News and Opportunities
Talk Back Daughter by Hayley Rata Heyes for Verb Wellington.
Posted: Thursday April 15, 2021
Ockham NZ Book Awards Finalists
This year’s finalists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are sixteen books that offer rich reading experiences, atti...
Posted: Thursday April 15, 2021
Te Tahua Āki Auahatanga | Innovation Fund
Posted: Thursday April 15, 2021
This is a truly wonderful kōrero between Jeff Harford and Jacinta Ruru on Write Spot OAR FM Dunedin
Posted: Wednesday April 14, 2021
Tree Beings by Raymond Huber
Angela Thompson, Teacher Librarian, Remarkables Primary School, Queenstown
Posted: Wednesday April 14, 2021
Manchester UNESCO City of Literature announce 2 residencies in partnership with Manchester Literature Festival
Part of Festival of Libraries, writers with strong ties to fellow #CitiesofLit are invited to apply for a 3 week virtual...
Posted: Monday April 12, 2021
Ministry for Culture and Heritage Funding to create installations and events is now open for applications.
Posted: Monday April 12, 2021
Poet Laureate David Eggleton picks two Peter Olds poems
Posted: Monday April 12, 2021
New Zealand Poetry books available at Dead Souls Bookshop
Posted: Monday April 12, 2021
University of Otago Arts Fellowships
Posted: Monday April 12, 2021
University Bookshop Otago are hiring!
Posted: Monday April 12, 2021
Podcast of 'Write Spot' interview with Dougal Rillstone on OAR FM Dunedin - Community Access Media
Posted: Monday April 12, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Victor Billot reads from The Sets
Posted: Monday April 12, 2021
Tales from the back of the painting
What's on the back of a painting can tell as story as fascinating as what's on the front.
Posted: Monday April 12, 2021
The Dark is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere: A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O’Sullivan.
Reviewed by Ian Wedde.
Posted: Sunday April 11, 2021
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Emma Neale’s ‘Indicator’
Posted: Sunday April 11, 2021
Newspaper has proud history of supporting literary talent
A local commitment to fostering writing talent must be applauded, Tony Eyre writes.
Posted: Sunday April 11, 2021
Māori and Pasifika Books to feast your mind on.
Posted: Friday April 9, 2021
Judy Darleys' review for 'Gaps in the Light' by Iona Winter
Posted: Wednesday April 7, 2021
Lies and ill will
A new play to debut at the Dunedin Arts Festival is not about telling the truth, but might have truths to tell, writes T...
Posted: Tuesday April 6, 2021
Welcome return to Dunedin for award-winning show
"An unapologetic, sometimes humorous, sometimes confronting feast for the eyes, ears and soul."
Posted: Tuesday April 6, 2021
Dunedin Fringe 2021 Award winners
Posted: Thursday April 1, 2021
Dark Dunedin: Season Two, Episode One
Posted: Thursday April 1, 2021
Poet Laureate David Eggleton's selection of Best NZ Poems 2020
Posted: Tuesday March 30, 2021
New publisher at University Press
Dunedin poet and prose writer Dr Sue Wootton has been appointed as the new publisher at Otago University Press.
Posted: Tuesday March 30, 2021
The directors’ cut
As the Dunedin Fringe Festival closes and two other arts festivals loom, their directors peruse each other’s offerings.
Posted: Tuesday March 30, 2021
Help The Playhouse Theatre get a refurbishment
Posted: Tuesday March 30, 2021
2021 Bucheon Residency Program
Posted: Tuesday March 30, 2021
Thief! - Dunedin Fringe Festival
Posted: Monday March 29, 2021
Dispatches from the fringes
Posted: Sunday March 28, 2021
Chinese Garden documentary given to southern schools
Posted: Sunday March 28, 2021
Prison creative-writing stimulus
The Otago Daily Times prison creative-writing competition is back and promises to be bigger than ever.
Posted: Sunday March 28, 2021
Significant Archibald Baxter poetry find
A Dunedin student’s discovery and publication of poems by World War 1 conscientious objector Archibald Baxter is sheddin...
Posted: Sunday March 28, 2021
Pupils put favourite things to verse
Anderson’s Bay School pupils prefer climbing trees and writing poetry.
Posted: Friday March 26, 2021
UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature join forces to celebrate World Poetry Day 2021
Posted: Tuesday March 23, 2021
Memoir tells the story of a Dunedin family
A new book, Mornington Memoirs, delves into the lives of the Jelley family, their friends and neighbours.
Posted: Friday March 19, 2021
Multitude of events for Race Relations Week
Race Relations Week will celebrate diversity, Dunedin Multi-Ethnic Council president Lux Selvanesan says.
Posted: Thursday March 18, 2021
New festival celebrates women’s art and music
The Dunedin Festival of Women’s Art and Music (DfestWAM) will be launched this weekend, as part of the Dunedin Fringe Fe...
Posted: Thursday March 18, 2021
Festival showcasing homegrown diversity
As New Zealand travellers pile into camper vans to discover beaches and bistros across the country, the Dunedin Writers ...
Posted: Wednesday March 17, 2021
2021 Camperdown Robert Burns Scottish Festival
Posted: Wednesday March 17, 2021
Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival Programme
Posted: Wednesday March 17, 2021
NZSA Oral History Podcast – New Season
Posted: Wednesday March 17, 2021
Small town boy
Michael Metzger’s Dunedin Fringe Festival play examines rural masculinity through the lens of his own story, he tells To...
Posted: Wednesday March 17, 2021
Five visual writing prompts
Inspired by everyday items in a beautiful city – from nature webcams to abandoned shopping lists
Posted: Friday March 12, 2021
The Back of the Painting by Linda Waters, Sarah Hillary and Jenny Sherman.
Posted: Friday March 12, 2021
PLAYWRIGHTS B4 25
Posted: Friday March 12, 2021
New Landfall editor sought
Expressions of interest are sought for the position of editor of Landfall (two issues per year)
Posted: Friday March 12, 2021
Paula Green reviews Vincent O’Sullivan’s substantial new poetry book Things OK with you? for Kete Books
Posted: Friday March 12, 2021
Alan Roddick on David Eggleton's blog
Posted: Friday March 12, 2021
All Saints' Church
All Saints’ Church is a building of exceptional significance” Salmond Reed Heritage Architects.
Posted: Friday March 12, 2021
Shared experience
For two Dunedin first-time playwrights seeing their plays on the stage at Dunedin’s Fringe Festival this year will be th...
Posted: Thursday March 11, 2021
WAIRUA’S Boosted NZ campaign is now LIVE!
Posted: Wednesday March 10, 2021
THE ANNUAL TEXT PRIZE FOR YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S WRITING
Awarded annually to the best manuscript written for young readers, the $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s...
Posted: Wednesday March 10, 2021
Richard Reeve on David Eggleton's Blog
Posted: Tuesday March 9, 2021
DPAG Rear Window 2021...
Posted: Tuesday March 9, 2021
Prize-winning Dunedin playwright Emily Duncan on RNZ
Posted: Tuesday March 9, 2021
CARGO BIKE ART SPACE
Cargo Bike Art Space brings artists and art to the streets, cycle ways and public spaces in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
Posted: Monday March 8, 2021
Juliet Blyth's World Book Day Lecture (excerpt)
Posted: Monday March 8, 2021
OTAGO MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
Otago’s own awards to celebrate our nature, our landscapes, and you, our people, taking images of all of it!
Posted: Monday March 8, 2021