Poetry Shelf Cafe: Arihia Latham reads from Birdspeak

Arihia Latham (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha) Is a writer, creative, and rongoā practitioner. Her poetry collection Bird...

Posted: Tuesday October 3, 2023

Apply now for the Robert Lord Writers Cottage 2024 Residencies

Applications close 27 November 2023

Posted: Tuesday October 3, 2023

Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival starts in less than two weeks!

Book your tickets now!

Posted: Tuesday October 3, 2023

Entries for The Allen & Unwin NZ Fiction Prize are open!

Entries must be lodged by 31 March 2024

Posted: Monday October 2, 2023

Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust Latest News

Book Launch, Cottage open home, Dates for the Diary...

Posted: Monday October 2, 2023

takahē magazine Best of the Net

2024 nominations

Posted: Monday October 2, 2023

Polyfest promoted sense of belonging

Thirty years ago the first Polyfest acted as a beacon of light for a young Samoan man who is now a stage manager of the ...

Posted: Monday October 2, 2023

The Ministry for Pacific Peoples’ Toloa Secondary and Tertiary Scholarships open TODAY!

These are awesome opportunities for our youth to thrive in STEAM subjects: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Ma...

Posted: Monday October 2, 2023

Dunedin Fringe is offering the Pacific Artist grant for Fringe 2024!!

Learn more and apply here

Posted: Monday October 2, 2023

Pasefika Presence has released their first issue!!

Read the Debut Issue now!

Posted: Monday October 2, 2023

For all our sci-fi/fantasy fans…

What happens when technology is levied against those we fear, or those we refuse to understand?

Posted: Monday October 2, 2023

You could go to the Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavík, Iceland in April 2024 for free!

Scholarship applications are now open and close 31 October 2023.

Posted: Friday September 29, 2023

Sound the exciting Ōtepoti Dunedin news alarm!

Dunedin Fringe 2024 Registrations & Artist Grant Applications are NOW OPEN!

Posted: Friday September 29, 2023

The Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival will be over-run with talent

Witi Ihimaera, Stacey Morrison, Coco Solid, Andrea Hotere, Ruth Paul & Louise Wallace, to name a few, will be taking the...

Posted: Friday September 29, 2023

Applications for the 2024 Kaipukahu University of Waikato Writer in Residence are open

Applications close Friday 10 November 2023

Posted: Friday September 29, 2023

Today on Write Spot

Dunedin-based poet Rushi Vyas has released his debut collection 'When I Reach For Your Pulse', which untangles slippery ...

Posted: Thursday September 28, 2023

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2024 Judges Announced

Respected academics, curators, reading and arts advocates, award-winning writers, journalists and reviewers are among th...

Posted: Wednesday September 27, 2023

Stories under the Stars

On at the Otago Museum until 8 October

Posted: Tuesday September 26, 2023

The Wizard of Oz at Playhouse Theatre

Selling out fast! Don't miss out! Book now!

Posted: Tuesday September 26, 2023

Thomas TW Henry (Rā Designs)

An incredible talent that worked on the Otago Polyfest banners

Posted: Tuesday September 26, 2023

What a session this one is going to be!

Barbara Else and Emily Writes in the same room, sharing the same stage AND with the wonderfully funny Swapna Haddow at t...

Posted: Tuesday September 26, 2023

Nine to Noon's Short Story Competition

Entries close Friday 29 September

Posted: Tuesday September 26, 2023

The 2024 Robert Burns Fellow announced ...

Congratulations to Mikaela Nyman

Posted: Monday September 25, 2023

Calling all Book Lovers - join the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Volunteer Team!

Many hands make light work, and the DWRF are seeking passionate volunteers to be a part of this literary extravaganza.

Posted: Monday September 25, 2023

Interview: Tony Eyre talks about The Book Collector

Tony Eyre shares with NZ Booklovers his bibliomemoir - a celebration of reading, books, authors and second-hand bookshop...

Posted: Monday September 25, 2023

Applications for the 2024 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship are now open

Applications close early November

Posted: Monday September 25, 2023

Get your bells ready!

Celebrate the first returnees for the new season at 1pm on Monday 25 September!

Posted: Sunday September 24, 2023

Write Spot with Tony Eyre

Listen to this fascinating kōrero between Jeff Harford and our very own Tony Eyre about his just-published memoir ‘The B...

Posted: Friday September 22, 2023

2023 PANZ Book Design Awards

The most beautiful books in Aotearoa have been revealed!

Posted: Thursday September 21, 2023

Wheelers Books - Mental Health Awareness Week

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week in Aotearoa, an important week for helping Kiwis to boost their wellbeing and mental h...

