He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
'Teddy’s Life Journey' delights and inspires young poets at Dunedin Rudolf Steiner School
In May this year, City of Literature South D Poet Lorikeet, Jenny Powell, visited Dunedin Rudolf Steiner School’s Class ...
Posted: Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Congratulations to all the 2024 Storylines Notable Book Award winners
Check out all the winners here.
Posted: Thursday Nov 14, 2024
UBS Spotlights David Elliot
Posted: Thursday Nov 14, 2024
The Arts Foundation Nominations are now open!
Springboard is back for 2025, and you have until Friday 13 December to kickstart careers for artists of any discipline b...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award
Nominations close 30 November 2024
Posted: Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 - now open for entries
Entries close 10 December 2024
Posted: Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Dunedin Fringe Festival 2025 - Artist Registration Reminder!
Registrations close: Sunday 17 November 2024
Posted: Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Birds of a Feather present the Tony and Olivier multi award-winning play, Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
Only 6 more shows - ticket numbers are dwindling - it's now or never!
Posted: Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2024 – open for applications
Award for fresh writing with a ‘unique and original vision’ - Applications close 15 March 2024
Posted: Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Get published!
Little Moa is opening for children's book submissions for one week only, from 25 November.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Implementing a global health programme: Smallpox and Nepal by Susan Heydon
Get 30% off this title when you order through the Manchester University Press website - pre-orders available now!
Posted: Monday Nov 11, 2024
Poetry Shelf review
Faces and Flowers Poems to Patricia France by Dinah Hawken (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024)
Posted: Thursday Nov 07, 2024
Book review: New Stories by Owen Marshall
Harry Ricketts reviews New Stories by Owen Marshall published by Penguin Random House NZ
Posted: Thursday Nov 07, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Emma Neale poetry collection Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit - Emma talks about her new poetry collection, which explores the way...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
'Te Hau Kāinga' and 'Raupanga', two companion books which tell the story of profound transformation in Māori life during the Second World War.
Available in stores from 7 November 2024
Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Out March 2025! Available now for pre-order!
Books of Mana: 180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance, Edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira
Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
First Kiwi writer to win coveted residency
Award-winning New Zealand poet Alison Glenny has been selected for a writers’ residency in Dunedin.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Congratulations to Alison Wong
2024 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate, recipient of the Burr/Tatham Trust Award recognising her contributions to lit...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Book Review: Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn
Unsettling stories from a writer who dares to challenge and confront us.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Hope festival will be city’s biggest yet
A cultural group aims to create the largest Diwali celebration the city has ever seen.
Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2024
'Grief Momentarily Suspended' - Genevieve Scanlan reviews:
Meantime by Majella Cullinane (Otago University Press), Tidelines by Kiri Piahana-Wong (Anahera Press) and Chew the Brig...
Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2024
Doctor’s tale has striking parallels
Dr Mira Harrison-Woolrych’s debut novel taps into doctors’ “primal fear that you won’t be able to do everything you can ...
Posted: Friday Nov 01, 2024
Rap Like Robbie Poetry Competition 2024
Entries close Saturday 30 November 2024
Posted: Friday Nov 01, 2024
Robert Burns Poetry Competition 2024
Entries close 5pm Saturday 30 November
Posted: Friday Nov 01, 2024
Adam NZ Play Award Submissions are open
Submissions close on 1 December
Posted: Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Verb Festival's Disability Literati event
Writing for children and young people
Posted: Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Otago poets praised at prestigious International awards
Two University of Otago alumni have won awards in the prestigious Laurel Prize for poetry.
Posted: Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
Te Vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau - Tokelau Language Week
Celebrate: 27 October – 2 November. Learn some Gagana Tokelau to use this week!
Posted: Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
Book Review: Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology
C.K. Stead reviews Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology edited by Janet Newman and Robert Sullivan for the Times Literar...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
Writer new artist in residence
Congratulations to Laurence Fearnley - selected as the latest artist in residence at Henderson House in Alexandra
Posted: Friday Oct 25, 2024
Original songs feature in theatre production
The first outing for Dunedin-based director Lara Macgregor’s newly founded theatre company Birds of a Feather will be aw...
Posted: Friday Oct 25, 2024
Poetry Shelf themes: Harbour
The final theme in this series is harbour. I am drawn to all kinds of harbours: harbours that offer beauty, that keep us...
Posted: Friday Oct 25, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Samantha Montgomerie - Dunedin Writer Samantha will take up the College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Wri...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Bruce Bisset pulled together decades of his poetry to fill a 122-page book
Listen here
Posted: Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Meet Your 2024 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureates
Huge congratulations to all eight recipients
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Entries will close Friday 22 November 2024
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize
Entries will close Friday 22 November 2024
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
Cover to Cover - an evening with Jacqueline Bublitz and Kyle Mewburn
29 Nov 2024, Roxburgh
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
Happy Birthday Hone Tuwhare!!
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
Exciting results at this year's The Laurel Prize 2024
A huge congratulations to Robyn Maree Pickens for winning third place for Tung, Megan Kitching for winning Best Internat...
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
2024 'Books and the City' Symposium Programme and Registration
Registration to attend in person is essential by 9am Tuesday 12 November
Posted: Monday Oct 21, 2024
Congratulations to the winners of Writer 2024
Guest judge and 2024 Burns Fellow Mikaela Nyman says the thoughtful and varied entries related to the theme, "a place of...
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Donations for the 2024 Kiwi Christmas Books have begun!
Head to University Book Shop or donate online and purchase any baby, kids or teen books to give kids across New Zealand ...
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Poetry Shelf themes: Shirts, dresses, overalls
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Call for judges of the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Applications to judge are now open to all those with suitable qualifications and experience, and will close on 31 Octobe...
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Kupu Māori Writers Festival - Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, 16th - 19th October, 2024
Can't make it in person - watch online!
Posted: Friday Oct 18, 2024
Humorous celebration of Regency romance ‘queen’
A large audience was treated to a delightfully witty walk down literary memory lane on Saturday at Dunedin Public Librar...
Posted: Thursday Oct 17, 2024
RAWA: Readers and Writers Akaroa Festival
a festival of books, words, inspirations 2nd & 3rd November 2024
Posted: Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Happy publication day to Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn
Out now! In stores or online
Posted: Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Two weeks left to apply for the Randell Cottage Writers Residency
Applications close Friday 1 November 2024
Posted: Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Paula Morris wins Surrey
Paula Morris has won the distinguished Surrey Hotel Writers Residency Award in association with Newsroom and Jude and Di...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Frank Sargeson Fellowship 2025
Applications close on Sunday, 30 October 2024, for a Fellowship commencing February 2025
Posted: Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Winners of the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition announced
Read the winning stories here
Posted: Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
University of Otago announces 2025 Arts Fellows
Otago’s Arts Fellows for 2025 have been selected. The Fellows receive a stipend for between six months and one year and ...
Posted: Monday Oct 14, 2024
A love letter to bookshops
A photo book paying tribute to 32 of New Zealand's indie book stores has hit the shelves, fittingly on New Zealand Books...
Posted: Monday Oct 14, 2024
Poetry Shelf pays tribute to Fleur Adcock (1934 – 2024)
The effects of Fleur’s poetry are wide ranging; she wrote from a sustained history of reading and inquiry, from personal...
Posted: Monday Oct 14, 2024