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Cultures being celebrated
In its biggest year to date, the Otago Polyfest is weaving together cultural sharing and community pride.
Posted: Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Writer ‘uplifted’ after receiving Janet Frame Prize
A Dunedin novelist and poet is having an "astonishing" run after about 30 years in the game, most recently securing a $1...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Calling all poets!
Entries for the 2025 Robert Burns International Poetry Competition are now open. Entries close 6pm 30 November 2025.
Posted: Monday Sep 01, 2025
New Zealand Chinese Language Week 2025 has officially begun!
This week is all about celebrating Chinese languages, culture, and connection across Aotearoa.
Posted: Monday Sep 01, 2025
Happy publication day to Wednesday’s Children
A new edition of Robin Hyde’s captivating feminist novel
Posted: Monday Sep 01, 2025
Happy publication day to Nor the Years Condemn
A beautiful new edition of Robin Hyde’s poignant post-war novel
Posted: Monday Sep 01, 2025
Nembeka Ganaii's Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Friday Aug 29, 2025
The Janet Frame Prize 2025 awarded to Emma Neale
In memory of Janet Frame who was born 101 years ago on this day. Congratulations Emma!
Posted: Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Poetry Scrum
To celebrate Exeter’s involvement in hosting the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 in the UK, Exeter City of Literature are h...
Posted: Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Poetry Box review: Why Not? by Swapna Haddow
Posted: Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Acclaimed writer Nicole Flattery is the 2025 Writing Fellow at the University of Otago's Centre for Irish and Scottish S...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
Kete Books Review: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025
Reviewed by Savannah Patterson
Posted: Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
Melbourne City of Literature International Literary Programmers Roundtable
Next year Melbourne City of Literature are bringing back one of their signature programs - International Literary Progra...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
OARsome Morning Show - 22-08-2025 - New Zealand Young Writers Festival - Kate Schrader
New Zealand Young Writers Festival - Festival co-director Kate Schrader previews this year's New Zealand Young Writers F...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Creative New Zealand and the Ministry for Pacific Peoples sign first MoU to support Pacific language storytelling
Tala: Sharing Pacific Stories – a new initiative supporting Pacific creatives to write and publish in Pacific languages.
Posted: Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Kete Books Review: The Anatomy of Sand, by Mikaela Nyman
Reviewed by Erica Stretton
Posted: Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Asia New Zealand Foundation Internships
Applications open 1 September 2025 and close 13 October.
Posted: Monday Aug 25, 2025
Asia New Zealand Foundation Research Grants
Round 2: Opens 1 September 2025 and closes 30 November.
Posted: Monday Aug 25, 2025
Layers of Identity
Today, on National Poetry Day eve, OAR FM celebrated their talented Phase 2 contributors and completion of our Layers of...
Posted: Friday Aug 22, 2025
Zoey Hipolito’s Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Friday Aug 22, 2025
Writing contemporary crime fiction: Val McDermid on Past Lying
Posted: Friday Aug 22, 2025
Breaking News: Robert Sullivan Named New Zealand Poet Laureate
We are so excited with this wonderful announcement!! Warm congratulations to Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) - New Z...
Posted: Friday Aug 22, 2025
Poetry Shelf celebrates The Venetian Blind Poems: a gathering of illness poems
When I wrote Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women's Poetry (MUP, 2019), I built a house, dividing the book into rooms, ...
Posted: Thursday Aug 21, 2025
Poetry Box School Zoom Gift
Posted: Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Review: Twelfth Night - strong characterisation and comic action anchor a hazy production
Erin Harrington reviews Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare, directed by Alison Walls, at the Court Theatre, Saturday ...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Creative writing collection and 2025 competition launched
Entries close Wednesday 10 September 2025.
Posted: Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
The former gang member and prison inmate turned doctor
Dr Timoti Te Moke graduated from Otago Medical School, University of Otago in 2023 and received the Hauora Māori Prize i...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Call for Papers - BSANZ 2025 | DUNEDIN, NZ, 18–21 November 2025
Deadline extension to Thursday 21 August
Posted: Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Creative New Zealand have two funding rounds open!
Applications close 18 September 2025
Posted: Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Writer's residency to tell the story of Berlin's alligator
Congratulations Octavia 🤩🐊
Posted: Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Waiariki Parata-Taiapa representing Ōtepoti in exciting Melbourne City of Literature project
Posted: Monday Aug 18, 2025
Read 'Lucas and The Moon' by Lucas Hale
Lucas kicks his ball higher and higher, until it hits the Moon. He climbs a ladder to apologise and rubs the Moon's brui...
