Latest happenings

Still reading: turning the pages for health and wellbeing in teens

This digital world has a few tricks. It’s fast, lightning quick, bringing rewards with a few quick clicks. We skim and skip, casting for the tantalising bits. And if it ain’t got us hooked real quick, we give it the flick.

Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020

A loaded skip: moving in a pandemic

Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020

Poetry Shelf Lounge: Robyn Maree Pickens’ Finland Residency – a poem, an interview, photographs

Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020

Read Our Words

An inter-disciplinary group of Māori academics from the University of Otago have released a poster to encourage the public to engage with “the voices and experiences of Māori to help create an anti-racist Aotearoa New Zealand.”

Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020

Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 – winners announced – Third time lucky for Palmerston North poet

The winners of the 2020 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize have been announced. The competition is now in its tenth year, and this year had a record number of entries – 426 poems – from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, UK, and Nigeria.

Posted: Sunday October 4, 2020

City writer’s ‘Lies’ wins Sargeson Prize

A tale centred on the lies a young woman tells to keep the painful truth at bay has won a Dunedin writer the 2020 Sargeson Prize.

Posted: Thursday October 1, 2020

Climate, community, arts to fore

More than 200 people took part, most of them online, in a symposium devoted to climate change, community and research in the creative arts, at the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic at the weekend.

Posted: Wednesday September 30, 2020