News and Opportunities
#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
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
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
Prague in My Bones published in Czech by Edice Echo
Posted: Thursday April 13, 2023
The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
Appoint Kitty Brown as Event Manager
Posted: Thursday April 13, 2023
Poetry Shelf Monday poem: Emma Neale’s ‘Fresh’
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
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
Granada Writers in Residence Programme
Closing Date for Applications - May 31
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
RAWA Readers and Writers Akaroa
Early bird registrations close this Sunday 2 April. Check it out!
Posted: Wednesday March 29, 2023
The Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize is turning five!
Find out more and enter here:
Posted: Wednesday March 29, 2023
Kraków UNESCO City of Literature International Residency 2023
Call for applications
Posted: Monday March 27, 2023
Congratulations Emma Neale
... a winner in the Fish International Short Story Prize
Posted: Monday March 27, 2023
Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme 2023
Submissions accepted from Monday 1 May 2023.
Posted: Monday March 27, 2023
The 2023 Auckland Writers Festival line-up has been announced and tickers are on sale now!
16 - 21 MAY 2023
Posted: Monday March 27, 2023
Putting a playful spin on city landmarks
A vision of Dunedin in the colourful works of iconic Dunedin artist Annie Baird is inspiring young visitors to Dunedin P...
Posted: Monday March 27, 2023
DUNEDIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 'BEYOND WORDS' AWARD SPONSORED BY CITY OF LITERATURE
.... and the winner is ....
Posted: Monday March 27, 2023
New show on OAR FM's Youth Zone!
Posted: Friday March 17, 2023
New space to Knockabout in
In its fifth year as a Dunedin Fringe Festival venue, the New Athenaeum Theatre (NAT) has opened up a second pop-up spac...
Posted: Thursday March 16, 2023
Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency
Posted: Thursday March 2, 2023
Caselberg Trust in conversation with Jeff Harford
Posted: Wednesday March 1, 2023
Call for UNESCO City of Literature Wonju Residency 2023 (South Korea)
Posted: Thursday February 23, 2023
Student Writing in the School Journal
Posted: Wednesday February 22, 2023
'OTHERHOOD - open for submissions
Posted: Monday February 20, 2023
Books by Beatrice Hale
Posted: Monday February 13, 2023