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$80,000 FUND FOR FILMMAKERS TO MAKE DOCUMENTARIES FOR KIDS.
Submissions are open for the second round of the Doc Edge and Rei Foundation Film Fund.
Posted: Monday August 3, 2020
Rebirth of programme aims to grow next generation of literary critics
A programme dedicated to literary reviews for and by young people has been adopted by Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly NZ Book Council).
Posted: Sunday August 2, 2020
Poetry Shelf interviews Kay McKenzie Cooke
Posted: Wednesday July 29, 2020
Issue 21 of Down in Edin Magazine is now online.
Posted: Tuesday July 28, 2020
Today we're introducing our third ŌTL Playwright Programme writer for 2020.
Posted: Friday July 24, 2020
Introducing the second of our ŌTL Playwright Programme writers for 2020.
Posted: Friday July 24, 2020
Tonight we’re introducing the first of our ŌTL playwright programme writers for 2020.
Posted: Friday July 24, 2020
Artist Kerry Mackay's Autumn Lamb
Posted: Thursday July 23, 2020
New Writers at Ōtepoti Theatre Lab
Posted: Wednesday July 22, 2020
Community of writers to host retreat
They all live on the same street, drawing inspiration daily from the Hawkdun Range standing guard at the end of the road.
Posted: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Poetry Shelf poets on their own poems: David Eggleton reads and responds to ‘Heraldry’
David Eggleton reads ‘Heraldry’ from Time of the Icebergs (Otago University Press 2011). This poetry performance video was recorded live by musician and film-maker Richard C. Wallis on July 10, 2020 in Waikouaiti, Otago.
Posted: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Robert Lord Writers Cottage 2020 residencies announced
Canterbury flash fiction writer Sandra Arnold and Wairarapa children’s writer Di Batchelor have been awarded residencies at Dunedin’s Robert Lord Writers Cottage, and applications are currently invited for two further residencies at the cottage.
Posted: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Kānapanapa mai ana a Matariki
Matariki is the Māori new year and an important time in New Zealand. Lawrence Wharerau, our Outreach Curator Māori Specialist – Kaitoko Kaupapa Torotoronga ā-Iwi, provides some background on the festival and describes the footage in our special programme Kānapanapa mai ana a Matariki.
Posted: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Director Ngā Toi Māori
Tāwhiri (the producer of New Zealand Festival of the Arts, Wellington Jazz Festival, Second Unit and Lexus Song Quest) will incorporate two new leadership roles into its Leadership Team: Director Ngā Toi Māori and Director Intercultural Development.
Posted: Monday July 20, 2020
Go NZ: A detour through Dunedin's literary past
Gather round, readers, and let me tell you a story about Dunedin. Actually, would you rather hear one by Janet Frame? Hone Tuwhare? Perhaps Laurence Fearnley?
Posted: Monday July 20, 2020
Is it a workshop? No, it's a bookshop. Welcome to Dead Souls in Dunedin
Dean Havard, owner of Dunedin’s Dead Souls Bookshop, does his best to try and detail his place of work.
Posted: Monday July 20, 2020
Reviews Editor appointed for KETE: New books from Aotearoa New Zealand
The Coalition for Books is delighted to announce that Mark Broatch, former deputy editor and books and culture editor of the New Zealand Listener, has accepted the role of Reviews Editor for a new “lithub”-style website to be launched in September by the Coalition for Books – KETE: New Books...
Posted: Monday July 20, 2020
Diane Brown Poems in New Zealand Poet Laureate blog
Posted: Friday July 17, 2020
Book link to Hodgkins’ father
A small piece of Dunedin’s literary history has been uncovered by a Dunedin man clearing out his garage.
Posted: Tuesday July 14, 2020