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

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

Starling Issue 16

Submissions Close April 10!

Posted: Tuesday March 28, 2023

A must watch!

‘What the future holds’ by David Eggleton

Posted: Tuesday March 28, 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

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

Kiwi Christmas Books Cyclone Books Appeal

Donate Here....

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

NZ BOOKLOVERS AWARDS 2023

NZ Booklovers Awards 2023 Shortlist

Posted: Friday February 24, 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

Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency

Open for applications! Deadline to apply is 5pm Friday 17 March.

Posted: Friday February 10, 2023

Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship

Fellowship awarded every two years to an established New Zealand writer of literature, with a significant publication re...

Posted: Friday February 10, 2023

Call for a writer-in-residence in Leeuwarden

Posted: Thursday February 9, 2023

Dear Nature Podcast

Posted: Thursday February 9, 2023

Pikihuia Awards open for submissions

Posted: Thursday February 9, 2023

Public Lending Right annual registration form

Posted: Thursday February 9, 2023

THESE BOOMERS ARE A-OK

SIR ROGER HALL’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SHOW WINDING UP, ABOUT TWO SPIRITED SENIORS, IS HEADING SOUTH.

Posted: Wednesday January 25, 2023

Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador nomination form

Posted: Monday January 23, 2023

'Awakening a curate's library' by Donald Kerr

Posted: Wednesday January 18, 2023

Introducing Elixir & Star Press

Posted: Wednesday January 11, 2023

Documentary to mark 175th anniversary of first Otago migrant ship

A documentary will help to mark 175 years since the arrival of the first migrant ship into Otago Harbour for the Dunedin...

Posted: Wednesday January 11, 2023

New children’s literature qualification launches

Posted: Tuesday January 10, 2023

Government to discuss establishment of book commission

Organisations involved in the New Zealand book sector are set to meet with government agencies to discuss the establishm...

Posted: Monday January 9, 2023

Letterpress Courses with John Holmes

Posted: Tuesday December 20, 2022

Nominations open for Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador

Nominations are open to be the second Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador for children and young people.

Posted: Thursday December 15, 2022


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