He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
The 2025 PANZ Book Design Awards are now open
Deadline for entries is Friday 30 May 2025
Posted: Monday May 05, 2025
Book awards and fast favourites with David Eggleton
Posted: Monday May 05, 2025
Watch Homesteads, Episode 7 - Hone Tuwhare Crib
A creative haven continuing to inspire Māori artists through the power of poetry and whakapapa.
Posted: Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Foundation Research Grants – applications open now!
Applications close 30 June 2025.
Posted: Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Storylines Tessa Duder Award for Young Adult Novels open for entries
The closing deadline for the 2026 award is 31 October 2025.
Posted: Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
That Blind Woman Julie Woods and Artist Ron Esplin present 'The World in 360 Minutes'!
Pack your bags for a new podcast exploring our world in 36 bite-sized episodes.
Posted: Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
A warm welcome to the University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship Recipient 2025!
Congratulations and welcome to Pascale Grard.
Posted: Monday Apr 28, 2025
Kate De Goldi named Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador for Aotearoa
Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador supports and champions the importance of reading in the lives of young New Zealanders, t...
Posted: Monday Apr 28, 2025
Familiar Foods: Treats of Aotearoa
Hannah Molloy from Good Bitches Baking shares the story behind GBB's beautiful new multicultural cookbook, Familiar Food...
Posted: Monday Apr 28, 2025
Tunmise Adebowale's Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Monday Apr 28, 2025
Biodiversity and the Webs of Life
A City of Literature and Enviroschools Celebration of The Great Southern Bioblitz
Posted: Monday Apr 28, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Dunedin writer Emma Neale's poetry collection Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit has been shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Boo...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand and the University of Otago Centre for the Book Conference 2025
Whose Work Is It Anyway? In conjunction with the University of Otago Centre for the Book Dunedin 18–20 November 2025.
Posted: Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
Malak Tamimi's Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
Celebrating Visiting 80 countries by the time he was 80 would be enough for most 80 year olds, but Ron Esplin is not most 80 year olds…
Around the world in 80 minutes is a podcast series based on the book Around the world in 80 years written by his wife Ju...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
Brand new residency opportunity!! Poetic Frequencies
Deadline to apply: May 18, 2025, CEST
Posted: Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Bucking the trend: new research tells us New Zealanders still love to read
The latest National Reading Survey commissioned by Read NZ Te Pou Muramura reveals that despite a bleak international ba...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Celebrating 75 Years of the Bookbus 1950 - 2025
Bringing Stories, Generating Community
Posted: Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Applications Now Open: Shape NZ’s Literary Future!
Are you ready to bring your literary project to life? Applications for the Mātātuhi Foundation’s May 2025 funding round ...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Review: Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages
Anuja Mitra explores the kaleidoscopic collection TE MOANA O REO and its 'melody stitching together a number of voices; ...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
One - The kindness of protest
Circa 1860-1869 six Scottish rabbits were released with champagne and celebration in Riverton, New Zealand.
Posted: Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Calling all poets, especially student poets!
Posted: Monday Apr 14, 2025
New Voices of Aotearoa nominations open
Nominations close Wednesday 30 April 2025
Posted: Monday Apr 14, 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Adam NZ Play Awards
Recognising the best in new unproduced writing for the Aotearoa theatre.
Posted: Monday Apr 14, 2025
Ajax Bastola’s Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Saturday Apr 12, 2025
The 2025 NZ Festival of Nature has officially begun!
Make sure you’ve booked in all your activities—there are loads of free events and some truly unique experiences. It’s ti...
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
$1.25m-plus given out over 30 years
Women and children, the victims of family violence, were dear to the heart of Dunedin artist Patricia France, who died 3...
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
Pukeko stew to eggs with caviar: our community cook books
Community cookbooks are a glimpse of the way we were Tony Eyre writes.
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages
To protect linguistic diversity in the field of children’s literature, IBBY and UNESCO have launched a global call for s...
Posted: Friday Apr 11, 2025
AIR Litteratur Västra Götaland announces residency scholarships
Applications close 23 April 2025
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Call for Youth Creative Writers!
OAR FM is now looking for MORE young people aged 12–24 to join Phase 2 of their whakapapa creative writing & podcast pro...
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Ocean Jade’s Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Applications for the 2026 Robert Burns Fellowship are now open
Applications close 1 June 2025
Posted: Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Cadence Chung - Cadence is a poet, classical singer and composer. Mad Diva is her first full-length collection of poetry...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Poetry Pen Pals: Poems Connect Dunedin and Québec City
Ōtepoti UNESCO City of Literature is excited to announce a creative collaboration with Québec City UNESCO City of Litera...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Book explores chapter of New Zealand fashion history
Posted: Friday Apr 04, 2025
Landfall Review Online April 2025 Reviews
Sally Blundell reviews: The Defiance of Frances Dickinson by Wendy Parkins (Affirm Press)
Posted: Friday Apr 04, 2025
Submit to Pasefika Presence . . . a magazine for the voices of the Pacific
Submit by Monday 7 April 2025
Posted: Friday Apr 04, 2025
TE HONO: CONNECTION is returning in 2025
Submissions close 28 April 2025
Posted: Thursday Apr 03, 2025
AI Advice: Online Sessions for Screenwriters and those who work with them
NZWG AI Advice Handbook: Presentation with Q&A Zoom Sessions 10-16 April 2025
Posted: Thursday Apr 03, 2025
‘Eden in Dunedin’ brings fashion to Toitu
A carefully curated collection of high-end fashion apparel is now on show at a museum in Dunedin.
Posted: Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
From Beckett to the Quantum World at the Dunedin Arts Festival
Posted: Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Apply for Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho Oral History Grants
Applications close on 15 April 2025
Posted: Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
‘Cattleman, Fashion Fancier’: Central Otago Couture, reviewed
Jessie Bray Sharpin discovers ‘a shining nugget of a book’ in Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Collection by Jane Ma...
Posted: Monday Mar 31, 2025
Asya Ahmadasri’s Layers of Identity
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and be...
Posted: Monday Mar 31, 2025
The Pasifika Books 2025 catalogue has landed
The Coalition for Books, with Kete, has launched their Pasifika Books 2025 catalogue focusing on new books by local Pasi...
Posted: Monday Mar 31, 2025
Books of Mana at Auckland Writers Festival
The editors join Miriama Kamo (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mutunga) to discuss this important work and reflect on two centuries of ...
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
Poetry Shelf: Michelle Elvy’s poem dispatch from the USA
Driving to North Carolina
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
The Laurel Prize 2025 is open for submissions for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025
Applications close 1 May 2025
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
Broad spectrum of shows highlighted at Fringe Awards
The Dunedin Fringe Festival 2025 wrapped up on Sunday with the Fringe Awards Night, honouring shows across the broad spe...
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
NZSA Kaituhi Māori Mentorship Programme
Applications close 10 April 2025
Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025
NZSA Kupu Kaitiaki Programme for Kaituhi Māori
The aim of this kaupapa is to provide new and emerging kaituhi with valuable feedback from a skilled Kupu Kaitiaki, for ...
Posted: Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Ripiro Beach Non-Fiction Writing Residency
An opportunity for University of Auckland alumni to have time and space to work towards or complete a creative non-ficti...
Posted: Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award shortlist: Emma Neale
To celebrate the four collections on the Ockham NZ Book Award Poetry Short list I invited the poets to answer a handful ...
Posted: Thursday Mar 27, 2025