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Two awards in a month for local writer
Prolific, award-winning Wanaka writer Liz Breslin has had a stellar month: picking up prizes from both the International Writers' Workshop and the Queenstown Writers Festival. Two weeks ago, November 5-8, Liz won the adult category of the inaugural Queenstown Writers Festival Short Story Competition.
Posted: Tuesday November 24, 2020
POETRY PRIZE 2020 WINNERS ANNOUNCED...
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 winners announced Third time lucky for Palmerston North poet...
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Give a kid a book and you give them the world
Last year the fledgling charity scheme Kiwi Christmas Books gave 1600 childrens books to Auckland Womens Refuge and the Auckland City Mission. This year theyre going national, as founder Sonya Wilson explains.
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR 2021 NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is now inviting submissions for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. These annual awards recognise and celebrate the best books for young readers published in New Zealand.
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Landfall 240 has arrived!
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Sue Woottons At Moeraki
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Bill Manhires Wow
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
A World History of Bluff: Dr Michael Stevens
Ngi Tahu historian Dr Michael Stevens has just been recognised by the Royal Society Te Aprangi Te Kpnui with a Mori Research Award.
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Following Colin McCahon
Everything seems to come a little late to Aotearoa New Zealand, and even later to Dunedin, its southernmost university town. As we have learned this year, belatedness can be a good thing. But in the art world, it has often made New Zealanders feel a generation behind the curve.
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Read Share Grow childrens books for South Dunedin
Something big is happening in South Dunedin! It's happening in schools and early childhood centres, in community organisations, and other places children visit across the South of Dunedin, from Concord to Tainui.
Posted: Friday November 20, 2020
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Newsletter
Posted: Thursday November 19, 2020
te haerenga o reo pepi the next chapter
The Reo Ppi series is one of the real success stories in the Aotearoa world of publishing for littlies. The popularity of these labour-of-love board books can be credited as having a major role in kicking off a new wave of reorua/bilingual board books from publishers big and small.
Posted: Monday November 16, 2020
Book review - Landmarks by Grahame Sydney and Owen Marshall
Posted: Monday November 16, 2020
Poetry Shelf Lounge: Alison Wong reads and discusses her poem Earth
Posted: Monday November 16, 2020
Celebrating continuing relevance that is Hotere
Dunedin Public Art Gallery will this week open the first major exhibition of Ralph Hoteres work in 20 years. Rebecca Fox talks to gallery director Cam McCracken about the significance of the exhibition.
Posted: Thursday November 12, 2020
2020 Prime Ministers Awards for Literary Achievement: winners announced and live online literary panel
A lifetime of insights on Mori dance arts told in te reo Mori, a comprehensive anthology of New Zealand poetry in English, and an illustrated story of how James Cook charted Aotearoa New Zealand are just some of the many achievements of those being honoured with the 2020 Prime Ministers...
Posted: Monday November 9, 2020
Baxter memorial to be installed in new year
A long-awaited memorial commemorating prominent pacifist Archibald Baxter is set to be installed in Dunedin early next year.
Posted: Monday November 9, 2020
Down in Edin Issue 22 - Online now!
Literature, Poetry, Music, Art, Photography, Nature, Politics and Environment in the South Island of New Zealand
Posted: Monday November 9, 2020
South Otago-born writer wins national award
A South Otago-born author has scooped a major national crime-writing award.
Posted: Thursday November 5, 2020
Creative Rights = Creative Reads
Posted: Thursday November 5, 2020