News
New Anthology by Slemani UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Monday September 21, 2020
Kete Books is now live
Love reading? You’ll find plenty to love here, all in one kete.
Posted: Friday September 18, 2020
Hub’s aim to make learning te reo Maori non-intimidating
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum visitor programmes co-ordinator Phoebe Thompson sits in a language hub that has been set up at the museum for the length of Te Wiki o te Reo Maori — Maori Language Week.
Posted: Friday September 18, 2020
Lift up the anchor - Hūtia Te Punga
Systems-level change will improve the educational experience and outcomes for Māori learners. Mā te rerekē ā-whakahaereka ka whakapiki i te wheako whaiaro ā-mātauraka, i kā putaka hoki mō kā tauira Māori.
Posted: Wednesday September 16, 2020
Pupils excited to map Broad Bay’s past
Pupils of a Dunedin school went "berserk" when they learned they had won a grant for a project that will document history.
Posted: Wednesday September 16, 2020
Love in the time of Covid: A Chronicle of a Pandemic
Submissions are open August 01 – December 01, 2020.
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
New hybrid format for 2020 NZ Young Writers Festival
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
New book examines how childhood shapes later life
In his new book, The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life, University of Otago professor Richie Poulton and his co-authors set out their search to learn how much our origins shape our later lives.
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
Kete partners with Stuff to share reviews of New Zealand books
Kete – the new site devoted to the books of Aotearoa which launches on 15 September – will share reviews of New Zealand books with Stuff to bring the latest releases to readers of Sunday Magazine, Your Weekend and Stuff online.
Posted: Friday September 11, 2020
Dick of the Bay on Otago Access Radio
Attention New Zealanders! A new radio drama is coming to take over your airwaves.
Posted: Friday September 11, 2020
Congratulations to Max Quinn on the publication of his first book, "A Life of Extremes", coming November 2020!
Posted: Wednesday September 9, 2020
Misconceptions and Bruce the cat: a Q&A with Kathryn van Beek
Dunedin author and illustrator Kathryn van Beek is launching two new books this month: her short story collection PET and a children's book, Bruce Goes Outside.
Posted: Tuesday September 8, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Elizabeth Brooke-Carr’s Wanting to tell you everything
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
Happy International Literacy Day!
UNESCO Cities of Literature are excited to celebrate with a collective social media campaign led by Bucheon City of Literature
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Cilla McQueen’s ‘Gossamer’
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020
2020 Nanjing International Writers’ Virtual Residency
Posted: Friday September 4, 2020
Māori Language Moment: Be the 1 in a million
Honour the past, keep ourselves safe now and prepare for the future together!
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
Recordings of Hone Tuwhare
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020
THOMAS POTTS OF CANTERBURY Colonist and conservationist by Paul Star
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2020