News and Opportunities
Calling all writers, poets and playwrights! CompleteMS manuscript assessment programme on offer
The NZSA CompleteMS Programme is supported by Creative NZ and is open to financial members of the NZSA.
Posted: Monday March 8, 2021
Caselberg Trust farewells Kim Morton
Posted: Monday March 8, 2021
Sometimes Playful, Always Compelling
Harry Ricketts reviews Nouns, Verbs, Etc: Selected poems by Fiona Farrell (Otago University Press, 2020), 211pp, $35 for...
Posted: Monday March 8, 2021
Tapestry documents ‘ODT’ newspaper since 1861
Dunedin's influence on the history of daily newspapers in New Zealand has been woven into tapestry.
Posted: Sunday March 7, 2021
Navigators’ ‘untold’ stories presented for young people
Abel Tasman, James Cook, Jean Francois Marie de Surville — stories of the explorers’ lives and achievements are well tra...
Posted: Sunday March 7, 2021
NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 Shortlist
The winner in each category will be announced on 18 March 2021, and each winner receives $500 from NZ Booklovers.
Posted: Thursday March 4, 2021
Globe goes back to the future
Sixty years after The Glass Menagerie was first performed at Dunedin’s Globe Theatre, it is being revisited. Rebecca Fox...
Posted: Thursday March 4, 2021
Arts Grants
Arts Grants offer short-term project funding for New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations (includi...
Posted: Wednesday March 3, 2021
Toi Ake – Mātauranga Māori Te Awe Kōtuku Fund
This fund supports marae, hapū, iwi, whakapapa-based rōpū and mātāwaka to protect, cultivate and retain mātauranga Māori...
Posted: Wednesday March 3, 2021
Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary 2021
The annual Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary provides a stipend that enables a published writer or playwright at an ear...
Posted: Wednesday March 3, 2021
Nominations for Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2021
Arts Access Aotearoa is calling for nominations to Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2021. There are six awards, plus th...
Posted: Wednesday March 3, 2021
Hotere biography among finalists
One of Dunedin’s best known and most prolific authors can add to a long list of accolades after being shortlisted for a ...
Posted: Wednesday March 3, 2021
2021 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS - FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Finalists Reveal a Shift in New Zealand Writing and Publishing
Posted: Wednesday March 3, 2021
Top Adam award for Dunedin playwright
A ‘‘shocking, lacerating and wicked’’ writing style has won Emily Duncan another major playwriting award.
Posted: Wednesday March 3, 2021
Two poems from 'Whisper of a Crow's Wing' by Majella Cullinane translated into Italian.
Posted: Tuesday March 2, 2021
Tou Hou Hari Haina! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Chinese New Year in the Year of the Ox!
The Kotahitaka Trust Board is collaborating with the Dunedin Multi Ethnic Council (“DMEC”) on a special project to help ...
Posted: Tuesday March 2, 2021
NZPS International Poetry Competition
Posted: Tuesday March 2, 2021
Dunedin art in unexpected spaces
Off The Ground is a new project that's given Dunedin events stymied by the pandemic the funding they need to proceed.
Posted: Tuesday March 2, 2021
The Sets by Victor Billot out now
Posted: Monday March 1, 2021
Residency Opportunity in Dunedin
Posted: Monday March 1, 2021
Discover a new city through books
Recommended reading lists from our UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence
Posted: Monday March 1, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award poetry long list
Elizabeth Morton reads from This is your real name
Posted: Wednesday February 24, 2021
Issue 11 of Starling Magazine is online now
Posted: Wednesday February 24, 2021
Read two poems by Ruth Arnison - Silent Lyrics and Driving to Wanaka’s Festival of Colour for David Eggleton's blog
Posted: Wednesday February 24, 2021
Reo Pēpi
Two Ngāi Tahu cousins from Otago are behind the Reo Pēpi bilingual board books - writing and illustrating them. Kitty Br...
Posted: Tuesday February 23, 2021
Poetry Shelf review: Richard Langston’s Five O’Clock Shadows
Posted: Monday February 22, 2021
Dunedin dream brokerage is proud to present..
Posted: Monday February 22, 2021
Creative Engagement/Design Development: Mosgiel Safer Streets
As part of the Mosgiel Safer Schools project, DCC wishes to work with the community to create painted asphalt art on tri...
Posted: Monday February 22, 2021
Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature - 17-02-2021 - Fierce Love and Fresh Air - Kyra Gillies and Rushi Vyas
Posted: Monday February 22, 2021
New OUP publisher named
Dr Sue Wootton has been named the new publisher for Otago University Press and will officially take up the role in April...
