News and Opportunities
Poetry Shelf: Nine Readings from A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Posted: Tuesday June 13, 2023
Robert Lord Diaries: edited by Chris Brickell, Vanessa Manhire and Nonnita Rees
Due out in October
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
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
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
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
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival - Friday 13 to Sunday 15 October 2023
New website!
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
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