News and Opportunities
Paintings colour landscape's meaning
Colin McCahon is considered one of New Zealand’s key 20th Century painters. To commemorate the centenary of his birth la...
Posted: Wednesday March 18, 2020
Change to programme of public events – COVID-19
Posted: Monday March 16, 2020
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Writers' residency
Opportunity for a Writers residency in Dunedin
Posted: Thursday March 12, 2020
English /Linguistics Seminar, Friday 13 March: two topics in medieval literature (Pamela Treanor and Roberto Suazo)
The Otago English and Linguistics Seminar series for semester 1, 2020 continues this week with shorter presentations by ...
Posted: Thursday March 12, 2020
A City as Writer's Workplace: Open Call 2020
The "Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature" program office announced the open call for applications for the project "A Cit...
Posted: Wednesday March 11, 2020
Dunedin: The Literary Jewel Half a World Away
Our ex-librarian volunteer Carol travelled to New Zealand, so just had to drop into the most distant (to us) Cities of L...
Posted: Tuesday March 10, 2020
Literary youth mentorship programme seeks emerging young writers
Four New Zealand secondary school students have an opportunity to be mentored by a professional writer in order to devel...
Posted: Monday March 9, 2020
Unique Ōtepoti 2020 - Celebrating cultural expression through music and performance
Unique Ōtepoti 2020 is an opportunity for young Dunedin creative performers to express their cultural identities across ...
Posted: Monday March 2, 2020
Listen, Memory
In September 2019 David Howard, representing Dunedin, took up a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Ulyanovsk, Russia...
Posted: Sunday March 1, 2020
Blue Oyster Art Project Space News
Current and upcoming exhibitions plus a job opportunity
Posted: Thursday February 27, 2020
Launch of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
Massey University Press will be launching Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 on 10th of March in Auckland.
Posted: Sunday February 23, 2020
NEW ZEALAND’S RICHEST LITERARY AWARD DONOR REVEALS HER IDENTITY
The anonymous benefactor responsible for funding the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards’ $50,000 annual fiction prize is rea...
Posted: Saturday February 22, 2020
Two new writing fellowships build connections with Ireland and Scotland
Two new University of Otago writing fellowships will facilitate and encourage literary and cultural exchange between Ire...
Posted: Thursday February 20, 2020
Launch of inspiring new award for Aotearoa’s freelancers and creatives
The Big Idea is proud to be partnering with the new Hnry Awards to celebrate creativity and independence. With $25,000 i...
Posted: Monday February 17, 2020
Writer in the Park, Ljubljana UNESCO City of Literature International Literary Residency
Posted: Friday February 14, 2020
The International Literary Residency in Ulyanovsk for writers and artists from the UNESCO Cities of Literature Network
The International Literary Residency in Ulyanovsk for writers and artists from the UNESCO Cities of Literature Network
Posted: Friday February 14, 2020
Kraków UNESCO City of Literature announces the 2020 call for applications for the International Residency Program for writers and translators.
The Program is dedicated to all emerging writers, and poets working currently on a writing project and willing to learn ...
Posted: Friday February 14, 2020
Call for applications 2020 - Tartu City of Literature International Residency Program
Tartu City of Literature Office announces the 2020 call for applications of Tartu City of Literature International Resid...
Posted: Friday February 14, 2020
Your child’s brain on books
Have you ever wondered what’s going on inside your child’s brain as you’re reading to them? For the first time, scientis...
Posted: Monday February 3, 2020
Behrouz Boochani and Alison Phipps in conversation
The Centre for Global Migrations and Mornington Methodist Church are co-hosting a conversation between writer, filmmaker...
Posted: Sunday February 2, 2020
Performances excellent in great setting
REVIEW: Romeo and Juliet Woodhaugh Gardens Friday, January 31
Posted: Saturday February 1, 2020
ODT Summer Times Short story: Invisible Ink by Lara M. Hewn
The stage is set at the Regent Theatre for Merryn's performance - but will she go on? We find out in part one of Lara M....
Posted: Monday January 20, 2020
ODT Summer Times Short story: Paper Butterflies by Kura Carpenter
As the long school holidays draw to an end, Summer is left wondering if Fin even knows she exists in the first part of P...
Posted: Monday January 20, 2020
ODT Summer Times Short story: The Shark Bell by R.L. Stedman
A fortnight after her husband left her for his personal trainer, Petra took up running. She told herself it was nothing ...
Posted: Monday January 20, 2020
Warm congratulations to Hawthornden Castle Fellow Majella Cullinane!
