News and Opportunities
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
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
A history of Otago — page by page
A university professor is putting out a call to craft a page of history.
Posted: Friday September 8, 2023
Micro-folie Digital Museum
Running in Tūhura Otago Museum's Beautiful Science Gallery now through 11 October.
Posted: Friday September 8, 2023
Plan your festival weekend!
The New Zealand Young Writers Festival truly has something for everyone. With 17 free events from 21st to 24th September...
Posted: Friday September 8, 2023
Programme for the 2023 Dunedin Readers & Writers Festival is here!
A moment that marks the beginning of a journey, to the place where the river meets the sea - Te Pūao
Posted: Thursday September 7, 2023
Blue Oyster Art Project Space Call for Proposals
Applications close Sun 24 Sep 2023
Posted: Tuesday September 5, 2023
Secure your spot for the KUPU Ngā Ringa Tuhituhi Māori Writers Festival 2023
17-23 September, Rotorua
Posted: Monday September 4, 2023
Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
Read the winning poems here
Posted: Monday September 4, 2023
PETER OLDS: 2 JUNE 1944 - 31 AUGUST 2023
A get-together to remember Peter will be held on Friday 27 October at the Dunedin Public library.
Posted: Sunday September 3, 2023
International KM100NZ Haiku Competition
Applications close 15 September 2023
Posted: Sunday September 3, 2023
NZ Young Writers Festival 2023 first event
'The One Work That Defines You'
Posted: Thursday August 31, 2023
'Tung' on Write Spot
Art writer and poet Robyn Maree Pickens has released debut collection Tung through Otago University Press
Posted: Tuesday August 29, 2023
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura announces storyteller Mona Williams will deliver the 2023 Pānui
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura is delighted to announce Mona Williams as the outstanding storyteller who will deliver its annua...
Posted: Tuesday August 29, 2023
Poetry Box new features
Share the word that Poetry Box aims to be a Poetry Hub for poems for and by children
Posted: Monday August 28, 2023
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories edited by Paula Morris
A new fiction anthology is a 'celebration of the sheer talent of Māori writers'.
Posted: Monday August 28, 2023
Captivating poem graces a head-turning mural in our City of Literature
Posted: Monday August 28, 2023
Available Art from 'Behind Closed Doors' exhibition at Pea Sea Art
'Nikau Nostalgia' by Lynda Cullen
Posted: Monday August 28, 2023
Results from Te Hautonga
The secondary kapa haka competition in Murihiku / Invercargill
Posted: Monday August 28, 2023
Last chance to donate!
Crowdfunding Campaign to build the Janet Frame Visitor Centre closes today.
Posted: Monday August 28, 2023
Janet Frame Poetry Prize for essa may ranapiri
Janet Frame’s estate is delighted to announce the 2023 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry.
Posted: Sunday August 27, 2023
Captivating Stories
A spotlight on the enchanting window display at our favourite bookshop
Posted: Sunday August 27, 2023
Calling all poets and wordsmiths!
Apply now for the 2024 WOMAD NZ Poetry Slam
Posted: Sunday August 27, 2023
2023 Centre of the Book Research Symposium - ‘Books and Resistance’ (University of Otago 16–17 Nov 23)
Call for abstracts due 1 September
Posted: Sunday August 27, 2023
Have you booked your tickets for the New Zealand Young Writers Festival?
Events are almost at capacity so Book Now!!
Posted: Friday August 25, 2023
Legally Blonde - Musical Theatre Dunedin
All Remaining Seats $50! Only 2 Shows Left.
Posted: Friday August 25, 2023
Poetry Shelf and Poetry Box celebrate National Poetry Day
Posted: Friday August 25, 2023
Inaugural Small Press Fest a Success
Check out these photos from the packed weekend ....
Posted: Friday August 25, 2023
Why Katherine Mansfield is still the ultimate literary punk, 100 years after her death
Biographer and memoirist Redmer Yska will be at Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, speaking to Katherine's work, as wel...
Posted: Wednesday August 23, 2023
Sue Wootton's Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Follow her journey
Posted: Wednesday August 23, 2023
What a special Advance Information Sheet from London’s Istros Books
Commenting on Faruk Šehić's 'My Rivers' are both David Howard and Kapka Kassabova!
Posted: Tuesday August 22, 2023
Ati Teepa is writing his poems in kokowai
Don't miss out on your copy
Posted: Tuesday August 22, 2023
The battle for Ukraine's cultural gems
How are the creativity, spaces and heritage of the war-torn country being supported? Beverley D'Silva explores the issue...
Posted: Tuesday August 22, 2023
takahē 108
Multi-talented 2023 Burns fellow Kathryn van Beek is in the Takahē Magazine August issue, with her essay 'Going Dutch'
Posted: Tuesday August 22, 2023
Boosted Campaign
22 days left to contribute to the Elixir & Star Press Boosted campaign
Posted: Monday August 21, 2023