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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
Winter writer’s residency offered
Aspiring writers are being urged to sign up to The Mike Riddell writer’s residency.
Posted: Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Home-maker, writer, rebel: Barbara Else gets honest about her career and marriage
One of New Zealand’s best known authors, Barbara Else rebelled against a lot of things women were once expected to think...
Posted: Sunday Apr 09, 2023
The Elsie Locke Writing Prize 2023
Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists' Elsie Locke Writing Prize 2023 opens at the beginning of Term 2.
Posted: Thursday Apr 06, 2023
AIR Litteratur Västra Götaland announces literary residency grants
Are you a writer or literary translator? Do you need access to your own workplace? Are you looking for a peaceful work e...
Posted: Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Granada Writers in Residence Programme
Closing Date for Applications - May 31
Posted: Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Young writers and artists!!
Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists would love to hear from you
Posted: Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Short story: The Islands of Arthur Trimble
"He imagines the rattling windows of his bach": a sad seaside saga by Majella Cullinane
Posted: Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Calling rangatahi o Ōtepoti!
Show us what you think a Zero Carbon Ōtepoti might look like
Posted: Friday Mar 31, 2023
Poet laureate marks ‘state of the nation’
With bated breath, Dunedin poetry fans waited patiently to get their hands on a copy of David Eggleton’s latest book.
Posted: Friday Mar 31, 2023
Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Practitioners Fund
Round Two for 2023 is now open for applications!
Posted: Friday Mar 31, 2023
RAWA Readers and Writers Akaroa
Early bird registrations close this Sunday 2 April. Check it out!
Posted: Thursday Mar 30, 2023
The Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize is turning five!
Find out more and enter here:
Posted: Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Kraków UNESCO City of Literature International Residency 2023
Call for applications
Posted: Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Congratulations Emma Neale
... a winner in the Fish International Short Story Prize
Posted: Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme 2023
Submissions accepted from Monday 1 May 2023.
Posted: Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
The 2023 Auckland Writers Festival line-up has been announced and tickers are on sale now!
16 - 21 MAY 2023
Posted: Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Putting a playful spin on city landmarks
A vision of Dunedin in the colourful works of iconic Dunedin artist Annie Baird is inspiring young visitors to Dunedin P...
Posted: Monday Mar 27, 2023
DUNEDIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 'BEYOND WORDS' AWARD SPONSORED BY CITY OF LITERATURE
.... and the winner is ....
Posted: Monday Mar 27, 2023
New show on OAR FM's Youth Zone!
Posted: Friday Mar 17, 2023
New space to Knockabout in
In its fifth year as a Dunedin Fringe Festival venue, the New Athenaeum Theatre (NAT) has opened up a second pop-up spac...
Posted: Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency
Posted: Friday Mar 03, 2023
Caselberg Trust in conversation with Jeff Harford
Posted: Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Call for UNESCO City of Literature Wonju Residency 2023 (South Korea)
Posted: Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Student Writing in the School Journal
Posted: Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
'OTHERHOOD - open for submissions
Posted: Monday Feb 20, 2023
Books by Beatrice Hale
Posted: Monday Feb 13, 2023
Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency
Open for applications! Deadline to apply is 5pm Friday 17 March.
Posted: Friday Feb 10, 2023
Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship
Fellowship awarded every two years to an established New Zealand writer of literature, with a significant publication re...
Posted: Friday Feb 10, 2023
Submissions now open for March issue of Flash Frontier
Posted: Friday Feb 10, 2023
Call for a writer-in-residence in Leeuwarden
Posted: Friday Feb 10, 2023
Dear Nature Podcast
Posted: Thursday Feb 09, 2023