News and Opportunities
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
How to run a bookstore in Manapōuri
Ruth Shaw is the bookseller at the end of the world
Posted: Sunday April 10, 2022
Board Members wanted!
Posted: Sunday April 10, 2022
A Recital of Poems
Kirsten Le Harivel, Mary Cresswell, Keith Nunes, Darryl Price & Kirstie McKinnon
Posted: Sunday April 10, 2022
Call for submissions for the 2023 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award
The award is open to previously unpublished illustrators. This years story has been provided by Heather Haylock.
Posted: Thursday April 7, 2022
Bucheon City of Literature has opened a call for their 2022 Residency Program
7-week stay for 2 writers and artists in October
Posted: Thursday April 7, 2022
Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Public Programme
Introducing a new collaboration with Toitū Otago Settlers Museum
Posted: Thursday April 7, 2022
Calling Speakers, Workshops and Educators to submit your EOI's to be part of Matariki Festival 2022
Applications close April 14
Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2022
A message from Lviv City of Literature, a city of unbreakable poetry
Thank you to our friends Богдана Брилинська and Pavlo Koriaga from Lviv City of Literature for sharing this message abou...
Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2022
Alan Roddick has published NEXT, his third collection of poems in 50 years, with Otago University Press
Listen to him here on the OAR FM Morning Show
Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2022
Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award 2022 Winner is ...
Samantha Montgomerie
Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2022
Landfall Review Online
The Outrageous and the Everyday: Kerry Lane reviews The Pink Jumpsuit: Short fictions, tall truths by Emma Neale (Quenti...
Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2022
New Zealand women in World War II: Author puts out call for letters, diaries
Posted: Monday April 4, 2022
How cool is this!
Posted: Monday April 4, 2022
I Know a Published Author
The New Zealand Women's Weekly ran a short story competition which Christine Athenaeum from Dunedin Athenaeum & Mechanic...
Posted: Sunday April 3, 2022
Exhibition - The Four Seasons (Spring)
Posted: Sunday April 3, 2022
Te Papa Tupu 2022 – applications open!
Posted: Thursday March 31, 2022
2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Samplers
Posted: Wednesday March 30, 2022
5,000 words, $10,000
Entries open for NZ’s richest short story competition
Posted: Wednesday March 30, 2022
Listen to Swapna Haddow on the OARSome Breakfast Show
Posted: Wednesday March 30, 2022
Dunedin Fringe Festival Beyond Words Award sponsored by the City of Literature
.... and the winner is ....
Posted: Tuesday March 29, 2022
Entries are now open for the Secret Lives Short Story Competition.
Posted: Tuesday March 29, 2022
Win for Dunedin playwright
Dunedin playwright Emily Duncan has won the McNaughton South Island Play Award at the Adam Foundation New Zealand Play A...
Posted: Tuesday March 29, 2022
My Grandfather is a Canoe wins prestigious Dunedin Fringe Festival’s Touring Award to perform at Auckland Fringe
Posted: Tuesday March 29, 2022
Poet well versed in taking it to street
Do you wish you were quick, concise and confident in your speaking? It can be hard enough stringing together a sentence,...
Posted: Sunday March 27, 2022
Mātātuhi Foundation's Biannual Seed Funding round is NOW OPEN
Do you know some new and imaginative ways to increase the reach and engagement of NZ writers with NZ readers? The Mātātu...
Posted: Sunday March 27, 2022
Centuries of Ngai Tahu history in 50 stories
Posted: Sunday March 27, 2022
Adam NZ Play Awards announced
Congratulations to all the wonderful winners in the Adam NZ Play Awards, including our own Emily Duncan who again won th...
Posted: Sunday March 27, 2022
Contributions sought for centenary limited-edition hand-printed publication
Posted: Sunday March 27, 2022
New Zealand writers under 25
Starling are seeking submissions for the 14th issue of Starling
Posted: Thursday March 24, 2022