News and Opportunities
A trio of Chinese celebrations
A celebration on September 10 aims to thread the strands of Dunedin’s multicultural community together.
Posted: Thursday September 1, 2022
Theatre group marks 30th year
Theatre folk from across the country came together in Dunedin at the weekend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of profes...
Posted: Thursday September 1, 2022
Teen’s trilogy shows he’s a creative force
Kavanagh College pupil Tom Davis (15) has published three books since 2019, a trilogy which now resides in the school li...
Posted: Monday August 29, 2022
WE ARE MOVING BACK... UPDATE
Posted: Thursday August 25, 2022
Poetry Shelf celebrates our new Poet Laureate: Chris Tse – a reading, a conversation
Posted: Thursday August 25, 2022
'In Plain Air'
One feature of the new Pauline Bellamy website is that it's home to 'In Plain Air', the 2020 short documentary film abou...
Posted: Thursday August 25, 2022
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature poetry contribution
Posted: Thursday August 25, 2022
David Eggleton Aotearoa Poet Laureate 2019 – 2022: Thank you from Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Wednesday August 24, 2022
Tour of New Zealand with cabaret show is 'last hurrah' for poet laureate
David Eggleton’s current tour of the country is his “last hurrah” as New Zealand’s poet laureate.
Posted: Wednesday August 24, 2022
Dirty Deeds Down Under - crime on both sides of the Tasman
It's apparently the first ever compilation of Australian and New Zealand crime short stories, but already several more a...
Posted: Monday August 22, 2022
A new novel remembers the plight of German internees
The brutality endured by First World War internees on Wellington's Matiu/Somes Island is remembered by Dunedin author Pa...
Posted: Monday August 22, 2022
1981 Springbok tour movie set to be filmed in city
The drama of the 1981 Springbok tour is set to return to Dunedin streets in a coming-of-age feature film.
Posted: Sunday August 21, 2022
Kidd wins media award
Otago Daily Times reporter Rob Kidd was named regional journalist of the year at the Voyager Media Awards in Auckland on...
Posted: Sunday August 21, 2022
The University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship
The English and Linguistics Programme at the University of Otago invites applications for a doctoral scholarship in lite...
Posted: Friday August 19, 2022
My Grandfather is a Canoe
My Grandfather is a Canoe has received heartfelt praise and accolades and now has another season – warmest congratulatio...
Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022
Short play competition
SaHara Breeze Productions launches its annual Shot Glass Shorts short play competition from tonight, showcasing new and ...
Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022
A treat for Jane Austen fans
The stately Olveston Historic Home will be the backdrop for a Jane Austen-themed soiree, with Regency dance, this week.
Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022
Belated welcome for university arts fellows
It was late, but that was better than never, as the University of Otago last night welcomed its 2022 arts fellows.
Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022
First Maori literature hub launched online
The first Māori literature hub has just been launched online.
Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022
OARSome Breakfast Show’s Write Spot with Ruth Shaw
Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022
Dr Hannah August and the best-selling Elizabethan plays
Posted: Wednesday August 17, 2022
You Know I Can't Grab Your Ghost Apples, Taika
Claire Lacey reads their poem You Know I Can't Grab Your Ghost Apples, Taika, which appears in takahē issue 105. You can...
Posted: Monday August 15, 2022
Play gives dementia a voice
Few of us can understand the all-encompassing effect that Alzheimer’s and dementia have on the lives of sufferers and ev...
Posted: Monday August 15, 2022
Open Auditions at Playhouse Theatre
Auditions will be held on Saturday, 27 August from 1-4pm for The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard.
Posted: Monday August 15, 2022
Online wānanga with Mr G
If you follow artist ‘Mr G’ (Graham Hoete) you may have seen him announce an upcoming online wānanga Te Pūtahitanga star...
Posted: Monday August 15, 2022
Ōtepoti Writers Lab Residency
Ōtepoti Writers Lab is proud to announce a brand new opportunity for a local writer to carve space and time to focus on ...
Posted: Monday August 15, 2022
Whakahoa Whakawatea Kaitoi Tangata Holdsworth Creative Spaces Fellowship
This fellowship supports a tutor/facilitator-led project that involves artists within a creative space working collabora...
Posted: Thursday August 11, 2022
University's 2022 creative writing competition opens
Writer 2022 offers Otago’s staff, students and alumni the opportunity to harness their creativity and write a short stor...
