Call for the 2024 Prague Residency Program

Apply Now! Deadline for receiving application form: Thursday, August 31, 2023, 11.59 pm CET

Posted: Thursday July 6, 2023

Bell Hill Apartments Dunedin 2023 Poetry Competition is open for entries

Entries close 29 July 2023

Posted: Thursday July 6, 2023

Calendar of upcoming Puaka Matariki Festival Events

10-21 July 2023

Posted: Thursday July 6, 2023

Celebrating the Spectacular Success of Playhouse Theatre's "Badjelly the Witch"!

Heartfelt congratulations to The Playhouse Theatre for your sold-out performance of "Badjelly the Witch"

Posted: Wednesday July 5, 2023

2023 Ngaio Marsh Award longlist for best novel announced!

Congratulations to all who have made the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist!

Posted: Wednesday July 5, 2023

Invitation to contribute to "The Book of Otago"

What does Otago mean to you?

Posted: Wednesday July 5, 2023

Kete Review: Five picture books to make young ones laugh

Featuring Tulip and Sprout!

Posted: Wednesday July 5, 2023

Jan Michalski Foundation’s residency for writers - applications open

The Jan Michalski Foundation’s residency for writers is designed to provide an environment for creative writing and to s...

Posted: Wednesday July 5, 2023

Serhii Plokhy: the history and future of the Ukrainian war

Radio NZ Interview

Posted: Wednesday July 5, 2023

Drop by Drop: Adults Who Write Poetry for Children Competition

A new nationwide competition for adults who write poetry for children has been launched in the lead-up to Phantom Billst...

Posted: Wednesday July 5, 2023

National Schools Pride Week

This month Dunedin Public Libraries celebrated National Schools Pride Week as well as a whole month of the Out on the Sh...

Posted: Wednesday July 5, 2023

National Poetry Day Competition: Poetry on the Edge

Entries close 31 July 2023

Posted: Monday July 3, 2023

Breathtaking collages centrepiece of project

Bright, colourful fabric collages will form a spectacular backdrop for a busy programme of science-based activities in t...

Posted: Monday July 3, 2023

Nominations for the Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement now open!

Nominations for the 2023 awards are open now and close at 1PM, Friday 21 July.

Posted: Monday July 3, 2023

NFFD winning stories published!

Posted: Sunday July 2, 2023

The Kete Questionnaire - Megan Kitching

At the Point of Seeing

Posted: Friday June 30, 2023

Mānawatia a Matariki

This year's Coalition for Books Matariki Winter Reading catalogue is out.

Posted: Friday June 30, 2023

2023 Young Authors Challenge Competition

What you would do if you could change the world? The Young Authors Challenge is a short story competition open to all pr...

Posted: Friday June 30, 2023

A Kind of Shelter / Whakaruru-taha ed. Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy

A new anthology of 'creative thinkers' in conversation.

Posted: Friday June 30, 2023

At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching

The end of the world: a debut collection on 'the fragility of the earth under our feet '.

Posted: Friday June 30, 2023

‘OTHERHOOD: NEW BOOK AIMS TO SMASH THE TABOO OF NOT BEING A MOTHER

30 Kiwis have bravely shared their stories about a topic that remains taboo: not being a mother. In ‘OTHERHOOD, an essay...

Posted: Thursday June 29, 2023

New Zealand International Science Festival

... begins Friday 30 June!

Posted: Wednesday June 28, 2023

Matariki 2023

Guide to the stars and Events

Posted: Tuesday June 27, 2023

Flash Frontier - An Adventure in Short Fiction

Call for Submissions

Posted: Monday June 26, 2023

Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature

Vanda Symon talks about her long-awaited crime novel, Expectant

Posted: Thursday June 22, 2023

The Sunday Essay: Who shot the last huia?

It might have been my uncle.

Posted: Thursday June 22, 2023

A Celebration of Sandra Morris, ONZM

In the realm of children’s literature and art, Sandra Morris stands out as a remarkable talent whose illustrations have ...

