He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Translating Aotearoa poetry to Spanish
Posted: Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Hone Tūwhare creative residents named
Posted: Friday Oct 21, 2022
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Talks about Epiphanies
Posted: Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
CASELBERG TRUST INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 2022 – WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Posted: Monday Oct 17, 2022
Creative writing competition winners 2022
A humorous take on the theme “Brave New World” has won Lennox Tait one of the top places in the University of Otago’s an...
Posted: Monday Oct 17, 2022
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature – World Novel Week 2022
Posted: Monday Oct 17, 2022
A Dove Flies around Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Cities of Literature Scary Stories Anthology
Posted: Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
International Literacy Day
Posted: Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Local snapper gets international recognition
Posted: Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
City of Literature Super Grans to the rescue!
Posted: Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Festival curtains open with opera and dance
The Dunedin Arts Festival begins today, bringing a range of local acts and international productions to the city. It ope...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Light on her feet: remembering Keri Hulme
Posted: Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
A Recital of Poems: Chris Tse & David Eggleton
Posted: Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Poetic nonfiction: Diane Brown, Vaughan Rapatahana, Charlotte Hamrick, Sophia Wilson & Iona Winter
Posted: Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Writers at annual book event in Ukrainian city say storytelling and art have helped many endure violence
Posted: Monday Oct 10, 2022
Poetry Shelf: Emma Neale’s launch speech for Michael Harlow
Posted: Monday Oct 10, 2022
The Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize
Posted: Friday Oct 07, 2022
Book Launch: David Howard & Michael Harlow
Posted: Friday Oct 07, 2022
Ōtepoti fundraiser for relief in Ukraine
Posted: Friday Oct 07, 2022
‘Josephine’ comes to life
Reading the picture book Josephine Off The Rails on the train’s 150th birthday on Wednesday are Rose Videler and her dau...
Posted: Friday Oct 07, 2022
Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival & Dunedin Arts Festival bringing two author events to Ōtepoti book lovers.
Christine Leunens and Michael Bennett
Posted: Thursday Oct 06, 2022
What rapper Scribe and his older brother Matthias Luafutu can't agree on
Posted: Thursday Oct 06, 2022
‘Arts...illuminate the world we live in’: 2023 fellows appointed
Albert Einstein once said "creativity is contagious — pass it on". With that in mind, the University of Otago has appoin...
Posted: Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Open Call for Nanjing International Writers Residency 2022
Nanjing is offering 6 virtual residencies in 2022 to writers, poets and translators from all UNESCO Cities of Literature...
Posted: Thursday Oct 06, 2022
SuperGrans team with visiting authors on reading mission
Two Dunedin authors and a SuperGran visited a local kindergarten recently as part of the SuperGrans Readaloud Programme.
Posted: Friday Sep 30, 2022
Are you the new Director of Blue Oyster?
Posted: Thursday Sep 29, 2022
APPLICATION: Writers Residencies 2023
Posted: Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
The Coalition for Books to host a series of online talanoa sessions to support tagata Moana writers in publishing
Posted: Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
STARLING CONSIDERS WORK FROM NEW ZEALAND WRITERS UNDER 25 YEARS OLD AT TIME OF SUBMISSION.
Posted: Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
The Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellowship
The 2023 Creative New Zealand RCWT residency will run from May to October 2023.
Posted: Monday Sep 19, 2022
Māori scholar receives top award
Being awarded the University of Otago’s top honour has left Jacinta Ruru emotional, saying it is a significant moment fo...
Posted: Monday Sep 19, 2022
Light after darkness
A desire to speak the truth and see change in the care and justice system for young people has seen Fa’amoana John Luafu...
Posted: Friday Sep 16, 2022
Ben Wilson on The Write Spot radio show
Posted: Friday Sep 16, 2022
The 8th New Zealand Young Writers Festival
Posted: Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Insight ahead of arts festival
OAR FM’s weekday OARsome Morning Show is presenting interviews with national and international artists and directors in ...
Posted: Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Mansfield stories form new operas
Opera Otago returns to the Mayfair Theatre stage this weekend with an ambitious production of The Mansfield Trilogy, thr...
Posted: Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Talk features acclaimed Scottish crime writers
"Revenge and death and violence and bloodshed and mayhem" — what more could you want? Dunedin crime fiction fans will be...
Posted: Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Portrait: Peter Olds, by Victor Billot
On a delinquent, a wanderer, a literary icon
Posted: Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
How Covid affected the arts
The impact of Covid-19 on creativity was among the topics of a panel discussion with the 2022 University of Otago Arts F...
Posted: Monday Sep 05, 2022
Stesha Brandon from Seattle City of Literature visits Ōtepoti
Posted: Friday Sep 02, 2022
A trio of Chinese celebrations
A celebration on September 10 aims to thread the strands of Dunedin’s multicultural community together.
Posted: Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Theatre group marks 30th year
Theatre folk from across the country came together in Dunedin at the weekend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of profes...
Posted: Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Teen’s trilogy shows he’s a creative force
Kavanagh College pupil Tom Davis (15) has published three books since 2019, a trilogy which now resides in the school li...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
WE ARE MOVING BACK... UPDATE
Posted: Friday Aug 26, 2022
Poetry Shelf celebrates our new Poet Laureate: Chris Tse – a reading, a conversation
Posted: Friday Aug 26, 2022
'In Plain Air'
One feature of the new Pauline Bellamy website is that it's home to 'In Plain Air', the 2020 short documentary film abou...
Posted: Friday Aug 26, 2022
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature poetry contribution
Posted: Thursday Aug 25, 2022
David Eggleton Aotearoa Poet Laureate 2019 – 2022: Thank you from Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Tour of New Zealand with cabaret show is 'last hurrah' for poet laureate
David Eggleton’s current tour of the country is his “last hurrah” as New Zealand’s poet laureate.
Posted: Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Dirty Deeds Down Under - crime on both sides of the Tasman
It's apparently the first ever compilation of Australian and New Zealand crime short stories, but already several more a...
Posted: Monday Aug 22, 2022
A new novel remembers the plight of German internees
The brutality endured by First World War internees on Wellington's Matiu/Somes Island is remembered by Dunedin author Pa...
Posted: Monday Aug 22, 2022
1981 Springbok tour movie set to be filmed in city
The drama of the 1981 Springbok tour is set to return to Dunedin streets in a coming-of-age feature film.
Posted: Monday Aug 22, 2022
Kidd wins media award
Otago Daily Times reporter Rob Kidd was named regional journalist of the year at the Voyager Media Awards in Auckland on...
Posted: Monday Aug 22, 2022
The University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship
The English and Linguistics Programme at the University of Otago invites applications for a doctoral scholarship in lite...
Posted: Friday Aug 19, 2022
My Grandfather is a Canoe
My Grandfather is a Canoe has received heartfelt praise and accolades and now has another season – warmest congratulatio...
Posted: Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Short play competition
SaHara Breeze Productions launches its annual Shot Glass Shorts short play competition from tonight, showcasing new and ...
Posted: Thursday Aug 18, 2022