News and Opportunities
City Choir's complex 150-year history charted in new book
Posted: Thursday May 30, 2019
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival - Thanks for joining us!
Posted: Friday May 24, 2019
Call for expressions of interest - major grant funding
The New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO is inviting expressions of interest (EOI) for major grant funding from or...
Posted: Tuesday May 21, 2019
Top prize for Hudson & Halls book
Posted: Wednesday May 15, 2019
5 questions with: Stacey Morrison
Posted: Monday May 13, 2019
Privilege to hear from two of the best writers in the business
Review: John Boyne and Markus Zusak - OBHS Auditorium Saturday, May 11
Posted: Monday May 13, 2019
Writers tackle moral dilemma
Posted: Saturday May 11, 2019
Taking young on journey of growth
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival programme director Claire Finlayson throws some questions to Australian Children's La...
Posted: Saturday May 11, 2019
Packed venue for Akala
Posted: Saturday May 11, 2019
Plenty of advice for aspiring young writers
Posted: Friday May 10, 2019
2019 Midwinter Carnival’s public lantern building workshops
Registrations for the 2019 Midwinter Carnival’s public lantern building workshops open today, and are expected to fill f...
Posted: Monday May 6, 2019
2019 WriteNow Poetry Competition for Dunedin secondary school students OPEN for entries
Posted: Monday May 6, 2019
Gender-bending solo performance
Posted: Thursday May 2, 2019
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fund
Do you have an area of interest that you’ve always wanted to pursue overseas? Do you have a research question that could...
Posted: Wednesday May 1, 2019
Haere mai! Meet Marten Rabarts our new Film Festival Director – Kaiurungi
Posted: Monday April 29, 2019
Book reveals story of brothers
Posted: Thursday April 25, 2019
Carnival Theme Honours Continent of Never Ending Night
Posted: Tuesday April 16, 2019
A Scattering of Words – Creative Writing from Artsenta
Posted: Tuesday April 16, 2019
University welcomes this year's arts fellows
Posted: Friday April 12, 2019
Pop-up Globe coming to Dunedin
Posted: Thursday April 11, 2019
Dunedin duo finish short film
Posted: Thursday April 11, 2019
UNI NEWS: 150th history firmly grounded with the people at the heart of Otago
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2019
Writing residency in Poland for author
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2019
2019 Poetry Competition Results
Time to announce the winners of the 2019 Poems in the Waiting Room Poetry Competition
Posted: Tuesday April 9, 2019
Gröndalshús Writer's Home
Posted: Monday April 8, 2019
The Gulf Between Book Launch
The launch of Maxine Alterio’s third novel The Gulf Between (Penguin Random House, 2019) was held at Manaaki restaurant,...
Posted: Monday April 8, 2019
Translation workshop LitTransformer - July 8-18, 2019
Call for participation
Posted: Thursday April 4, 2019
Announcing our 2019 Krakow UNESCO City of Literature Residency Programme Writers!
Posted: Thursday April 4, 2019
Ambitious local war film to Premiere in Dunedin
Posted: Wednesday April 3, 2019
WELCOME TO THE 2019 NFFD COMPETITION
The 2019 National Flash Fiction Day Competition runs February 15 – April 15. Send your best 300-word story * Cash prizes...
Posted: Wednesday April 3, 2019
Open Call for Media Art Residency in Creative City Košice
Košice – the Creative City of Media Arts offers media artists a two-month stay in Košice in autumn 2019. The residency i...
Posted: Wednesday April 3, 2019
Un Holocaust Remembrance Day & Paul Seideman Award 2019 Competition
Posted: Tuesday April 2, 2019
Award-Winning Theatre Company Back With Electric New Season
“Arcade Theatre Company.. is proof that provocative, energetic theatre can still be offered in Dunedin” - THEATREVIEW
Posted: Tuesday April 2, 2019
Storylines Notable Books List 2019
The 2019 Storylines Children’s Literature Notable Book List, for the highest quality books in five genres published duri...
Posted: Monday April 1, 2019
Centre for the Book 2019 Research Symposium - Call for Papers
Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs
Posted: Thursday March 28, 2019
University of Otago College of Education - Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence 2020
Posted: Wednesday March 27, 2019
Rapping like a bard
Rediscovering Shakespeare for the hip-hop generation is just one mission on Writers and Readers Festival visitor Akala’s...
Posted: Tuesday March 26, 2019
The war on truth
Stephen Davis’ life convinces him a war on truth is being waged and must be resisted. That is now our experience too. Br...
Posted: Tuesday March 26, 2019
Interactive adventure in Botanic Garden
Posted: Tuesday March 26, 2019
Gordon Brown on life at 103
Posted: Monday March 25, 2019
Bill Gosden farewells the NZ Film Festival after 40 years
Posted: Sunday March 24, 2019
The Art of healing
Posted: Sunday March 24, 2019
Author's quest to meet 120 Kiwi centenarians: Seeking meaning in longevity
The stories of New Zealand's centenarians show they are a complete cross-section of Kiwi society. Is there any special r...
Posted: Wednesday March 20, 2019
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival - 2019 Programme
The 2019 programme is live! For details see dunedinwritersfestival.co.nz
Posted: Tuesday March 19, 2019
A lead role in her life
In her new book Keepers of History, Dunedin-based writer Renee Hollis preserves the stories of some of our oldest citize...
Posted: Tuesday March 12, 2019
International Writer’s Residence In Reykjavík
In 2019 the Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature for the first time offers a free residency for a writer from another UNE...
Posted: Monday March 11, 2019
Open Call for the International residency in Ulyanovsk for writers and translators from the Cities of Literature of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network
This is a unique opportunity to work in the homeland of the great Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, the poet Nikolay Yazyko...
Posted: Monday March 11, 2019
Ruth Carraway creates drama in jail - and toilets!
Trouble-D is a play about the challenges, obstacles and enticements a recently released prisoner faces in the outside wo...
Posted: Monday March 11, 2019
Youth Zone Mobilised
Youth Zone Mobilised is the opportunity to get your music out to the world! This year, OAR FM Dunedin’s Youth Zone is gi...
Posted: Wednesday March 6, 2019
Keynote experts to bring wealth of knowledge to short play festival
Chicago-based producer and director Tanya Palmer will add “an immeasurable wealth of insight, experience and knowledge” ...
Posted: Tuesday March 5, 2019
Truthteller - An Investigative Reporter’s Journey Through The World Of Truth Prevention, Fake News And Conspiracy Theories
An essential guide for understanding the modern media world – for teachers, students and concerned citizens who want to ...
Posted: Monday March 4, 2019
The Incurable Imagination
Audrey has a severe case of ‘imaginitis’! And it’s contagious. A fun-filled story written by a primary school teacher pa...
Posted: Monday March 4, 2019
Saying Goodbye to Barkley
For many children experiencing the loss of a much-loved pet is likely to be their first brush with grief. This touching ...
Posted: Sunday March 3, 2019
Stop Talking, Start Influencing
12 insights from brain science to make your message stick
Posted: Sunday March 3, 2019
The Box Cars - Robert Vescio and Cara King
Remember when you had more fun playing with the box than the gift that was packed in it? This simple story of imaginatio...
Posted: Sunday March 3, 2019
Otago University Press to move to ‘co-publisher’ model
Otago University Press is moving to a new management model in what is thought to be a New Zealand industry first.
Posted: Tuesday February 26, 2019