Posted: Thursday June 22, 2023

Cover story: Aftermaths: Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

Completely unscientifically and from a book buyer’s point-of-view, rather than a designer’s well- honed eye, each month,...

Posted: Thursday June 22, 2023

Tulip and Sprout

Out Now!

Posted: Thursday June 22, 2023

The 2023 Micro Madness Short List, one micro at a time!

Find the top stories in this year's micro competition here, congratulations to these writers! It's exciting to see anoth...

Posted: Wednesday June 21, 2023

Short story: The Mysteries of My Sister, by Barbara Else

A family saga in 10 instalments

Posted: Tuesday June 20, 2023

Reed Gallery

An exhibition by Dunedin Public Libraries

Posted: Tuesday June 20, 2023

Poetry Box review:

Tulip and Sprout by Emma Wood & Carla Martell

Posted: Monday June 19, 2023

Poetry Shelf Towns and Cities:

Ōtepoti Dunedin

Posted: Monday June 19, 2023

Book of the Week: ‘My wife is two people’

A bitter divorce and the death of an overworked partner ends up happily ever after for a Dunedin memoirist

Posted: Sunday June 18, 2023

***NEW OPPORTUNITY***

Re:In:Act - Applications Due 26 June

Posted: Thursday June 15, 2023

University Book Shop Summer Writer in Residence in association with Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage Trust

Applications open 1 July – 20 August

Posted: Wednesday June 14, 2023

Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence

Applications close Monday 19 June 2023

Posted: Tuesday June 13, 2023

Applications Open for the 2023 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award

This $25,000 award is one of the investments made through the CLNZ Cultural Fund

Posted: Monday June 12, 2023

Huge congratulations to Abby Howells

2023 Billy T Award Winner

Posted: Monday June 12, 2023

APPLICATIONS CLOSING SOON for the 2023 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship

The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship allows a writer to spend no less than three months in Menton, France, with acc...

Posted: Sunday June 11, 2023

Submissions open for Yale Drama Series 2024 playwriting competition

The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of their manu...

Posted: Sunday June 11, 2023

Submissions Open for The Fun Size Festival 7 - 16 March 2024!

Have a funny play inside of you? Then it’s time to write it down!

Posted: Sunday June 11, 2023

The 2023 NFFD Short List!

Congratulations to the ten writers

Posted: Sunday June 11, 2023

Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2023

Entries close 31 July 2023

Posted: Friday June 9, 2023

Lindsay Rabbitt Reviews:

O me voy o te vas / One of us must go by Rogelio Guedea with English translations by Roger Hickin (Otago University Pres...

Posted: Friday June 9, 2023

Poetry Shelf review:

This is a story about your mother by Louise Wallace

Posted: Friday June 9, 2023

Watch Being Me: Julie Woods

brought to you by Attitude Pictures

Posted: Friday June 9, 2023

Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival welcomes new Events Coordinator

Jennifer Stokes

Posted: Friday June 9, 2023

Boosted Campaign

Help support the costs for Carrie Rudzinski and Olivia Hall to attend the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Hysterical...

Posted: Tuesday June 6, 2023

Nominations open for Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi (Te Waka Toi Awards)

Annual awards that celebrate and recognise the artistic excellence, achievement and contribution of Māori artists workin...

Posted: Tuesday June 6, 2023

Call for Submissions

Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2023 Ethnographic Poetry Competition

Posted: Tuesday June 6, 2023

Kia Mau Festival 2023 featuring The World's First Lovers!

Full Programme Here

Posted: Tuesday June 6, 2023

Poetry Shelf pays tribute to Kevin Ireland (1933 – 2023)

Like many other readers and writers in Aotearoa I was saddened by the news of Kevin Ireland's recent passing. To see the...

Posted: Tuesday June 6, 2023

Poetry Shelf review:

David Eggleton’s Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019 – 2022

Posted: Thursday June 1, 2023

Poetry Box review

The Lighthouse Princess by Susan Wardell and Rose Northey

Posted: Thursday June 1, 2023


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