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

Reading Room Book of the Week: An incident on Banks Peninsula

Paddy Richardson is swept away by a magical new novel

Posted: Thursday June 1, 2023

New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults

2023 Finalists Announced

Posted: Thursday June 1, 2023

Poetry Shelf favourite poems: Kay McKenzie Cooke’s ‘Blue Person’

Favourite Poems is an ongoing series where a poet chooses a favourite poem from their own backlist and writes a short no...

Posted: Thursday June 1, 2023

Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa: Samoan Picture Books

It’s Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa / Samoan Language Week!

Posted: Thursday June 1, 2023

Creative Writing for Games and Interactive Media

At the University of Otago - on campus and distance!

Posted: Thursday June 1, 2023

Celebrate Samoa Language Week 2023: Sunday 28 May - Saturday 3 June

The theme for Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Samoa Language Week 2023 is ‘Mitamita i lau gagana, maua’a lou fa’asinomaga’ wh...

Posted: Monday May 29, 2023

2023 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition

Entries open 1 June

Posted: Monday May 29, 2023

The 2023 Dunedin Puaka Matariki Festival event registration and contestable funding round is open

Applications close 5pm Wednesday 31 May 2023

Posted: Monday May 29, 2023

Beautiful mystery behind donated photo at Port Chalmers' Pea Sea Art Gallery

It's a beautiful mystery

Posted: Monday May 29, 2023

Inaugural recipient of the Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency announced

Warmest congratulations to Melbourne City of Literature’s award-winning writer and essayist Shu-Ling Chua 蔡淑羚

Posted: Friday May 26, 2023

Books in world languages

Books in world languages help reinforce a sense of identity. Having them for students to enjoy, allows you to build a cu...

Posted: Thursday May 25, 2023

Calling student poets from Aotearoa!

a fine line is searching for their next Featured Student Poet for their winter edition.

Posted: Thursday May 25, 2023

Legend signs Parkins' 'inspiring' novel about gaslighting in the 19th century

Legend Press has signed a "moving and powerful historical novel" An Idle Woman by Wendy Parkins, based on true events.

Posted: Wednesday May 24, 2023

Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature

Poet Louise Wallace talks about her new collection - This is a story about your mother

Posted: Wednesday May 24, 2023

2023 Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition Winner

Xiaole Zhan

Posted: Wednesday May 24, 2023

The Elsie Locke Writing Prize 2023

Submissions for this year's Writing Prize are now open!

Posted: Wednesday May 24, 2023

Poetry Shelf reading

Jane Arthur

Posted: Monday May 22, 2023

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem

Emer Lyons’s ‘Anthem’

Posted: Monday May 22, 2023

Birth, death and love poems: A conversation between Louise Wallace and Jane Arthur

Poets Louise Wallace and Jane Arthur talk their new collections, writing about motherhood, birth, death, love poems… and...

Posted: Monday May 22, 2023

Review: This is a story about your mother

"Great tenderness pervades many of the poems, underlying the sharp questioning of society’s undervaluing of women’s labo...

Posted: Monday May 22, 2023

Save the dates: 13-15th Oct 2023

Star studded Opera premiere opens the flow of exciting events...

Posted: Monday May 22, 2023

Review: A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world

"So much fine thinking and beautiful writing curated expertly by the master editors," Tania Roxborogh reviews A Kind of ...

Posted: Monday May 22, 2023

Storylines invites submissions to the Storylines Notable Book Awards

Entries close at 5pm on 31 August 2023 for the 2023 awards.

Posted: Monday May 22, 2023

Live English interpretations provided for the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2023

This Festival had something for everyone in its 8th year!

Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023

Book review: The Deck by Fiona Farrell

Lynn Freeman reviews The Deck by Fiona Farrell

Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023

Marketing & Communications Manager

Job Opportunity - New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023

Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023

Production Manager

Job Opportunity - New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023

Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023

Young Writer in Residence at Robert Lord Writers Cottage

Opportunity - New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023

Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023

Guest Curator

Job Opportunity - New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023

Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023

Pieces Spaces Species public programming

This May Blue Oyster have an exciting programme of events for the exhibition Pieces Spaces Species.

Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023

Applications for the 2023 CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants are now open

Four grants ($5,000 each) are available for Aotearoa New Zealand writers to conduct research for a fiction or non-fictio...

Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023

Huge congratulations to the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards winners

Read all about it here:

Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023

Poetry Shelf readings: Louise Wallace

Listen here to two poems from Louise Wallace’s collection, This Is A Story About Your Mother, published by Te Herenga Wa...

Posted: Monday May 15, 2023

Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Project Fund

Applications close Monday 29 May

Posted: Monday May 15, 2023

Kia Mau 2023 Programme featuring The World's First Lovers

nā Jessica Latton

Posted: Monday May 15, 2023

Writing back in author’s sights after pain study

Dunedin author Dr Lynley Hood is "charging ahead" with research for books she plans to write, after taking part in a chr...

Posted: Sunday May 14, 2023

Memoir takes a look at pre-TV Dunedin

Author and heritage advocate Lois Galer reminisces about "pre-TV era" Dunedin in A Memoir ... But I Digress.

Posted: Friday May 12, 2023

Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature

A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru Taha - Michelle Elvy has co-edited with Witi Ihimaera an anthology of new writing for a chan...

Posted: Thursday May 11, 2023

Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwright Programme Writers

Supporting writers to dream and grow is exactly what this programme is about.

Posted: Thursday May 11, 2023


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