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Unesco City of Literature residency writer Liz Breslin finds a way to cool off in Krakow. Or does she?
Posted: Monday September 23, 2019
An interview with David Howard from his special residency in Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Saturday September 21, 2019
Stimulating variety in festival
Posted: Saturday September 21, 2019
Heritage Festival fun returns next weekend
Posted: Friday September 20, 2019
Changing Minds: Memories Lost and Found
The Winner of the Poetry Competition
Posted: Thursday September 19, 2019
REGISTER NOW for the WILD Imaginings Children’s Writers’ and Illustrators’ Hui!
WILD Imaginings promises a scintillating programme delivered by some of the country’s most celebrated children’s book cr...
Posted: Thursday September 19, 2019
Chinese Moon Festival
Moon Festival Poetry Competition - 15 September - 18 October 2019
Posted: Thursday September 19, 2019
Lighthearted variety in three short plays
Barbara Frame reviews Cold Season, The Poisoners and Noble Endurance
Posted: Wednesday September 18, 2019
'The Getaway' - a short play by young playwright Paul Liedvogel. It will be performed at the UNESCO Play Festival in Dunedin in September 2019 (and a preview in Heidelberg on 31 August)
Below are a series of Vlogs posted by The Getaway - enjoy their journey!
Posted: Monday September 16, 2019
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Robert Burns Poetry Competition: The Far Foreign Land
Posted: Monday September 16, 2019
Rap Like Robbie Poetry Competition
Write a poem inspired by Robert Burns and score yourself $500, sponsored by the Dunedin-Edinburgh Sister City Society!
Posted: Monday September 16, 2019
All the world's a stage
Posted: Friday September 13, 2019
Curtain rising on short play festival
Posted: Thursday September 12, 2019
Writer Returns for 2020 Residency
Posted: Thursday September 12, 2019
A tribute to Dunedin poet: Elizabeth Brooke-Carr (1940 – 2019)
Posted: Monday September 9, 2019
Guiding a privileged journey
Knowing your family's stories can be profoundly grounding, says publisher Gareth St John Thomas. So he has set out to he...
Posted: Monday September 9, 2019
Kezia Field - Art Nesting Shapes Illustrated Book
"My daughter and I are creating an illustrated book in honour of my late husband Hunia, who we recently lost to suicide....
Posted: Sunday September 8, 2019
British playwright and dramaturg Fiona Graham
28 Plays from around the world are about to be performed in Dunedin, over just three days. There's a Jacobean farce, the...
Posted: Sunday September 8, 2019
Challenging the audience
Chicago-based producer and director Tanya Palmer will have some advice for young playwrights when she visits Dunedin for...
Posted: Sunday September 8, 2019
Foundation laureate awarded to Fearnley
Posted: Friday September 6, 2019
David Howard has just arrived in Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature to take up his residency!
Posted: Wednesday September 4, 2019
Are you the next Director of Blue Oyster?
Blue Oyster Art Project Space exists to enable emerging and experimental arts practitioners to work in an innovative, ex...
Posted: Monday September 2, 2019
Students prepare for Short Play Festival
Posted: Monday September 2, 2019
Cheese is not a vegetable
With slightly less than a week until I depart for my Unesco Cities of Literature residency in Krakow, Poland, as a repre...
Posted: Monday August 26, 2019
From 'margins' to Poet Laureate
Dunedin poet, writer, reviewer and former Burns Fellow David Eggleton has been appointed as the latest New Zealand Poet ...
Posted: Friday August 23, 2019
Ngā Kura o Ōtepoti Kapa Haka
OAR FM visits Dunedin Schools kapa haka groups as they get ready for Polyfest in honour of Te Marama Pūoru Waiata Māori ...
Posted: Wednesday August 21, 2019
Celtic Noir Crime Writing Festival - Tickets now on sale!
Posted: Wednesday August 21, 2019
Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 WriteNow poetry competition
Posted: Monday August 19, 2019
Te Mahi Tamariki
In 2018, He Waka Kōtuia ran a series of waiata composition workshops facilitated by Troy Kingi and Mara TK, resulting in...
