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Poet honoured with plaque
Sir Vincent O’Sullivan has received a plaque in the Dunedin Writers Walk which was unveiled at a small ceremony outside ...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
OAR FM Air Awards
Burns Hall at First Church was buzzing on Saturday night as OAR FM celebrated their Air Awards 2025.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
'How about going for a drive?' turned into an epic global adventure
Hannah Bulloch has written a book about her grandparents decision to take six kids around the world on a house truck.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Hope new youth theatre group will bridge gap in city
First-time director Sebastian Cumming is leading the charge with the new youth theatre group at The Playhouse Theatre, i...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
2026 Dublin Literary Award Nominations
Huge congratulations to Dominic Hoey on his nomination by Dunedin Public Libraries for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award fo...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Halo olketa! Happy Solomon Islands Pijin Langguis Wik!
The Dunedin Solomon Islands Community and Dunedin Wantoks are BACK with another series of podcasts, tok stori in celebra...
Posted: Monday Nov 24, 2025
Poetry Shelf Noticeboard: The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems
Congratulations to our very own Sue Wootton, winner of the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems.
Posted: Monday Nov 24, 2025
Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Experience Fund opens 1 December
Supporting self-directed opportunities for New Zealand-based arts practitioners to build meaningful artistic and profess...
Posted: Monday Nov 24, 2025
Looking for Christmas presents?
Buy this gorgeous 2026 calendar and support the Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust and the cottage residency programme.
Posted: Monday Nov 24, 2025
Catching up on cottage news
Here are a few highlights of what's been happening at the cottage recently, plus the chance to buy Joyful and Triumphant...
Posted: Monday Nov 24, 2025
Love Your Bookshop Day
"The team at University Book Shop would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported us and all indepen...
Posted: Friday Nov 21, 2025
Writers and readers fest highlights put on podcast
OAR FM was on hand to capture and share some of the magic from this year’s Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival.
Posted: Friday Nov 21, 2025
The new issue of a fine line is here!
a fine line is the flagship magazine for Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Society. Issued quarterly, each e...
Posted: Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Pasefika Presence: the dream issue OUT SAT 29 NOV!
Posted: Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Today on Write Spot - Ruth Dallas double book launch
Nicola Cummins from Otago University Press previews the upcoming launch of two books.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Want to donate a book to a Kiwi kid in need this Christmas, but don't want to leave the house?
No problem! You can buy your favourite NZ kids books online and ship them straight to Kiwi Christmas Books.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Review: Ruth Dallas: A Writer's Life, by Diana Morrow
Reviewed by Graham Reid
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Calling all young writers
Entries are open for the 2026 Landfall Tauraka Young Writers' Essay Prize! Entries close 31 March 2026.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Kōrero Each to Each
Elizabeth Heritage reviews Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages edited by Michelle Elvy and Vaughan Rapatahana (The Cuba ...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Calling out to all artists, from local to national & international..
Dunedin Fringe Festival registrations for our 2026 programme close Sunday 30th of November!
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Blue Oyster is now calling for Expressions of Interest!
Applications close Monday 30 November.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Book of the Week: One winner of the PM award reviews another
Barbara Else, who won the $60,000 Prime Minister’s literature award last week, reviews previous winner Elizabeth Smither...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Moriori Language Week
Kicking off Monday 17 November with events and festivities across the motchu.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Our very own Emma Neale appearing here via video at the launch of the New Nottingham Journal!
It's a stellar line-up in Vol. 1 of this new print and digital publication
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Grey Warblers, Shining Cuckoos: Trust and Infinity
‘It was pear shaped, made of moss, stitched together with cows’ hair. It was like a big soft pear with a hole in the cen...
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 10, A STATE OF SIEGE by Janet Frame, with an introduction from Chris Kraus, is available now
‘She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her.’— Eleanor Catton, author of BIRNAM WOOD
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Caselberg Creative Connections Resident and InPrint Resident 2026 announcements
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
The Division of Humanities Supervisor of the Year Winner is….. Dr Lynley Edmeades
Congratulations to Dr Lynley Edmeades, who was recognised as the Humanities Supervisor of the Year at Wednesday's OUSA S...
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Ara Toi on Air
Sean caught up with Sihle Ntuli, the 2025 Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident.
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Special event images
Tony Eyre paid a visit to his hometown Auckland for a special book event at the Northern Club for The Book Collector: Re...
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Poet Sihle Ntuli Concludes Dunedin Residency with Octagon Poetry Collective Reading
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Celebrating Landfall's 250th issue
‘I wrote partly because Landfall was there’Writers on their first publications in New Zealand’s oldest literary journal.
