He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Have you booked your tickets for the New Zealand Young Writers Festival?
Events are almost at capacity so Book Now!!
Posted: Friday Aug 25, 2023
Legally Blonde - Musical Theatre Dunedin
All Remaining Seats $50! Only 2 Shows Left.
Posted: Friday Aug 25, 2023
Poetry Shelf and Poetry Box celebrate National Poetry Day
Posted: Friday Aug 25, 2023
Inaugural Small Press Fest a Success
Check out these photos from the packed weekend ....
Posted: Friday Aug 25, 2023
Why Katherine Mansfield is still the ultimate literary punk, 100 years after her death
Biographer and memoirist Redmer Yska will be at Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, speaking to Katherine's work, as wel...
Posted: Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Sue Wootton's Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Follow her journey
Posted: Thursday Aug 24, 2023
What a special Advance Information Sheet from London’s Istros Books
Commenting on Faruk Šehić's 'My Rivers' are both David Howard and Kapka Kassabova!
Posted: Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Ati Teepa is writing his poems in kokowai
Don't miss out on your copy
Posted: Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
The battle for Ukraine's cultural gems
How are the creativity, spaces and heritage of the war-torn country being supported? Beverley D'Silva explores the issue...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
takahē 108
Multi-talented 2023 Burns fellow Kathryn van Beek is in the Takahē Magazine August issue, with her essay 'Going Dutch'
Posted: Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Boosted Campaign
22 days left to contribute to the Elixir & Star Press Boosted campaign
Posted: Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2023
Submissions close on 15 December 2023
Posted: Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Creative Connections Resident 2024
Artist, educator, and remote community arts worker Katie Breckon
Posted: Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
How to cook to feel good: Alby Hailes on his debut cookbook 'Good Vibes'
2021 Great Kiwi Bake Off winner Alby Hailes joins Susie Ferguson to celebrate the release of his debut cookbook 'Good Vi...
Posted: Monday Aug 21, 2023
Drop by Drop Poetry for Children Competition
Congratulations to Samantha Montgomerie who has been successful in having two commended poems in the Drop by Drop Poetry...
Posted: Monday Aug 21, 2023
Poetry Box celebrates the NZCYA Book Awards 2023
Posted: Monday Aug 21, 2023
Uni News
Kaupapa Māori Professor Anne-Marie Jackson delivers IPL on Marae
Posted: Monday Aug 21, 2023
International NZPS - Open Junior Competition
Two young Dunedin poets had success in the International NZPS Competition.
Posted: Monday Aug 21, 2023
Medieval manuscripts ‘most amazing things’
Centuries-old manuscripts can still tell us much about art and life. That is the opinion of Dr Christopher de Hamel, an ...
Posted: Friday Aug 18, 2023
‘no time to lollygag’ on Write Spot
Caselberg Press is publishing a second anthology of poetry, featuring highly commended and winning entries from its poet...
Posted: Thursday Aug 17, 2023
From birdsong to body dysmorphia ‘What makes a winning essay?’
Emma Neale on Landfall’s Strong Words #3 and thinking aloud about New Zealand culture.
Posted: Thursday Aug 17, 2023
The 2023 Out of the Limelight Awards
Congratulations to the recipients
Posted: Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Newsletter, August 2023
Catch up on cottage news
Posted: Thursday Aug 17, 2023
AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU Katherine Mansfield creative writing competition
Entries close 1 September
Posted: Thursday Aug 17, 2023
takahē Magazine Monica Taylor Poetry Prize
Entries close 31 August 2023
Posted: Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Writer 2023 creative writing competition
Kathryn van Beek has a few hot tips to get started!
Posted: Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Prof John Plotz: finding new meaning in old books
Among his varied interests, leading Victorian literature scholar and prison educator Professor John Plotz revisits forgo...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Crime writer in her element on TV show ‘The Traitors’
Crime novelist Vanda Symon is a contestant on The Traitors, a murder mystery game show on Three
Posted: Monday Aug 14, 2023
Write Spot with Frances from Evening Books
Frances from Evening Books previews a festival bringing together small presses and independent publishers from across Ao...
Posted: Monday Aug 14, 2023
Heidelberg City of Literature Writers in Residence Programme
Applications close 17 September 2023
Posted: Monday Aug 14, 2023
Virtual Writer in Residence
Apply Now - Applications close Mon 11 Sep 2023
Posted: Monday Aug 14, 2023
‘Poetic’ story wins best first book prize
A debut Dunedin author has tasted instant success for her "poetic and beautifully written" story.
