News
Capturing Light Roy Miller New Zealand Stained Glass artist,
Capturing Light Roy Miller New Zealand Stained Glass artist, has just won a bronze medal in the Australasian non-fiction section of the American Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Posted: Tuesday April 18, 2017
Taking our Children's Books to Bologna
UNESCO City of Literature Dunedin were offered an opportunity they couldn't ignore: to bid to have a stand at the Bologna Children's Book Fair earlier this month. Ella West reports.
Posted: Thursday April 13, 2017
Bologna showcases local writers
Dunedin is stealing the show in Bologna this week after the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature won a stand at the iconic Bologna Childrens Book Fair, which runs from 3 to 6 April.
Posted: Wednesday April 5, 2017
Getting the Play Right
Bios for the panel of Fringe Festival playwrights
Posted: Wednesday March 15, 2017
Students living up to literary reputation
With Dunedins designation as a UNESCO City of Literature and its well-known legacy in publishing, it should come as no surprise that a group of Otago students have joined forces to produce their own literary publication: The Scribbler.
Posted: Monday March 13, 2017
Writers Residency Opportunities in 2017 / 18 in Dunedin - City of Literature
The Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust, Dunedin announces the closing dates for residencies available at the historic Robert Lord Writers Cottage in Dunedin from August 2017 to August 2018.
Posted: Tuesday February 28, 2017
Poetry Trail launches in Port Chalmers
Posted: Monday February 27, 2017
A tribute to Catriona Ferguson
Statement from Peter Biggs, Chair of the New Zealand Book Council
Posted: Monday February 20, 2017
Issue 8 of Down in Edin Magazine is now online
Posted: Tuesday January 31, 2017
University of Otago to offer City of Literature scholarship
The University of Otago and Dunedin City Council are excited to announce the launch of a new doctoral scholarship in literary studies.
Posted: Wednesday January 25, 2017
Best Books 2016
What will you be reading in 2017? Choose from our library staffs Best Books of 2016 list.
Posted: Wednesday January 18, 2017
The University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship
The Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago invites applications for a new doctoral scholarship in literary studies: The University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship.
Posted: Friday January 13, 2017
Heritage Matters on Otago Access Radio
Twenty episodes of "Heritage Matters", the programme produced on behalf of Southern Heritage Trust for Otago Access Radio have gone to air since its inception in March 2016.
Posted: Friday December 23, 2016
Aotearoa Summer Reads to inspire nation to choose home-grown talent
A cast of New Zealand writers have selected their top picks from the Aotearoa-grown bookshelves to help guide kiwis in their Summer reading goals.
Posted: Friday December 9, 2016
Cast of storytellers to delight with tales in many tongues
Dunedin (Thursday, 8 December) The organisers of Dunedins inaugural International Storytelling Festival have been overwhelmed with support so much so, they have started a waiting list for storytellers.
Posted: Friday December 9, 2016
Airini Beautrais wins Landfall Essay Competition 2016
Airini Beautrais has been named the winner of the 2016 Landfall Essay Competition for her essay Umlaut.Competition judge David Eggleton said that her essay stood out as written by someone unwilling to be boring, willing to take risks, and enough of a seasoned practitioner to carry it off with sustained...
Posted: Thursday November 3, 2016
First complete edition of Katherine Mansfields poems
Oh God! I am divided still. I am bad. I fail in my personal life. I lapse into impatience, temper, vanity & so I fail as thy priest. Perhaps poetry will help. Katherine Mansfield, 1921 diary entry
Posted: Thursday November 3, 2016
Announcing the 2016 Blue Oyster Summer Writing Resident:Robyn Maree Pickens
With support from the Quarantine Island Kamau Taurua Community, Dunedin-based writer Robyn Maree Pickens will be spending 4 weeks on the Island in November and December, producing a body of writing as a response to the Island as an amalgam: of nature and culture; of sea and land; of relative...
Posted: Monday October 17, 2016
Stepsisters take on Filluel St carpark
Posted: Tuesday October 11, 2016