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Generation Kitchen by Richard Reeve. Reviewed by Molly Crighton
Posted: Friday September 25, 2020
A Poetry Shelf audio gathering: Dunedin poets celebrate Elizabeth Brooke-Carr (1940 – 2019)
Posted: Thursday September 24, 2020
Calling all literary innovators!
Posted: Tuesday September 22, 2020
Can you help?
We're looking for Dunedin writers, in any genre, who are currently living in any of the other Cities of Literature for a project.
Posted: Tuesday September 22, 2020
Dunedin Fringe Festival 18-28 March 2021
Registrations open: now till 27 November
Posted: Tuesday September 22, 2020
Pasifika Festivals Initiative Tasi Wave
Posted: Tuesday September 22, 2020
New Anthology by Slemani UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Monday September 21, 2020
Kete Books is now live
Love reading? You’ll find plenty to love here, all in one kete.
Posted: Friday September 18, 2020
Hub’s aim to make learning te reo Maori non-intimidating
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum visitor programmes co-ordinator Phoebe Thompson sits in a language hub that has been set up at the museum for the length of Te Wiki o te Reo Maori — Maori Language Week.
Posted: Friday September 18, 2020
Lift up the anchor - Hūtia Te Punga
Systems-level change will improve the educational experience and outcomes for Māori learners. Mā te rerekē ā-whakahaereka ka whakapiki i te wheako whaiaro ā-mātauraka, i kā putaka hoki mō kā tauira Māori.
Posted: Wednesday September 16, 2020
Pupils excited to map Broad Bay’s past
Pupils of a Dunedin school went "berserk" when they learned they had won a grant for a project that will document history.
Posted: Wednesday September 16, 2020
Love in the time of Covid: A Chronicle of a Pandemic
Submissions are open August 01 – December 01, 2020.
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
New hybrid format for 2020 NZ Young Writers Festival
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
New book examines how childhood shapes later life
In his new book, The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life, University of Otago professor Richie Poulton and his co-authors set out their search to learn how much our origins shape our later lives.
Posted: Tuesday September 15, 2020
Kete partners with Stuff to share reviews of New Zealand books
Kete – the new site devoted to the books of Aotearoa which launches on 15 September – will share reviews of New Zealand books with Stuff to bring the latest releases to readers of Sunday Magazine, Your Weekend and Stuff online.
Posted: Friday September 11, 2020
Dick of the Bay on Otago Access Radio
Attention New Zealanders! A new radio drama is coming to take over your airwaves.
Posted: Friday September 11, 2020
Congratulations to Max Quinn on the publication of his first book, "A Life of Extremes", coming November 2020!
Posted: Wednesday September 9, 2020
Misconceptions and Bruce the cat: a Q&A with Kathryn van Beek
Dunedin author and illustrator Kathryn van Beek is launching two new books this month: her short story collection PET and a children's book, Bruce Goes Outside.
Posted: Tuesday September 8, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Elizabeth Brooke-Carr’s Wanting to tell you everything
Posted: Monday September 7, 2020