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

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


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