News
Poet laureate, David Eggleton, has tenure extended due to Covid-19 disruption
New Zealand’s poet laureate, David Eggleton, will get more time to write and perform after Covid-19 compromised his two-year tenure as laureate.
Posted: Monday October 12, 2020
Prose Politics
Distinguished Otago Alumna Returning to Ōtepoti for UBS Emerging Writer in Residence
Posted: Thursday October 8, 2020
Dunedin poet’s book translated
In an unusual twist, Taking My Jacket for a Walk, a recent book by Dunedin poet Peter Olds, has just stepped out in a Spanish translation.
Posted: Wednesday October 7, 2020
New writing competition judged by Exisle Publishing editors
Posted: Tuesday October 6, 2020
From bitterness to gratitude
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
Still reading: turning the pages for health and wellbeing in teens
This digital world has a few tricks. It’s fast, lightning quick, bringing rewards with a few quick clicks. We skim and skip, casting for the tantalising bits. And if it ain’t got us hooked real quick, we give it the flick.
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
A loaded skip: moving in a pandemic
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
Poetry Shelf Lounge: Robyn Maree Pickens’ Finland Residency – a poem, an interview, photographs
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
Read Our Words
An inter-disciplinary group of Māori academics from the University of Otago have released a poster to encourage the public to engage with “the voices and experiences of Māori to help create an anti-racist Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 – winners announced – Third time lucky for Palmerston North poet
The winners of the 2020 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize have been announced. The competition is now in its tenth year, and this year had a record number of entries – 426 poems – from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, UK, and Nigeria.
Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020
City writer’s ‘Lies’ wins Sargeson Prize
A tale centred on the lies a young woman tells to keep the painful truth at bay has won a Dunedin writer the 2020 Sargeson Prize.
Posted: Thursday October 1, 2020
Climate, community, arts to fore
More than 200 people took part, most of them online, in a symposium devoted to climate change, community and research in the creative arts, at the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic at the weekend.
Posted: Wednesday September 30, 2020
Tupuranga Lua: A Whole New World is out!
We are fiafia as to be able to share this writing with you all.
Posted: Wednesday September 30, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Diane Brown’s Every now and then I have another child
Posted: Tuesday September 29, 2020
Write Spot with Paddy Richardson
Paddy Richardson - Paddy was Noirwich UNESCO Virtual Writer in Residence.
Posted: Tuesday September 29, 2020
Purpose of Establishment of Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award
Posted: Tuesday September 29, 2020
The Québec en toutes lettres Festival spreads poetry across all continents with La grande traversée poétique.
20 countries - 200 poets - a unique event... and it's free!
Posted: Monday September 28, 2020
Literary artists celebrate visual artist
Posted: Monday September 28, 2020
New Zealand Sign Language Week
Posted: Friday September 25, 2020