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Kete Books is now live
Love reading? Youll find plenty to love here, all in one kete.
Posted: Friday September 18, 2020
Hubs aim to make learning te reo Maori non-intimidating
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum visitor programmes co-ordinator Phoebe Thompson sits in a language hub that has been set up at the museum for the length of Te Wiki o te Reo Maori Maori Language Week.
Posted: Friday September 18, 2020
Pupils excited to map Broad Bays past
Pupils of a Dunedin school went "berserk" when they learned they had won a grant for a project that will document history.
Posted: Wednesday September 16, 2020
Love in the time of Covid: A Chronicle of a Pandemic
Submissions are open August 01 December 01, 2020.
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
New hybrid format for 2020 NZ Young Writers Festival
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
New book examines how childhood shapes later life
In his new book, The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life, University of Otago professor Richie Poulton and his co-authors set out their search to learn how much our origins shape our later lives.
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
Kete partners with Stuff to share reviews of New Zealand books
Kete the new site devoted to the books of Aotearoa which launches on 15 September will share reviews of New Zealand books with Stuff to bring the latest releases to readers of Sunday Magazine, Your Weekend and Stuff online.
Posted: Friday September 11, 2020
Dick of the Bay on Otago Access Radio
Attention New Zealanders! A new radio drama is coming to take over your airwaves.
Posted: Friday September 11, 2020
Congratulations to Max Quinn on the publication of his first book, "A Life of Extremes", coming November 2020!
Posted: Wednesday September 9, 2020
Misconceptions and Bruce the cat: a Q&A with Kathryn van Beek
Dunedin author and illustrator Kathryn van Beek is launching two new books this month: her short story collection PET and a children's book, Bruce Goes Outside.
Posted: Tuesday September 8, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Elizabeth Brooke-Carrs Wanting to tell you everything
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
Happy International Literacy Day!
UNESCO Cities of Literature are excited to celebrate with a collective social media campaign led by Bucheon City of Literature
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Cilla McQueens Gossamer
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
2020 Nanjing International Writers Virtual Residency
Posted: Friday September 4, 2020
Mori Language Moment: Be the 1 in a million
Honour the past, keep ourselves safe now and prepare for the future together!
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
Recordings of Hone Tuwhare
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
THOMAS POTTS OF CANTERBURY Colonist and conservationist by Paul Star
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
A Poetry Shelf gathering: A handful of Starlings read from the latest issue
Starling 10 is not long out so I decided to celebrate this fabulous issue with a wee poetry reading. Starling was founded by Louise Wallace and is co-edited by Francis Cooke. It is a meeting ground for writers in Aotearoa under 25. Long may it continue.
Posted: Tuesday September 1, 2020
Teenage poet bags another top award
Darcy Monteath has a way with words.
Posted: Wednesday August 26, 2020