News and Opportunities
Get writing young writers!
Entries are now open for the 2022 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition
Posted: Wednesday January 12, 2022
Beques Montserrat Roig, a grant program for writers!
Barcelona is launching again its grants program for writers
Posted: Monday January 10, 2022
Tūhura, New Zealand’s biggest science centre!
Did you know that Otago Museum’s Tūhura Science Centre is the only bicultural science centre in the world and tells the ...
Posted: Monday January 10, 2022
DOWN IN EDIN ISSUE 24 - ONLINE NOW!
Arts, Culture and the Natural World in Dunedin and Otago, the South Island, New Zealand
Posted: Monday January 10, 2022
Jacinta Ruru: Top legal scholar hopeful of more inclusion for Māori
Aotearoa's first Māori professor of law who is regarded as one of the country's leading Māori legal scholars wants to se...
Posted: Thursday December 30, 2021
Twisty Plots Young Writers Workshops with Ella West
Dunedin City Library 8 February - 13 December 2022
Posted: Wednesday December 22, 2021
Write Spot Oarsome Morning Show
Poet Sandie Forsyth chatted with OAR FM’s Jeff Harford on Write Spot on Wednesday – what a wonderful conversation, thank...
Posted: Wednesday December 22, 2021
Annie Villiers in Utrecht City of Literature's wonderful international chain poem
Read the wonderful post below and listen to Annie reading her lines
Posted: Tuesday December 21, 2021
Māori and Pacific Publishing scholarship set to open doors for a second year
Applications are now open for the 2022 Māori and Pacific Publishing scholarship from Whitireia Community Polytechnic Ltd...
Posted: Tuesday December 21, 2021
Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2022
Blue Oyster is pleased to announce Madison Kelly as Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2022
Posted: Sunday December 19, 2021
And the winner is...
Congratulations to the winners of the National Poetry Day 2021 Shape Poetry competition
Posted: Wednesday December 15, 2021
📢 Calling all artists! 📢
Asia New Zealand Foundation are excited to share that their IN TOUCH Arts Commissions are back for 2022! 📺
Posted: Wednesday December 15, 2021
Academy of New Zealand Literature Book Review
The Pink Jumpsuit by Emma Neale
Posted: Wednesday December 15, 2021
Neil Grant: Master Potter
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature was proud to partner with Otago Polytechnic’s Dunedin School of Art for the launch of ...
Posted: Wednesday December 15, 2021
Kissing a Ghost anthology available now
The New Zealand Poetry Society is exceedingly pleased to announce the launch of their 2021 Anthology
Posted: Wednesday December 15, 2021
I See Mycelium / I Hear the Sound of Breaking Glass
Georgette Brown
Posted: Tuesday December 14, 2021
CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY!
This Booksmas OUP have two summer reading prize packs to give away.
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
This week's bus stop decal
280 Andersons Bay Road, outside Mitsubishi dealer
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
Above the Treeline - a guide to the plants and animals of alpine New Zealand
Challenges facing alpine NZ - Sir Alan Mark
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
New sponsor announced for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults ....
.... are excited to reveal their fantastic line up of judges for the 2022 awards!
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
'A Definitely Different Summer'
New young adult novel based on Kiwi maritime tragedy
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
CALLING NEW ZEALAND FICTION WRITERS!
Are you the next big thing in fiction writing? Have you got a burning idea for a bestselling novel? Could you be the nex...
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
OARsome Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
Check out the latest Podcast with Poet Sudha Rao - the current resident in the Robert Lord Writers' Cottage
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Toitoi office!
Check out the Toitoi website for some awesome gift ideas for your young writers and artists
Posted: Wednesday December 8, 2021
🌟 Christmas Freebie 🌟
These would look gorgeous with some glitter too...get creative!
Posted: Tuesday December 7, 2021
Announcing the winner of the 2021 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize judged by John Allison:
Claire Beynon
Posted: Tuesday December 7, 2021
Congratulations to author Diana Morrow who has been awarded a Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grant for her upcoming biography on Ruth Dallas.
Diana is the author of 'Kate Edger: The life of a pioneering feminist', which was published earlier this year. We look f...
Posted: Tuesday December 7, 2021
For Aotearoa Writers!
Apply now to be mentored by an established writer, poet or playwright under our NZSA Mentor Programme
Posted: Tuesday December 7, 2021
Looking for a cracking job in publishing?
OUP is seeking a new Marketing & Publicity Coordinator
Posted: Tuesday December 7, 2021
A tribute to Stephen Stratford, who died suddenly at his Cambridge home last weekend
Posted: Tuesday December 7, 2021
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature turns 7!
Get your free Dunedin Author Postcards from the City Library
Posted: Friday December 3, 2021
Iona Winter, Rena Priest & Sasha LaPointe: Indigenous Poetry & Perspectives
Iona Winter, Rena Priest and Sasha LaPointe share their work and discuss shared themes and resonance within their writin...
Posted: Friday December 3, 2021
Open Call: Writer in the Park, Literary Residency in Ljubljana
Writers! Here's your chance to enjoy a one-month residency in Ljubljana!
Posted: Friday December 3, 2021
Government invests to support a classic Kiwi summer
Vaccinated New Zealanders can look forward to Kiwi summer events with confidence, following the launch of the Arts and C...
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Hannah Marshall talks about attending the Young Writers Festival
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Vanda Symon – juggling human drama, health research and tea trays
From community pharmacy to crime scene forensics, Dunedin author and University of Otago researcher Dr Vanda Symon’s car...
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Voices of World War II - Renée Hollis: Untold Kiwi war stories brought to life
The visually stunning compendium of photos and written accounts offers a snapshot of what life was like before and durin...
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2021
A massive congratulations to Michael Steven who is the winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2021 for his manu...
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
City of Readers, Children's Summer Reading Programme
Pre-registrations are open for the annual Summer Reading Programme for children in Years 1-8
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Submissions are now open for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
These annual awards recognise and celebrate the best books for young readers published in New Zealand and we can't wait ...
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Do you have memories to share about the Dunedin City Library?
How good is your memory? We're celebrating the 40th birthday of the current Dunedin City Library building by inviting yo...
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
The city’s foodbanks need your help!
If you wish to donate non-perishable food items, there are collection points at all Dunedin Public Libraries.
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Landfall 242 is now out!
This is the first edition from new editor Lynley Edmeades and is full of literary treasures and competition results.
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Stuck for Christmas present ideas for your staff, friends or family?
How about buying a book for a kid in need on their behalf?
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
'Bruce Hunt wants us to share his special place'
Jim Eagles reviews TUSSOCK by Bruce Hunt, published by Bateman Books
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Congratulations to Anna Woods who has been selected as the Caselberg Trust Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writer in Residence for 2022!
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Caselberg’s International Poetry Prize Awards Night
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2021
Melbourne City of Lit meets Dunedin’s University Book Shop
Check out this wonderful article
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Dublin Book Festival 2021: Crime in the City
Enjoy this video featuring our own Vanda Symon!
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Judith Binney Fellow for 2022
Congratulations to Dr Jonathan West who has been named the Judith Binney Fellow for 2022. Jonathan is the award-winning ...
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Looking for book recommendations this Christmas?
Check out Kete Books' Christmas catalogue.
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2021
A massive congratulations to Michael Steven who is the winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2021 for his manu...
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Undiscovered Gems
Write a Short Story Based On Your Unpublished Book Win USD $500 and Publishing Opportunities with Exisle and EK Books
Posted: Monday November 29, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems
Posted: Sunday November 28, 2021