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Getting the Play Right
Bios for the panel of Fringe Festival playwrights
Posted: Wednesday March 15, 2017
Students living up to literary reputation
With Dunedin’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature and its well-known legacy in publishing, it should come as no surprise that a group of Otago students have joined forces to produce their own literary publication: The Scribbler.
Posted: Monday March 13, 2017
Writers Residency Opportunities in 2017 / 18 in Dunedin - City of Literature
The Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust, Dunedin announces the closing dates for residencies available at the historic Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage in Dunedin from August 2017 to August 2018.
Posted: Tuesday February 28, 2017
Poetry Trail launches in Port Chalmers
Posted: Monday February 27, 2017
A tribute to Catriona Ferguson
Statement from Peter Biggs, Chair of the New Zealand Book Council
Posted: Monday February 20, 2017
Issue 8 of Down in Edin Magazine is now online
Posted: Tuesday January 31, 2017
University of Otago to offer City of Literature scholarship
The University of Otago and Dunedin City Council are excited to announce the launch of a new doctoral scholarship in literary studies.
Posted: Wednesday January 25, 2017
Best Books 2016
What will you be reading in 2017? Choose from our library staff’s Best Books of 2016 list.
Posted: Wednesday January 18, 2017
The University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship
The Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago invites applications for a new doctoral scholarship in literary studies: The University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship.
Posted: Friday January 13, 2017
Heritage Matters on Otago Access Radio
Twenty episodes of "Heritage Matters", the programme produced on behalf of Southern Heritage Trust for Otago Access Radio have gone to air since its inception in March 2016.
Posted: Friday December 23, 2016
Aotearoa Summer Reads to inspire nation to choose home-grown talent
A cast of New Zealand writers have selected their top picks from the Aotearoa-grown bookshelves to help guide kiwis in their Summer reading goals.
Posted: Friday December 9, 2016
Cast of storytellers to delight with tales in many tongues
Dunedin (Thursday, 8 December) – The organisers of Dunedin’s inaugural International Storytelling Festival have been overwhelmed with support – so much so, they have started a waiting list for storytellers.
Posted: Friday December 9, 2016
Airini Beautrais wins Landfall Essay Competition 2016
Airini Beautrais has been named the winner of the 2016 Landfall Essay Competition for her essay ‘Umlaut’. Competition judge David Eggleton said that her essay stood out as ‘written by someone unwilling to be boring, willing to take risks, and enough of a seasoned practitioner to carry it off with...
Posted: Thursday November 3, 2016
First complete edition of Katherine Mansfield’s poems
Oh God! I am divided still. I am bad. I fail in my personal life. I lapse into impatience, temper, vanity & so I fail as thy priest. Perhaps poetry will help. – Katherine Mansfield, 1921 diary entry
Posted: Thursday November 3, 2016
Announcing the 2016 Blue Oyster Summer Writing Resident:
Robyn Maree Pickens
With support from the Quarantine Island Kamau Taurua Community, Dunedin-based writer Robyn Maree Pickens will be spending 4 weeks on the Island in November and December, producing a body of writing as a response to the Island as an amalgam: of nature and culture; of sea and land; of relative...
Posted: Monday October 17, 2016
Stepsisters take on Filluel St carpark
Posted: Tuesday October 11, 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS - Screenwriting: Fact and Fiction, Truth and the Real
In order to ensure timely notification and subsequent travel planning, please note the deadline: Abstracts for original paper presentations and panels may be submitted until November 15, 2016. This date has been set as it is national vacation time over Dec/Jan in New Zealand and all committee members already have...
Posted: Friday October 7, 2016
Blanket Hut Braille
This Blind Week Julie Woods is responding to a 7 day challenge put out by the Blind Foundation in conjunction with an organised event where 7 blind people are challenging themselves over 700 km for 7 days!
Posted: Thursday September 29, 2016
Worth the Wait: Alan Roddick’s second poetry collection
After establishing a poetic presence on the literary scene in the early 1960s, Dunedin’s Alan Roddick published his first collection, The Eye Corrects: Poems 1955–1965, in 1967. A mere 49 years later comes the sequel, Getting it Right: Poems 1968–2015.
Posted: Thursday September 29, 2016