He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Two wonderful Ōtepoti poets longlisted for the The Laurel Prize 2024!
A massive congratulations to Megan Kitching and Robyn Maree Pickens for being longlisted.
Posted: Friday Sep 27, 2024
Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology
A fantastic review by Chris Reed of Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology edited by Janet Newman and Robert Sullivan for ...
Posted: Friday Sep 27, 2024
Verb Readers and Writers Festival 2024 Programme is Live!
Don't miss Writing for Your Life featuring our very own Barbara Else
Posted: Friday Sep 27, 2024
Kete Books Interview: Queens of Crime Vanda Symon and Charity Norman
Kete is excited to feature this conversation between Charity Norman and Vanda Symon, crime writers extraordinaire, where...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Burns Fellow Mikaela Nyman reflects on her time in Ōtepoti to date and offers readings from her latest work
Posted: Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
The wind between the Pages exhibition now online!
If you're unable to visit this stunning and memorable exhibition in person, it can now be viewed online!
Posted: Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Auckland University Press are publishing these two companion pukapuka!
Available 7 November but pre-order now!
Posted: Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller - An Exclusive Dunedin Season
Listen to this OAR FM interview with producer director Lara Macgregor
Posted: Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
The first returnee has been SIGHTED!
You all know what that means...it's BELL RINGING TIME!
Posted: Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Chinese Language Week Dumpling Day Story Time
Celebrate Chinese Language Week with a bi-lingual story time at the city library.
Posted: Monday Sep 23, 2024
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2024 - winners announced
The competition is now in its fourteenth year, and this year attracted 142 poems from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, U...
Posted: Monday Sep 23, 2024
From 2025 English and Linguistics, University of Otago will be offering a Master of Creative Writing!
An in-depth workshopping environment with award-winning mentors, you can work on fiction, poetry, plays, creative non-fi...
Posted: Friday Sep 20, 2024
Useful bookish phrases in Te Reo Māori
Here’s a range of phrases to commit to memory and recognise for all you booksellers, librarians, teachers and just gener...
Posted: Friday Sep 20, 2024
Winners of the 2024 PANZ Book Design Awards announced
Congratulations to all the clever designers of these beautiful books
Posted: Friday Sep 20, 2024
Surrey Hotel writers residency award
Entries for the 2024 Surrey Hotel writers residency award are open until Sunday, October 6
Posted: Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grants
Researching or writing about Aotearoa New Zealand’s past? The Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grants are now open f...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
20% off store wide on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September at University Book Shop Otago.
In-store only and exclusions and restrictions apply.
Posted: Monday Sep 16, 2024
All about books in Aotearoa – all in te reo Māori
All week Kete will feature reviews of new and exciting books by Māori authors, reviewed in te reo Māori with links to En...
Posted: Monday Sep 16, 2024
Entries for the 2024 Sunday Star-Times short story competition are open
Entries close October 7, 2024 at 11.45pm
Posted: Monday Sep 16, 2024
NZ Young Writers Festival marks two milestones this year
A poetic reimagining of the Dunedin Sound and lessons on writing grief are just some of the events on offer at a Dunedin...
Posted: Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Poet returns for third time, staging hit show
The New Zealand Young Writers Festival brings the cutting edge of contemporary writing to Dunedin this weekend, where th...
Posted: Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Applications are now open for the University Book Shop Summer Writer in Residence in Association with Robert Lord Writers' Cottage Trust Award.
Applications close 6 October 2024
Posted: Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
Today on Write Spot
New Zealand Young Writers Fest - Amy Grace Laura from Motif Poetry previews the slam poetry events as part of NZ Young W...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
Open Call for Nanjing International Writers’ Residencies 2024
Applications close Monday 30 September 2024
Posted: Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
National Poetry Day Competition Results
Warmest congratulations to the winners and everyone who entered and helped make our night so special
Posted: Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Applications are open for the Kaipukahu University of Waikato Writer in Residence 2025
Applications close on Friday 25 October
Posted: Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Sam Shepherd is back!
