He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
University Book Shop Christmas Late Night
Thursday 4 Dec 9-8pm, and 25% off storewide all day!
Posted: Thursday Dec 04, 2025
Applications for Te Pou Theatre's Nohonga Creative Residencies 2026 are now open!
Applications close Sun 14 Dec 2025.
Posted: Thursday Dec 04, 2025
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
Applications are open from 1 December 2025 to 31 January 2026 for writers interested in residencies at the cottage for p...
Posted: Thursday Dec 04, 2025
Congratulations to Richard Joseph - recipient of the 2025 Dunedin Public Libraries' Citation
Dunedin Public Libraries are delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2025 Dunedin Public Libraries' Citation is ...
Posted: Thursday Dec 04, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Award-winning Dunedin author Barbara Else has received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement
Posted: Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Being awarded fellowship has extra meaning for writer
Dunedin writer Laurence Fearnley was a student when she first experienced poetry as "a living, breathing form".
Posted: Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Writing Competitions and Contests - Weekly Updates
13 opportunities | 3 closing this month | Total prizes over $25,000
Posted: Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Where might Alice end up if she tumbled down, down, down through the earth?
The Antipodes, of course — Larnach Castle in New Zealand!
Posted: Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Call for Nominations: 2026 Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award
Submissions close 23 December 2025
Posted: Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Dive into the Dream Issue of Pasefika Presence
Posted: Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Celebrating the inaugural Master of Creative Writing students
Posted: Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Together
Posted: Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
Venerable comedy given sparkling outing by youth
The Importance of Being Earnest - Playhouse Theatre.
Posted: Monday Dec 01, 2025
Announcement of 2026 Scottish Writing Fellowship, in conjunction with Mātai Airana, Mātai Kotirana - the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies (CISS)
Donald will be staying at Caselberg House in August 2026.
Posted: Monday Dec 01, 2025
Poetry Shelf celebrates Aotearoa’s new Poet Laureate: Robert Sullivan
Posted: Saturday Nov 29, 2025
The Reread with Hera Lindsay Bird
Tonight Hera Lindsay Bird joins us for the Reread.
Posted: Friday Nov 28, 2025
Need a small but meaningful Christmas gift for your mate, colleague, client or Great Aunty Gertrude?
We've got you covered!
Posted: Friday Nov 28, 2025
Call for Videopoetry — UNESCO Cities of Literature.
Deadline: January 10, 2026.
Posted: Friday Nov 28, 2025
Indigenous Voices in Children’s Literature
Register for this four-day programme 2 Feb - 5 Feb 2026, Te Kura Toi Tangata, School of Education, Waikato University (H...
Posted: Friday Nov 28, 2025
Beatrice Hale's new book, The Black Thistle (Kellas Cat Press) is available now!
The sequel to The Resolute Heart, by Beatrice Hale
Posted: Friday Nov 28, 2025
Writing Prizes Roundtable - call for registrations
Join coordinators from literary prizes across the UNESCO Cities of Literature for a dynamic virtual meeting hosted by Me...
Posted: Friday Nov 28, 2025
Sending aroha from Dunedin to Halyna Bolkun at Mystetska Biblioteka and Lviv City of Literature
These incredible art books, donated by our friends at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery are poised and ready for the shelve...
Posted: Thursday Nov 27, 2025
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2026 Reflections
Victor Rodger, Nadine Hura, Sihle Ntuli, Ati Teepa and Dianne Brown
Posted: Thursday Nov 27, 2025
Birds of a Feather are so very excited to announce what's in store for 2026
In a collaboration with BRAVE Theatre Birds of a Feather will be opening the NZ premiere of JULIA by Joanna Murray Smith...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
Poet honoured with plaque
Sir Vincent O’Sullivan has received a plaque in the Dunedin Writers Walk which was unveiled at a small ceremony outside ...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
OAR FM Air Awards
Burns Hall at First Church was buzzing on Saturday night as OAR FM celebrated their Air Awards 2025.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
'How about going for a drive?' turned into an epic global adventure
Hannah Bulloch has written a book about her grandparents decision to take six kids around the world on a house truck.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Hope new youth theatre group will bridge gap in city
First-time director Sebastian Cumming is leading the charge with the new youth theatre group at The Playhouse Theatre, i...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
2026 Dublin Literary Award Nominations
Huge congratulations to Dominic Hoey on his nomination by Dunedin Public Libraries for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award fo...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Halo olketa! Happy Solomon Islands Pijin Langguis Wik!
