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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
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