He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Call for Applications - University of Exeter Special Collections Ronald Duncan Stipend
Eligible to a writer from Dunedin! Applications close Sunday 15 June 2025
Posted: Friday May 16, 2025
Apply for the NZ Young Writers Fest 2025 Writer in Residence
Applications close: Friday 30 May 2025
Posted: Friday May 16, 2025
Nanjing City of Literature are accepting submissions for their 2025 Residency
Applications close Sunday 1 June 2025
Posted: Friday May 16, 2025
Dunedin set to welcome Durban poet for the 2025 Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency
Warmest congratulations to Sihle Ntuli, poet, editor and classicist from Durban UNESCO City of Literature!
Posted: Friday May 16, 2025
Emma Neale, winner of the Ockhams 2025 Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry!
Massive heartfelt congratulations to our very own Emma Neale for winning the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry for '...
Posted: Thursday May 15, 2025
Ka hari te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa, happy NZ Music Month!
Check out library performances all month long
Posted: Wednesday May 14, 2025
Caselberg International Poetry Prize
Competition opens Sunday 1 June and closes on Monday 30 June 2025
Posted: Wednesday May 14, 2025
The 2025 Storylines Notable Book Awards are open for submissions!
Entries close at 5pm on 31 August 2025.
Posted: Wednesday May 14, 2025
Book review: Te Moana o Reo: Ocean of Languages
Elizabeth Heritage reviews Te Moana o Reo: Ocean of Languages Edited by Michelle Elvy & Vaughan Rapatahana published by ...
Posted: Tuesday May 13, 2025
Applications for the 2026 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship are now OPEN
Submit yours by 30 May.
Posted: Tuesday May 13, 2025
Call for submissions!
National Flash Fiction Day 2025: Climate and Creative Expression
Posted: Monday May 12, 2025
Landfall Review Online
Gill South reviews: The Pets We Have Killed by Barbara Else (Quentin Wilson Publishing)
Posted: Monday May 12, 2025
Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize
Entries are open and must be received by 31 May 2025.
Posted: Monday May 12, 2025
The Ockham NZ Book Awards: Fiction Round Table 2025
'Powerful and exciting and real' - Ockham Fiction shortlisters Damien Wilkins, Kirsty Gunn, Tina Makereti and Laurence F...
Posted: Monday May 12, 2025
Aahana Mundamattam's Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Monday May 12, 2025
Milestone for Athenaeum
Posted: Friday May 09, 2025
Athenaeum library celebrates 155 years at Octagon site
The extraordinary place of the Dunedin Athenaeum & Mechanics’ Institute in the history of the city is being highlighted ...
Posted: Thursday May 08, 2025
Stay Connected with the Centre for the Book
Posted: Thursday May 08, 2025
Book Launch - Peter Cleverley: Between Transience and Eternity by Alistair Fox
Join Alistair Fox and Peter Cleverly for the launch of Between Transcience and Eternity Friday 30 May 5-7pm, RDS Gallery...
Posted: Wednesday May 07, 2025
Creating space for diverse voices in theatre
First Draft, a new initiative from The Magnificent Weirdos which will develop new work by writers and devisers with live...
Posted: Wednesday May 07, 2025
Today on Write Spot - Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu)
Robert is a finalist in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for his poetry collection Hopurangi - Songcatcher Poems from ...
Posted: Wednesday May 07, 2025
Applications are open for the Caselberg Creative Connections Residency 2026
Applications close 31 May 5pm
Posted: Tuesday May 06, 2025
Calling poets, creative writers and artists!!!
The Tuwhare Trust is welcoming applications for the newly developed Tuwhare Residency Programme. There are 3 residencies...
Posted: Monday May 05, 2025
Book Review: Twigs and Stones by Joy Cowley
Posted: Monday May 05, 2025
The 2025 PANZ Book Design Awards are now open
Deadline for entries is Friday 30 May 2025
Posted: Monday May 05, 2025
Book awards and fast favourites with David Eggleton
Posted: Monday May 05, 2025
Watch Homesteads, Episode 7 - Hone Tuwhare Crib
A creative haven continuing to inspire Māori artists through the power of poetry and whakapapa.
