News and Opportunities
Poetry Shelf pays tribute to John Allison
Posted: Thursday April 18, 2024
Edible delights all year
At the Dunedin City Library from 6pm on Tuesday, Jason Ross, Rory Harding and Sue Novell will talk about how to grow foo...
Posted: Thursday April 18, 2024
This week’s bestselling books – April 19
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, with occasional pithy remarks
Posted: Thursday April 18, 2024
Reading from The Best Small Fiction 2022 & 2023
Drop The Mic(ro) Reading Series
Posted: Wednesday April 17, 2024
Dunedin history brought to life in a novel centred around Larnach's Castle
Dunedin's history is front and centre of a new book by Karen McMillan
Posted: Wednesday April 17, 2024
Send a mobile library to Ukraine
Support Libraries Connected to raise £10,000 to buy and deliver a mobile library to Ukraine
Posted: Wednesday April 17, 2024
Creative New Zealand Playmarket Moana Pacific Trainee Script Advisor Residency for 2024
Applications close Friday 19 April 2024
Posted: Wednesday April 17, 2024
Check out the winning entries to this year’s Great Kiwi Poster Competition!
An exhibition of the winning posters at Tūhura Otago Museum Level 2 Atrium, on until Sun 19 May
Posted: Monday April 15, 2024
Applications for the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature International Residency Program for writers are now open
Applications close Friday 31 May 2024
Posted: Sunday April 14, 2024
Storylines Margaret Mahy National Awards Day
Congratulations to Elizabeth Jones - winner of the 2024 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for a lifetime achievement and co...
Posted: Thursday April 11, 2024
Huia Publishers wins big at Bologna
New Zealand’s leading indigenous publishers have been recognised for their excellence on the world stage at this year’s ...
Posted: Thursday April 11, 2024
Poetry Shelf musings:
Louise Wallace – On poetic form in romesh dissanayake’s novel When I open the shop
Posted: Thursday April 11, 2024
2024 marks the bicentenary of Lord Byron's death
Heritage Collections, Dunedin City Library, is doing its bit: a small display of Byron materials - signatures and book -...
Posted: Thursday April 11, 2024
New Book: A Different Light First Photographs of Aotearoa
Edited by Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins
Posted: Thursday April 11, 2024
Te Papa Tupu: A mentoring programme for aspiring Māori writers
Applications close 30 April 2024
Posted: Thursday April 11, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Listen to this mesmerising kōrero on ‘Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature' between Jeff Harford and Terry ...
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2024
The 2024 Sargeson Prize is now open for entries
Entries close 30 June 2024
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2024
Join the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival team!
The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival is currently looking to fill two positions.
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2024
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition
Opens Saturday 1 June and closes on Wednesday 31 July 2024
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2024
Landfall Review online - 'A Bunch of Memories Are All I’ve Got'
Michelle Elvy Reviews
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2024
Warmest congratulations to The Trapeze Artists,
winner of the City of Literature Beyond Words Award in Dunedin Fringe Festival 2024!
Posted: Sunday April 7, 2024
Tale of famous Baldwin St updated
The Steepest Street in the World, Ian Dougherty Saddle Hill Press - reviewed by Jim Sullivan
Posted: Sunday April 7, 2024
The 2024 NFFD competition is open through April 30!
Send your best 300 words
Posted: Sunday April 7, 2024
New Zealander of the Year: Fast Favourites with Dr Jim Salinger
Dr Jim Salinger has been recognised this week as Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year - Te Pou Whakarae o Aotearoa, for 20...
Posted: Tuesday April 2, 2024
‘Exposure doesn’t pay the rent’: New platform helps creatives control their mahi
Yolunda Hickman, artist and former Postgraduate Programme Leader Fine Arts, at Whitecliffe College spoke with the Sunday...
Posted: Tuesday April 2, 2024
IT'S TIME TO REGISTER FOR PHANTOM BILLSTICKERS NATIONAL POETRY DAY 2024!
Mark your calendars! The date for this year’s nationwide celebration of poetry is scheduled for Friday 23 August. Regist...
