He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
A display rich in stories of connection and collaboration
When you visit the Ōtepoti UNESCO City of Literature display area on the ground floor of Dunedin City Library you’ll see...
Posted: Monday Sep 15, 2025
Art Books for Lviv: A Gift from Cities of Literature
Ōtepoti City of Literature is thrilled that Dunedin Public Art Gallery has generously gifted three remarkable books for ...
Posted: Monday Sep 15, 2025
Slamming poetry with the best of them
Posted: Monday Sep 15, 2025
Applications open for The University Book Shop Summer Writer in Residence Award, in association with the Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage Trust
Applications close 13th October 2025.
Posted: Monday Sep 15, 2025
Happy publication day for these three fantastic books!
Posted: Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Otago Polyfest Podcasts
OAR FM captured 30+ interviews at the 2025 Polyfest - and they’re all podcasted for you!
Posted: Thursday Sep 11, 2025
NZ Young Writers Festival is on this weekend!
Posted: Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Watch the presentation of the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime novel of the year online!
Saturday 13 September 4.30am NZST- good luck Liam!
Posted: Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Books hit shelves in new library
South Dunedin’s new library is a hive of activity as staff make final preparations for the opening of the long-awaited f...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Dunedin Writer, educator and Landfall editor Lynley Edmeades will launch her latest book Hiding Places at University Boo...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Master Your Craft - Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
Don't miss out - sign up to the newsletter now for immediate access when the programme drops Wednesday September 10th at...
Posted: Monday Sep 08, 2025
Applications Invited For 2026 Randell Cottage Writers Residency
Applications close Friday 24 October 2025
Posted: Monday Sep 08, 2025
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2025
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week) this September
Posted: Monday Sep 08, 2025
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Tranche #2 submissions now open for the 2026 Ockham NZ Book Awards! Entries close 5pm on Wednesday, 16 October 2025.
Posted: Monday Sep 08, 2025
Olveston: Portrait of a home by Jane Ussher and John Walsh
Ten Question Q&A with John Walsh and Jane Ussher
Posted: Monday Sep 08, 2025
Water and Bread: a contemplation of rescue
The water is translucent blue. Wade in, and it’s shallow for a long stretch, undulating sunlight beckons. The drop into ...
Posted: Friday Sep 05, 2025
The 2025 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition
Warmest congratulations to all the 2025 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition shortlisted writers
Posted: Friday Sep 05, 2025
Call for Participation: Taif City of Literature Writing Retreat (Novels) 2025
Applications close 30 September 2025
Posted: Friday Sep 05, 2025
Charlie Milne's Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Friday Sep 05, 2025
ANZRB Review: Short/Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong
A bilingual 'celebration of flash fiction' that offers brevity, wit and weight.
Posted: Friday Sep 05, 2025
ANZRB Review: Ten Thousand Nights by Yvette Thomas and The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman
Two poets navigate 'the natural world and the ephemerality of its loveliness'.
Posted: Friday Sep 05, 2025
Dan Davin Literary Awards 2025
The Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, 12 September 2025, at the Kelvin Hotel, Level 6, Invercargill
Posted: Friday Sep 05, 2025
Connecting the World with Dots: Julie Woods’ Braille Project Reaches UNESCO Cities of Literature
Posted: Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Warmest congratulations to all finalists for the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Awards
Especially Wendy Parkins and Vanda Symon!
Posted: Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Young writers to convene for festival
“Mā te huruhuru ka rere te manu” — with feathers, the bird can fly.
Posted: Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Lilliput Libraries Shine at Keep Dunedin Beautiful Awards
Our heartfelt congratulations to Ruth Arnison
Posted: Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Julie Woods chases 60 countries by the times she is 60
When Julie Woods was a little girl, she never thought about travelling the world, or of going blind…
Posted: Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
OAR FM is part of the Otago Polyfest Village
OAR FM Dunedin – Community Access Media is back in the Village with their podcast booth! You can even hear some of last ...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
Cultures being celebrated
In its biggest year to date, the Otago Polyfest is weaving together cultural sharing and community pride.
