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Freedom Song
Emma Farry’s Freedom Song is a powerful and beautiful panacea for the world we live in. It’s a go-to book in times of trouble and a tool to enable more harmony and peace in your life.
Posted: Sunday April 29, 2018
CALLING ALL MUSICIANS AND SONGWRITERS
Youth Zone Unplugged is back for 2018! This year we are giving ten young musical acts the opportunity to record and produce their own original tracks to air on OAR FM Dunedin and associated platforms - Free of Charge
Posted: Thursday April 5, 2018
Why Go Girl needed to be written
New Zealand's answer to Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls is in bookshops now. It's called Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women (Penguin Random House NZ), and it's written by the multi-award-winning Barbara Else. We asked Barbara to tell us why the book was so badly needed, and we...
Posted: Tuesday April 3, 2018
Literary flagstones well worth looking down on
The Dunedin Writers’ Walk has maintained a low profile for the past 25 years but Tony Eyre argues it is worth more than a passing glance.
Posted: Monday March 19, 2018
Novel shines fresh light on women’s suffrage as New Zealand celebrates 125 years
“Before I could stop myself I stood up in my seat and boasted that I had met Mrs Sheppard when we berthed in Christchurch. That I’d read Wollstonecraft in London and that all women should get the vote …”
Posted: Tuesday March 13, 2018
Otago well represented in 2018 Ockhams shortlist
A widely praised collection from a leading New Zealand poet, and an exciting new environmental history of the settlement of the Otago Peninsula, have been shortlisted for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Posted: Tuesday March 6, 2018
Reed Gallery exhibition celebrates A.H. Reed’s original gift to Dunedin
The latest Reed Gallery exhibition marks the seventieth anniversary of A.H. Reed’s original gift of his rare book and manuscript collection, officially donated to the Dunedin Public Library in 1948 in commemoration of the centenary of the founding of the province of Otago.
Posted: Friday March 2, 2018
Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award winner inspired by polar experience
Kāpiti poet Alison Glenny has won the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Award with ‘The Farewell Tourist’, a poetry collection inspired by a visit to Antarctica.
Posted: Monday November 6, 2017
Landfall Essay Competition winners share prize for radically different topics
Two New Zealand essayists writing on very different topics – life as an army recruit and the power of scent – are joint winners of the 2017 Landfall Essay Competition.
Posted: Monday November 6, 2017
Book Lovers' Walking Tours
Posted: Tuesday October 17, 2017
Short Story Conference
The New Zealand Short Story had its very own conference in Invercargill in early September and Athenaeum committee member Philippa Duffy and myself trekked to the deep south for a literary feast of a weekend.
Posted: Thursday October 5, 2017
Telling tales
Our lives are all made up of many stories and everyone has a tale to tell.
Posted: Friday September 22, 2017
LIM - LESS IS MORE 2018
International call for projects
“Created by filmmakers for filmmakers”
Posted: Thursday September 21, 2017
Festival of Colour hit The Blue Moments Project to perform in Dunedin
It’s a show that brings new meaning to the phrase “music and lyrics”. The Blue Moments Project, an evening of jazz, blues and spoken word, is coming to Dunedin for a one-off performance at Knox Church’s Stuart Hall on October 2.
Posted: Friday September 8, 2017
Navigator by Anne Moir
NAVIGATOR, Anne’s first novel, was inspired by her experiences as a child during the post-World War Two era, when many men, including her father and uncles, were ex-servicemen.
Posted: Tuesday September 5, 2017
September 2017 Script Call
Short Film Otago has a new funding round open for new writers and filmmakers. It is calling for scripts/film ideas/outlines for development and possible funding.
Posted: Sunday September 3, 2017
The third New Zealand Young Writers Festival to be held in Dunedin - UNESCO City of Literature.
Sex, dairy farming and feminism are among the unlikely bedfellows at this year’s New Zealand Young Writers Festival, fifteen free events delivering some of the country’s finest young wordsmiths to Dunedin from September 7-10.
Posted: Wednesday August 16, 2017
City author wins book awards
Port Chalmers author and illustrator David Elliot has won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, which were held in Wellington last night.
Posted: Monday August 14, 2017
Announcement of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award 2017
Waikato novelist Catherine Chidgey has been named as the recipient of a Janet Frame Literary Trust Award worth $5,000.
Posted: Thursday July 20, 2017
Bird Dog Hot Dog
‘Tītī hotdog with horopito pickled onions and mānuka smoked chilli relish’.
Posted: Wednesday July 19, 2017