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UBS Otago Summer Writer in Residence Applications Open Now!
Are you an emerging writer? Do you know an emerging writer whod appreciate a summer sojourn in our fantastic little City of Literature?
Posted: Monday July 30, 2018
Exhibition showcases early New Zealand women writers in suffrage tribute
The latest Reed Gallery exhibition at Dunedin Public Library showcases early women writers and other creative women of the times to complement the story of the womens suffrage movement.
Posted: Monday July 30, 2018
CLNZ Writers Award 2018
The $25,000 CLNZ Writers Award is one of the investments made through CLNZs Cultural Fund. The Writers Award is offered to writers of any genre of non-fiction, including writers of education material.
Posted: Tuesday July 10, 2018
Hostage: One Gun, Many Triggers
Experience the thrill of the live radio play, live to air on Otago Access Radio.
Posted: Tuesday July 10, 2018
WriteNow opens to young poets
Dunedin poet Sue Wootton, co-organiser and judge of this year's WriteNow poetry competition for secondary school pupils, is looking for poems that strongly connect the reader to the poet's vision.
Posted: Sunday July 1, 2018
Poland visit highlighted Dunedin as creative city
Dunedin was certainly taken notice of during a world creative cities event in Poland earlier this month, the mayor says.
Posted: Tuesday June 26, 2018
Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Research Grant 2018
The Dorothy Neal White Collection (9,000 books), in the National Library of New Zealand, is a research collection of childrens books that were enjoyed by young New Zealanders in the century before 1940.
Posted: Thursday June 7, 2018
Looking for poems by writers with a migrant/former refugee background
Landing Press, a small Wellington publisher, is inviting migrant and former refugee poets to send in their work for a collection to be published in October 2018.
Posted: Tuesday June 5, 2018
New local drama asks: Whos really responsible?
A dramatic new radio play by a local playwriting group will be heard live at the Dunedin Public Library later this month.
Posted: Friday June 1, 2018
Four plays will take the stage
Four short plays are to get their moment on stage, despite Fortune's closing, writes Kim Dungey.
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
Science in crime novels should be real - writer
Readers are keen for accurate forensic science to be conveyed through crime fiction, Dunedin researcher and crime novelist Dr Vanda Symon says.
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
Joint exhibition to celebrate 'Landfall'
Landfalls position as New Zealands pre-eminent literary and art journal is being celebrated in a unique way by the Otago Arts Society. Rebecca Fox discovers what is behind a joint exhibition celebrating the connections between artistic and literary worlds.
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
Landfall exhibition connects art and literature
The Otago Art Society and Otago University Press are joining forces to present a unique exhibition that celebrates the connections between the artistic and literary worlds fostered by Landfall journal.
Posted: Thursday May 10, 2018
Winner of Young Writers' Essay Competition announced
Landfall, New Zealands leading journal of arts and literature, is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2018 Charles Brasch Young Writers Essay Competition is Aimee-Jane Anderson-OConnor, whose essay is titled Disappearing Disease.
Posted: Thursday May 3, 2018
Freedom Song
Emma Farrys Freedom Song is a powerful and beautiful panacea for the world we live in. Its a go-to book in times of trouble and a tool to enable more harmony and peace in your life. The books simple message love conquers all is both confronting and inviting in its delivery.
Posted: Sunday April 29, 2018
CALLING ALL MUSICIANS AND SONGWRITERS
Youth Zone Unplugged is back for 2018! This year we are giving ten young musical acts the opportunity to record and produce their own original tracks to air on OAR FM Dunedin and associated platforms - Free of Charge
Posted: Thursday April 5, 2018
Why Go Girl needed to be written
New Zealand's answer to Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls is in bookshops now. It's called Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women (Penguin Random House NZ), and it's written by the multi-award-winning Barbara Else. We asked Barbara to tell us why the book was so badly needed, and we...
Posted: Tuesday April 3, 2018
Literary flagstones well worth looking down on
The Dunedin Writers Walk has maintained a low profile for the past 25 years but Tony Eyre argues it is worth more than a passing glance.
Posted: Monday March 19, 2018
Novel shines fresh light on womens suffrage as New Zealand celebrates 125 years
Before I could stop myself I stood up in my seat and boasted that I had met Mrs Sheppard when we berthed in Christchurch. That Id read Wollstonecraft in London and that all women should get the vote
Posted: Tuesday March 13, 2018
Otago well represented in 2018 Ockhams shortlist
A widely praised collection from a leading New Zealand poet, and an exciting new environmental history of the settlement of the Otago Peninsula, have been shortlisted for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Posted: Tuesday March 6, 2018