Apply now for the NZSA CompleteMS Manuscript Assessment Programme

Applications for the 2025 programme are accepted until 28 May 2025

Posted: Monday May 19, 2025

Enter the 2025 NZPS International Poetry Competition

Entries close midnight Aotearoa New Zealand time on May 31, 2025

Posted: Monday May 19, 2025

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

Join the Ranks of Award-Winning Authors

Entries close 31 October.

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

The 2025 PANZ Book Design Awards are now open

Deadline for entries is Friday 30 May 2025

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

Poetry from Out of the Rubble

An Evening of Resilience, Word, and Song.

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

Not Quite The Three Billy Goats Gruff

On now until Sunday 20 April!

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

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