News and Opportunities
Writer’s three reasons to celebrate
For the next five weeks, Pennie Hunt will sit where New Zealand’s first professional playwright once sat, working on her...
Posted: Sunday July 25, 2021
Time and space to grow voice
This year’s Robert Burns Fellow, Becky Manawatu, has followed tradition and fallen in love with Dunedin. The writer tell...
Posted: Thursday July 22, 2021
Local Poet Claire Lacey chatted with Jeff Harford for Write Spot on OAR FM Dunedin - Community Access Media on 21 July.
Posted: Thursday July 22, 2021
Life and works of Neil Grant with text by Peter Stupples and lavishly illustrated with archival and collection images.
Posted: Tuesday July 20, 2021
‘Wuthering Heights’ flash mob serves as fundraiser
The Yorkshire moors came to Dunedin at noon on Saturday as a flash mob assembled in the Octagon for The Most Wuthering H...
Posted: Tuesday July 20, 2021
Introducing Ōtepoti Theatre Lab's Playwrights Programme writers for 2021.
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Hopes of nation on 15 men
Prolific Dunedin author Ron Palenski has again been busy. His new book, Brutal: The 100-year fight for world rugby supre...
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Twelve poems about kindness
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Create a piece of ‘concrete poetry’
If a poem creates pictures with words, shape poetry creates words in pictures.
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Carlos Biggemann's new book
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Martin Swann's Bent but Not Broken
Our latest commission, Martin Swann's Bent but Not Broken, is online now at the wonderful Verb Wellington platform!
Posted: Friday July 9, 2021
City’s history, horror woven in drama
It is a tale of hidden lies and twilight prowls, of secret purpose and the madness of the mind.
Posted: Thursday July 8, 2021
Poetry Shelf review: Iona Winter’s gaps in the light
Posted: Thursday July 8, 2021
Owen Marshall dives into the dark side
One of the bleakest stories by respected writer Owen Marshall, Coming Home in the Dark, is the basis for a new film of t...
Posted: Wednesday July 7, 2021
Repeat Broadcasts of special content from the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival 2021.
With Puaka Matariki Festival 2021 providing a platform for sharing stories and experiences, OAR FM is pleased to be givi...
Posted: Wednesday July 7, 2021
Iona Winter's Podcast - Gaps in the Light
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
Thomas McLean reflects on the career of sculptor Peter Nicholls in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
News from Otago University Press
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement 2021
There’s just over a week left to nominate an outstanding New Zealand writer for the 2021 Prime Minister’s Awards for Lit...
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
Literary Tram – Ulyanovsk City of Literature
The Ulyanovsk Literary Tram is an annual event that had its beginning in 2015. This project is extremely popular globall...
Posted: Sunday July 4, 2021
Rob McDonald's second novel, The Nancy Business
Posted: Friday July 2, 2021
Poetry roundup: Eggleton work worth the wait
A roundup of the latest in works of poetry reviewed by Hamesh Wyatt.
Posted: Friday July 2, 2021
Author to discuss story of family life
The author behind what is shaping up to be the country’s most controversial book of the year is heading to Dunedin to di...
Posted: Friday July 2, 2021
6th Transported decal
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust announces residencies for 2021
Five writers have been awarded residencies for 2021, and applications are now invited for the 2022 Summer Writer in Resi...
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Official Launch of Prague in my Bones by Jindra Tichý
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature in partnership with Quentin Wilson Publishing and Dunedin Public Libraries was thrille...
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Dunedin Launch – A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature was proud to partner with Auckland University Press and Dunedin Public Libraries on th...
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Podcast on NZ International Science Festival Event preview
With award-winning comedian and playwright Abby Howells and director Alex Wilson
Posted: Wednesday June 30, 2021
Matariki Winter Reading Catalogue 2021
Posted: Monday June 28, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Radical Languages event – Behrouz Boochani and Vana Manasiadis challenge monolingualism
Posted: Monday June 28, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Vaughan Rapatahana on David Eggleton at Jacket 2
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Thirteen poems about home
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
$5K Surrey-Newsroom writers residency open
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
New Zealand National Commission (UNESCO) 2021/22 contestable funding round
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Liz Breslin reads from in bed with the feminists
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Concussion Episode 7: There's A Body All Right
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
5th Transported decal
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Announcing… the 2021 NFFD WINNERS
Posted: Wednesday June 23, 2021
Theatre piece for Flash Fiction Day
Posted: Wednesday June 23, 2021
Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award
Posted: Tuesday June 22, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Sophia Wilson’s winning poem in the 2021 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Posted: Tuesday June 22, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: 2021 Kathleen Grattan Prize announcement
Posted: Monday June 21, 2021
Book of the Week: Her body, her choice Paddy Richardson reviews one of the best novels of 2021
Posted: Monday June 21, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship
Posted: Monday June 21, 2021
Artistic project to lift spirits comes to end
Posted: Thursday June 17, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Iona Winters reads from Gaps in the Light
Posted: Wednesday June 16, 2021
The Author's Cut by Owen Marshall. Reviewed by Chris Reed
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
How I write: Alison Wong always comes back to poetry for inspiration
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
Poet launches second collection of work
Hawea Flat writer and Otago Daily Times columnist Liz Breslin’s new book of poetry, in bed with the feminists, lies in w...
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
CITIES OF LITERATURE SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL 13 - 20 SEPTEMBER 2019
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
Back Beach Poetry Trail
This beautiful trail in Port Chalmers was created by the Back Beach Writers’ Collective, a group of West Harbour writers...
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
Prisoner’s written works enchant judges
It was double delight for this year’s “New Chapters” winner after the same man claimed both short-story and poetry prize...
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Fourteen poems about walking
Posted: Friday June 11, 2021
Writers behind bars given creative crash course
Creative writers behind bars received a late boost with their competition entries following some expert intervention.
Posted: Friday June 11, 2021
Connecting Cultures Features
Posted: Thursday June 10, 2021
PART TIME PERMANENT ROLE IN BOOK PUBLISHING.
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
All three seasons of the award-winning Dark Dunedin podcast are now live and available for download
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021