Posted: Thursday Nov 13, 2025
Kherson: Human Safari - available to watch
The story of Kherson, Ukraine's most dangerous city, told by its people. Invasion, occupation. They protest. After liber...
Posted: Thursday Nov 13, 2025
Painting a pivotal moment
Red Cockerel (1924, oil on canvas) by Frances Hodgkins is celebrated in a piece by Lucy Hammonds in today's ODT.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
Enquire now about joining Whitireia Publishing in 2026!
Learn everything you need to start your career in books with the Whitireia Graduate Diploma in Publishing
Posted: Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
How is your looking Raumati Reading Stack looking?
Check out the Pasifika Books 2025 catalogue, which features a fantastic selection of non-fiction, poetry, fiction and ki...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Nominate a Champion of Stories
Nominations close 30 November – nominate your champion of stories today!
Posted: Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Springboard 2026 nominations are now open!
Nominations for the Springboard Class of '26 are open until 5 December 2025.
Posted: Monday Nov 10, 2025
Kiwi Christmas Books - spread the joy of literature
University Book Shop Otago are accepting donations up until December 12.
Posted: Monday Nov 10, 2025
OUP publisher Sue Wootton talks to Bill Southworth on Heritage Matters, OAR FM about Landfall Tauraka
In this programme, Gregor Campbell discovers Dunedin was once a city of heroes, a Venerable Literary and Arts Magazine c...
Posted: Monday Nov 10, 2025
Inaugural TAHI Ōtepoti seeking expressions of interest!
Expression of interest open: 7 November 2025 – 31 January 2026
Posted: Friday Nov 07, 2025
Parallels to home notable in residency
Looking back on his residency, poet Sihle Ntuli, has gained a deeper understanding of the city and country.
Posted: Friday Nov 07, 2025
‘Extraordinary’ writer recognised
Dunedin author Barbara Else has received a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement.
Posted: Friday Nov 07, 2025
Poetry Shelf celebrates Starling: New Writing from Young New Zealanders
Starling is a go-to online poetry space for writers under 25: wide-ranging in form, voice, subject matter, mood. It’s vi...
Posted: Friday Nov 07, 2025
Calling all unpublished illustrators!
The Storylines Gavin Bishop Award is now open for submissions! Entries close 30 November 2025
Posted: Friday Nov 07, 2025
2025 Storylines Notable Book Awards announced
Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa is delighted to announce the 2025 Storylines...
Posted: Friday Nov 07, 2025
Field Notes: Haehaenui, Arrowtown 29 Nov
Poetic Justice Wānaka present: a spoken word and storytelling event at Wilson & Dorset, Cowie's Cottage, Haehaenui Arrow...
Posted: Friday Nov 07, 2025
2025 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement
We are so thrilled that our very own Barbara Else MNZM has been recognised and tonight will receive the 2025 Prime Minis...
Posted: Thursday Nov 06, 2025
It's that time of year - UBS are kicking off their 2025 Staff Picks!
Looking for your next summer read or not sure where to start with Christmas presents? The UBS team have selected their f...
Posted: Thursday Nov 06, 2025
University Book Shop Otago November Events
Celebrate literary royalty from close to home and further afield this month at the University Book Shop!
Posted: Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Mining is the Pits Poetry Reading
Central Stories Museum, Alexandra6:30 pm–8:30 pm, Saturday 22 November 2025
Posted: Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Roger Hickin is in Dunedin to launch two books - a biography of Dunedin poet Peter Olds titled Minding His Own Poetry Co...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Connecting Creative Cities: Whanganui and Vilnius and Ōtepoti
Scott Flutey’s internship at Vilnius City of Literature, Lithuania reinforces the special connection between three UNESC...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
Opportunity for Ōtepoti Dunedin rangatahi aged 15-18!
OAR FM are teaming up with Netsafe to create a brand-new podcast early next year - and they are looking for rangatahi ag...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
New book: 'The Tear Bottle' by Annemarie Jutel
Last Friday University Book Shop Otago hosted Annemarie Jutel talking about her fantastic new graphic novel The Tear Bot...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
Len Cook: South Dunedin to Whitehall - As told to Les Hill
Published by Mary Egan Publishing, November 2025
Posted: Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
Breton Dukes, winner of the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2025
Congratulations to Breton Dukes on winning the $10,000 NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2025 to work on a collec...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
UNESCO Cities of Literature are proud to welcome ten new cities to the network!
We are delighted to share some insights about the cities:
Posted: Monday Nov 03, 2025
Tusiata Avia named as 2026 International Institute of Modern Letters Writer in Residence
Acclaimed poet Tusiata Avia MNZM has been appointed Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington International Inst...
Posted: Monday Nov 03, 2025