Kete Books shares an extract from PREY, Vanda Symon's latest mystery about Detective Sam Shepherd and the long-unsolved ...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Happy International Literacy Day!
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2024
RESIDENCY ALERT! Bremen's virtual residency is now open for applications!
Applications close 30 November 2024
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2024
2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Entries are now open for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, for New Zealand books published between 1 January 2024...
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2024
Applications open for the Mātātuhi Foundation Funding Grant
Up to $20,000 literary grants up for grabs! Apply online before 31 October 24.
Posted: Monday Sep 09, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2025 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship
The residency will run from July to December 2025 - applications close Friday 1 November 2024
Posted: Friday Sep 06, 2024
Nine to Noon Short Story competition opens
RNZ are looking for stories of 2000 words, submitted by Friday 29 September.
Posted: Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Anthology unveiled on poetry day
Dunedin’s National Poetry Day celebrations marked a very special milestone, as about 40 creatives — poets, authors, musi...
Posted: Thursday Sep 05, 2024
160 performances at upcoming Otago Polyfest
9 - 13 September 2024 at the Edgar Centre
Posted: Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Share a Memorable Moment!
University Book Shop is turning 80! Hear your memory read out at the Birthday High Tea on 6 October 2024. Best memory wi...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Expressions of interest: Caselberg artist residency
With the support of the Caselberg Trust, Blue Oyster is calling for expressions of interest to undertake a summer artist...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Expressions of interest: One-day writing workshop with Cassandra Barnett
The Physics Room and Blue Oyster are calling for applications to join a one-day writing workshop with Cassandra Barnett ...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2024 Tartu City of Literature international residency program
This is a 2-month residency in November-December. Applications close 25 September!
Posted: Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
'But then ... the almost true story of an overdue book'
Award winning author Swapna Haddow is celebrating the release of her first New Zealand picture book by visiting Dunedin ...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 03, 2024
Registrations are open NOW for Dunedin Fringe 2025!
Dunedin Fringe Festival is turning 25 in 2025! Be a part of this amazing milestone. Registrations close Sun 17 Nov 24.
Posted: Monday Sep 02, 2024
The Wellness Gym
When you have treatment for cancer, information sometimes comes to you in a sideways fashion and not from the direction ...
Posted: Monday Sep 02, 2024
Entries are open for the 2024 University of Otago creative writing competition!
The University’s annual creative writing competition for staff, students and alumni - entries close Wednesday 11 Septemb...
Posted: Friday Aug 30, 2024
University Book Shop weekly Top 5
Featuring koe: An Aotearoa Ecopoetry Anthology
Posted: Friday Aug 30, 2024
How to read a poem: Rolling Moon by The Chills
The latest in a semi-regular series that breaks down a poem to analyse what it’s really trying to tell us.
Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024
The Spinoff Essay
Following the Swiss wolf, who walked 2,000 kilometres for love
Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024
A History of Kindness: A poem
Indigo - dive down through the layers, swim back up
Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Winner of the 2024 Janet Frame Prize
Multitalented Whanganui author Airini Beautrais has won the 2024 Janet Frame Prize worth $10,000.
Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Today, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Janet Frame!
Posted: Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
Today is Janet Frame CBE (1924-2004)'s 100th birthday
Hocken Collections are excited to announce that her papers, held at Hocken, have been inscribed into the UNESCO Memory o...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
Rediscover your library
Posted: Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Did you know...?
Dunedin Public Libraries is home to the most extensive collection of hymnology resources in New Zealand, thanks to the g...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100
The New Zealand author channelled her experience of tragedy and mental illness with dazzling results. Now centenary cele...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Writers on Janet Frame event
At an event in Oamaru on Saturday, a group of prominent authors gathered to discuss Janet Frame's writing and its influe...
Posted: Monday Aug 26, 2024