News and Opportunities
Stepsisters take on Filluel St carpark
Posted: Tuesday October 11, 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS - Screenwriting: Fact and Fiction, Truth and the Real
In order to ensure timely notification and subsequent travel planning, please note the deadline: Abstracts for original ...
Posted: Friday October 7, 2016
Blanket Hut Braille
This Blind Week Julie Woods is responding to a 7 day challenge put out by the Blind Foundation in conjunction with an or...
Posted: Thursday September 29, 2016
Worth the Wait: Alan Roddick’s second poetry collection
After establishing a poetic presence on the literary scene in the early 1960s, Dunedin’s Alan Roddick published his firs...
Posted: Thursday September 29, 2016
The Other Side of the Mountain: Rewriting NZ climbing history
The story of Edmund Hillary’s ascent of Everest is familiar to all New Zealanders. Now a new book focuses on the previou...
Posted: Thursday September 29, 2016
Book and Place: University of Otago Centre for the Book Symposium 2016
Posted: Monday September 26, 2016
The Friends of the Hocken Collections 2016 Research Award
In 2016 the Friends of the Hocken Collections celebrate their 25th anniversary of
establishment.
Posted: Sunday September 11, 2016
Recent publications by Dunedin publisher Paua Press Limited
Sir George Grey and the moa by Bruce Spittle, 2015. Education and fluoridation in New Zealand: an historical study by Jo...
Posted: Wednesday September 7, 2016
A poem when you park
Next time you pay for parking, your ticket might come with a poem.
Posted: Thursday August 25, 2016
Michael Harlow’s Winning New Poetry Collection
The poems in Michael Harlow’s new collection, Nothing for it but to Sing, are small detonations that release deeply comp...
Posted: Thursday August 11, 2016
Blue Oyster call for proposals
Blue Oyster is pleased to announce a call for solo, duo, group and curated exhibition proposals for the first half of 20...
Posted: Monday August 1, 2016
Call for Participation for the forthcoming 5th International Summit of the Book 2016, Limerick City, Ireland
Please note the information below and consider whether you may wish to respond to the call and/or to make suggestions fo...
Posted: Friday July 22, 2016
BOOK SHOP ESTABLISHES NEW ZEALAND
WRITERS RESIDENCY
New Zealand’s first writing residency, the Robert Burns Fellowship, was established in 1958 in Dunedin marking the bicen...
Posted: Thursday July 21, 2016
Two books by local author Beatrice Hale
Two books by local author Beatrice Hale, both available as e-books on Smashwords and on Amazon.com, which also provides ...
Posted: Tuesday July 19, 2016
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections
de Beer gallery, Special Collections, University of Otago, 10 June to 26 August 2016
Posted: Monday July 11, 2016
Lotteries Award to help establish the first writers’ residency in the home of a Māori writer
The Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust has just been awarded $100,000 by the Lottery World War One Commemorations, Environmen...
Posted: Friday June 17, 2016
CALL for PAPERS - Book and Place
The University of Otago Centre for the Book announces its 2016 Annual Symposium
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zeala...
Posted: Tuesday June 14, 2016
A Call for Project/Products for 2016 Bologna Design Week
Posted: Tuesday June 14, 2016
Corpus: Conversations about Medicine and Life
“Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognise… the true poetry of life.”
Sir William Osler (1849-...
Posted: Wednesday June 8, 2016
Director appointed for City of Literature Dunedin
The Dunedin City Council has appointed Nicky Page as Director City of Literature.
Ms Page is currently an Academic Mana...
Posted: Tuesday April 19, 2016
Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Research Grant – 2016
Posted: Monday March 21, 2016
Thorpe Talbot
Dunedin barely remembers but should honour a pioneer, formerly internationally famous, writer. She is Frances Ellen Talb...
Posted: Thursday December 10, 2015
Dunedin's Missing Literary Link
Thorpe Talbot (1850-1923) was one of Dunedin’s earliest known writers and journalists and be came a celebrity. She becam...
Posted: Monday December 7, 2015
Otago University Press authors longlisted for 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Posted: Wednesday December 2, 2015
New Zealand Book Council Special Membership Offer
Buy a Book Council membership this Christmas and you will also receive a copy of the annual Book Council Lecture – given...
Posted: Wednesday November 25, 2015
A world class UNESCO Creative City
Posted: Friday November 13, 2015
DUNEDIN WRITERS SALON
If you’re keen to hear some of Dunedin’s newest stories, then you might want to pop along to the Dunedin’s Writers’ Salo...
Posted: Thursday November 12, 2015
Who Cared? Otago Nurses in WWI
This immersive and interactive exhibition tells the story of three nurses as they care for wounded soldiers during the G...
Posted: Wednesday November 11, 2015
READERS OF DUNEDIN
Readers of Dunedin, was conceived by with a photo-blog in mind: a mash-up
between the widely popular Humans of New York...
