News and Opportunities
Inaugural Curator Māori for Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2023 announced
Posted: Thursday July 20, 2023
Apply to tour with PANNZ in 2024
Expressions of Interest close 5pm Monday 24 July 2023
Posted: Thursday July 20, 2023
Artists paint the town for Cup
The FIFA Fan Festival™ starts tomorrow and work will begin on a street mural to be painted by six incredible artists out...
Posted: Wednesday July 19, 2023
Whitcoulls Kids' Top 50 Books - Vote Now!
Vote now to ensure your favourite kids' books appear on the Whitcoulls Kids' Top 50 Books list for 2023! Plus be in with...
Posted: Tuesday July 18, 2023
Poetry Shelf audio: Megan Kitching reads from At the Point of Seeing
Listen to 'Headland', 'Crematorium' and 'Houseplants'
Posted: Tuesday July 18, 2023
Poet in residence: Observations from Ati Teepa
Current poet in residence at Kaka Point staying in the cottage that was the home of the late Hone Tuwhare, Ati Teepa joi...
Posted: Tuesday July 18, 2023
'A Town Trod by Poets' gifted to the Switzerland women's national football team
The Switzerland women's national football team is now in Dunedin ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™, which starts...
Posted: Tuesday July 18, 2023
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories
An essential new anthology of our best Māori short fiction - Available 10 August
Posted: Tuesday July 18, 2023
University of Otago’s annual creative writing competition
The University’s annual creative writing competition opens for entries today, with the theme: The Getting of Wisdom.
Posted: Tuesday July 18, 2023
My Business Stars with 'That Blind Woman' Julie Woods
on Oar FM Tuesdays at 12pm
Posted: Tuesday July 11, 2023
Landfall Journal - This Green Corner Review
Owen Marshall Reviews The Deck by Fiona Farrell
Posted: Thursday July 6, 2023
Gecko Press End of Line Sale
Choose from curiously good Gecko Press favourites, including picture books, gift books and novels priced at $5 and $10.
Posted: Thursday July 6, 2023
Write Spot with writer and poet Kirstie McKinnon
Kirstie talks about her writing process and being featured on Paula Green's recent blog Poetry Shelf Towns and Cities, Ō...
Posted: Thursday July 6, 2023
Boosted Campaign - Small Press Fest
Small Press Fest is bringing together small presses and independent publishers from across the motu to Ōtepoti for three...
Posted: Thursday July 6, 2023
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
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
Phantom Billstickers takes our poems to amazing places!
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
Submissions for the third 2023 At the Bay | I Te Kokoru publication, 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 close 15 July 2023
Submit your manuscript now!
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
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
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
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
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