Posted: Friday Aug 11, 2023
Congratulations to our very own Susan Wardell
2023 Winner of the NZSA Best First Book Award
Posted: Friday Aug 11, 2023
Councillor Christine Garey presents gift from City of Literature to the Secretary General
Our part of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023™ may have come to end, but it’s nice to know a little piece of Ōtepoti Duned...
Posted: Friday Aug 11, 2023
The New Zealand Young Writers Festival programme is live!
21 - 24 September 2023
Posted: Friday Aug 11, 2023
International Youth Day 2023: Cities of Literature and young people
International Youth Day is taking place on Saturday 12th August 2023. To celebrate International Youth Day 2023, Notting...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Rōmeo rāua ko Hurieta (Auckland University Press, 2023)
A te reo Māori translation of Shakespeare’s tragic drama of young love between two feuding families.
Posted: Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
2023 Nanjing International Writers Residency
Applications close 20 September 2023
Posted: Monday Aug 07, 2023
108th issue of takahē Magazine coming soon!
Stay tuned for fresh work by guests Emma Neale, Tusiata Avia, Dan Taua, and Sefton Rani, with fiction guest edited by Er...
Posted: Monday Aug 07, 2023
Dunedin Fringe News
Check out the latest news from Dunedin Fringe covering the NZ Young Writers Festival, 2023 Guest Curator Jennifer Cheuk ...
Posted: Friday Aug 04, 2023
2023 Surrey Hotel Writers Residency Award
Applications close Sunday 20 August
Posted: Friday Aug 04, 2023
Aberdeen-born author Beatrice Hale has launched two new titles with Kellas Cat Press in Aberdeen
'Fittick’s Farewell: Tales of Fittick and Torry' and 'Fittick, Fisher of Men'
Posted: Friday Aug 04, 2023
Today on Write Spot - Strong Words 3
Writer, poet and Landfall editor Lynley Edmeades discusses Strong Words 3, the latest showcase of the best of Aotearoa N...
Posted: Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Small Press Fest 18-20 Aug - Programme Live!
Small Press Fest is bringing together small-presses and independent publishers from across the motu to Ōtepoti for three...
Posted: Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Submissions for Playmarket's Brown Ink development programme close 1 October 2023
Playmarket's annual Brown Ink development programme looks for the best new and original work by Māori and Pasifika write...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
The Book Collector: Reading and Living with Literature
Could our very own Tony Eyre be holding a beautiful advance copy of ‘The Book Collector: Reading and Living with Literat...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Book review: Aria by Jessica Hinerangi
Airini Beautrais reviews Āria by Jessica Hinerangi published by Auckland University Press
Posted: Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship
Annual award of $10,000 – open until 20 August 2023
Posted: Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Poetry Shelf review: Landfall 245
'Ah. Literary journal bliss. Usually I dip and delve, and leap frog from one poem that takes my fancy to the next, but o...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel: open for entries
The Prize seeks fiction manuscripts by published and unpublished authors who are citizens or permanent residents of New ...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Boosted X Moana
This year, there is a whopping $110K lined up for the Pacific Arts in Aotearoa with EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST OPEN TODAY!
Posted: Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
The results from the annual NZPS International Poetry Competition are out!
Congratulations to the winning and highly commended poets, especially competition winner Susan Wardell
Posted: Monday Jul 31, 2023
Interview: Jessica Hinerangi talks about Āria
Jessica Hinerangi connects to Te Ao Marama through her toi practice, and is motivated by aroha and reconnecting with her...
Posted: Monday Jul 31, 2023
Photographer set to launch first book
Award-winning Dunedin photographer Carlos Biggemann is due to launch his new book Cumulus: An Anthology of Skies next mo...
Posted: Monday Jul 31, 2023
Oar FM talks with Carlos Biggemann about Cumulus: an anthology of skies
Listen here
Posted: Monday Jul 31, 2023
Actor ‘quite enamoured’ with author’s horseback autobiography
An obscure book by a Dunedin author has popped up in the biggest movie of the year and has won praise from one of its st...
Posted: Monday Jul 31, 2023
Congratulations to Rakibul Khan...
...who recently submitted his PhD thesis “Hope in the Anthropocene: Eco-Collectivism and Twenty-First-Century South Asia...
Posted: Monday Jul 31, 2023