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Writer’s three reasons to celebrate
For the next five weeks, Pennie Hunt will sit where New Zealand’s first professional playwright once sat, working on her own debut feature screenplay.
Posted: Sunday July 25, 2021
Time and space to grow voice
This year’s Robert Burns Fellow, Becky Manawatu, has followed tradition and fallen in love with Dunedin. The writer tells Rebecca Fox about moving on from her award-winning debut novel Aue.
Posted: Thursday July 22, 2021
Local Poet Claire Lacey chatted with Jeff Harford for Write Spot on OAR FM Dunedin - Community Access Media on 21 July.
Posted: Thursday July 22, 2021
Life and works of Neil Grant with text by Peter Stupples and lavishly illustrated with archival and collection images.
Posted: Tuesday July 20, 2021
‘Wuthering Heights’ flash mob serves as fundraiser
The Yorkshire moors came to Dunedin at noon on Saturday as a flash mob assembled in the Octagon for The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever.
Posted: Tuesday July 20, 2021
Introducing Ōtepoti Theatre Lab's Playwrights Programme writers for 2021.
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Hopes of nation on 15 men
Prolific Dunedin author Ron Palenski has again been busy. His new book, Brutal: The 100-year fight for world rugby supremacy, charts the history of rugby tests between the All Blacks and the Springboks.
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Twelve poems about kindness
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Create a piece of ‘concrete poetry’
If a poem creates pictures with words, shape poetry creates words in pictures.
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Carlos Biggemann's new book
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Martin Swann's Bent but Not Broken
Our latest commission, Martin Swann's Bent but Not Broken, is online now at the wonderful Verb Wellington platform!
Posted: Friday July 9, 2021
City’s history, horror woven in drama
It is a tale of hidden lies and twilight prowls, of secret purpose and the madness of the mind.
Posted: Thursday July 8, 2021
Poetry Shelf review: Iona Winter’s gaps in the light
Posted: Thursday July 8, 2021
Owen Marshall dives into the dark side
One of the bleakest stories by respected writer Owen Marshall, Coming Home in the Dark, is the basis for a new film of the same name.
Posted: Wednesday July 7, 2021
Repeat Broadcasts of special content from the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival 2021.
With Puaka Matariki Festival 2021 providing a platform for sharing stories and experiences, OAR FM is pleased to be giving listeners a further opportunity to enjoy special content from the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival 2021.
Posted: Wednesday July 7, 2021
Iona Winter's Podcast - Gaps in the Light
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
Thomas McLean reflects on the career of sculptor Peter Nicholls in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
News from Otago University Press
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement 2021
There’s just over a week left to nominate an outstanding New Zealand writer for the 2021 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement.
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021