News and Opportunities
Pasifika Festivals Initiative Tasi Wave
Posted: Tuesday September 22, 2020
New Anthology by Slemani UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Monday September 21, 2020
Kete Books is now live
Love reading? You’ll find plenty to love here, all in one kete.
Posted: Friday September 18, 2020
Hub’s aim to make learning te reo Maori non-intimidating
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum visitor programmes co-ordinator Phoebe Thompson sits in a language hub that has been set up ...
Posted: Friday September 18, 2020
Lift up the anchor - Hūtia Te Punga
Systems-level change will improve the educational experience and outcomes for Māori learners. Mā te rerekē ā-whakahaerek...
Posted: Wednesday September 16, 2020
Pupils excited to map Broad Bay’s past
Pupils of a Dunedin school went "berserk" when they learned they had won a grant for a project that will document histor...
Posted: Wednesday September 16, 2020
Love in the time of Covid: A Chronicle of a Pandemic
Submissions are open August 01 – December 01, 2020.
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
New hybrid format for 2020 NZ Young Writers Festival
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
New book examines how childhood shapes later life
In his new book, The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life, University of Otago professor Richie Poulton and h...
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
Kete partners with Stuff to share reviews of New Zealand books
Kete – the new site devoted to the books of Aotearoa which launches on 15 September – will share reviews of New Zealand ...
Posted: Friday September 11, 2020
Dick of the Bay on Otago Access Radio
Attention New Zealanders! A new radio drama is coming to take over your airwaves.
Posted: Friday September 11, 2020
Congratulations to Max Quinn on the publication of his first book, "A Life of Extremes", coming November 2020!
Posted: Wednesday September 9, 2020
Misconceptions and Bruce the cat: a Q&A with Kathryn van Beek
Dunedin author and illustrator Kathryn van Beek is launching two new books this month: her short story collection PET an...
Posted: Tuesday September 8, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Elizabeth Brooke-Carr’s Wanting to tell you everything
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
Happy International Literacy Day!
UNESCO Cities of Literature are excited to celebrate with a collective social media campaign led by Bucheon City of Lite...
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Cilla McQueen’s ‘Gossamer’
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
2020 Nanjing International Writers’ Virtual Residency
Posted: Friday September 4, 2020
Māori Language Moment: Be the 1 in a million
Honour the past, keep ourselves safe now and prepare for the future together!
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
Recordings of Hone Tuwhare
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
THOMAS POTTS OF CANTERBURY Colonist and conservationist by Paul Star
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
A Poetry Shelf gathering: A handful of Starlings read from the latest issue
Starling 10 is not long out so I decided to celebrate this fabulous issue with a wee poetry reading. Starling was founde...
Posted: Tuesday September 1, 2020
Teenage poet bags another top award
Darcy Monteath has a way with words.
Posted: Wednesday August 26, 2020
Rhian Gallagher's poetry collection Far flung
Poet Rhian Gallagher's latest collection Far Flung takes us from South Island bush to Dunedin's notorious Seacliff Menta...
Posted: Monday August 24, 2020
Having the goods
Choie Sew Hoy was one of Otago’s most prominent entrepreneurs. Raised in Guandong, China, Sew Hoy came to Dunedin in 186...
Posted: Monday August 24, 2020
Stories in words and pictures
Comic artist Veronica Brett is capturing her world in words and pictures.
Posted: Monday August 24, 2020
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival announces two UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival today announced two virtual UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence for t...
Posted: Wednesday August 19, 2020
Call for proposals for January–December 2021
Blue Oyster Art Project Space invites proposals from arts practitioners for projects between January–December 2021.
Posted: Monday August 17, 2020
Arts Pupils’ ideas brought to life
Kids say the darndest things – especially when it comes to creating their own story books.
Posted: Monday August 17, 2020
Kate di Goldi - creating our first Reading Ambassador
Here in New Zealand we rather pride ourselves in our enthusiasm for reading. But it doesn't happen by accident, here or ...
Posted: Monday August 17, 2020
Dunedin Writer Diane Brown previews Ten Perspectives, a National Poetry Day celebration.
Posted: Thursday August 13, 2020
Entries are now open for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Entries are now open for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, for New Zealand books published between 1 January 2020...
Posted: Thursday August 13, 2020
Truthteller: Inside the war on truth with Stephen Davis
Posted: Thursday August 13, 2020
Readings from the latest issue of Landfall
To celebrate the arrival of Landfall 239, edited by Emma Neale, NZ Poetry Shelf invited a few poets to read their poems ...
