News
The Other Side of the Mountain: Rewriting NZ climbing history
The story of Edmund Hillary’s ascent of Everest is familiar to all New Zealanders. Now a new book focuses on the previously untold story of the trailblazing first New Zealand Himalayan Expedition in 1951.
Posted: Thursday September 29, 2016
Book and Place: University of Otago Centre for the Book Symposium 2016
Posted: Monday September 26, 2016
The Friends of the Hocken Collections 2016 Research Award
In 2016 the Friends of the Hocken Collections celebrate their 25th anniversary of establishment.
Posted: Sunday September 11, 2016
Recent publications by Dunedin publisher Paua Press Limited
Sir George Grey and the moa by Bruce Spittle, 2015. Education and fluoridation in New Zealand: an historical study by John Colquhoun, 2016.
Posted: Wednesday September 7, 2016
A poem when you park
Next time you pay for parking, your ticket might come with a poem.
Posted: Thursday August 25, 2016
Michael Harlow’s Winning New Poetry Collection
The poems in Michael Harlow’s new collection, Nothing for it but to Sing, are small detonations that release deeply complex stories of psychological separations and attractions, of memory and desire.
Posted: Thursday August 11, 2016
Blue Oyster call for proposals
Blue Oyster is pleased to announce a call for solo, duo, group and curated exhibition proposals for the first half of 2017. A proposal call for the remaining 6 months of the coming year will be announced early 2017.
Posted: Monday August 1, 2016
Call for Participation for the forthcoming 5th International Summit of the Book 2016, Limerick City, Ireland
Please note the information below and consider whether you may wish to respond to the call and/or to make suggestions for possible suitable speakers for this prestigious conference coming to Limerick, Ireland in November 2016.
Posted: Friday July 22, 2016
BOOK SHOP ESTABLISHES NEW ZEALAND
WRITERS RESIDENCY
New Zealand’s first writing residency, the Robert Burns Fellowship, was established in 1958 in Dunedin marking the bicentenary of the birth of Robbie Burns. Now, 58 years later and to mark their seventy years of bookselling, Dunedin’s University Book Shop has created another New Zealand first with a bookshop-based annual...
Posted: Thursday July 21, 2016
Two books by local author Beatrice Hale
Two books by local author Beatrice Hale, both available as e-books on Smashwords and on Amazon.com, which also provides a print book. Beatrice usually writes on gerontology and caregiving, but has changed direction in retirement to look at her ancestors and write their stories, two of which are fictionalized here.
Posted: Tuesday July 19, 2016
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections
de Beer gallery, Special Collections, University of Otago, 10 June to 26 August 2016
Posted: Monday July 11, 2016
Lotteries Award to help establish the first writers’ residency in the home of a Māori writer
The Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust has just been awarded $100,000 by the Lottery World War One Commemorations, Environment and Heritage Committee to restore and repair the South Otago crib of ‘people’s poet’ Hone Tuwhare (1922 ‐ 2008).
Posted: Friday June 17, 2016
CALL for PAPERS - Book and Place
The University of Otago Centre for the Book announces its 2016 Annual Symposium University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 27–28 October 2016
Posted: Tuesday June 14, 2016
A Call for Project/Products for 2016 Bologna Design Week
Posted: Tuesday June 14, 2016
Michael King Writers’ Centre Open for Applications
The Michael King Writers’ Centre invites applications from New Zealand writers for four supported residencies in 2016, with stipends ranging from $8,000 to $30,000.
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2015
DUNEDIN WRITER SCORES 2016 PRAGUE RESIDENCY
Local Dunedin writer and editor David Howard has been announced as the successful applicant for the 2016 Prague residency for writers connected to a UNESCO City of Literature.
Posted: Friday August 28, 2015