Micro Madness 2023

A free international competition — all welcome

Posted: Monday May 8, 2023

AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU - 2023 manuscript competition

Submit your manuscript for this new prize!

Posted: Monday May 8, 2023

Special Events at Dunedin City Library

Check out these special events for this week.

Posted: Monday May 8, 2023

Contract Opportunity

Guest Curator, New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023

Posted: Sunday May 7, 2023

Calling all Young Poets!

Entries are open to the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2023

Posted: Thursday May 4, 2023

Arasan FM Community Radio

Coming to you for the first time on Otago Access Radio 105.4 FM

Posted: Thursday May 4, 2023

Entries for the 2023 PANZ Book Design Awards are now open

The PANZ Book Design Awards were established to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design...

Posted: Wednesday May 3, 2023

Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme 2023

Accepting Submissions Now!

Posted: Monday May 1, 2023

Rāwaho - The Completed Poems by David Howard

Croatian publisher has plans for a translated selection of poems - watch video here

Posted: Monday May 1, 2023

Landfall Essay Competition 2023

Entries for the 2023 Landfall Essay Competition are open!

Posted: Sunday April 30, 2023

Landfall Review Online

May Reviews

Posted: Sunday April 30, 2023

Book Review - Aftermaths: Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

An essay collection that confronts the violence of the colonial past, and the perils of forgetting.

Posted: Sunday April 30, 2023

The Great Kiwi Poster Competition

Calling on New Zealand Residents (Age 5 - 105)

Posted: Thursday April 27, 2023

Interview with Fiona Farrell

Listen here

Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023

Kete Books

Book Reviews - The Deck; Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019 - 2022 and Laughing at the Dark: A memoir

Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023

Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship

Applications are open now and close 18 June 2023

Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023

Job Opportunity: Contract Event Coordinator

Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival

Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023

#DrawWithDenmark – Green Together 2023

Do you want to be part of a global green drawing campaign 2023?

Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023

The Whale Rider - an exploration of New Zealand through Witi Ihimaera’s Novel

Hybrid lecture series

Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023

2023 Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme

Sending in your submissions from Mon 1 May

Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023

The Deck by Fiona Farrell

Reviewed by Sue Reidy

Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023

Tūhura Photography Competition

Otago’s own awards to celebrate our nature, our landscapes, and you, our people, taking images of all of it!

Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023

Mātātuhi Foundation announces another lift in literary sector funding

Literary projects seeking $5,000 - $20,000 in funding are now welcome!

Posted: Tuesday April 25, 2023

World Creativity and Innovation Day

To celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Day we are proud to present TED TALKS by Jenny Powell, City of Literature S...

Posted: Friday April 21, 2023

Local Produce: Ōtepoti Slam Collective

Posted: Friday April 21, 2023

Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme, will be open for submissions from Monday 1st May 2023

If you've had an idea simmering for a stage work or been wrestling with writing a new play, this could be the opportunit...

Posted: Friday April 21, 2023

FINS Programme Announced!

Over 30 national and international speakers have been confirmed for the Dunedin FINS 2023 programme, 12 - 14 May.

Posted: Friday April 21, 2023

This book is in Polish & English and is wonderful to practice Polish

Edward Sakowski dedicated his latest book, 'Once a Giraffe was to be Photographed' to his grandchildren.

Posted: Friday April 21, 2023

Pasifika Navigators - Pasifika Student Poetry Collection

Pasifika students across Aotearoa share their dreams, aspirations, life changing challenges and learnings. Helping us al...

Posted: Friday April 21, 2023

NZSA CompleteMS Manuscript Assessment Programme

Applications close 28 May

Posted: Friday April 21, 2023

Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary

Opens 27 April 2023 for projects taking place between 5 Jul 2023 - 5 Oct 2024

Posted: Friday April 21, 2023

The 2023 NFFD competition has been extended!

New deadline: 30 April 2023

Posted: Friday April 21, 2023

Round Two of the Asia NZ Foundation Arts Practitioners Fund closes 1 May 2023

This fund provides support for experiential opportunities for individual New Zealand-based arts practitioners to deepen ...

Posted: Friday April 21, 2023

Help spread the word about the books in our 2023 Māori and Pasifika catalogue

Click on the links below and spread the word

Posted: Thursday April 20, 2023

Foulden Maar Writing Workshop

See the online exhibition

Posted: Thursday April 13, 2023

Check out Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction's wonderful March Rā Sun issue here

Featuring Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch's dance energy; new books by Piet Nieuwland, Vaughan Rapatahana and Sophia Wilson, and Fl...

Posted: Thursday April 13, 2023

The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival

Appoint Kitty Brown as Event Manager

Posted: Thursday April 13, 2023

National Flash Fiction Day Competition 2023

Submissions close 15 April 2023

Posted: Wednesday April 12, 2023

Barbara Else discusses Laughing at the Dark

Listen here to the OAR FM podcast

Posted: Wednesday April 12, 2023

Wild Dunedin's New Zealand Festival of Nature

14 - 23 April 2023

Posted: Tuesday April 11, 2023

The Playhouse Theatre school holiday show Pinocchio ...

... a feast for the eyes and ears, with a chorus of puppets, circus performers and children who turn into donkeys!

Posted: Tuesday April 11, 2023

David Howard at the Calibre Literary Festival

David will explore Rāwaho: The Completed Poems with short story writer Jana Prević Finderle on Friday 21 April during th...

Posted: Tuesday April 11, 2023

This doctor moonlights as a children's author in her spare time

Libby Whittaker lives and works in Dunedin where she is a doctor. Her debut junior fiction novel Sunny Turner and the De...

Posted: Tuesday April 11, 2023

Winter writer’s residency offered

Aspiring writers are being urged to sign up to The Mike Riddell writer’s residency.

Posted: Tuesday April 11, 2023

Home-maker, writer, rebel: Barbara Else gets honest about her career and marriage

One of New Zealand’s best known authors, Barbara Else rebelled against a lot of things women were once expected to think...

Posted: Saturday April 8, 2023

The Elsie Locke Writing Prize 2023

Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists' Elsie Locke Writing Prize 2023 opens at the beginning of Term 2.

Posted: Wednesday April 5, 2023

AIR Litteratur Västra Götaland announces literary residency grants

Are you a writer or literary translator? Do you need access to your own workplace? Are you looking for a peaceful work e...

Posted: Wednesday April 5, 2023

The Playhouse Theatre's Pinnochio

Starts this weekend!

Posted: Wednesday April 5, 2023

Granada Writers in Residence Programme

Closing Date for Applications - May 31

Posted: Tuesday April 4, 2023

Radio NZ Interview

Donald Kerr: the life and times of Ernie Webber

Posted: Tuesday April 4, 2023

Young writers and artists!!

Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists would love to hear from you

Posted: Tuesday April 4, 2023

Short story: The Islands of Arthur Trimble

"He imagines the rattling windows of his bach": a sad seaside saga by Majella Cullinane

Posted: Tuesday April 4, 2023

Calling rangatahi o Ōtepoti!

Show us what you think a Zero Carbon Ōtepoti might look like

Posted: Thursday March 30, 2023

Poet laureate marks ‘state of the nation’

With bated breath, Dunedin poetry fans waited patiently to get their hands on a copy of David Eggleton’s latest book.

Posted: Thursday March 30, 2023

Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Practitioners Fund

Round Two for 2023 is now open for applications!

Posted: Thursday March 30, 2023


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