Posted: Monday February 22, 2021
Advice for writers, from writers
Tips for improving your craft and productivity from our UNESCO Virtual Writers in Residence
Posted: Monday February 22, 2021
Eggleton to judge Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
New Zealand Poet Laureate David Eggleton will judge the Kathleen Grattan prize for 2021.
Posted: Friday February 19, 2021
NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 Shortlist Announced
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of well-known authors and new writers.
Posted: Friday February 19, 2021
Murals for Bath St Pump Surround – Expression of Interest
Posted: Friday February 19, 2021
Te Tahua Whakahaumaru Creative Arts Recovery and Employment (CARE) Fund
Posted: Thursday February 18, 2021
Kidman Otago's Irish Writing Fellow
Wellington author Dame Fiona Kidman has been appointed as the University of Otago’s inaugural Irish Writing Fellow.
Posted: Thursday February 18, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award Poetry Longlist: A Bill Manhire poem and audio link
Posted: Thursday February 18, 2021
Laura Jean McKay: winning Australia's richest literary prize
Palmerston North-based writer Laura Jean McKay recently won $125,000 at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, taking ...
Posted: Tuesday February 16, 2021
Centre for the Book World Book Day Lecture and Dinner, 4 March
The Centre for the Book is delighted to offer the annual World Book Day Lecture, this year on Thursday, 4 March, at 5:30...
Posted: Tuesday February 16, 2021
Pacific celebrated at Dunedin festival
The colour and vibrancy of Pasifika returned in style at the inaugural Moana Nui Festival in Dunedin at the weekend.
Posted: Sunday February 14, 2021
Underwater series tells NZ’s maritime stories
A joint project for Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Heritage New Zealand, and Fiordland-based tourism operator Fiordland Ex...
Posted: Sunday February 14, 2021
Taking up residency in a blizzard
My screen time is up 46%. I have divested myself of Facebook, cancelled my ongoing TradeMe favourite searches (NomD, fut...
Posted: Sunday February 14, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award poetry long list: Rhian Gallagher reads from Far-Flung
Posted: Friday February 12, 2021
Feast of Riches: A Review of The Dark Is Light Enough
Dr Benjamin Pittman on the richness of the life of Ralph Hotere.
Posted: Friday February 12, 2021
Fringe offers eclectic selection
Dunedin Fringe Festival is the first major event out of the box for 2021, and has a huge programme to offer local audien...
Posted: Thursday February 11, 2021
Live-streams to boost festival’s ‘fringe factor’
If New Zealand’s fringe artists are not "fringey" enough this year, Dunedin Fringe Festival goers will for the first tim...
Posted: Thursday February 11, 2021
Free Webinar Series for emerging writers on short fiction writing skills
Posted: Thursday February 11, 2021
Youth Mentorship Programme 2021 Seeks Emerging Young Writers
Four secondary school students will each have the opportunity to be mentored by one of New Zealand’s best professional a...
Posted: Wednesday February 10, 2021
FUND TO PROTECT TAONGA ON MARAE
Posted: Wednesday February 10, 2021
The Adam NZ Play Award Shortlist is out.
Congratulations to everyone.
Posted: Tuesday February 9, 2021
2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal awarded to publisher Julia Marshall
Julia Marshall has been selected as the 2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner for lifetime achievement and distingu...
Posted: Tuesday February 9, 2021
Dublin City Council announces the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award Longlist of Library Nominations
Four novels from Ireland are among the 49 books nominated by libraries around the world for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Awa...
Posted: Friday February 5, 2021
Applications open for Michael King Writer's Fellowship
Creative New Zealand is calling for applications from established New Zealand writers for the Michael King Writer's Fell...
Posted: Wednesday February 3, 2021
Waewae Kai Pakiaka is back for 2021.
Posted: Wednesday February 3, 2021
Virtual Writer’s Residency – Norwich City of Literature
Dunedin poet Liz Breslin was selected by Norwich UNESCO City of Literature for a virtual writer’s residency, ‘Imagining ...
Posted: Tuesday February 2, 2021
Five Writers. One Month.
We are delighted to welcome five writers from UNESCO Cities of Literature around the world to Norwich for a virtual resi...
Posted: Tuesday February 2, 2021
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlists for 2021 have been announced
Posted: Tuesday February 2, 2021
The Pursuit of Freedom
Political protest and Te Reo has featured strongly in this year’s Robert Burns Poetry Competition entries.
Posted: Monday February 1, 2021
OU Press books long-listed
Three Otago University Press titles have made the long list for this year’s national book awards.
Posted: Monday February 1, 2021