Posted: Thursday August 13, 2020
Author Shirley Deuchrass has just released her new book, Kicking Goals.
Posted: Tuesday August 11, 2020
Applications for the second round of 110 projects in 2021 are now open.
The Ministry of Education is looking for professional artists and creative practitioners to partner with schools and kur...
Posted: Monday August 10, 2020
Allen & Unwin announces major new Crime Fiction Prize worth $25,000
ATTENTION ALL CRIME AND THRILLER WRITERS! Why wait to make crime pay? Is there a manuscript in your bottom drawer just w...
Posted: Monday August 10, 2020
Precious package
A special book in a box celebrates botanist Daniel Solander's contribution to New Zealand's history.
Posted: Monday August 10, 2020
Fragile but beautiful: Otago academic’s COVID-19 bubble concept
The creator of New Zealand’s bubble concept, introduced early on in the COVID-19 response to ensure Kiwis maintained soc...
Posted: Sunday August 9, 2020
New Zealand Reading Ambassador Role Announced
Te Puna Foundation are thrilled to support the New Zealand Reading Ambassador for children and young people. This exciti...
Posted: Friday August 7, 2020
Writer-illustrators share craft with pupils
Purakaunui School pupils were joined by two special visitors this week.
Posted: Thursday August 6, 2020
Manatū Taonga has established three new funds to support the arts, culture and heritage sector across the board.
Overall, this funding will support the sector through retaining and creating jobs, increasing earning potential, develop...
Posted: Thursday August 6, 2020
ILFU launches worldwide story contest
The ILFU (International Literature Festival Utrecht) is launching a worldwide storytelling contest.
Posted: Wednesday August 5, 2020
NZSA announces 2020 President of Honour - Paula Morris
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa announces that writer, academic and literary sector stalwa...
Posted: Wednesday August 5, 2020
New role to champion reading for children
A new role of New Zealand Reading Ambassador for children and young people is being established, Prime Minister and Mini...
Posted: Wednesday August 5, 2020
Local Authors to Inspire Children via Workshop Tour
Dunedin primary school children will have the opportunity to be inspired by two of Dunedin’s most engaging children’s wr...
Posted: Wednesday August 5, 2020
Dunedin literary app bilingual
A literary app that links New Zealand writers and their stories to specific Dunedin places has doubled in size and gone ...
Posted: Tuesday August 4, 2020
A love letter to the mighty Mataura River
Dougal Rillstone's new book, Upstream in the Mataura details his 70-year fascination for the Mataura River from his chil...
Posted: Tuesday August 4, 2020
Creative New Zealand opens first of its funding opportunities under 12-month investment plan
Today, Monday 3 August, Creative New Zealand opens the first opportunities in its 12-month investment plan, announced in...
Posted: Monday August 3, 2020
Applications open for Te Papa Tupu 2020
Te Papa Tupu is a unique opportunity for Māori writers to build their confidence in a programme developed by the Māori L...
Posted: Monday August 3, 2020
$80,000 FUND FOR FILMMAKERS TO MAKE DOCUMENTARIES FOR KIDS.
Submissions are open for the second round of the Doc Edge and Rei Foundation Film Fund.
Posted: Monday August 3, 2020
Rebirth of programme aims to grow next generation of literary critics
A programme dedicated to literary reviews for and by young people has been adopted by Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly ...
Posted: Sunday August 2, 2020
Poetry Shelf interviews Kay McKenzie Cooke
Posted: Wednesday July 29, 2020
Issue 21 of Down in Edin Magazine is now online.
Posted: Tuesday July 28, 2020
Today we're introducing our third ŌTL Playwright Programme writer for 2020.
Posted: Friday July 24, 2020
Introducing the second of our ŌTL Playwright Programme writers for 2020.
Posted: Friday July 24, 2020
Tonight we’re introducing the first of our ŌTL playwright programme writers for 2020.
Posted: Friday July 24, 2020
Artist Kerry Mackay's Autumn Lamb
Posted: Thursday July 23, 2020
New Writers at Ōtepoti Theatre Lab
Posted: Wednesday July 22, 2020
Community of writers to host retreat
They all live on the same street, drawing inspiration daily from the Hawkdun Range standing guard at the end of the road...
Posted: Tuesday July 21, 2020