Posted: Monday Aug 18, 2025
Celebrate National Poetry Day with a special evening honouring Brian Turner
Friday 22 August, Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery, Alexandra
Posted: Monday Aug 18, 2025
Poetry Workshop with Emma Neale
Sunday 24 August, Invercargill Public Library - Limited spaces, book now!
Posted: Monday Aug 18, 2025
Applications open for NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2025
A $10,000 Opportunity for Writers - Deadline for applications: Thursday 18 September 2025
Posted: Monday Aug 18, 2025
Otago PhD candidate a voice for Vanuatu and the power of Bislama
Posted: Monday Aug 18, 2025
Tickets are now on sale for the Super Book Birthday Bash of the YEAR!
The (Not So) Superheroes (the Terrible Trio #1) - 30 August, 4pm, University Book Shop Otago
Posted: Friday Aug 15, 2025
Can you spot our very own Isla Thomas in this trailer?
Posted: Friday Aug 15, 2025
Kupu Writers' Retreat 15 - 17 August, Te Roto o Ōkataina
The KUPU Writers’ Retreat will bring Māori writers, publishers, and mentors together at Lakes Lodge Ōkataina.
Posted: Friday Aug 15, 2025
Otago Polyfest seeking volunteers
It’s only a few weeks until this year’s Otago Polyfest – and organisers are seeking volunteers.
Posted: Friday Aug 15, 2025
A Torry Quine
Author Beatrice Hale reflects on the genesis of her series of historical novels for children.
Posted: Friday Aug 15, 2025
NZ Young Writers Festival 2025 Programme launched!
Posters are up around Ōtepoti. The countdown is real. And in just 4 weeks, NZYWF take over the city with workshops, pane...
Posted: Thursday Aug 14, 2025
2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Winners
A huge pakipaki mai to all the winners of the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
Posted: Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Children's writer Swapna Haddow is celebrating her new graphic novel The Terrible Trio: The (Not So) Superheroes with il...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 13, 2025
How to watch the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults ceremony on Wednesday 13 August from 6.30pm
Posted: Wednesday Aug 13, 2025
*WATCH* Happy International Youth Day!
Today we’re shining a spotlight on young voices making a big impact with technology. Check out this fantastic video writ...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 12, 2025
Entries for the 2025 Robert Burns International Poetry Competition open soon!
Open for entries 1 September - 30 November 2025
Posted: Monday Aug 11, 2025
NZ Book Sector Unites to Drive Growth, Protect Copyright and Increase Local and Global Visibility
Posted: Monday Aug 11, 2025
Applications open for Michael King Writers Centre 2026 Residencies
Applications close Monday 1 September 2025
Posted: Monday Aug 11, 2025
2025 Bucheon City of Literature Residency Program - Call for Applications
Applications close 31 August 2025
Posted: Monday Aug 11, 2025
Landfall Tauraka 250 Symposium - Friday 17 October 2025
Call for Submissions - 200-word abstract and short bio by 5pm, 22 August 2025
Posted: Monday Aug 11, 2025
New book alert!
Acting in Aotearoa traces a cultural history of acting practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand, whose Indigenous Māori practiti...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
'The Swiss Wolf' by Kathryn van Beek (Strong Words 4)
Kathryn van Beek talks about and reads from 'The Swiss Wolf', which was commended in the 2023 Landfall Tauraka Essay Com...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
The UBS weekly bestseller list is here!
Posted: Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
NEW PODCAST: Between The Lines with Aahana
Aahana Mundamattam takes on the role of your classic English teacher – plucking your favourite stories from their pages ...
Posted: Monday Aug 04, 2025
2025 Pikihuia Awards Finalists
Posted: Monday Aug 04, 2025
Phantom Billstickers gears up for National Poetry Day
Phantom Billstickers is ready to hit the streets with poem posters for its annual campaign sponsoring and celebrating Na...
Posted: Monday Aug 04, 2025
Calling all young storytellers!
The 2025 Barfoot & Thompson Young Authors Challenge is back - and this year’s theme is "My Time Machine." Entries close ...
Posted: Monday Aug 04, 2025