He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Young Writer in Residence at Robert Lord Writers Cottage
Opportunity - New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023
Posted: Friday May 19, 2023
Guest Curator
Job Opportunity - New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Pieces Spaces Species public programming
This May Blue Oyster have an exciting programme of events for the exhibition Pieces Spaces Species.
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Applications for the 2023 CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants are now open
Four grants ($5,000 each) are available for Aotearoa New Zealand writers to conduct research for a fiction or non-fictio...
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Huge congratulations to the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards winners
Read all about it here:
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Poetry Shelf readings: Louise Wallace
Listen here to two poems from Louise Wallace’s collection, This Is A Story About Your Mother, published by Te Herenga Wa...
Posted: Tuesday May 16, 2023
Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Project Fund
Applications close Monday 29 May
Posted: Tuesday May 16, 2023
Kia Mau 2023 Programme featuring The World's First Lovers
nā Jessica Latton
Posted: Tuesday May 16, 2023
Writing back in author’s sights after pain study
Dunedin author Dr Lynley Hood is "charging ahead" with research for books she plans to write, after taking part in a chr...
Posted: Monday May 15, 2023
Memoir takes a look at pre-TV Dunedin
Author and heritage advocate Lois Galer reminisces about "pre-TV era" Dunedin in A Memoir ... But I Digress.
Posted: Friday May 12, 2023
Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru Taha - Michelle Elvy has co-edited with Witi Ihimaera an anthology of new writing for a chan...
Posted: Thursday May 11, 2023
Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwright Programme Writers
Supporting writers to dream and grow is exactly what this programme is about.
Posted: Thursday May 11, 2023
Announcing the theme for the Open Junior category – 2023 NZPS International Poetry Competition
MYTHOLOGY
Posted: Tuesday May 09, 2023
AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU - 2023 manuscript competition
Submit your manuscript for this new prize!
Posted: Tuesday May 09, 2023
Special Events at Dunedin City Library
Check out these special events for this week.
Posted: Monday May 08, 2023
Contract Opportunity
Guest Curator, New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023
Posted: Monday May 08, 2023
Announcing the Aotearoa Children’s Junior Fiction and Young Adult Bestseller List
Sponsored by Storylines
Posted: Friday May 05, 2023
Calling all Young Poets!
Entries are open to the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2023
Posted: Thursday May 04, 2023
Arasan FM Community Radio
Coming to you for the first time on Otago Access Radio 105.4 FM
Posted: Thursday May 04, 2023
Poetry Shelf review: Barbara Else’s Laughing at the Dark
Posted: Wednesday May 03, 2023
Entries for the 2023 PANZ Book Design Awards are now open
The PANZ Book Design Awards were established to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design...
Posted: Wednesday May 03, 2023
Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme 2023
Accepting Submissions Now!
Posted: Monday May 01, 2023
Rāwaho - The Completed Poems by David Howard
Croatian publisher has plans for a translated selection of poems - watch video here
Posted: Monday May 01, 2023
Landfall Essay Competition 2023
Entries for the 2023 Landfall Essay Competition are open!
Posted: Monday May 01, 2023
Book Review - Aftermaths: Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
An essay collection that confronts the violence of the colonial past, and the perils of forgetting.
Posted: Monday May 01, 2023
The Great Kiwi Poster Competition
Calling on New Zealand Residents (Age 5 - 105)
Posted: Friday Apr 28, 2023
Kete Books
Book Reviews - The Deck; Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019 - 2022 and Laughing at the Dark: A memoir
Posted: Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Applications are open now and close 18 June 2023
Posted: Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Job Opportunity: Contract Event Coordinator
Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
Posted: Thursday Apr 27, 2023
#DrawWithDenmark – Green Together 2023
Do you want to be part of a global green drawing campaign 2023?
Posted: Thursday Apr 27, 2023
The Whale Rider - an exploration of New Zealand through Witi Ihimaera’s Novel
Hybrid lecture series
Posted: Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
2023 Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme
Sending in your submissions from Mon 1 May
Posted: Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Tūhura Photography Competition
Otago’s own awards to celebrate our nature, our landscapes, and you, our people, taking images of all of it!
Posted: Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Mātātuhi Foundation announces another lift in literary sector funding
Literary projects seeking $5,000 - $20,000 in funding are now welcome!
Posted: Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
World Creativity and Innovation Day
To celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Day we are proud to present TED TALKS by Jenny Powell, City of Literature S...
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
Local Produce: Ōtepoti Slam Collective
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme, will be open for submissions from Monday 1st May 2023
If you've had an idea simmering for a stage work or been wrestling with writing a new play, this could be the opportunit...
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
FINS Programme Announced!
Over 30 national and international speakers have been confirmed for the Dunedin FINS 2023 programme, 12 - 14 May.
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
This book is in Polish & English and is wonderful to practice Polish
Edward Sakowski dedicated his latest book, 'Once a Giraffe was to be Photographed' to his grandchildren.
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
Pasifika Navigators - Pasifika Student Poetry Collection
Pasifika students across Aotearoa share their dreams, aspirations, life changing challenges and learnings. Helping us al...
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
NZSA CompleteMS Manuscript Assessment Programme
Applications close 28 May
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary
Opens 27 April 2023 for projects taking place between 5 Jul 2023 - 5 Oct 2024
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
The 2023 NFFD competition has been extended!
New deadline: 30 April 2023
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
Round Two of the Asia NZ Foundation Arts Practitioners Fund closes 1 May 2023
This fund provides support for experiential opportunities for individual New Zealand-based arts practitioners to deepen ...
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
Help spread the word about the books in our 2023 Māori and Pasifika catalogue
Click on the links below and spread the word
Posted: Friday Apr 21, 2023
Check out Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction's wonderful March Rā Sun issue here
Featuring Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch's dance energy; new books by Piet Nieuwland, Vaughan Rapatahana and Sophia Wilson, and Fl...
Posted: Friday Apr 14, 2023
Prague in My Bones published in Czech by Edice Echo
Posted: Friday Apr 14, 2023
The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
Appoint Kitty Brown as Event Manager
Posted: Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Poetry Shelf Monday poem: Emma Neale’s ‘Fresh’
Posted: Thursday Apr 13, 2023
National Flash Fiction Day Competition 2023
Submissions close 15 April 2023
Posted: Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Barbara Else discusses Laughing at the Dark
Listen here to the OAR FM podcast
Posted: Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
The Playhouse Theatre school holiday show Pinocchio ...
... a feast for the eyes and ears, with a chorus of puppets, circus performers and children who turn into donkeys!
Posted: Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
David Howard at the Calibre Literary Festival
David will explore Rāwaho: The Completed Poems with short story writer Jana Prević Finderle on Friday 21 April during th...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
This doctor moonlights as a children's author in her spare time
Libby Whittaker lives and works in Dunedin where she is a doctor. Her debut junior fiction novel Sunny Turner and the De...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 11, 2023