News
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
The Other Side of the Mountain: Rewriting NZ climbing history
The story of Edmund Hillary’s ascent of Everest is familiar to all New Zealanders. Now a new book focuses on the previously untold story of the trailblazing first New Zealand Himalayan Expedition in 1951.
Posted: Thursday September 29, 2016
Book and Place: University of Otago Centre for the Book Symposium 2016
Posted: Monday September 26, 2016
The Friends of the Hocken Collections 2016 Research Award
In 2016 the Friends of the Hocken Collections celebrate their 25th anniversary of establishment.
Posted: Sunday September 11, 2016
Recent publications by Dunedin publisher Paua Press Limited
Sir George Grey and the moa by Bruce Spittle, 2015. Education and fluoridation in New Zealand: an historical study by John Colquhoun, 2016.
Posted: Wednesday September 7, 2016
A poem when you park
Next time you pay for parking, your ticket might come with a poem.
Posted: Thursday August 25, 2016
Michael Harlow’s Winning New Poetry Collection
The poems in Michael Harlow’s new collection, Nothing for it but to Sing, are small detonations that release deeply complex stories of psychological separations and attractions, of memory and desire.
Posted: Thursday August 11, 2016
Blue Oyster call for proposals
Blue Oyster is pleased to announce a call for solo, duo, group and curated exhibition proposals for the first half of 2017. A proposal call for the remaining 6 months of the coming year will be announced early 2017.
Posted: Monday August 1, 2016
Call for Participation for the forthcoming 5th International Summit of the Book 2016, Limerick City, Ireland
Please note the information below and consider whether you may wish to respond to the call and/or to make suggestions for possible suitable speakers for this prestigious conference coming to Limerick, Ireland in November 2016.
Posted: Friday July 22, 2016
BOOK SHOP ESTABLISHES NEW ZEALAND
WRITERS RESIDENCY
New Zealand’s first writing residency, the Robert Burns Fellowship, was established in 1958 in Dunedin marking the bicentenary of the birth of Robbie Burns. Now, 58 years later and to mark their seventy years of bookselling, Dunedin’s University Book Shop has created another New Zealand first with a bookshop-based annual...
Posted: Thursday July 21, 2016
Two books by local author Beatrice Hale
Two books by local author Beatrice Hale, both available as e-books on Smashwords and on Amazon.com, which also provides a print book. Beatrice usually writes on gerontology and caregiving, but has changed direction in retirement to look at her ancestors and write their stories, two of which are fictionalized here.
Posted: Tuesday July 19, 2016
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections
de Beer gallery, Special Collections, University of Otago, 10 June to 26 August 2016
Posted: Monday July 11, 2016