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Poetry Shelf Cafe: Arihia Latham reads from Birdspeak
Arihia Latham (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha) Is a writer, creative, and rongoā practitioner. Her poetry collection Bird...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Apply now for the Robert Lord Writers Cottage 2024 Residencies
Applications close 27 November 2023
Posted: Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival starts in less than two weeks!
Book your tickets now!
Posted: Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Entries for The Allen & Unwin NZ Fiction Prize are open!
Entries must be lodged by 31 March 2024
Posted: Tuesday Oct 03, 2023