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

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

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

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

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

Ōtepōti Theatre Lab's Playwright Programme 2022

Today we're introducing our third ŌTL Playwright Programme writer for 2022, Tia Hibbert!

Posted: Tuesday July 26, 2022

CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES OPEN

See an overview of what's on offer between July 2022 - June 2023

Posted: Monday July 25, 2022

Once upon a time

Babytime is one of several regular children’s activities at the library. It resumed yesterday after the school holidays.

Posted: Monday July 25, 2022

Friends of the Hocken Collections Award 2023

Application period 1 July - 15 October

Posted: Thursday June 30, 2022

Science Writing Competition

For Yr 9-13s in Otago and Southland

Posted: Tuesday June 28, 2022

Rāwaho: the Completed Poems

David Howard's new book features Croat artist Katarina Ivanisin Kardum's painting ‘The Eye of the Grasshopper’ on the co...

Posted: Friday June 17, 2022


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