Posted: Thursday August 11, 2022
The winners of the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
Posted: Thursday August 11, 2022
A H Reed Track
Posted: Wednesday August 10, 2022
Dunedin singer steps out at Abbey Road
A former Dunedin resident is making the most of opportunities offshore by recording at the same studio where The Beatles...
Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022
Buried Treasures: The Secrets of Foulden Marr
Foulden Maar holds globally unique fossil secrets revealing not just our ancient past but our possible future. Today, ho...
Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature celebrates Friendship
To mark International Friendship Day on 30 July 2022, Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature highlighted the exceptional writ...
Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022
Verb Wellington Writer’s Residency With Katherine Mansfield House & Garden
Verb Wellington and Katherine Mansfield House & Garden have come together to offer their third annual opportunity to spe...
Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022
New book shares stories of life with a brain injury
Dunedin woman Beverley Livingstone shares living with a brain injury and her love of community and singing in a new book...
Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022
Funding keeping creative work alive
Five new theatre residencies have been awarded to allow Dunedin practitioners to develop - rather than perform - new wor...
Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022
Ngāpuhi writer wins Surrey
The winners of the coolest writers residency award in the Southern Hemisphere
Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022
Te Kaihau: The Windeater and Lost Possessions by Keri Hulme
Reviewed by Paula Morris
Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2022
Helen Zaltzman on the OARSome Breakfast Show’s Write Spot
Posted: Wednesday August 3, 2022
First episode of 'Minor Gossip'
Posted: Tuesday August 2, 2022
‘Parallax’ book inspires school photography project
A snapshot of the world of photography has been provided to children at Dunedin’s St Leonards School.
Posted: Tuesday August 2, 2022
Mad Doggerels
Poet laureate David Eggleton and Pacific Daren Kamali are about to embark on their month long Mad Doggerel Cabaret tour ...
Posted: Tuesday August 2, 2022
Storylines Te Kahurangi Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira Award
The Storylines Te Kahurangi Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira Award is for a manuscript written originally in te reo Maori.
Posted: Tuesday August 2, 2022
Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award
Posted: Tuesday August 2, 2022
Winners Announced for New Zealand Poetry Society's International competition
Posted: Tuesday August 2, 2022
Announcing the Selected Pieces for the Matariki Short Short Story Celebration
Posted: Tuesday August 2, 2022
Te Tauihu Short Story Awards winning entries
What a fabulous group of shortlisted and winning stories!
Posted: Tuesday August 2, 2022
Virtual Writer in Residence
Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature is now open for applications for our virtual writers in residence program
Posted: Monday August 1, 2022
Book of the Week: Kate, Kate
In praise of Kate De Goldi's latest novel
Posted: Monday August 1, 2022
Writer 2022: The University’s annual creative writing competition for staff and students – and now also alumni
Do you love to write? Here’s a competition for you.
Posted: Monday August 1, 2022
Medieval manuscripts enter the digital age
A cache of medieval manuscripts, once owned by former publisher AH Reed, have been transferred to the digital age, repor...
Posted: Monday August 1, 2022
Residencies begin at new theatre space
A large team of actors and creatives will take up a residency at Te Whare o Rukutia theatre space next week, as work con...
Posted: Monday August 1, 2022
Creative New Zealand launches new business capability programme for emerging Māori artists
Open for applications today, Toi Tipu Toi Rea is Creative New Zealand’s emerging Māori artists’ programme. In 2022 Toi T...
Posted: Sunday July 31, 2022
In Conversation with Writer in Residence, Swapna Haddow
Dunedin Public Libraries’ Reading Promotion Coordinator, Jackie McMillan, interviews Swapna Haddow, the award-winning ch...
Posted: Friday July 29, 2022
The Secrets of Others
Posted: Friday July 29, 2022
Friends of Ukraine Hub
Please drop into the Friends of Ukraine Hub next to I Love Paris in the Golden Centre Mall in Dunedin between 25-31 July...
Posted: Friday July 29, 2022
Drawn to Dunedin
Settling in to her new job as head of Dunedin’s Hocken Collections, Catherine Hammond is also discovering Dunedin. She t...
Posted: Wednesday July 27, 2022
✨ANNOUNCEMENT! ✨
Tickets for the New Zealand International Film Festival are now on sale for Dunedin!
Posted: Wednesday July 27, 2022
Have you seen tomorrow?
Posted: Wednesday July 27, 2022
Review of 'Voices of World War 2: New Zealanders share their stories' by Renee Hollis
Posted: Wednesday July 27, 2022