Latest happenings
The subversive compassion of Vincent O’Sullivan
Emma Neale, something of a literary polymath herself, reviews Vincent O’Sullivan’s new short story collection Mary’s Boy, Jean-Jacques.
Posted: Thursday March 24, 2022
Reading group aims to help
Book lovers living with dementia will be supported to enjoy their reading with the launch of dementia-friendly reading groups in Dunedin.
Posted: Wednesday March 23, 2022
Puaka Matariki Festival
Event Registration and Contestable Funding Application forms are live!
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Books galore filling the store
Books are piling so high in storage for the Regent Book Sale organisers reckon it is starting to look like the New York skyline.
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Grant Funding available to become a Library and Information Professional
A grant of up to $10,000 may be available to help you get your qualification.
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Arts Project Fund Round One Now Open
The arts project fund supports New Zealand professional arts companies, events and organisations to deliver projects that will grow New Zealanders' awareness and knowledge of Asian arts.
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Call for submissions for new Māori story anthology, including both established and emerging writers
Deadline Monday 2 May 5.00pm
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Exciting news for Dunedin book lovers!
Alzheimers Otago and Dunedin Public Libraries are starting Dementia Friendly Reading Groups.
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Nature festival focusing on sea
Posted: Monday March 21, 2022
Book of the Week: Crime is endless, time is short
Britain's best crime novelist who lives in Dunedin
Posted: Thursday March 17, 2022
Dunedin Youth Writers’ Group
Hear all about the Dunedin Youth Writers’ Group in this excellent conversation between Jeff Harford and Shima Jack on OAR FM’s Write Spot
Posted: Thursday March 17, 2022
A year of poetry and a patchwork of poetic languages
red blossoms flower as seasons unfold, children inhale the warm fragrance forgetting there ever was a blood-longing gibbous moon or a season of cold or want or desire …
Posted: Thursday March 17, 2022
Action time here for Fringe Festival
Dunedin artists are in the final phases of assembling their shows as the Dunedin Fringe Festival starts today.
Posted: Wednesday March 16, 2022
Dunedin brothers helping refugees
Brothers from Dunedin have opened their homes in Bulgaria to Ukrainian refugees and they are eager to do more to help.
Posted: Wednesday March 16, 2022
Library hosting Pride Mixer
Posted: Wednesday March 16, 2022
Huge congratulations to Emily Duncan, and all the other talented writers, for making the Adam NZ Play Award shortlist!
We are thrilled to celebrate the shortlisted plays and playwrights for the 2022 Adam NZ Play Award.
Posted: Wednesday March 16, 2022
Robert Lord Residency: Where the unexpected happened
Posted: Monday March 14, 2022
NZSA Mentorships 2022 announced from record field of entries
Posted: Sunday March 13, 2022