Posted: Wednesday January 15, 2020
Speaking Russian with a New Zealand Accent: Gala Uzryutova interviews David Howard
Conducted in late 2019 after David Howard held a “UNESCO City of Literature” residency in Ulyanovsk, Russia, this conver...
Posted: Tuesday January 14, 2020
Moa Imaginarium Competition
Upload a picture, poem, or short-story inspired by the moa footprints on display at Otago Museum and be in to win!
Posted: Friday January 3, 2020
The International Annual Literary prize, named after I. A. Goncharov
Ulyanovsk announces the open call for The International Literary prize, named after a great writer Ivan Goncharov, who w...
Posted: Monday December 23, 2019
2019 TAKAHE MONICA TAYLOR POETRY PRIZE – RESULTS AND JUDGE’S REPORT
Posted: Monday December 23, 2019
Robyn Maree Pickens awarded writing residency at Saari Residence in Finland
Posted: Friday December 20, 2019
Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2020
Blue Oyster is pleased to announce Owen Connors as Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2020
Posted: Friday December 20, 2019
Commission offered for art project
Dunedin artists will have the chance to create a project bringing art and the natural world together through the third a...
Posted: Thursday December 19, 2019
2020 Reykjavik City of Literature Writer‘s Residency
Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2019
Residency program for book operators 9 - 19 March
Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2019
Truthteller
Truthteller, an exploration of how out-of-control social media, conspiracy theories and viral journalism are damaging so...
Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2019
Dance and performance residency takes centre stage in 2020
Caselberg Trust Creative Connections resident 2020 – Lucy Marinkovich
Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2019
Call for Symposium:
Mapping the Anthropocene in Ōtepoti/Dunedin: climate change, community and research in the creative arts
Posted: Wednesday December 18, 2019
Genealogist one of NZ’s foremost due to huge effort
Posted: Tuesday December 17, 2019
On our best behaviour
We need to change and change big. Environmental psychology can help, Dr Wokje Abrahamse says. Tom McKinlay tries to get ...
Posted: Monday December 16, 2019
On closer inspection
The small and overlooked becomes larger than life in Suus Agnes Claessen's art, writes Tom McKinlay.
Posted: Monday December 16, 2019
Securing the future
Ngai Tahu’s takiwa encompasses the dry Canterbury Plains, the wet West Coast and sun-baked Marlborough. Kaiwhakahaere Li...
Posted: Monday December 16, 2019
Time for action
As we hit the critical decade in the effort to curb planetary heating, it might just be that we're ready to act, writes ...
Posted: Monday December 16, 2019
Expert Feature: Jane Austen
Posted: Monday December 16, 2019
Masters Games Opportunity
The Masters Games kick off on the 1st of February 2020. We are looking for a PR person to join our team from 28 January ...
Posted: Friday December 13, 2019
Hospital showcases southern artworks
Posted: Thursday December 12, 2019
Christmas tree adorned with care
The Regent Theatre Christmas tree is bursting with colour, including 100 Hospice baubles
Posted: Wednesday December 11, 2019
Water Globe
On 9 December Dunedin writer David Howard was at Ljubljana Town Hall for the premiere of 'Water Globe', a chamber opera ...
Posted: Wednesday December 11, 2019
Just announced... the judges for the 2020 Awards.
Learn more about them here...
Posted: Wednesday December 11, 2019
Guide for grieving wins award
Posted: Tuesday December 10, 2019
New from Ad Hoc Fiction | the everrumble
A poetic imagining of intense focus and sweeping ideas, Zettie’s story is fluid and in motion, transcending geographies ...
Posted: Monday December 9, 2019
Excerpts from ‘The Church That Is Not There’
‘…there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been ban...
Posted: Sunday December 8, 2019
Theatrical Quality Acknowledged
Posted: Thursday December 5, 2019
Keepers of History has been selected for the Auckland Libraries Top 100 list. Congratulations!
We're thrilled to announce Keepers of History has been selected for the Auckland Libraries Top 100 list. Congratulations...
Posted: Thursday December 5, 2019
Forty artist scholarships on offer for groundbreaking conference
“People don’t have time to listen to anyone anymore,” Lemi Ponifasio tells me in a crowded Auckland cafe humming with ha...
Posted: Wednesday December 4, 2019
The 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize Short List
With warm congratulations to our own Jilly O’Brien for her shortlisted poem Laying drainage ditches.
Posted: Monday December 2, 2019
“Will I walk again?”
Posted: Monday December 2, 2019
Circles
Posted: Monday December 2, 2019
Dreaming with my body
Posted: Monday December 2, 2019