News and Opportunities
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
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Michelle Elvy launches new book
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
Poetry Shelf backlist: Min-a-rets 10
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
Dark Dunedin : Breathing Hell
The third and final season of the award winning podcast.
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
Fourth Transported Decal
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
How to take better bird photos: Practical tips from a professional photographer
Author, and wildlife photographer, Paul Sorrell, lets us in on the magic behind his beautiful photographs.
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
The First Anthology of Asian Voices from Aotearoa: A Homecoming
As one of the first national celebrations of Asian writers, Naomii Seah reflects on the anthology filled with the taste ...
Posted: Friday June 4, 2021
$25,000 Non-Fiction Award - Applications Open
Posted: Friday June 4, 2021
Call for judges of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Posted: Friday June 4, 2021
Creatives in Schools Funding - Round 3
Posted: Friday June 4, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Twelve poems about faraway
Posted: Thursday June 3, 2021
Storylines invites submissions to the Storylines Notable Book Awards 2021.
Entries close at 5pm on 31 August 2021.
Posted: Thursday June 3, 2021
2021 GRANADA WRITERS RESIDENCE PROGRAMME
Posted: Thursday June 3, 2021
Landfall Essay Competition
Entries for the 2021 Landfall Essay Competition must be received by 31 July 2021.
Posted: Thursday June 3, 2021
Solidarity Myanmar Concert
Posted: Wednesday June 2, 2021
Neville Peat's Natural History Titles.
If you're looking to learn more about what Aotearoa has to offer, check out author Neville Peat's range of natural histo...
Posted: Wednesday June 2, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: David Eggleton reads from The Wilder Years: Selected Poems
Posted: Tuesday June 1, 2021
The Caselberg International Poetry Prize opens today.
Posted: Tuesday June 1, 2021
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement 2021: nominations open
Posted: Tuesday June 1, 2021
’70s live again in Dunedin Study exhibition
If your foot starts tapping when you hear the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever, there is a good chance you were alive ...
Posted: Monday May 31, 2021
Work on evolving tome loved
Emeritus Prof Colin Townsend (72) must have read his doorstopper on ecology more than 100 times over the past year, whil...
Posted: Monday May 31, 2021
Love makes children of us all – Philip Temple
Posted: Monday May 31, 2021
Lockdown Zines
A group of Otago Polytechnic Design learners have had their Covid-related work acknowledged in Kātoitoi, the Aotearoa De...
Posted: Monday May 31, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Thirteen poems about water
Posted: Friday May 28, 2021
Solidarity Myanmar Concert
Posted: Friday May 28, 2021
Quotes from Kathryn van Beek's Kindergarten visits
Posted: Friday May 28, 2021
Hagley Writers' Institute' welcome Kathryn van Beek as mentor this year!
Posted: Friday May 28, 2021
Dunedin Unesco City of Literature and SuperGrans have formed a new partnership.
This week Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature has been lucky to have Kathryn van Beek and Emma Wood visiting and reading t...
Posted: Friday May 28, 2021
May, from the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival
Posted: Friday May 28, 2021
Bridport Prize 2021
Posted: Thursday May 27, 2021
Dunedin Public Art Gallery - great for the cooler months
Posted: Thursday May 27, 2021
Third Transported decal
Posted: Wednesday May 26, 2021
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition.
Calling all young poets!
Posted: Wednesday May 26, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Submissions called to inaugural poetry calendar
Compound Press and Minarets Journal announce a call for submissions to our inaugural poetry calendar, edited by Craig Fo...
Posted: Tuesday May 25, 2021
2021 cycle of Ōtepoti Theatre Lab's Playwright Programme!
Now accepting submissions for our 2021 cycle of Ōtepoti Theatre Lab's Playwright Programme!
Posted: Tuesday May 25, 2021
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2021 revisited
Posted: Tuesday May 25, 2021
‘Surreal’ experience of lockdown inspires book
The "surreal" days of Covid-19 lockdown were the inspiration for a unique collaborative publishing project for a Mosgiel...
Posted: Monday May 24, 2021
GéoPoétique in Enghien-les-Bains, France, City of Media Arts.
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature was represented by Peter Olds at GéoPoétique : exhibition at the Mediatheque George Sa...
Posted: Monday May 24, 2021
Read the World Exhibition Reykjavik City of Literature
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature included an extract from Victor Billot’s poem Monsoon Season in the Read the World exh...
Posted: Monday May 24, 2021
Ice Escape: the story of a rescue from the icefloes of the north.
Dunedin resident, and Aberdeen-born author Beatrice Hale has relaunched her children’s book, Ice Escape, with The Kellas...
Posted: Friday May 21, 2021
Our UNESCO City of Literature - Dunedin
This feature is a follow-up to UNESCO Memory of the World Programme article in the last issue. We shine a light on Duned...
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Twelve poems about knitting
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
This School Rulez
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
St Clair School
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
St Bernadette’s Room 1, 2021
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
St Bernadette’s and the bees
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Paula Morris and Alison Wong.
Reviewed by Saradha Koirala for The Academy of New Zealand Literature.
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
Carisbrook School Junior Team Poem
Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021
Space Giants in the Bathgate Park School Library
Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021