News and Opportunities
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
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
Submissions now open for March issue of Flash Frontier
Posted: Thursday February 9, 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
Submissions for the 2023 Text Prize are officially open!
Posted: Monday January 23, 2023
'Awakening a curate's library' by Donald Kerr
Posted: Wednesday January 18, 2023
2023 Robert Burns Fellow at University of Otago: Kathryn van Beek
Posted: Tuesday January 17, 2023
Tartu City of Literature international residency program
Posted: Sunday January 15, 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