He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Selina Tusitala Marsh – first ever Commonwealth Poet Laureate
Posted: Friday Jul 04, 2025
Creative NZ Early Career Fund 2025 - Round 2 Opening Soon!!
For activities taking place between: 5 November 2025 to 5 November 2026
Posted: Friday Jul 04, 2025
Applications to pitch and showcase at next year's PANNZ Arts Market are now open
Applications close 10am 21 July 2025
Posted: Friday Jul 04, 2025
The Hone Tuwhare Trust announces the 2025-26 successful Tuwhare Residency Programme recipients
Posted: Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Got your tickets? Don't miss The Playhouse Theatre's latest production: Cinderella!
Posted: Thursday Jul 03, 2025
The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2026 playwriting competition
The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of their manu...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
The 2025 McIlvanney Prize Longlist is revealed!
Congratulations Liam, currently on a world tour
Posted: Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
Happy Publication Day to Owele by Sihle Ntuli!
Posted: Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Ryn Richmond - Napier-based author, editor, proofreader and science communicator is in Dunedin to lead a session at New ...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
The 2025 NFFD winners are published!
Posted: Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
Stories from the heartwood
A new collection of short writing doubles down on language, Tom McKinlay writes.
Posted: Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
A New Zealand man has had his memoirs published
My father’s happy place by Pete Reid from Dunedin details Pete’s love affair with Vietnam.
Posted: Wednesday Jul 02, 2025
Otago Alumni 48 Hour Flash Fiction Competition
Time to get creative with the inaugural Otago Alumni 48 Hour Flash Fiction Competition.
Posted: Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Hills and the art of resistance
Posted: Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Call for submissions for the 2025 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award
Start your illustration journey now! Submissions close 30 November 2025
Posted: Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Treats from 30 cultures showcased in new Good Bitches Baking cookbook
The diverse and comforting recipes in Familiar Foods: Treats of Aotearoa include Persian Chicken Stew and Sri Lankan Mil...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust announces residencies for 2025–26
Twelve writers have been awarded residencies for late 2025 and early 2026 at the historic cottage in Ōtepoti Dunedin UNE...
Posted: Monday Jun 30, 2025
Meet the 2025 NZYWF Tuākana
Posted: Friday Jun 27, 2025
School Holidays are nearly here... have you made plans yet?
Dunedin Public Libraries are a great space to stay warm and entertained - take a look at what's happening in your neck o...
Posted: Friday Jun 27, 2025
The Masters Review 2025 Reprint Prize closes soon
Deadline: June 29, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific
Posted: Friday Jun 27, 2025
Open call for Granada Writers in Residence Programme for next November 2025
Closing date for application submissions, August 31, 2025.
Posted: Friday Jun 27, 2025
Open call for applications for Prague Residency Program 2026
Applications will be accepted until August 18, 2025
Posted: Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Announcing the 2025 NZYWF Robert Lord Writers Cottage Young Writer in Residence!
NZYWF are thrilled to announce Nick Tipa (Kāi Tahu) as the 2025 NZYWF Robert Lord Writers Cottage Young Writer in Reside...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Bad Diaries Podcast is back!
Posted: Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Finnish-Kiwi poet Mikaela Nyman on her new poetry collection
Mikaela joins Mark Leishman
Posted: Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Call for Judges of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Applications must be submitted by 5pm on Friday 4 July
Posted: Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Calling all young wordsmiths in Ōtepoti!
Entries are now open for the Dunedin Youth Poetry Competition.
Posted: Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Review: Short | Poto
'The bilingual presentation creates a unique reading experience. Stories appear numerically from 1-100, side by side in ...
Posted: Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Emma Neale's collection Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit has landed in USAs Shenandoah Literary Magazine's 75th anniversary edition!
Congratulations Emma!
Posted: Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
A warm welcome to Sarah Gallagher
Ōtepoti City of Literature is thrilled that one of the special writers in our whānau, Sarah Gallagher, will be joining u...