Posted: Sunday November 1, 2015
OUT AND ABOUT IN PRAGUE
Prague, a fellow UNESCO City of Literature, have Dunedin up in lights - and we like it lot!
Posted: Wednesday October 14, 2015
Worldly Literature exhibition and Poetry Projections at Vogel Street Party
Posted: Tuesday October 13, 2015
The Toji Cultural Foundation International Writers’ and Artists’ Residency Program
Programme for Supporting Creative Works and Cultural Exchanges by Foreign Writers,
Artists and Scholars.
Posted: Sunday October 11, 2015
Baxter Memorial a Step Closer
Public recognition of WWI war resister Archibald Baxter is a step closer following the selection of three finalists in a...
Posted: Friday October 2, 2015
Community Read. UNESCO City of Literature booklist
This Summer we invite you to work your way through this recommended list of great reads from the 11 UNESCO Cities of Lit...
Posted: Wednesday September 23, 2015
NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship – Recipient Announced!
We are delighted to announce the winner of the Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2016 is award-winning Otago poet Michae...
Posted: Thursday September 17, 2015
Aliens, Androids & Unicorns.
During March to May 2015, the University of Otago Library mounted an exhibition highlighting the Science Fiction and Fan...
Posted: Monday September 14, 2015
SPEED DATE AN AUTHOR
Imagine spending four hours picking the brains of some of New Zealand’s best poets, authors, illustrators, journalists a...
Posted: Friday September 11, 2015
Dunedin
In October, Dunedin launched Ara Toi Otepoti - Our Creative Future, Dunedin's Arts and Culture Strategy.
At the openi...
Posted: Friday September 11, 2015
Events coming your way from Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Wednesday September 9, 2015
Michael King Writers’ Centre Open for Applications
The Michael King Writers’ Centre invites applications from New Zealand writers for four supported residencies in 2016, w...
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2015
DUNEDIN WRITER SCORES 2016 PRAGUE RESIDENCY
Local Dunedin writer and editor David Howard has been announced as the successful applicant for the 2016 Prague residenc...
Posted: Friday August 28, 2015
Mitre 10 raises $92,000 for Hone Tuwhare Trust
Charity auction generosity contributes towards building new creative residence.
Posted: Sunday July 26, 2015
A World Class UNESCO City of Literature
Dunedin is well known as a creative literary city that treasures its past, celebrates its present and looks forward to i...
Posted: Sunday June 21, 2015
eMultipoetry Project Krakow UNESCO City of Literature
In May a slice of Dunedin editor and writer Emma Neale’s poetry featured on a wall, at a corner of the Main Square and B...
Posted: Saturday June 20, 2015
2015 UNESCO Creative City Conference
Dunedin joined 68 other UNESCO Creative Cities in the UNESCO Craft and Art City of Kanazawa, Japan on 25 May.
Posted: Saturday June 20, 2015
Flying Nun connects UNESCO Creative Cities
At the UNESCO Creative Cities Network meeting in Kanazawa, Japan, the music of Flying Nun and Xpressway provided a creat...
Posted: Friday June 19, 2015
Literature and Light: Vogel Street Party 2015
The date has been set for the return of the popular Vogel Street Party and preparations are well underway for the event ...
Posted: Thursday June 18, 2015
New Zealand Young Writers Festival
The first ever New Zealand Young Writers Festival was held in Dunedin in June, and the critically acclaimed weekend has ...
Posted: Thursday June 18, 2015
New Writer Residency Opportunity in Prague UNESCO City of Literature
Prague is currently looking for applications from writers connected to the UNESCO City of Literature network, with an in...
Posted: Wednesday June 17, 2015
The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival 2015...
built on the success of the inaugural festival in 2014 and has secured its place on the Dunedin events calendar.
Posted: Wednesday June 17, 2015
Blue Oyster Online Publications
A new and exciting creative arts initiative by Dunedin's very own Blue Oyster Art Project Space.
Posted: Tuesday June 16, 2015
Creative Cameo Writing School
At Macandrew Bay primary school on the beautiful Otago Peninsula, they take creativity seriously! Students are encourage...
Posted: Tuesday June 16, 2015
Dunedin
ISSUE 1 JULY 2015 We are writing our own future and it's a great future as we launch our first online digital magazine in Dunedin, New Zealand's only UNESCO Creative City of Literature.
Posted: Monday June 15, 2015
An International Pop-up Exhibition
Dunedin launched an international Worldly Literature project at the Vogel Street Party in October.
Posted: Tuesday June 9, 2015
Creative Cities of Literature
All 11 Cities of Literature were represented at the IXth annual meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network meeting in...
Posted: Tuesday June 9, 2015
WHAT'S ON...
A lot of happenings are a-happening in our beloved and great small city. If you have any events you would like published...
Posted: Monday June 8, 2015
The Hard To Find Bookshop
In 2013, Warwick Jordan moved 250,000 books the length of the New Zealand to Dowling St, Dunedin and is now the proud ow...
Posted: Monday April 27, 2015