News and Opportunities
Landfall Review Online
From the Centre: A writer’s life by Patricia Grace - reviewed by Jacinta Ruru
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
Bloodways of Papatūānuku
David Young’s new book Wai Pasifika explores Indigenous views, values and practices about water across the Pacific. It c...
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
2022 Te Teuihu Short Story Awards
Open to all New Zealanders writing in English or te reo Māori
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
Vincent O'Sullivan: Frankenstein’s creature in Fiordland
"How we cope with life is finding an appropriate way to talk about it." Lovely chat with Vincent O'Sullivan about his ne...
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
SOME GOOD NEWS FOR THE ARTS:
Major New Prize Announced for Aotearoa’s Live Performance Industry
Posted: Sunday February 27, 2022
Dunedin Public Libraries delighted to announce the recipient of the 2021 Citation ....
.... Paul S Allen
Posted: Thursday February 24, 2022
Hysterical
A two-woman, feminist poetry show which confronts the narrative that women are too emotional and celebrates the hysteria...
Posted: Thursday February 24, 2022
The Regent Book Sale is Happening!
April 1st - 10th, Advance Bookings Essential
Posted: Wednesday February 23, 2022
Dunedin Pride focusing on events
Dunedin Pride secretary Trak Gray is looking forward to celebrating the rainbow community during March.
Posted: Wednesday February 23, 2022
Diana Noonan wins Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal 2022
Writer Diana Noonan, author of more than 100 titles for children and young adults, is the 2022 winner of the Storylines ...
Posted: Wednesday February 23, 2022
Kathryn van Beek's Honey Babe 🍊🍒
Featured in Overland Literary Journal
Posted: Tuesday February 22, 2022
OPEN CALL FOR THE INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS!
Kraków UNESCO City of Literature announces the 2022 call for applications for the International Residency Program for wr...
Posted: Tuesday February 22, 2022
EK Books shortlisted for the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2022 Prize Best Children's Publishers of the Year
Smashing! 🤸♀️🤸🤸♂️
Posted: Tuesday February 22, 2022
The Secret History of Flight149
Number one on the Apple true crime podcast chart...
Posted: Tuesday February 22, 2022
Veteran poet Alan Roddick looks back - and forward
The past, present and even speculation about the future all find a place in the latest poetry collection Next by Ōtepoti...
Posted: Sunday February 20, 2022
Two additions for Dunedin Writers' Walk
Two Dunedin writers have been added to the Dunedin Writers’ Walk.
Posted: Sunday February 20, 2022
Two new names on Dunedin's Writers' Walk
Lynn Freeman speaks to Roger Hickin who is Peter Olds' long-time friend and publisher, and to Ted Middleton's widow, poe...
Posted: Monday February 14, 2022
Happy Library Lovers' Day!
Library Lovers' Day is observed on the 14th of February to honour libraries, librarians and book lovers.
Posted: Sunday February 13, 2022
NZSA Youth Mentorship Programme 2022 Seeks Emerging Young Writers
Four secondary school students will each have the opportunity to be mentored by one of New Zealand’s best professional a...
Posted: Thursday February 10, 2022
Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Project Fund
The arts project fund supports New Zealand professional arts companies, events and organisations to deliver projects tha...
Posted: Thursday February 10, 2022
Stories of silence, anxiety, retreat
Paddy Richardson reviews Emma Neale’s The Pink Jumpsuit, an extraordinary short story collection, longlisted for the Ock...
Posted: Wednesday February 9, 2022
ATTENTION ALL ART LOVERS
There is just over a month until the world’s southernmost Fringe Festival kicks off!
Posted: Tuesday February 8, 2022
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Images capture the joy and magic of this sold out production
Posted: Tuesday February 8, 2022
Jessie Neilson reviews THE FROG PRINCE by James Norcliffe
'The cover of James Norcliffe's latest work is extravagantly ebullient, a bunch of bright pink waterlilies parading thei...
Posted: Tuesday February 8, 2022
Hidden depth of taonga in still life
Ti kouka blooms tell a story, but sometimes there’s more to see
Posted: Sunday February 6, 2022
The Secret History of Flight149
Podcast contains new revelations about the appalling treatment of the Gulf War human shields and the secret mission that...
Posted: Thursday February 3, 2022
Congratulations to Swapna Haddow ....
