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Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Research Grant – 2018
The Dorothy Neal White Collection (9,000 books), in the National Library of New Zealand, is a research collection of children’s books that were enjoyed by young New Zealanders in the century before 1940.
Posted: Thursday June 7, 2018
Looking for poems by writers with a migrant/former refugee background
Landing Press, a small Wellington publisher, is inviting migrant and former refugee poets to send in their work for a collection to be published in October 2018.
Posted: Tuesday June 5, 2018
New local drama asks: Who’s really responsible?
A dramatic new radio play by a local playwriting group will be heard live at the Dunedin Public Library later this month.
Posted: Friday June 1, 2018
Four plays will take the stage
Four short plays are to get their moment on stage, despite Fortune's closing, writes Kim Dungey.
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
Science in crime novels should be real - writer
Readers are keen for accurate forensic science to be conveyed through crime fiction, Dunedin researcher and crime novelist Dr Vanda Symon says.
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
Joint exhibition to celebrate 'Landfall'
Landfall’s position as New Zealand’s pre-eminent literary and art journal is being celebrated in a unique way by the Otago Arts Society. Rebecca Fox discovers what is behind a joint exhibition celebrating the connections between artistic and literary worlds.
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
Landfall exhibition connects art and literature
The Otago Art Society and Otago University Press are joining forces to present a unique exhibition that celebrates the connections between the artistic and literary worlds fostered by Landfall journal.
Posted: Thursday May 10, 2018
Winner of Young Writers' Essay Competition announced
Landfall, New Zealand’s leading journal of arts and literature, is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2018 Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition is Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor, whose essay is titled ‘Disappearing Disease’.
Posted: Thursday May 3, 2018
Freedom Song
Emma Farry’s Freedom Song is a powerful and beautiful panacea for the world we live in. It’s a go-to book in times of trouble and a tool to enable more harmony and peace in your life.
Posted: Sunday April 29, 2018
CALLING ALL MUSICIANS AND SONGWRITERS
Youth Zone Unplugged is back for 2018! This year we are giving ten young musical acts the opportunity to record and produce their own original tracks to air on OAR FM Dunedin and associated platforms - Free of Charge
Posted: Thursday April 5, 2018
Why Go Girl needed to be written
New Zealand's answer to Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls is in bookshops now. It's called Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women (Penguin Random House NZ), and it's written by the multi-award-winning Barbara Else. We asked Barbara to tell us why the book was so badly needed, and we...
Posted: Tuesday April 3, 2018
Literary flagstones well worth looking down on
The Dunedin Writers’ Walk has maintained a low profile for the past 25 years but Tony Eyre argues it is worth more than a passing glance.
Posted: Monday March 19, 2018
Novel shines fresh light on women’s suffrage as New Zealand celebrates 125 years
“Before I could stop myself I stood up in my seat and boasted that I had met Mrs Sheppard when we berthed in Christchurch. That I’d read Wollstonecraft in London and that all women should get the vote …”
Posted: Tuesday March 13, 2018
Otago well represented in 2018 Ockhams shortlist
A widely praised collection from a leading New Zealand poet, and an exciting new environmental history of the settlement of the Otago Peninsula, have been shortlisted for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Posted: Tuesday March 6, 2018
Reed Gallery exhibition celebrates A.H. Reed’s original gift to Dunedin
The latest Reed Gallery exhibition marks the seventieth anniversary of A.H. Reed’s original gift of his rare book and manuscript collection, officially donated to the Dunedin Public Library in 1948 in commemoration of the centenary of the founding of the province of Otago.
Posted: Friday March 2, 2018
Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award winner inspired by polar experience
Kāpiti poet Alison Glenny has won the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Award with ‘The Farewell Tourist’, a poetry collection inspired by a visit to Antarctica.
Posted: Monday November 6, 2017
Landfall Essay Competition winners share prize for radically different topics
Two New Zealand essayists writing on very different topics – life as an army recruit and the power of scent – are joint winners of the 2017 Landfall Essay Competition.
Posted: Monday November 6, 2017
Book Lovers' Walking Tours
Posted: Tuesday October 17, 2017
Short Story Conference
The New Zealand Short Story had its very own conference in Invercargill in early September and Athenaeum committee member Philippa Duffy and myself trekked to the deep south for a literary feast of a weekend.
Posted: Thursday October 5, 2017
Telling tales
Our lives are all made up of many stories and everyone has a tale to tell.
Posted: Friday September 22, 2017