He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Meet Your 2024 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureates
Huge congratulations to all eight recipients
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Entries will close Friday 22 November 2024
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize
Entries will close Friday 22 November 2024
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
Cover to Cover - an evening with Jacqueline Bublitz and Kyle Mewburn
29 Nov 2024, Roxburgh
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
Happy Birthday Hone Tuwhare!!
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
Exciting results at this year's The Laurel Prize 2024
A huge congratulations to Robyn Maree Pickens for winning third place for Tung, Megan Kitching for winning Best Internat...
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
2024 'Books and the City' Symposium Programme and Registration
Registration to attend in person is essential by 9am Tuesday 12 November
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
Congratulations to the winners of Writer 2024
Guest judge and 2024 Burns Fellow Mikaela Nyman says the thoughtful and varied entries related to the theme, "a place of...
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Donations for the 2024 Kiwi Christmas Books have begun!
Head to University Book Shop or donate online and purchase any baby, kids or teen books to give kids across New Zealand ...
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Poetry Shelf themes: Shirts, dresses, overalls
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Call for judges of the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Applications to judge are now open to all those with suitable qualifications and experience, and will close on 31 Octobe...
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Kupu Māori Writers Festival - Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, 16th - 19th October, 2024
Can't make it in person - watch online!
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Humorous celebration of Regency romance ‘queen’
A large audience was treated to a delightfully witty walk down literary memory lane on Saturday at Dunedin Public Librar...
Posted: Thursday Oct 17, 2024
RAWA: Readers and Writers Akaroa Festival
a festival of books, words, inspirations 2nd & 3rd November 2024
Posted: Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Happy publication day to Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn
Out now! In stores or online
Posted: Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Two weeks left to apply for the Randell Cottage Writers Residency
Applications close Friday 1 November 2024
Posted: Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Paula Morris wins Surrey
Paula Morris has won the distinguished Surrey Hotel Writers Residency Award in association with Newsroom and Jude and Di...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Frank Sargeson Fellowship 2025
Applications close on Sunday, 30 October 2024, for a Fellowship commencing February 2025
Posted: Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Winners of the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition announced
Read the winning stories here
Posted: Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
University of Otago announces 2025 Arts Fellows
Otago’s Arts Fellows for 2025 have been selected. The Fellows receive a stipend for between six months and one year and ...
Posted: Monday Oct 14, 2024
A love letter to bookshops
A photo book paying tribute to 32 of New Zealand's indie book stores has hit the shelves, fittingly on New Zealand Books...
Posted: Monday Oct 14, 2024
Poetry Shelf pays tribute to Fleur Adcock (1934 – 2024)
The effects of Fleur’s poetry are wide ranging; she wrote from a sustained history of reading and inquiry, from personal...
Posted: Monday Oct 14, 2024
Announcing the shortlist of the grooviest writers residency award in NZ
Congratulations to everyone shortlisted for the Surrey Hotel Writers Residency Award, especially Otago's Breton Dukes an...
Posted: Friday Oct 11, 2024
Entries are open for the Storylines Te Kahurangi Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira Award
This opportunity to share your original manuscript in te reo Māori closes 31 October
Posted: Friday Oct 11, 2024
Landfall Review - Marilynn Webb: Folded in the hills (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2023)
A Space to Operate If You Were a Woman Artist
Posted: Friday Oct 11, 2024
Lilliput Libraries: The little libraries packing a big punch
Lilliput Libraries are celebrating nine years
Posted: Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Submissions for the 2025 A&U Fiction Prize are now open!
Entries close 31 March 2025
Posted: Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Today on Write Spot - Rare Public Appearance of Miss Georgette Heyer
Terry MacTavish wrote and will lead a cast of three in an upcoming free public performance of a Rare Public Appearance o...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Caselberg Trust announces Creative Connections resident 2025 – Jess Nicholson
The Caselberg Trust announced today that its Creative Connections Resident 2025 will be Ōtepoti/Dunedin ceramic artist J...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Nelson Arts Festival - Pukapuka Talks 2024
OTHERHOOD: childless, childfree and child adjacent with Kathryn van Beek, Iona Winter, Henrietta Bollinger + Lily Duval
Posted: Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Applications are open for the 2024 CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants
Applications close 4pm Friday 11 October
Posted: Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Corpus
The Twisted Chain by Jason Gurney (Otago University Press, 2024)
Posted: Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Verb Readers and Writers Festival 2024 -NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture with Barbara Else MNZM
As 2024 NZSA President of Honour Barbara Else MNZM presents 'Friends and Elephants.'