University of Otago College of Education's 2022 Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence
Posted: Wednesday February 2, 2022
2022 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner
Congratulations Diana Noonan
Posted: Wednesday February 2, 2022
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID: A Chronicle of a Pandemic
Featuring Kerry Lane's poem ‘Uisge’, winner of the recent City of Literature Dunedin, New Zealand Robert Burns Poetry Pr...
Posted: Wednesday February 2, 2022
A Midsummer Night's Dream 3-13 February
Heading to the show this week but not familiar with the plot? Here’s a handy one-page guide:
Posted: Tuesday February 1, 2022
Dunedin Public Art Gallery longlisted in the Ockham Book Awards ...
... for their publication accompanying their nationally touring exhibition Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined in the context...
Posted: Monday January 31, 2022
BOUND nominated for Barry Award
🤩Congratulations🤩 to our Dunedin crime queen Vanda Symon
Posted: Monday January 31, 2022
A return to the scene of the crime
Liam McIlvanney returns to the grimly seedy side of Glasgow for his new crime thriller
Posted: Monday January 31, 2022
Submissions Now Open for New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Awards
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is calling for entries for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adu...
Posted: Thursday January 27, 2022
The 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlisted books are announced
Congratulations to the longlistees
Posted: Wednesday January 26, 2022
Publisher continues award streak
Otago University Press publisher Sue Wootton is celebrating three titles making the Ockham award longlists
Posted: Wednesday January 26, 2022
Try out the NZSA Writer Toolkit!
First course - Storybuilding: Strategies and exercises to build solid foundations with Mandy Hager - is FREE to all NZSA...
Posted: Wednesday January 26, 2022
Hey Otago, got a research idea you want help getting off the ground?
2022 Science Into Action funding round is now open
Posted: Tuesday January 25, 2022
Young poets on fire with Burns’ themes
Poems about feelings of longing and celebrating belonging were recited yesterday at the 19th annual prizegiving ceremony...
Posted: Tuesday January 25, 2022
2022 Samesame but Different Festival going online!
It’s easier to attend Same Same than ever before - they're going full online so all you need is a screen and an internet...
Posted: Tuesday January 25, 2022
Otago University Press publisher Sue Wootton had a surprise parcel arrive on her doorstep recently...
... the Bulgarian edition of her novel 'Strip'
Posted: Monday January 24, 2022
Books for Topics - Books of the Year
My Dad is a Grizzly Bear - BEST Classroom Read-Aloud
Posted: Monday January 24, 2022
New RNZ National show to focus on Māori talent and stories
Acclaimed broadcaster Julian Wilcox (Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa) is to host a new RNZ National programme featuring Māori from acr...
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
New Zealand Society of Authors StartWrite Writing Sample and Synopsis Assessment Service
Open for submissions!
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
The NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival adds another exciting element to their repertoire - the Mountain Book competition!
The NZ Mountain Book of the Year, founded and supported by Dave Bamford and John Nankervis offers a $1000 prize
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
Mayhem Literary Journal
This year's Mayhem Literary Journal includes work by Eliana Gray, Victor Billot, Michael Steven, Sophia Wilson, and Dunc...
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
the other side of better
Academy of New Zealand Literature Book Review
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
ReadShareGrow Book Trail
Pick up your copy of the ReadShareGrow Book Trail from the Lilliput Library at 15a Marlow Street
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
In Memory of Keri Hulme
An appreciation of Keri Hulme by Kelly Ana Morey
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
Caledonian Noir with Liam McIlvaney
Listen to Caledonian Noir with Liam McIlvaney from RNZ's The Weekend with Emile Donovan
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
OPEN CALL FOR THE 2022 GRÖNDAL'S HOUSE UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE RESIDENCY
Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature offers a free one month residency for a writer from another UNESCO City of Literatur...
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022
Whitireia Graduate Diploma in Publishing (Applied)
Enrolments are now open - Start Date 28 February 2022
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022
University Book Shop Otago seeking a Marketing & Administration Assistant
This exciting and newly created opportunity supports the marketing and administrative team while the University Book Sho...
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022
Volunteers sought for the Dunedin Fringe Festival
Pre-festival: 9th February - 16th March | Festival: 17th March - 27th March | Post-festival: 28th March - 3th April
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022