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Today on Write Spot
Writer, editor and educator Michelle Elvy brings us up to date with New Zealand Society of Authors projects, and her own...
Posted: Thursday Feb 15, 2024
‘My salamander’ by Emma Neale translated for new anthology
Posted: Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Stories from the Cities
Recent Dunedin titles featured at Jakarta Content Week 2023
Posted: Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Plaque unveiled for Gaelic bard
Otago Scottish Heritage Council, Dunedin Public Libraries and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature were thrilled to celebra...
Posted: Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Ōtepoti writers make the world a better place
#17Booksfor17SDGs Campaign
Posted: Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Have you heard the locally produced podcast 86b?
It's well worth a listen!
Posted: Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Taranaki author wins international award for poetry
Wonderful recognition for the 2024 University of Otago Robert Burns Fellow, Mikaela Nyman. Congratulations Mikaela.
Posted: Thursday Feb 15, 2024
How to be well read in a year of dragons
Poet Laureate Chris Tse has curated a reading list of East and South East Asian writers from Aotearoa for the Lunar New ...
Posted: Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Call for Applications
Translating Ukraine Summer Institute Wroclaw, Poland 3-15 June 2024
Posted: Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Short story: Broderick and Riley, by Owen Marshall
Two lifetimes of two Kiwi men, told in 1609 words
Posted: Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Valentine’s and Alzheimer’s
“I used to picture that he would marry me”: A love letter to Brian Turner
Posted: Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Calling all enthusiastic creators, passionate artisans, and dynamic community groups
Join the South Dunedin Street Festival 2024: A Celebration of Local Talent and Community Spirit!
Posted: Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Welcome to the Year of the Dragon!
Posted: Monday Feb 12, 2024
University appoints first deputy vice-chancellor Māori
Distinguished Māori legal scholar Prof Jacinta Ruru is ready to start her new role as the first deputy vice-chancellor M...
Posted: Monday Feb 12, 2024
'I Held Hands with the Frightened, the Newly Born, the Bereft, the Dying and the Sick'
Michael O’Leary reviews:
Posted: Monday Feb 12, 2024
Book Launched: Praha v me krvi, Jindra Tichá (Echo, 2023)
In her fresh memoirs, Jindra Tichá returns to the Czechoslovak reality of the 1950s and 1960s, her journey to exile in E...
Posted: Friday Feb 09, 2024
National Library’s Elizabeth Jones wins Storylines’ top Award
National Library’s Director, Elizabeth Jones, has been named the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner 2024. The award i...
Posted: Friday Feb 09, 2024
Actors prepare to take on complete works of Shakespeare
Actors prepare to take on the entire works of William Shakespeare in their 90 minute performance in Chingford Park over ...
Posted: Friday Feb 09, 2024
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills
Longlisted for 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Posted: Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Awards finalists announced
The Dunedin Theatre Reviewers Collective has announced the finalists for this month’s 12th Dunedin Theatre Awards.
Posted: Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Jutun Juuri - Root of the Chatter Writing Competition for 15-21 -year-old youth living in a UNESCO City of Literature
Entries close 29 March 2024
Posted: Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Tartu City of Literature International Residency Spring 2024
Applications close 20 February 2024
Posted: Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency
Applications for the 2024/2025 academic year are now open! Applications close Monday 4 March 2024
Posted: Monday Feb 05, 2024
The Ockham NZ Book Awards 2024 longlist is announced!
Congratulations to all the nominees
Posted: Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Quicksand in Portobello
Today is the last day of the novelist Kathryn van Beek’s year-long tenure as Dunedin’s Robert Burns Fellow
Posted: Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Kathryn van Beek - her last day as the 2023 Robert Burns Fellow
Posted: Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Freedom in ‘high speed’ Bard play
Three actors, 37 plays, 100 props and hundreds of characters will come together in a high-energy mashup, as Dunedin Summ...
Posted: Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Robert Burns Poetry Competition 2023
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2023 Robert Burns and Rap Like Robbie Poetry Competitions! You can read the wi...
