News and Opportunities
Author to discuss story of family life
The author behind what is shaping up to be the country’s most controversial book of the year is heading to Dunedin to di...
Posted: Friday July 2, 2021
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Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust announces residencies for 2021
Five writers have been awarded residencies for 2021, and applications are now invited for the 2022 Summer Writer in Resi...
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Official Launch of Prague in my Bones by Jindra Tichý
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature in partnership with Quentin Wilson Publishing and Dunedin Public Libraries was thrille...
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Dunedin Launch – A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature was proud to partner with Auckland University Press and Dunedin Public Libraries on th...
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Podcast on NZ International Science Festival Event preview
With award-winning comedian and playwright Abby Howells and director Alex Wilson
Posted: Wednesday June 30, 2021
Matariki Winter Reading Catalogue 2021
Posted: Monday June 28, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Radical Languages event – Behrouz Boochani and Vana Manasiadis challenge monolingualism
Posted: Monday June 28, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Vaughan Rapatahana on David Eggleton at Jacket 2
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Thirteen poems about home
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
$5K Surrey-Newsroom writers residency open
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
New Zealand National Commission (UNESCO) 2021/22 contestable funding round
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Liz Breslin reads from in bed with the feminists
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Concussion Episode 7: There's A Body All Right
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
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Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Announcing… the 2021 NFFD WINNERS
Posted: Wednesday June 23, 2021
Theatre piece for Flash Fiction Day
Posted: Wednesday June 23, 2021
Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award
Posted: Tuesday June 22, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Sophia Wilson’s winning poem in the 2021 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Posted: Tuesday June 22, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: 2021 Kathleen Grattan Prize announcement
Posted: Monday June 21, 2021
Book of the Week: Her body, her choice Paddy Richardson reviews one of the best novels of 2021
Posted: Monday June 21, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship
Posted: Monday June 21, 2021
Artistic project to lift spirits comes to end
Posted: Thursday June 17, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Iona Winters reads from Gaps in the Light
Posted: Wednesday June 16, 2021
The Author's Cut by Owen Marshall. Reviewed by Chris Reed
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
How I write: Alison Wong always comes back to poetry for inspiration
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
Poet launches second collection of work
Hawea Flat writer and Otago Daily Times columnist Liz Breslin’s new book of poetry, in bed with the feminists, lies in w...
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
CITIES OF LITERATURE SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL 13 - 20 SEPTEMBER 2019
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
Back Beach Poetry Trail
This beautiful trail in Port Chalmers was created by the Back Beach Writers’ Collective, a group of West Harbour writers...
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
Prisoner’s written works enchant judges
It was double delight for this year’s “New Chapters” winner after the same man claimed both short-story and poetry prize...
Posted: Monday June 14, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Fourteen poems about walking
Posted: Friday June 11, 2021
Writers behind bars given creative crash course
Creative writers behind bars received a late boost with their competition entries following some expert intervention.
Posted: Friday June 11, 2021
Connecting Cultures Features
Posted: Thursday June 10, 2021
PART TIME PERMANENT ROLE IN BOOK PUBLISHING.
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
All three seasons of the award-winning Dark Dunedin podcast are now live and available for download
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Michelle Elvy launches new book
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
Poetry Shelf backlist: Min-a-rets 10
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
Dark Dunedin : Breathing Hell
The third and final season of the award winning podcast.
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
Fourth Transported Decal
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
How to take better bird photos: Practical tips from a professional photographer
Author, and wildlife photographer, Paul Sorrell, lets us in on the magic behind his beautiful photographs.
Posted: Monday June 7, 2021
The First Anthology of Asian Voices from Aotearoa: A Homecoming
As one of the first national celebrations of Asian writers, Naomii Seah reflects on the anthology filled with the taste ...
Posted: Friday June 4, 2021
$25,000 Non-Fiction Award - Applications Open
Posted: Friday June 4, 2021
Call for judges of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Posted: Friday June 4, 2021
Creatives in Schools Funding - Round 3
Posted: Friday June 4, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Twelve poems about faraway
Posted: Thursday June 3, 2021
Storylines invites submissions to the Storylines Notable Book Awards 2021.
Entries close at 5pm on 31 August 2021.
Posted: Thursday June 3, 2021
2021 GRANADA WRITERS RESIDENCE PROGRAMME
Posted: Thursday June 3, 2021
Landfall Essay Competition
Entries for the 2021 Landfall Essay Competition must be received by 31 July 2021.
Posted: Thursday June 3, 2021
Solidarity Myanmar Concert
Posted: Wednesday June 2, 2021
Neville Peat's Natural History Titles.
If you're looking to learn more about what Aotearoa has to offer, check out author Neville Peat's range of natural histo...
Posted: Wednesday June 2, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: David Eggleton reads from The Wilder Years: Selected Poems
Posted: Tuesday June 1, 2021
The Caselberg International Poetry Prize opens today.
Posted: Tuesday June 1, 2021
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement 2021: nominations open
Posted: Tuesday June 1, 2021
’70s live again in Dunedin Study exhibition
If your foot starts tapping when you hear the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever, there is a good chance you were alive ...
Posted: Monday May 31, 2021
Work on evolving tome loved
Emeritus Prof Colin Townsend (72) must have read his doorstopper on ecology more than 100 times over the past year, whil...
Posted: Monday May 31, 2021
Love makes children of us all – Philip Temple
Posted: Monday May 31, 2021
Lockdown Zines
A group of Otago Polytechnic Design learners have had their Covid-related work acknowledged in Kātoitoi, the Aotearoa De...
Posted: Monday May 31, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Thirteen poems about water
Posted: Friday May 28, 2021
Solidarity Myanmar Concert
Posted: Friday May 28, 2021