Posted: Tuesday April 2, 2024
Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho, New Zealand Oral History Grants
Next Funding Round closes 15 April 2024
Posted: Tuesday April 2, 2024
2024 Dunedin Fringe Festival winners announced
Congratulations to all the 2024 Dunedin Fringe Festival winners especially The Trapeze Artists, Opera Otago, winner of t...
Posted: Tuesday April 2, 2024
New Youth Zone Show on Oar FM
Cutting Room Floor is a podcast where nothing is off-topic or too niche.
Posted: Wednesday March 27, 2024
2025 Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Dates Announced!
Book lovers and literary fans, mark your calendars - the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival will be back for 2025, run...
Posted: Wednesday March 27, 2024
Final call for A&U NZ Fiction Prize submissions!
Submissions close this Sunday 31st March
Posted: Wednesday March 27, 2024
Liz Breslin attends NeMLA 55th Annual Convention in Boston
"It’s alllllll about community"
Posted: Tuesday March 26, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Listen to this special kōrero on ‘Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature' between Jeff Harford and Iona Winte...
Posted: Tuesday March 26, 2024
New tool to help creatives with copyright
Staggering stats on how little NZ creatives know about their rights when it comes to their mahi has prompted a new onlin...
Posted: Sunday March 24, 2024
Creative NZ Early Career Fund - Toi Tipu Toi Rea
Funding to support artists, practitioners, and collaboratives at the early stage of their career who wish to learn, crea...
Posted: Thursday March 21, 2024
Thousands expected to attend Pacific festival
A Dunedin festival which brings the Pacific "to people's backyards" is expected to continue its rapid growth and attract...
Posted: Thursday March 21, 2024
An incident in Millers Flat
Kyle Mewburn tells the story behind the house she bought after conducting the land transfer in Gore
Posted: Thursday March 21, 2024
World Poetry Day, 21 March 2024
To mark World Poetry Day, 21 March 2024, we are proud to be collaborating with City of Literature South D Poet Lorikeet,...
Posted: Wednesday March 20, 2024
Women play men in caricature of toxic masculinity
Five Dunedin women are tackling toxic masculinity by stepping into the shoes of white men.
Posted: Wednesday March 20, 2024
10 Questions with the editors of Katūīvei
Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
Posted: Wednesday March 20, 2024
Wild Dunedin NZ Festival of Nature 19-28 April 2024
Programme out now!
Posted: Monday March 18, 2024
Making It Up (One Playwright to Another)
On at the Dunedin Fringe Festival until Sunday 24 March
Posted: Monday March 18, 2024
Nonfiction Fundamentals Online
Join Paula Morris for a short course exploring the craft essentials of memoir, travel writing, personal essays and other...
Posted: Monday March 18, 2024
Far away city, but also close to home
Far away they may be but Dunedin and Edinburgh share a special bond, Sarah Boyack writes.
Posted: Sunday March 17, 2024
Book Launch Invitation
You are invited to the book launch of In the shape of his hand lay a river, Iona Winter
Posted: Sunday March 17, 2024
2024 Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency
Writers from Aotearoa are warmly invited to apply for this year's Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Wri...
Posted: Saturday March 2, 2024
Submissions for the Elsie Locke Writing Prize 2024 are now open!
The Writing Prize is offered by the Elsie Locke Memorial Trust. It provides a wonderful opportunity for young writers ag...
Posted: Friday March 1, 2024
Otago English PhD candidate to develop her digital skills through trans-Tasman opportunity
Congratulations to Otago English PhD candidate Mere Taito and the other recently announced participants in the Creative ...
Posted: Thursday February 29, 2024
NZSA Kaituhi Māori Mentorship Programme
Applications close 20 March 2024
Posted: Thursday February 29, 2024
Iona Winter heading to Newcastle Writers Festival in April
On Remembering, on forgetting: A Poetry Performance
Posted: Thursday February 29, 2024
A History of Kindness
Rescue yourself while you still can by Kirstie McKinnon
Posted: Wednesday February 28, 2024
Moana Nui Festival
Just 4 weeks away until the Moana Nui Festival lights up our shores with vibrant diverse cultures, delicious cuisine, an...
Posted: Tuesday February 27, 2024