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Residency Opportunity in Dunedin

Posted: Monday March 1, 2021

Discover a new city through books

Recommended reading lists from our UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence

Posted: Monday March 1, 2021

Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award poetry long list

Elizabeth Morton reads from This is your real name

Posted: Wednesday February 24, 2021

Issue 11 of Starling Magazine is online now

Posted: Wednesday February 24, 2021

Read two poems by Ruth Arnison - Silent Lyrics and Driving to Wanaka’s Festival of Colour for David Eggleton's blog

Posted: Wednesday February 24, 2021

Reo Pēpi

Two Ngāi Tahu cousins from Otago are behind the Reo Pēpi bilingual board books - writing and illustrating them. Kitty Br...

Posted: Tuesday February 23, 2021

Poetry Shelf review: Richard Langston’s Five O’Clock Shadows

Posted: Monday February 22, 2021

Dunedin dream brokerage is proud to present..

Posted: Monday February 22, 2021

Creative Engagement/Design Development: Mosgiel Safer Streets

As part of the Mosgiel Safer Schools project, DCC wishes to work with the community to create painted asphalt art on tri...

Posted: Monday February 22, 2021

Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature - 17-02-2021 - Fierce Love and Fresh Air - Kyra Gillies and Rushi Vyas

Posted: Monday February 22, 2021

New OUP publisher named

Dr Sue Wootton has been named the new publisher for Otago University Press and will officially take up the role in April...

Posted: Monday February 22, 2021

Advice for writers, from writers

Tips for improving your craft and productivity from our UNESCO Virtual Writers in Residence

Posted: Monday February 22, 2021

Eggleton to judge Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award

New Zealand Poet Laureate David Eggleton will judge the Kathleen Grattan prize for 2021.

Posted: Friday February 19, 2021

NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 Shortlist Announced

The NZ Booklovers Awards 2021 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of well-known authors and new writers.

Posted: Friday February 19, 2021

Murals for Bath St Pump Surround – Expression of Interest

Posted: Friday February 19, 2021

Te Tahua Whakahaumaru Creative Arts Recovery and Employment (CARE) Fund

Posted: Thursday February 18, 2021

Kidman Otago's Irish Writing Fellow

Wellington author Dame Fiona Kidman has been appointed as the University of Otago’s inaugural Irish Writing Fellow.

Posted: Thursday February 18, 2021

Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award Poetry Longlist: A Bill Manhire poem and audio link

Posted: Thursday February 18, 2021

Laura Jean McKay: winning Australia's richest literary prize

Palmerston North-based writer Laura Jean McKay recently won $125,000 at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, taking ...

Posted: Tuesday February 16, 2021

Centre for the Book World Book Day Lecture and Dinner, 4 March

The Centre for the Book is delighted to offer the annual World Book Day Lecture, this year on Thursday, 4 March, at 5:30...

Posted: Tuesday February 16, 2021

Pacific celebrated at Dunedin festival

The colour and vibrancy of Pasifika returned in style at the inaugural Moana Nui Festival in Dunedin at the weekend.

Posted: Sunday February 14, 2021

Underwater series tells NZ’s maritime stories

A joint project for Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Heritage New Zealand, and Fiordland-based tourism operator Fiordland Ex...

Posted: Sunday February 14, 2021

Taking up residency in a blizzard

My screen time is up 46%. I have divested myself of Facebook, cancelled my ongoing TradeMe favourite searches (NomD, fut...

Posted: Sunday February 14, 2021

Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award poetry long list: Rhian Gallagher reads from Far-Flung

Posted: Friday February 12, 2021

Feast of Riches: A Review of The Dark Is Light Enough

Dr Benjamin Pittman on the richness of the life of Ralph Hotere.

Posted: Friday February 12, 2021

Fringe offers eclectic selection

Dunedin Fringe Festival is the first major event out of the box for 2021, and has a huge programme to offer local audien...

Posted: Thursday February 11, 2021

Live-streams to boost festival’s ‘fringe factor’

If New Zealand’s fringe artists are not "fringey" enough this year, Dunedin Fringe Festival goers will for the first tim...

Posted: Thursday February 11, 2021

Free Webinar Series for emerging writers on short fiction writing skills

Posted: Thursday February 11, 2021

Youth Mentorship Programme 2021 Seeks Emerging Young Writers

Four secondary school students will each have the opportunity to be mentored by one of New Zealand’s best professional a...

Posted: Wednesday February 10, 2021

FUND TO PROTECT TAONGA ON MARAE

Posted: Wednesday February 10, 2021

The Adam NZ Play Award Shortlist is out.

Congratulations to everyone.

Posted: Tuesday February 9, 2021

2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal awarded to publisher Julia Marshall

Julia Marshall has been selected as the 2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner for lifetime achievement and distingu...

Posted: Tuesday February 9, 2021

Dublin City Council announces the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award Longlist of Library Nominations

Four novels from Ireland are among the 49 books nominated by libraries around the world for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Awa...

Posted: Friday February 5, 2021

Applications open for Michael King Writer's Fellowship

Creative New Zealand is calling for applications from established New Zealand writers for the Michael King Writer's Fell...

Posted: Wednesday February 3, 2021

Waewae Kai Pakiaka is back for 2021.

Posted: Wednesday February 3, 2021

Virtual Writer’s Residency – Norwich City of Literature

Dunedin poet Liz Breslin was selected by Norwich UNESCO City of Literature for a virtual writer’s residency, ‘Imagining ...

Posted: Tuesday February 2, 2021

Five Writers. One Month.

We are delighted to welcome five writers from UNESCO Cities of Literature around the world to Norwich for a virtual resi...

Posted: Tuesday February 2, 2021

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlists for 2021 have been announced

Posted: Tuesday February 2, 2021

The Pursuit of Freedom

Political protest and Te Reo has featured strongly in this year’s Robert Burns Poetry Competition entries.

Posted: Monday February 1, 2021

OU Press books long-listed

Three Otago University Press titles have made the long list for this year’s national book awards.

Posted: Monday February 1, 2021

2021 BOOK SALE UPDATE

Posted: Wednesday January 27, 2021

Read Share Grow Update

Posted: Wednesday January 20, 2021

Poetry Shelf review: Fiona Farrell’s Nouns, verbs, etc

Nouns, verbs, etc. Fiona Farrell, Otago University Press, 2020

Posted: Wednesday January 20, 2021

CURRENT CALLS FOR SUBMISSION

Paper Road Press is calling for submissions to the third annual Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fanta...

Posted: Tuesday January 19, 2021

NZSA Auckland Museum Research Grant + Residency

The New Zealand Society of Authors in association with the Auckland Museum is delighted to offer a grant that gives the ...

Posted: Tuesday January 19, 2021

Historic temporary home for bookshop

A stockpile of cardboard boxes awaits 38,000 books as staff at a landmark Dunedin bookshop prepare to pack up and move i...

Posted: Tuesday January 19, 2021