News and Opportunities
Our UNESCO City of Literature - Dunedin
This feature is a follow-up to UNESCO Memory of the World Programme article in the last issue. We shine a light on Duned...
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Twelve poems about knitting
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
This School Rulez
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
St Clair School
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
St Bernadette’s Room 1, 2021
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
St Bernadette’s and the bees
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Paula Morris and Alison Wong.
Reviewed by Saradha Koirala for The Academy of New Zealand Literature.
Posted: Thursday May 20, 2021
Carisbrook School Junior Team Poem
Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021
Space Giants in the Bathgate Park School Library
Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021
Pupil’s plea for climate adaptation wins prize
Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021
CLNZ / NZSA Research Grants – Application Guide and Criteria
Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021
Sargeson Prize Short story competition
Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021
Call for UNESCO City of Literature 2021 Wonju Residency
Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021
Second Transported Decal, located at 11 Opoho Road
Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Siobhan Harvey reads from Ghosts
Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021
The Amazing Andy Bay School Poem
Posted: Tuesday May 18, 2021
Submissions for Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme
Posted: Tuesday May 18, 2021
Submissions open for NZ Literary Journal, Sweet Mammalian 8
Posted: Monday May 17, 2021
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Participates in Manchester’s Online Poetry Exhibition
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature was delighted to take part in a virtual exhibition curated by Manchester UNESCO City o...
Posted: Monday May 17, 2021
Liz Breslin & Tiffany Atkinson on discovering yourself through writing
Posted: Monday May 17, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Eleven poems about the moon
Posted: Monday May 17, 2021
Faking It: My Life In Transition by Kyle Mewburn, reviewed by Renata Hopkins for Kete Books
Posted: Sunday May 16, 2021
Join the SSBD Board
Posted: Thursday May 13, 2021
Liz Jack, daughter of Essie Summers, remembers her mother
Posted: Thursday May 13, 2021
Poetry Shelf congratulates Tusiata Avia, the Ockham NZ Book Award Poetry winner (ten things she loves, a poem, an interview)
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2021 Winners Announced
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Author’s awards cover full spectrum
One of Dunedin’s most celebrated and versatile authors has added yet another award to an already bulging trophy cabinet.
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
A Clear Dawn: anthology of emerging Asian writers
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Author interview with Dunedin writers Vanda Symon and Heather McQuillan
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Richard Langston's heartfelt Mother's Day poem
Born to a Lebanese immigrant family in Dunedin, and a Country Calendar director by trade, Richard Langston is constantly...
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
PLAYWRIGHTS b4 25
Playmarket and Auckland Live are thrilled to announce the short-listed plays and playwrights for this year's Playwrights...
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Application forms for the Caselberg Creative Connections Residency 2022 are available now
Submissions will be accepted until 5pm on the 31st May!
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Study English at Otago University
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Check out the latest captivating Oral History Podcasts – so special, thank you NZSA
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Nine poets read from A Clear Dawn
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Transport Decals
Every week we will be showing off one of our Transport decals.
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
The conclusion of Philip Temple's biography of Maurice Shadbolt
He wrestled with demons, including depression and alcohol, for most of his life. But writer Maurice Shadbolt still manag...
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Ten poems about dreaming
Posted: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Unseen forces make great fantasy
Being legally blind since birth, Steff Green has dealt with rejection her whole life.
Posted: Friday May 7, 2021
35 Years of Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi: Nominations Open Now
Creative New Zealand is proud to recognise 35 years of Ngā Taonga Toi o Te Waka Toi, the Te Waka Toi Awards in 2021 and ...
Posted: Thursday May 6, 2021
Map for the Heart: Ida Valley essays by Jillian Sullivan reviewed by Tim Saunders for Landfall Review online
Posted: Thursday May 6, 2021
A Clear Dawn reviewed by Claire Mabey for Kete books
Posted: Thursday May 6, 2021
Author’s success right out of fiction
Aucklander Rose Carlyle is still coming to terms with becoming a published author and having her book scooped up by Holl...
Posted: Thursday May 6, 2021
Nouns, verbs, etc. (selected poems) by Fiona Farrell reviewed by Mary Cresswell
Posted: Thursday May 6, 2021
Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador
Find out about the new role of Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador for children and young people. The first Read...
Posted: Wednesday May 5, 2021
Mātātuhi Foundation
Our May 2021 Funding Round is open and ready for the next tranche of genius ideas on how we can grow and expand NZ's lit...
Posted: Wednesday May 5, 2021
Buy a book from NZ bookshops this #MothersDay 📚
Take a look at the latest Mother's Day campaigns from our NZ publishers for inspiration ⬇
Posted: Wednesday May 5, 2021
Second Creative Spaces funding round opens
Second Creative Spaces funding round opens
Posted: Wednesday May 5, 2021
Acts of creation
Tane, Maui and Hine-nui-te-po are back, reclaimed and recast for new generations by master story teller Witi Ihimaera, w...
Posted: Wednesday May 5, 2021
Writers & Readers Festival features NZ’s top talent
Curating a festival during a global pandemic would be tough for anyone, but it is a challenge Hannah Molloy has embraced...
Posted: Wednesday May 5, 2021
Collaboration honours print and publishing trade
Bespoke hardcover book Alert Level Four is the fruit of a special collaboration, says author Athol Parks. Parks worked w...
Posted: Tuesday May 4, 2021
The Gifts of Gary Blackman
Thomas McLean has lived in Dunedin for 16 years, during which time he has had the chance to enjoy the city's artistic ri...
Posted: Tuesday May 4, 2021
Remembering Dave Cull
Posted: Tuesday May 4, 2021
Commutes given a literary flavour
Dunedin commuters will have something new to read while waiting for the bus this morning.
Posted: Tuesday May 4, 2021
OAR FM Dunedin Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature - 28-04-2021 - Victor Billot.
Posted: Tuesday May 4, 2021
Heritage Decals on Bus Shelters
We are proud to collaborate with Unesco City of Literature and the Hocken Library to celebrate Dunedin’s transport herit...
Posted: Monday May 3, 2021
2021 Centre for the Book Symposium, “Natural” History?—Call for Papers
Posted: Monday May 3, 2021
Nook and Cranny act ‘so different’
Lift music traditionally has a soothing quality as people are taken up and down in an uncomfortably enclosed space.
Posted: Monday May 3, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Sophia Wilson shortlisted for the FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional Poetry Prize
Posted: Monday May 3, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Twelve poems about ice
Posted: Monday May 3, 2021