Posted: Monday Jun 23, 2025
Call for Wonju UNESCO City of Literature Residency 2025
Spend eight weeks in South Korea, at the Toji Cultural Centre - Applications close 11 July 2025
Posted: Monday Jun 23, 2025
Wellbeing through writing promoted
A workshop has been helping people experiencing challenging emotions by encouraging them to put pen to paper.
Posted: Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Melbourne City of Literature Virtual Writer in Residence
Writers from other UNESCO Cities of Literature, including Dunedin, are invited to apply to Melbourne City of Literature’...
Posted: Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Today on Write Spot
Writer, Actor and Musician, Nick Tipa has just returned from a season of Bruce Mason's The End of the Golden Weather at ...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
Dunedin Writers’ Workshop
Established more than 30 years ago, Dunedin Writers’ Workshop is a friendly space where hobbyists and professionals alik...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
Vale Maurice Gee, 1931 – 2025
The great Aotearoa writer Maurice Gee has died. Books editor Claire Mabey pays tribute.
Posted: Monday Jun 16, 2025
Matariki Kanohi Iti - 10 June-4 July, The Cube, City Library
To celebrate Matariki, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has selected archival taonga speaking to the significance of the stars’...
Posted: Friday Jun 13, 2025
Opportunities for Moana creatives
Do you have a project you’d like to present in Dunedin Fringe Festival 2026? Get in touch with the Dunedin Fringe Co-Lea...
Posted: Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Encounters with Musical Centenarians by William Green
Posted: Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Dr Michelle Thaller speaks with RNZ 's Mihingarangi Forbes about her upcoming visit to New Zealand
A wide-ranging conversation that came hot on the heels of an exciting NASA announcement. Listen in to hear Dr Thaller's ...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
Call for Young Creative Writers!
OAR FM is looking for MORE young people aged 12–24 to join Phase 2 of their whakapapa creative writing & podcast project...
Posted: Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
SuperGrans celebrate their poems at the launch of Wish
Posted: Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Celebrates 10 Years with a feast of legacy books
2024 marked a remarkable milestone for Ōtepoti—ten years as a UNESCO City of Literature. To celebrate a decade of champi...
Posted: Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Congratulations to all the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adult finalists
Posted: Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Liam McIlvanney Kicking Off World Tour for Latest Thriller The Good Father
Posted: Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Today on Write Spot!
2025 University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship Recipient, Pascale Grard
Posted: Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Congratulations to the NFFD 2025 Longlisted
Watch for the short list coming soon!
Posted: Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Congratulations to all the NFFD Micro Madness longlisted
Posted: Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Calling young writers aged 18-35!
Expressions of Interest to Participate - Applications close: Sunday 29 June 2025
Posted: Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Dunedin Dream Brokerage is looking to employ a part time broker
Please email your CV and Cover Letter to applyddb@gmail.com by Monday 9th of June, 2025.
Posted: Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Poetry book published - Dreams captured
A new collection of poems and pictures brings together local volunteers and artists.
Posted: Friday May 30, 2025
2025 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition
Entries open this Sunday 1 June and close on Monday 30 June 2025.
Posted: Thursday May 29, 2025
Applications for the 2025 CLNZ | NZSA Research Grants are now open
Applications close at 4pm on Friday 7 June
Posted: Thursday May 29, 2025
Tagata Moana Artist Residency at ONEONESIX
Applications are open until the 24th of June.
Posted: Thursday May 29, 2025
Celebrating Everest Day with OAR FM's Ajax Banstola
On the 29th of May 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay completed the first ascent of Mount Everest.
Posted: Thursday May 29, 2025
Emma Neale’s Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (OUP) to feature at Bendigo Writers Festival
We’re thrilled that Emma Neale’s Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (Otago University Press) has been selected for the ‘Cities of Li...
Posted: Thursday May 29, 2025
The Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize 2025 now open
Entries close Thursday 24 July 2025
Posted: Wednesday May 28, 2025