Posted: Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Writer ‘uplifted’ after receiving Janet Frame Prize
A Dunedin novelist and poet is having an "astonishing" run after about 30 years in the game, most recently securing a $1...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Calling all poets!
Entries for the 2025 Robert Burns International Poetry Competition are now open. Entries close 6pm 30 November 2025.
Posted: Monday Sep 01, 2025
New Zealand Chinese Language Week 2025 has officially begun!
This week is all about celebrating Chinese languages, culture, and connection across Aotearoa.
Posted: Monday Sep 01, 2025
Happy publication day to Wednesday’s Children
A new edition of Robin Hyde’s captivating feminist novel
Posted: Monday Sep 01, 2025
Happy publication day to Nor the Years Condemn
A beautiful new edition of Robin Hyde’s poignant post-war novel
Posted: Monday Sep 01, 2025
Nembeka Ganaii's Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Friday Aug 29, 2025
The Janet Frame Prize 2025 awarded to Emma Neale
In memory of Janet Frame who was born 101 years ago on this day. Congratulations Emma!
Posted: Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Poetry Scrum
To celebrate Exeter’s involvement in hosting the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 in the UK, Exeter City of Literature are h...
Posted: Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Poetry Box review: Why Not? by Swapna Haddow
Posted: Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Acclaimed writer Nicole Flattery is the 2025 Writing Fellow at the University of Otago's Centre for Irish and Scottish S...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
Kete Books Review: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025
Reviewed by Savannah Patterson
Posted: Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
Melbourne City of Literature International Literary Programmers Roundtable
Next year Melbourne City of Literature are bringing back one of their signature programs - International Literary Progra...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
OARsome Morning Show - 22-08-2025 - New Zealand Young Writers Festival - Kate Schrader
New Zealand Young Writers Festival - Festival co-director Kate Schrader previews this year's New Zealand Young Writers F...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Creative New Zealand and the Ministry for Pacific Peoples sign first MoU to support Pacific language storytelling
Tala: Sharing Pacific Stories – a new initiative supporting Pacific creatives to write and publish in Pacific languages.
Posted: Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Kete Books Review: The Anatomy of Sand, by Mikaela Nyman
Reviewed by Erica Stretton
Posted: Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Asia New Zealand Foundation Internships
Applications open 1 September 2025 and close 13 October.
Posted: Monday Aug 25, 2025
Asia New Zealand Foundation Research Grants
Round 2: Opens 1 September 2025 and closes 30 November.
Posted: Monday Aug 25, 2025
Layers of Identity
Today, on National Poetry Day eve, OAR FM celebrated their talented Phase 2 contributors and completion of our Layers of...
Posted: Friday Aug 22, 2025
Zoey Hipolito’s Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Friday Aug 22, 2025
Writing contemporary crime fiction: Val McDermid on Past Lying
Posted: Friday Aug 22, 2025
Breaking News: Robert Sullivan Named New Zealand Poet Laureate
We are so excited with this wonderful announcement!! Warm congratulations to Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) - New Z...
Posted: Friday Aug 22, 2025
Poetry Shelf celebrates The Venetian Blind Poems: a gathering of illness poems
When I wrote Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women's Poetry (MUP, 2019), I built a house, dividing the book into rooms, ...
Posted: Thursday Aug 21, 2025
Poetry Box School Zoom Gift
Posted: Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Review: Twelfth Night - strong characterisation and comic action anchor a hazy production
Erin Harrington reviews Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare, directed by Alison Walls, at the Court Theatre, Saturday ...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Creative writing collection and 2025 competition launched
Entries close Wednesday 10 September 2025.
Posted: Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
The former gang member and prison inmate turned doctor
Dr Timoti Te Moke graduated from Otago Medical School, University of Otago in 2023 and received the Hauora Māori Prize i...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Call for Papers - BSANZ 2025 | DUNEDIN, NZ, 18–21 November 2025
Deadline extension to Thursday 21 August
Posted: Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Creative New Zealand have two funding rounds open!
Applications close 18 September 2025
Posted: Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Writer's residency to tell the story of Berlin's alligator
Congratulations Octavia 🤩🐊
Posted: Tuesday Aug 19, 2025