Latest happenings
City of Readers, Children's Summer Reading Programme
Pre-registrations are open for the annual Summer Reading Programme for children in Years 1-8
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Submissions are now open for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
These annual awards recognise and celebrate the best books for young readers published in New Zealand and we can't wait to see the entries start rolling in.
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Do you have memories to share about the Dunedin City Library?
How good is your memory? We're celebrating the 40th birthday of the current Dunedin City Library building by inviting you to share your memories of the Library with us.
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
The city’s foodbanks need your help!
If you wish to donate non-perishable food items, there are collection points at all Dunedin Public Libraries.
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Landfall 242 is now out!
This is the first edition from new editor Lynley Edmeades and is full of literary treasures and competition results.
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Stuck for Christmas present ideas for your staff, friends or family?
How about buying a book for a kid in need on their behalf?
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
'Bruce Hunt wants us to share his special place'
Jim Eagles reviews TUSSOCK by Bruce Hunt, published by Bateman Books
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Congratulations to Anna Woods who has been selected as the Caselberg Trust Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writer in Residence for 2022!
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Caselberg’s International Poetry Prize Awards Night
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Melbourne City of Lit meets Dunedin’s University Book Shop
Check out this wonderful article
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Dublin Book Festival 2021: Crime in the City
Enjoy this video featuring our own Vanda Symon!
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Judith Binney Fellow for 2022
Congratulations to Dr Jonathan West who has been named the Judith Binney Fellow for 2022. Jonathan is the award-winning author of 'The Face of Nature: An Environmental History of the Otago Peninsula' (OUP).
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Looking for book recommendations this Christmas?
Check out Kete Books' Christmas catalogue.
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2021
A massive congratulations to Michael Steven who is the winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2021 for his manuscript 'Night School', which will be published by Otago University Press next April.
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Undiscovered Gems
Write a Short Story Based On Your Unpublished Book Win USD $500 and Publishing Opportunities with Exisle and EK Books
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems
Posted: Sunday November 28, 2021
Poetry Shelf review: Liz Breslin’s in bed with the feminists
in bed with the feminists, Liz Breslin, Dead Bird Books, 2021
Posted: Tuesday November 23, 2021
One hundred years ago: the University of Otago’s own Professor Robert Jack made the first public radio broadcast in New Zealand.
Robert Jack is seated at the centre in this photograph of the university’s Physics Department staff and senior students, taken in 1926.
Posted: Tuesday November 23, 2021