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

Foulden Maar Writing Workshop

See the online exhibition

Posted: Friday Apr 14, 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

The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival

Appoint Kitty Brown as Event Manager

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

Wild Dunedin's New Zealand Festival of Nature

14 - 23 April 2023

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

The Playhouse Theatre's Pinnochio

Starts this weekend!

Posted: Thursday Apr 06, 2023

Granada Writers in Residence Programme

Closing Date for Applications - May 31

Posted: Wednesday Apr 05, 2023

Radio NZ Interview

Donald Kerr: the life and times of Ernie Webber

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

Starling Issue 16

Submissions Close April 10!

Posted: Wednesday Mar 29, 2023

A must watch!

‘What the future holds’ by David Eggleton

Posted: Tuesday Mar 28, 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

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

Kiwi Christmas Books Cyclone Books Appeal

Donate Here....

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

NZ BOOKLOVERS AWARDS 2023

NZ Booklovers Awards 2023 Shortlist

Posted: Friday Feb 24, 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

Dear Nature Podcast

Posted: Thursday Feb 09, 2023