The Dunedin Solomon Islands Community and Dunedin Wantoks are BACK with another series of podcasts, tok stori in celebra...
Posted: Monday Nov 24, 2025
Poetry Shelf Noticeboard: The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems
Congratulations to our very own Sue Wootton, winner of the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems.
Posted: Monday Nov 24, 2025
Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Experience Fund opens 1 December
Supporting self-directed opportunities for New Zealand-based arts practitioners to build meaningful artistic and profess...
Posted: Monday Nov 24, 2025
Looking for Christmas presents?
Buy this gorgeous 2026 calendar and support the Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust and the cottage residency programme.
Posted: Monday Nov 24, 2025
Catching up on cottage news
Here are a few highlights of what's been happening at the cottage recently, plus the chance to buy Joyful and Triumphant...
Posted: Monday Nov 24, 2025
Love Your Bookshop Day
"The team at University Book Shop would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported us and all indepen...
Posted: Friday Nov 21, 2025
Writers and readers fest highlights put on podcast
OAR FM was on hand to capture and share some of the magic from this year’s Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival.
Posted: Friday Nov 21, 2025
The new issue of a fine line is here!
a fine line is the flagship magazine for Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Society. Issued quarterly, each e...
Posted: Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Pasefika Presence: the dream issue OUT SAT 29 NOV!
Posted: Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Today on Write Spot - Ruth Dallas double book launch
Nicola Cummins from Otago University Press previews the upcoming launch of two books.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Want to donate a book to a Kiwi kid in need this Christmas, but don't want to leave the house?
No problem! You can buy your favourite NZ kids books online and ship them straight to Kiwi Christmas Books.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Review: Ruth Dallas: A Writer's Life, by Diana Morrow
Reviewed by Graham Reid
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Calling all young writers
Entries are open for the 2026 Landfall Tauraka Young Writers' Essay Prize! Entries close 31 March 2026.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Kōrero Each to Each
Elizabeth Heritage reviews Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages edited by Michelle Elvy and Vaughan Rapatahana (The Cuba ...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Calling out to all artists, from local to national & international..
Dunedin Fringe Festival registrations for our 2026 programme close Sunday 30th of November!
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Blue Oyster is now calling for Expressions of Interest!
Applications close Monday 30 November.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Book of the Week: One winner of the PM award reviews another
Barbara Else, who won the $60,000 Prime Minister’s literature award last week, reviews previous winner Elizabeth Smither...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Moriori Language Week
Kicking off Monday 17 November with events and festivities across the motchu.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Our very own Emma Neale appearing here via video at the launch of the New Nottingham Journal!
It's a stellar line-up in Vol. 1 of this new print and digital publication
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Grey Warblers, Shining Cuckoos: Trust and Infinity
‘It was pear shaped, made of moss, stitched together with cows’ hair. It was like a big soft pear with a hole in the cen...
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 10, A STATE OF SIEGE by Janet Frame, with an introduction from Chris Kraus, is available now
‘She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her.’— Eleanor Catton, author of BIRNAM WOOD
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Caselberg Creative Connections Resident and InPrint Resident 2026 announcements
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
The Division of Humanities Supervisor of the Year Winner is….. Dr Lynley Edmeades
Congratulations to Dr Lynley Edmeades, who was recognised as the Humanities Supervisor of the Year at Wednesday's OUSA S...
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Ara Toi on Air
Sean caught up with Sihle Ntuli, the 2025 Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident.
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Special event images
Tony Eyre paid a visit to his hometown Auckland for a special book event at the Northern Club for The Book Collector: Re...
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Poet Sihle Ntuli Concludes Dunedin Residency with Octagon Poetry Collective Reading
Posted: Monday Nov 17, 2025
Celebrating Landfall's 250th issue
‘I wrote partly because Landfall was there’Writers on their first publications in New Zealand’s oldest literary journal.
Posted: Thursday Nov 13, 2025
Kherson: Human Safari - available to watch
The story of Kherson, Ukraine's most dangerous city, told by its people. Invasion, occupation. They protest. After liber...
Posted: Thursday Nov 13, 2025
Painting a pivotal moment
Red Cockerel (1924, oil on canvas) by Frances Hodgkins is celebrated in a piece by Lucy Hammonds in today's ODT.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
Enquire now about joining Whitireia Publishing in 2026!
Learn everything you need to start your career in books with the Whitireia Graduate Diploma in Publishing
Posted: Wednesday Nov 12, 2025