News and Opportunities
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
Around the World in 80 Tales Storytelling Festival
Posted: Monday December 14, 2020
***Calling all UNPUBLISHED POETS***
For the first time ever, we are running a Phantom Poetry Open Mic contest!
Posted: Monday December 14, 2020
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Voucher
Posted: Monday December 14, 2020
Otago academic 'giant' Jim Flynn dies
Internationally renowned academic and University of Otago Emeritus Professor of Political Studies Jim Flynn has died age...
Posted: Monday December 14, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Sophia Wilson’s ‘Foreign’
Posted: Monday December 14, 2020
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Anna Jackson reviews Bill Manhire’s Wow at ANZL
Posted: Monday December 14, 2020
Te Tahua Whakakaha | Cultural Sector Capability Fund
Manatū Taonga is now accepting applications for round one of the Capability Fund. Applications for round one must be sub...
Posted: Monday December 14, 2020
Short story: The undertaker’s story, by Owen Marshall
"It was almost dark on the evening I witnessed Carl strike his wife": a story of high gothic by New Zealand's master of ...
Posted: Monday December 14, 2020
Work on indexing ‘ODT’ files recognised
An autistic Dunedin man who delights in reading old copies of the Otago Daily Times has gained a special honour.
Posted: Friday December 11, 2020
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Ursula Bethell Residency 2021
The writers in residence in the University of Canterbury’s (UC) College of Arts will be Vana Manasiadis and Behrouz Booc...
Posted: Friday December 11, 2020
The Dunedin Dream Brokerage is currently calling for proposals for their latest initiative, Off The Ground.
The Dunedin Dream Brokerage is looking to fund collaborative art projects that activate the places we live and work in a...
Posted: Friday December 11, 2020
Te Awhi Rito NZ Reading Ambassador nominations open
Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand and our partners are calling for nominations for Te Awhi R...
Posted: Wednesday December 9, 2020
The Suitcases (Part Two)
Posted: Tuesday December 8, 2020
Dr Smith of Rawene
Posted: Tuesday December 8, 2020
To Medicine via Paradise
Posted: Tuesday December 8, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Rhian Gallagher’s Far-Flung
Posted: Monday December 7, 2020
December from the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
Posted: Thursday December 3, 2020
New Poems Hit The Streets Of Aotearoa
As 2020 enters its final phase, Phantom has curated a selection of original works by Becky Woodall, Eamonn Tee, Simon Sw...
Posted: Thursday December 3, 2020
Tagaloa Scholarships
Growing Pacific capacity and capability within communities and the education sector.
Posted: Thursday December 3, 2020
Elaine Wills, Library manager, Enner Glynn School, Nelson reviews Bruce Goes Outside by Kathryn van Beek
Posted: Thursday December 3, 2020
Elaine Wills, Library Manager, Enner Glynn School, Nelson reviews Tulip and Doug by Emma Wood, Illustrated by Carla Martell.
Posted: Thursday December 3, 2020
Te Tahua Whakakaha | Cultural Sector Capability Fund overview
The Capability Fund supports the cultural sector to adapt to the COVID-19 environment by funding activities that build s...
Posted: Wednesday December 2, 2020
Read for animals this summer with the SPCA Reading Challenge
Posted: Wednesday December 2, 2020
After 30 years, a ‘Dunedin institution’ set to close
It has been said that a room without books is like a body without a soul.
Posted: Tuesday December 1, 2020
2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is calling for entries for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adu...
Posted: Monday November 30, 2020
Vacancy at Exisle Publishing
Posted: Monday November 30, 2020
Greatness is Infectious
Their written words have made long-lasting, generational impacts on this country - and beyond.
Posted: Monday November 30, 2020
A river runs through him
We only truly know one river in our lives. US writer Thomas McGuane said so and even this struck him as too expansive. S...
Posted: Sunday November 29, 2020
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: The inaugural recipient of The Caselberg Trust’s new Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Residency in 2021
The Caselberg Trust announced today that the inaugural recipient of its new Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Resid...
Posted: Friday November 27, 2020
Playwright wins top award, $10K prize
Emily Duncan’s sharp, sophisticated, passionate, quirky, evocative and unsettling writing style has won her yet another ...
Posted: Wednesday November 25, 2020
Two awards in a month for local writer
Prolific, award-winning Wanaka writer Liz Breslin has had a stellar month: picking up prizes from both the International...
Posted: Tuesday November 24, 2020
POETRY PRIZE 2020 WINNERS ANNOUNCED...
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 – winners announced – Third time lucky for Palmerston North poet...
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Give a kid a book and you give them the world
Last year the fledgling charity scheme Kiwi Christmas Books gave 1600 children’s books to Auckland Women’s Refuge and th...
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR 2021 NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is now inviting submissions for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Youn...
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020