Posted: Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
You can now watch the inspiring conversation between Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin and Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador Alan Dingley online!
Catch up as Sally and Alan discuss the importance of reading for children and young people, and how we can all help crea...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Jacqueline Leckie awarded 2024 NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) has announced Jacqueline Leckie as the recipi...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Coming in May 2025! The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
A spellbinding, haunting, profound novel by the twice winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, and one of o...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Poetry Reading with Hinemoana Baker - Monday 7 October
Introduced by Robert Sullivan and with readings by the University of Otago’s own Rauhina Scott-Fyfe and Ada Duffy
Posted: Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Tuvalu Language Week at Tūhura Otago Museum (29 Sep - 5 Oct)
Tūhura Otago Museum is proud to celebrate Tuvalu Language Week with a special display of cultural treasures, including t...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Residency in Bucheon City of Literature now open for Applications
The residency period is November-December 2024. Applications close 21 October 2024.
Posted: Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Lilliput Libraries celebrates 9 years
Lilliput Libraries is 9 years old! The plan was for 10 Lilliput Libraries in Dunedin, if there was enough interest. Now ...
Posted: Monday Sep 30, 2024
Dunedin Fringe Māori Artist Grants are open!
Applications close Sunday 13 October 2024
Posted: Monday Sep 30, 2024
A History of Kindness
Returning to the moon, and an Olveston Short Story
Posted: Monday Sep 30, 2024
Two wonderful Ōtepoti poets longlisted for the The Laurel Prize 2024!
A massive congratulations to Megan Kitching and Robyn Maree Pickens for being longlisted.
Posted: Friday Sep 27, 2024
Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology
A fantastic review by Chris Reed of Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology edited by Janet Newman and Robert Sullivan for ...
Posted: Friday Sep 27, 2024
Verb Readers and Writers Festival 2024 Programme is Live!
Don't miss Writing for Your Life featuring our very own Barbara Else
Posted: Friday Sep 27, 2024
Kete Books Interview: Queens of Crime Vanda Symon and Charity Norman
Kete is excited to feature this conversation between Charity Norman and Vanda Symon, crime writers extraordinaire, where...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Burns Fellow Mikaela Nyman reflects on her time in Ōtepoti to date and offers readings from her latest work
Posted: Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
The wind between the Pages exhibition now online!
If you're unable to visit this stunning and memorable exhibition in person, it can now be viewed online!
Posted: Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Auckland University Press are publishing these two companion pukapuka!
Available 7 November but pre-order now!
Posted: Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller - An Exclusive Dunedin Season
Listen to this OAR FM interview with producer director Lara Macgregor
Posted: Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
The first returnee has been SIGHTED!
You all know what that means...it's BELL RINGING TIME!
Posted: Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Chinese Language Week Dumpling Day Story Time
Celebrate Chinese Language Week with a bi-lingual story time at the city library.
Posted: Monday Sep 23, 2024
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2024 - winners announced
The competition is now in its fourteenth year, and this year attracted 142 poems from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, U...
Posted: Monday Sep 23, 2024
From 2025 English and Linguistics, University of Otago will be offering a Master of Creative Writing!
An in-depth workshopping environment with award-winning mentors, you can work on fiction, poetry, plays, creative non-fi...
Posted: Friday Sep 20, 2024
Useful bookish phrases in Te Reo Māori
Here’s a range of phrases to commit to memory and recognise for all you booksellers, librarians, teachers and just gener...
Posted: Friday Sep 20, 2024
Winners of the 2024 PANZ Book Design Awards announced
Congratulations to all the clever designers of these beautiful books
Posted: Friday Sep 20, 2024
Surrey Hotel writers residency award
Entries for the 2024 Surrey Hotel writers residency award are open until Sunday, October 6
Posted: Wednesday Sep 18, 2024