Posted: Thursday Jan 25, 2024
The word on the street
As you wander down our beautiful newly paved George Street, take a moment to acknowledge the literary treasures that lea...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Gentlemen, gentlewomen and scholars — the Burns Fellows
As Kathryn van Beek’s time as the University of Otago’s Robert Burns Fellow comes to an end, she contemplates the litera...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Read NZ Author Q&A: Ella West
Ella West, author of six YA novels (including the NZ Book Award shortlisted Thieves), chats writing for young adults, le...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
University Book Shop Bestsellers 2023
So many local authors! To celebrate, all of the titles listed here are 15% off in store and online for the rest of the m...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Whimsical ‘click-a-path’ adventure story out now for summer
The ManyEnding Story is a coming-of-age tale with a difference. Written by Robert Burns Fellow Kathryn van Beek, the fre...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Extract: ‘The Tiriti Translator’ and ‘Aloneness’ winners of the 2023 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize
‘The Tiriti Translator’ by Jilly O’Brien and ‘Aloneness’ by Tim Saunders were announced the dual winners of The 2023 Cas...
Posted: Monday Jan 22, 2024
Kyle Mewburn selected by Nanjing City of Literature for its 2023 Residency Programme
Posted: Monday Jan 22, 2024
Emerging Writing Resident Announced
Caselberg Trust Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Resident 2024 is Kate Aschoff
Posted: Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Local author Swapna Haddow leads popular Festival events for tamariki
The 2023 Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival curated a selection of literary experiences based on the central theme Te Pū...
Posted: Friday Jan 19, 2024
Theatre awards to celebrate past two years
The best of local theatre from the past two years will be celebrated at next month’s Dunedin Theatre Awards, which retur...
Posted: Thursday Jan 18, 2024
Write Spot with OAR FM
Poet and novelist Mikaela Nyman, the 2024 University of Otago Robert Burns Fellow, looks ahead to her year in Dunedin.
Posted: Thursday Jan 18, 2024
The 2024 #DublinLitAward longlist has been revealed!
With 70 books nominated by 80 libraries from 35 countries, this year's longlist is a treasure trove of stories and world...
Posted: Thursday Jan 18, 2024
2023 Nanjing International Writers Residency
Enjoy this article and images from Nanjing City of Literature capturing the residency attended by Kyle Mewburn in Novemb...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Call for Applications: Congress of Literature in Vilnius May 6-10, 2024
Applications close 28 January 2024
Posted: Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Art seen: Marilynn Webb
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery is celebrating the life of Bay of Plenty-born Otago artist Marilynn Webb with a comprehen...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
School’s out for summer!
Here’s a great activity to entertain children and help them with their reo. Take a look at this gorgeous colouring page ...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Southern Cross Crime
The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand
Posted: Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
NZSA Mentor Programme 2024 – open for applications
For Writers! Apply now to be mentored by an established writer, poet, playwright.
Posted: Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Delegation for 2024 Festival of Pacific Arts announced by Creative New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand will be represented by 85 artists and performers at the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts (FestPAC) to ...
Posted: Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Phantom Billstickers poem posters in Avondale
Featuring Rain by Hone Tuwhare
Posted: Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Master of Creative Writing
Complete your large-scale creative writing project with an award-winning novelist and a lively, committed and diverse co...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Today marks our final day of the #17Booksfor17SDGs campaign
For 17 days we have shared some of Ōtepoti's recently published books which highlight each of the 2030 Sustainable Devel...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Arts Access Aotearoa announces recipients of fellowships
Artists, a creative space and projects built around access, inclusion and participation in the arts are recipients of Ng...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
#17Booksfor17SDGs
In 2015, the United Nations created 17 Sustainable Development Goals and aimed to achieve them by 2030.
Posted: Tuesday December 19, 2023
Peter Wells Short Fiction Contest
Opportunity for Aotearoa-based LGBTQIA+ authors. Stories must be received by midnight on Friday 5 January 2024.
Posted: Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Inspiring More Teachers To Share Aotearoa's Stories
Tackling 'the Summer Slide' for students is nothing new - but Read NZ CEO Juliet Blyth explains a 'whole-playground' app...
Posted: Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Publishing Scotland launches its 2024 International Publishing Fellowship Programme
Applications close Wednesday 31 January 2024
Posted: Monday Dec 18, 2023
Public Lending Right for New Zealand Authors
Authors, register (between 1 January-1 March 2024) to get payment in recognition of your books being in NZ libraries
Posted: Monday Dec 18, 2023