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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
Xmas: the best poetry books of 2023
Erena Shingade selects the 10 best poetry collections of 2023
Posted: Monday Dec 18, 2023
Bringing Pacific’s artists to the world
Pacific Arts Aotearoa brings together the stories of more than 120 artists, curators and community voices spanning six d...
Posted: Friday Dec 15, 2023
Psychological thriller wins inaugural Phoenix Prize
A pacy psychological thriller set in contemporary Sydney has won the inaugural Phoenix Prize for its author Rachel Paris...
Posted: Friday Dec 15, 2023
Adventures in bookland: From paperbacks to first editions
Dunedin collector Tony Eyre looks back on a life with literature
Posted: Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
The judges for the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced
And what a fine line-up they make
Posted: Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
An extraordinary life
Mākaro Press remembers writer, mentor, teacher, and taonga Renée, who died this week
Posted: Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Nominations are now open for the The Arts Foundation Springboard
Springboard aims to kickstart arts careers for artists at a formative stage of their career in Aotearoa - nominate an ar...
Posted: Monday Dec 11, 2023
NZSA is delighted to announce Barbara Else as 2024 President of Honour
This prestigious honour is bestowed on a senior writer and long-serving NZSA member in recognition of their contribution...
Posted: Monday Dec 11, 2023
All in for Arts: He waka toi e eke noa nei tātou is back
Register now via the link below to join this free breakfast series coming to a town near you, Feb – May 2024
Posted: Friday Dec 08, 2023
Write Spot with David Elliot
Award winning illustrator and writer David Elliot has an intriguing commission for Nottingham City of Literature that br...
Posted: Thursday Dec 07, 2023
The whimsy and magic of Dunedin's second-hand bookstores
The Book Collector is a memoir about Tony Eyre’s lifelong passion for reading and collecting books. In this extract he d...
Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023
Celebration of writers, readers
Listen to the 2023 Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Podcasts
Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023
Auckland Writers Festival announces New Programme Manager
Auckland Writers Festival | Waituhi o Tāmaki is thrilled to announce the appointment of Jennifer Cheuk as Programme Mana...
Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023
Open Call for Ljubljana City of Literature International Residency - Writer in the Park
*DEADLINE EXTENDED to 10 January 2024*
Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023
Plaque added for Gaelic bard
The Otago Scottish Heritage Council, Dunedin Public Libraries and the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature celebrated the u...
Posted: Monday Dec 04, 2023
Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2023
Submissions close 15 December
Posted: Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Winner of the Sargeson Prize schools division
A Nigerian girl and her Pākehā boyfriend at a swimming pool
Posted: Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Goodbye for now to the inaugural Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident
The City of Literature team recently farewelled the first-ever Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writer...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Winner of the 2023 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
Congratulations to Jo McNeice, for her manuscript, Blue Hour
Posted: Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Winner of the 2023 Landfall Essay Competition
Congratulations to Siobhan Harvey for her powerful essay, ‘A Jigsaw of Broken Things’
Posted: Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Internetnz Web Accessibility Grant open
This grant will help charities and Māori organisations to make their websites more accessible. Applications close 15 Dec...
Posted: Monday Nov 27, 2023
Reflections on 2023 Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency
It was an absolute joy and honour to live and write in the Caselberg House, as the inaugural recipient of the Caselberg ...
Posted: Monday Nov 27, 2023
Dr April-Rose Geers - University Book Shop Emerging Writer in Residence
Dr April-Rose Geers has been announced as the University Book Shop Emerging Writer in Residence. She will take up the re...
Posted: Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Much-loved bard travelled a hard road
Otago’s own Gaelic bard, Angus Robertson, has been rescued from obscurity and his literary achievements are about to be ...
Posted: Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Write Spot with OAR FM - WONDERlust project for World Braille Day
A book by That Blind Woman Julie Woods, illustrated by husband Ron Esplin, is being gifted to several Cities of Literatu...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Bridport Prize International Creative Writing Competition
Deadline 31 May 2024
Posted: Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
A History of Kindness
Read Kirstie Mckinnon's latest Substack, When Kindness Hurts and create your own Substack to connect your publication wi...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Let the little ones colour in kiwi creatures, and learn te reo along the way
Starring native birds, insects, plants and sea animals, the Reo Pēpi Bilingual Colouring Book will teach te reo vocabula...
Posted: Monday Nov 20, 2023
Wheeler Books - Book of the Week
𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗵 by beloved author Joy Cowley is an evocative and beautiful book that distils the essence of summer at the ba...
Posted: Monday Nov 20, 2023
From Millers Flat to Nanjing, China
Ready to fly . . .Millers Flat author Kyle Mewburn contemplates the contrast between her rural home and Nanjing with a p...
Posted: Thursday Nov 16, 2023
All episodes of the Play: Notes Podcast are now available to listen to
Join Dramaturgs Emily Duncan and Allison Horsley as they give you the need-to-know notes on plays that have influenced h...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Landfall Journal are excited to announce a special collaboration with non/fictionLab for 2024
They are joining together to commission a series of essays on the topic of ‘making space’. The essays will be trans-Tasm...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Distinguished Research Medal Lecture
Watch here the stream of the Distinguished Research Medal Lecture with recipient of the 2022 University of Otago disting...
Posted: Monday Nov 13, 2023
Writer 2023
This year’s winners of the University of Otago’s annual creative writing competition read and discuss their works with c...
Posted: Monday Nov 13, 2023
Reading makes life...full of opportunities
Did you know the OECD considers a love of reading to be the most important indicator of the future success of a child--m...
Posted: Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Melbourne-based writer Shu-Ling Chua reflects on her time in Dunedin as Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident.
Listen to this delightful kōrero between Jeff Harford and Melbourne-based writer Shu-Ling Chua on ‘Write Spot with Duned...
Posted: Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Sunday Star Times Short Story Awards 2023
Entries close November 12, 2023 at 11.45pm
Posted: Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
‘Words flowed, sparkled and rippled’
Lovely article by our Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Resident, Shu-Ling Chua from Melbourne ...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
'Is this all there is?'
Reflecting on the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2023 by Kiringāua Cassidy
Posted: Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
The NZ Summer Reading Guide is here
This summer’s edition is packed with book suggestions and gift ideas for every reader’s interests, needs and whims.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Nonnita Rees: Robert Lord's Diaries
Over the weekend, co-editor Nonnita Rees spoke to Kim Hill about Robert Lord Diaries. They talked about Robert's work, f...
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2023
Family legacy memorialised
The legacy of one of Dunedin’s founding families has been marked with the launch of a publication commemorating the 150t...
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2023
Toponymy project in Quebec City
Québec, ville de littérature have installed this very cool outdoor exhibition in Quebec City
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2023
A thrilling month for speakers of Polish in Aotearoa!
Kraków City of Literature announces CZYTAJ PL 2023 which offers 18 bestselling books for reading free online until 30 No...
Posted: Monday Nov 06, 2023