News and Opportunities
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
Landfall 240 has arrived!
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Sue Wootton’s ‘At Moeraki’
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Bill Manhire’s Wow
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
A World History of Bluff: Dr Michael Stevens
Ngāi Tahu historian Dr Michael Stevens has just been recognised by the Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Kōpūnui with a Māori...
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Following Colin McCahon
Everything seems to come a little late to Aotearoa New Zealand, and even later to Dunedin, its southernmost university t...
Posted: Monday November 23, 2020
Read Share Grow — children’s books for South Dunedin
Something big is happening in South Dunedin! It's happening in schools and early childhood centres, in community organis...
Posted: Friday November 20, 2020
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Newsletter
Posted: Thursday November 19, 2020
te haerenga o reo pepi – the next chapter
The Reo Pēpi series is one of the real success stories in the Aotearoa world of publishing for littlies. The popularity ...
Posted: Monday November 16, 2020
Book review - Landmarks by Grahame Sydney and Owen Marshall
Posted: Monday November 16, 2020
Poetry Shelf Lounge: Alison Wong reads and discusses her poem ‘Earth’
Posted: Monday November 16, 2020
Celebrating continuing relevance that is Hotere
Dunedin Public Art Gallery will this week open the first major exhibition of Ralph Hotere’s work in 20 years. Rebecca Fo...
Posted: Thursday November 12, 2020
2020 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement: winners announced and live online literary panel
A lifetime of insights on Māori dance arts told in te reo Māori, a comprehensive anthology of New Zealand poetry in Engl...
Posted: Monday November 9, 2020
Baxter memorial to be installed in new year
A long-awaited memorial commemorating prominent pacifist Archibald Baxter is set to be installed in Dunedin early next y...
Posted: Monday November 9, 2020
Down in Edin Issue 22 - Online now!
Literature, Poetry, Music, Art, Photography, Nature, Politics and Environment in the South Island of New Zealand
Posted: Monday November 9, 2020
South Otago-born writer wins national award
A South Otago-born author has scooped a major national crime-writing award.
Posted: Thursday November 5, 2020
Creative Rights = Creative Reads
Posted: Thursday November 5, 2020
Publishers Association launches platform for digital match making
October usually sees a large swathe of the book industry depart Aotearoa’s shores for the biggest and most prestigious e...
Posted: Thursday November 5, 2020
Reo Pēpi's new series Toru is out now!
Posted: Tuesday November 3, 2020
APPLICATIONS CLOSING FOR THE 2021 PANNZ ARTS MARKET
A reminder that applications to pitch and showcase at the 2021 PANNZ Arts Market close this Friday, 6 November at 5pm.
Posted: Tuesday November 3, 2020
Artsenta Creative Writing Sessions
Posted: Tuesday November 3, 2020
Kiwi Christmas Books
We believe in the power of stories, and in the power of giving.
Posted: Tuesday November 3, 2020
Reading fun in any language
Finding children’s books written in the numerous languages spoken by South Dunedin’s increasingly diverse residents has ...
Posted: Monday November 2, 2020
Wallace Arts Trust Internship Programme 2020-2021
The Wallace Arts Trust Internship Programme 2020-2021 is now calling for applications from students or recent graduates ...
Posted: Monday November 2, 2020
Jude Thomas weaving Threads of Gold
The prejudice faced by Dunedin's early Lebanese settlers and the skills they brought to their new home are highlighted i...
Posted: Monday November 2, 2020
✨✨✨TODAY IS THE DAY!✨✨✨✨
Headland is now open to submissions, and we cannot wait to read the amazing short fiction and creative non fiction you'v...
Posted: Monday November 2, 2020
Ida Valley writer Jillian Sullivan interviewed on Otago Access Radio
Ida Valley writer Jillian Sullivan has released a collection of essays inspired by the Central Otago environment and its...
Posted: Monday November 2, 2020
John Newton: Escape Path Lighting
Posted: Monday November 2, 2020
Fiona Farrell on 30 years behind the pen
Posted: Monday November 2, 2020
Max Quinn: The life and times of a polar film maker
Renowned polar photographer, director and cameraman Max Quinn covers a 50-year career spent working in the world's colde...
Posted: Monday November 2, 2020