Posted: Thursday September 21, 2023

Calling all budding reviewers!!

The Aotearoa NZ Review of Books has two fantastic opportunities coming up.

Posted: Wednesday September 20, 2023

I’m a writer too:

The festival for people afraid to call themselves writers

Posted: Wednesday September 20, 2023

Mātātuhi Foundation's October Funding Round is bigger and better

Good news! Applicants can now apply for $5,000 to $25,000 in funding for a literary project. In previous years, the maxi...

Posted: Wednesday September 20, 2023

The Book Collector - reviewed by Terry Toner

The Book Collector - Reading and living with Literature by Tony Eyre - published in a small gift hardback by Mary Egan P...

Posted: Tuesday September 19, 2023

Storytelling Unplugged: Finding Common Ground Through Podcast Narratives

If you love podcasts, come and listen to the experts explore how and why we make them!

Posted: Tuesday September 19, 2023

Robbie Burns Poetry Competitions

Entries close 1 December 2023

Posted: Tuesday September 19, 2023

Kathryn van Beek's beautiful personal essay, Going Dutch

Read here

Posted: Tuesday September 19, 2023

It's Mental Health Awareness Week

Learn more about GROW Mental Health Community and Support Groups

Posted: Tuesday September 19, 2023

NZ Young Writers Festival Otago Poetry Slam

Step on stage for the NZYWF Poetry Slam! Or, cheer from the audience.

Posted: Monday September 18, 2023

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Playhouse Theatre these school holidays

Will the Wizard of Oz give Scarecrow some brains, the Tin Woodman a heart and the Lion some courage? And can he return D...

Posted: Monday September 18, 2023

Strong Words 3 Extract:

Reasons to Learn Cantonese by Maddie Ballard from Strong Words 3: The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition

Posted: Monday September 18, 2023

Bookish festival ‘bursting with talent’

A large crowd of book lovers gathered at the University Book Shop last week for the launch of the Dunedin Writers & Read...

Posted: Monday September 18, 2023

Submissions for Student Writing in the June 2024 School Journal close 22 September for Levels 2 and 3

This is an amazing chance for young writers to have a piece of work published in the world's longest-running serial publ...

Posted: Sunday September 17, 2023

Host Kim Hill leaves RNZ's Saturday Morning show: 'It is time for a change for me'

Kim Hill is signing off from her flagship Saturday Morning show on RNZ National.

Posted: Friday September 15, 2023

Vira Paky on Write Spot

Storytelling Unplugged - Poet and playwright Vira Paky previews a New Zealand Young Writers Festival event exploring fin...

Posted: Friday September 15, 2023

NZ Young Writers Festival

Starling Micro-Residency Panel Discussion - Sun 24 Sep 1-2pm

Posted: Friday September 15, 2023

Scottish International Storytelling Festival programme announced

Check out the online Global Lab workshop

Posted: Friday September 15, 2023

Michael King Writers Centre 2024 Writers Residencies

Applications now open and close on Monday 2 October, 2023

Posted: Friday September 15, 2023

Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival

“Te Pūao - the place where the river meets the sea” is the theme for this year’s Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival.

Posted: Thursday September 14, 2023

Otago Polyfest Festival Village Map

Have you checked out the Otago Polyfest Festival Village?

Posted: Thursday September 14, 2023

Short story: Isn’t It, by Paula Morris

Thank you Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngāti Whātua) for this ‘stunning homage’ to The Garden Party from Hiw...

Posted: Thursday September 14, 2023

Bloody Scotland Newsletter

The iconic Bloody Scotland festival is about to kick off and who is Craig Robertson’s first recommendation?

Posted: Thursday September 14, 2023

Free Heritage Bus

Otago Polyfest and Otago Museum collaboration

Posted: Tuesday September 12, 2023

It's Day Two of Otago Polyfest

Entry is $2 per person

Posted: Tuesday September 12, 2023

We're off to see the wizard!

Join Dorothy, Toto, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow and Lion these school holidays as The Wizard of Oz returns to the Playhouse s...

Posted: Tuesday September 12, 2023

Kia kaha te reo Māori!

Kete and The Coalition for Books celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori this week...

Posted: Tuesday September 12, 2023

Nau mai ki te Wiki o te Reo Māori!

Welcome to Māori Language Week!

Posted: Sunday September 10, 2023

Introducing Dr van Beek!

Congratulations Kathryn!

Posted: Sunday September 10, 2023

Happy Rāhina Otago.

It's POLYFEST week!

Posted: Sunday September 10, 2023


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