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Dunedin writer scoops award in international competition
Emma Neale from Dunedin is just one of three writers highly commended in this years prestigious UK Bridport Prize flash fiction competition for her story Courtship. Flash fiction or micro fiction is a very, very short story in this instance, of 250 words or fewer.
Posted: Sunday November 11, 2018
Calling all playwrights! The University of Otago and UNESCO need your scripts!
While it may be almost a year until the house lights are dimmed and actors tread the boards, organisers are calling for playwrights to contribute to the success of the UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival, which will be hosted by the University of Otago in Dunedin between September...
Posted: Thursday November 1, 2018
New Zealand writers to showcase Mori and Pacific literature in the United Kingdom
Five of New Zealands leading Mori and Pasifika writers will be showcasing their work in the United Kingdom next month (November) alongside the high profile Oceania art exhibition in London.
Posted: Monday October 15, 2018
Philip Temple - The life of Maurice Shadbolt
Posted: Monday October 15, 2018
Exisle Publishing - Latest titles
Posted: Thursday October 11, 2018
Otago University Press celebrates PM's award for poet Michael Harlow
Otago University Press has congratulated Otago poet Michael Harlow who has been honoured as one of three winners in this years Prime Ministers Awards for Literary Achievement.
Posted: Tuesday October 9, 2018
2018 Prime Ministers Awards for Literary Achievement: winners announced
Feminist and working-class stories, poetry as song, and a deeper understanding of New Zealand art these are just some of the frontiers explored by this years winners of the Prime Ministers Awards for Literary Achievement.
Posted: Monday October 8, 2018
BUT I CHANGED ALL THAT: First New Zealand women, by Jane Tolerton
But I Changed All That is a collection of New Zealand women firsts from 1893 to 2018. The 76-page book, put out to commemorate the 125th anniversary of womens suffrage, contains portraits of first New Zealand women, with extended captions, including a quote from each subject.
Posted: Sunday September 30, 2018
New Citywide Event Calendar
The new citywide event calendar is now live on DunedinNZ.com.
Posted: Sunday September 30, 2018
Wordsmith course: Radio Drama II
This is a short course proposed for February 2019. The focus would be on writing radio drama but, depending on interest, could also include adapting short fiction (narration with bursts of dialogue), poems and monologues (dramatic or essayic), and memoir sequences to radio.
Posted: Thursday September 27, 2018
Auckland Writers Festival Launches Literary Foundation
A new Foundation established by the Auckland Writers Festival aims to strengthen Aotearoas literary landscape.
Posted: Monday September 24, 2018
Dunedin City Of Magic
Anyone living in Dunedin knows the magic of our city. Kura Carpenter thought shed share that with the world. Her debut novel The Kingfishers Debt (IFWG Australia) is set in contemporary Dunedin with one twist: What if magic was real?
Posted: Monday September 24, 2018
A decade of New Zealand Bestsellers to celebrate this NZ Bookshop Day
Seven NZ novels, eight childrens & YA books and five non-fiction titles comprise the Top 20 Bestsellers voted as favourites by booksellers from all over New Zealand. Now, the public have their opportunity to vote for their Bestseller of the Decade, in celebration of the fourth annual NZ Bookshop Day...
Posted: Sunday September 23, 2018
Robert Burns Fellows get-together frequency could double
The success of a reunion of University of Otago Robert Burns Fellows, means that their next get-together could come sooner than the usual 10-year interval.
Posted: Tuesday September 11, 2018
New Zealand Young Writers Festival Launches 2018 Programme
Robot poetry, decolonising literature, and feminism in the age of #metoo are among the hot button topics at this years New Zealand Young Writers Festival. Performances, workshops, panel discussions, and film screenings make up the 18 free events taking place in Dunedin from September 6th - 9th.
Posted: Tuesday August 14, 2018
Robert Burns Fellowship Exhibition, University of Otago, Dunedin
for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually Charles Brasch, Notes. Landfall, March, 1959
Posted: Tuesday August 14, 2018
September sees Saxons and sorcery in German drama
A modern adaptation of a traditional Saxon tale about a sorcerers apprentice is coming to the Dunedin stage in September.
Posted: Monday August 13, 2018
Opportunity for Southern Screenwriters in China
Local screenwriters are being sought for a two-month residency in Shanghai as part of a new joint initiative of the Dunedin City Council (DCC), New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) and the New Zealand Writers Guild (NZWG).
Posted: Monday August 6, 2018
Blue Oyster Proposals open for submissions
Blue Oyster are currently accepting proposals for their 2019 Annual Programme as well as proposals towards the 2019 Blue Oyster Art Project Space and Caselberg Trust Summer Residency.
Posted: Thursday August 2, 2018
Painted Poems at Portobello School
Posted: Tuesday July 31, 2018