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‘Taste Nature’ Salt, Sea and Sensory Writing
Saturday, 11 September 1-5pm
Posted: Wednesday August 25, 2021
RAINBOW BOOKS & CULTURE CLUB
Join us on the 3rd Tuesday of each month for hot drinks/snacks and chat about books, films, culture and all things Rainbow.
Posted: Tuesday August 24, 2021
“Winsome to Worldly: Lake Wanaka and its people” – Deed of Trust Anniversary
Dr Jonathan West, the Hocken Friends’ Research Award 2019 recipient, will speak about his research on the southern lakes, towards the 2024 publication of a book by Otago University Press.
Posted: Tuesday August 24, 2021
James Courage Diaries, edited by Chris Brickell
A series of journals by a trailblazing New Zealand author, locked away in the Hocken for decades after his death, has been revealed by a Dunedin professor.
Posted: Monday August 23, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Jenny Powell reads from Finding Rita
Posted: Monday August 9, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Sixteen poems of land
Posted: Monday August 9, 2021
Given Words competition 2021 – Noho Mai
Posted: Monday August 9, 2021
Virtual Writer in Residence
Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature is now open for applications for our first virtual writers in residence program
Posted: Friday August 6, 2021
Entries now open for 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Posted: Friday August 6, 2021
Louise Ward of Wardini Books reviews The Memory Thief by Leonie Agnew, published by Penguin Random House NZ
Posted: Friday August 6, 2021
Applications are open for the sixth University Book Shop Otago & Robert Lord Writers' Cottage Trust Emerging Writers Residency.
Posted: Thursday August 5, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Paula Green reviews Jenny Powell’s Meeting Rita at Kete Books
Posted: Tuesday August 3, 2021
2022 Michael Gifkins Prize opens
Posted: Friday July 30, 2021
Interview with Leonie Agnew
Posted: Friday July 30, 2021
Verb Wellington 2021 Writer in Residence
Posted: Tuesday July 27, 2021
Media Art Residency in Košice – UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts
Posted: Monday July 26, 2021
2021 International Poetry Competition results
Posted: Monday July 26, 2021
Writers’ group speaks up on vandalism
The poem "Being and Pointlessness" is the latest target of vandals in the often quiet, unsealed Peninsula Beach Rd behind Port Chalmers.
Posted: Sunday July 25, 2021