Posted: Thursday August 15, 2019
Please nominate for 2020 International Literary prize, named after Ivan Goncharov (Ulyanovsk)
The International Annual Literary prize, named after I. A. Goncharov - Ulyanovsk, The Russian Federation - REGULATIONS 2...
Posted: Tuesday August 13, 2019
More than 150 years of choral ambitions in Dunedin covered
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A CHORAL SOCIETY: DUNEDIN’S CITY CHOIR 1863-2013
Posted: Monday August 12, 2019
PoARTry@Mercy - a Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ) exhibition
Posted: Friday August 9, 2019
DCC Funding 'How To' Sessions
Applications for the Dunedin City Council’s Community, Community Events, Community Arts, Professional Theatre and Creati...
Posted: Friday August 9, 2019
David Howard in Ljubljana UNESCO City of Literature discussing his libretto for the chamber opera Water Globe
Posted: Wednesday August 7, 2019
Ara Toi Creative - registration of interest
Posted: Wednesday August 7, 2019
Artist’s Residence Dilsberg
Writer in Residence Program - Call for applications is open!
Posted: Wednesday August 7, 2019
NZIFF NEWSLETTER
Big Nights & Audiences Favourites in Dunedin + Win Tickets
Posted: Monday August 5, 2019
Poetry: “a long document about the species”
Posted: Monday August 5, 2019
Otago 'brains trust' credited in Ellis fight
Posted: Friday August 2, 2019
CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award
Posted: Friday August 2, 2019
Call for Proposals (January-June 2020)
Proposal deadline: Friday 30 August 2019
Posted: Thursday August 1, 2019
Two dames vie for NZ crime novel awards – only one can prepare a speech
The 2019 Ngaio Marsh Awards shortlist is revealed
Posted: Wednesday July 31, 2019
Currently on show at Bellamy's Gallery is 'Winter Oils', a collection of new and old paintings by Pauline Bellamy.
Posted: Tuesday July 30, 2019
Chinese Social Media Competition
Promoting Dunedin as a Tourist Destination to Chinese Tourists
Posted: Tuesday July 30, 2019
Printer in Residence project, Otago, 2019
Posted: Tuesday July 30, 2019
UNI NEWS
Family friendly Hocken exhibition inspires record numbers of visitors
Posted: Tuesday July 30, 2019
Cities of Literature Short Play Festival
Posted: Monday July 29, 2019
Enter the Zephyr Short Story Competition
Posted: Monday July 29, 2019
From Mansfield to Morris, writing in Menton
As the 49th recipient of the Mansfield Menton Fellowship, Associate Professor Paula Morris has spent the past four month...
Posted: Monday July 29, 2019
A University of Otago creative writing competition for staff and students
Do you love to write? Here’s a competition for you.
Posted: Wednesday July 24, 2019
The Stone and the Star - Review: David Howard - The Ones Who Keep Quiet
Posted: Wednesday July 24, 2019
The 'revelation' that was Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival
Posted: Tuesday July 23, 2019
2019 Symposium Call for Papers, 14–15 November, 2 September Abstract Deadline
Posted: Tuesday July 23, 2019
Bert Roth Award for Labour History 2019
Posted: Tuesday July 23, 2019
2019 Granada Writers in Residence Programme
Granada UNESCO City of Literature, which depends on Granada City Council’s Department for the Arts, in partnership with ...
Posted: Sunday July 21, 2019
Call for applications: Tartu City of Literature Residency in Autumn 2019
Tartu City of Literature Office announces the second 2019 call for applications of Tartu City of Literature Internationa...
Posted: Sunday July 21, 2019
Victor Rodger and Robbie Magasiva - Club Paradiso revival
Posted: Saturday July 20, 2019
Water Globe - David Howard in Ljubljana UNESCO City of Literature
David Howard, who is on his way to Ulyanovsk to take up a City of Literature residency there, is currently in Ljubljana ...
Posted: Saturday July 20, 2019