Posted: Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Foundation Research Grants – applications open now!
Applications close 30 June 2025.
Posted: Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Storylines Tessa Duder Award for Young Adult Novels open for entries
The closing deadline for the 2026 award is 31 October 2025.
Posted: Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
That Blind Woman Julie Woods and Artist Ron Esplin present 'The World in 360 Minutes'!
Pack your bags for a new podcast exploring our world in 36 bite-sized episodes.
Posted: Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
A warm welcome to the University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship Recipient 2025!
Congratulations and welcome to Pascale Grard.
Posted: Monday Apr 28, 2025
Kate De Goldi named Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador for Aotearoa
Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador supports and champions the importance of reading in the lives of young New Zealanders, t...
Posted: Monday Apr 28, 2025
Familiar Foods: Treats of Aotearoa
Hannah Molloy from Good Bitches Baking shares the story behind GBB's beautiful new multicultural cookbook, Familiar Food...
Posted: Monday Apr 28, 2025
Tunmise Adebowale's Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Monday Apr 28, 2025
Biodiversity and the Webs of Life
A City of Literature and Enviroschools Celebration of The Great Southern Bioblitz
Posted: Monday Apr 28, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Dunedin writer Emma Neale's poetry collection Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit has been shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Boo...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand and the University of Otago Centre for the Book Conference 2025
Whose Work Is It Anyway? In conjunction with the University of Otago Centre for the Book Dunedin 18–20 November 2025.
Posted: Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
Malak Tamimi's Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
Celebrating Visiting 80 countries by the time he was 80 would be enough for most 80 year olds, but Ron Esplin is not most 80 year olds…
Around the world in 80 minutes is a podcast series based on the book Around the world in 80 years written by his wife Ju...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
Brand new residency opportunity!! Poetic Frequencies
Deadline to apply: May 18, 2025, CEST
Posted: Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Bucking the trend: new research tells us New Zealanders still love to read
The latest National Reading Survey commissioned by Read NZ Te Pou Muramura reveals that despite a bleak international ba...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Celebrating 75 Years of the Bookbus 1950 - 2025
Bringing Stories, Generating Community
Posted: Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Applications Now Open: Shape NZ’s Literary Future!
Are you ready to bring your literary project to life? Applications for the Mātātuhi Foundation’s May 2025 funding round ...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Review: Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages
Anuja Mitra explores the kaleidoscopic collection TE MOANA O REO and its 'melody stitching together a number of voices; ...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
The Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize 2025 now open
Entries close Thursday 24 July 2025
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
One - The kindness of protest
Circa 1860-1869 six Scottish rabbits were released with champagne and celebration in Riverton, New Zealand.
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Calling all poets, especially student poets!
Posted: Monday Apr 14, 2025
New Voices of Aotearoa nominations open
Nominations close Wednesday 30 April 2025
Posted: Monday Apr 14, 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Adam NZ Play Awards
Recognising the best in new unproduced writing for the Aotearoa theatre.
Posted: Monday Apr 14, 2025
Ajax Bastola’s Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Saturday Apr 12, 2025
The 2025 NZ Festival of Nature has officially begun!
Make sure you’ve booked in all your activities—there are loads of free events and some truly unique experiences. It’s ti...
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
$1.25m-plus given out over 30 years
Women and children, the victims of family violence, were dear to the heart of Dunedin artist Patricia France, who died 3...
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
Pukeko stew to eggs with caviar: our community cook books
Community cookbooks are a glimpse of the way we were Tony Eyre writes.
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages
To protect linguistic diversity in the field of children’s literature, IBBY and UNESCO have launched a global call for s...
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
AIR Litteratur Västra Götaland announces residency scholarships
Applications close 23 April 2025
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Call for Youth Creative Writers!
OAR FM is now looking for MORE young people aged 12–24 to join Phase 2 of their whakapapa creative writing & podcast pro...
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Ocean Jade’s Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025