News and Opportunities
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
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
'WRITE SPOT’, OAR FM: DUNEDIN’S TULIP MEETS A PRINCE
Posted: Wednesday July 6, 2022
Friends of the Hocken Collections Award 2023
Application period 1 July - 15 October
Posted: Thursday June 30, 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
Centre for the Book Symposium: Books and the Pacific - Call for Papers
Posted: Sunday June 12, 2022
The Heat is On
THE HEAT IS ON: Young Writers on the Climate Crisis
A creative response to the climate emergency by extraordinary writers under…
Posted: Sunday June 5, 2022
Call for Ockhams Judges
Applications close at 5pm on Wednesday 29 June
Posted: Wednesday June 1, 2022
How are Ukrainians doing at this unthinkable time, and how can the power of books and words strengthen our connections?
Posted: Wednesday June 1, 2022
Support for Ukraine
Posted: Friday May 27, 2022
Counting down till World Environment Day 2022!
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature is thrilled to be releasing The Heat is On: Young Writers on the Climate Crisis
Posted: Monday May 23, 2022
2023 Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award
Nominations for 2023 Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award are now open
Posted: Monday May 23, 2022
Call for UNESCO City of Literature Wonju Residency 2022
Posted: Wednesday May 11, 2022
Shooting Folly as it Flies
The Life and Lines of New Zealand’s First Political Cartoonist James Brown
Posted: Wednesday May 11, 2022
Poltavshchyna from above · Ukraїner
Our dear friends in Lviv City of Literature have collaborated with Lviv Public Libraries, Ukraїner and the Ukrainian Lib...
Posted: Thursday April 21, 2022
The power of none: New book explores childfree perspectives
Posted: Monday April 11, 2022
Application forms and information for the 2023 University of Otago Fellowships are now available
Posted: Monday April 11, 2022
Caselberg Trust Creative Connections Residency
Applications will open for the 2023 Caselberg Trust Creative Connections Residency on 1 May-31 May
Posted: Sunday April 10, 2022