Entries are open for the 2024 University of Otago creative writing competition!

The University’s annual creative writing competition for staff, students and alumni - entries close Wednesday 11 Septemb...

Posted: Friday Aug 30, 2024

University Book Shop weekly Top 5

Featuring koe: An Aotearoa Ecopoetry Anthology

Posted: Friday Aug 30, 2024

How to read a poem: Rolling Moon by The Chills

The latest in a semi-regular series that breaks down a poem to analyse what it’s really trying to tell us.

Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024

The Spinoff Essay

Following the Swiss wolf, who walked 2,000 kilometres for love

Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024

A History of Kindness: A poem

Indigo - dive down through the layers, swim back up

Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024

Winner of the 2024 Janet Frame Prize

Multitalented Whanganui author Airini Beautrais has won the 2024 Janet Frame Prize worth $10,000.

Posted: Thursday Aug 29, 2024

Today on Write Spot

100 year anniversary of Janet Frame's birth

Posted: Wednesday Aug 28, 2024

Today is Janet Frame CBE (1924-2004)'s 100th birthday

Hocken Collections are excited to announce that her papers, held at Hocken, have been inscribed into the UNESCO Memory o...

Posted: Wednesday Aug 28, 2024

Rediscover your library

Posted: Tuesday Aug 27, 2024

Did you know...?

Dunedin Public Libraries is home to the most extensive collection of hymnology resources in New Zealand, thanks to the g...

Posted: Tuesday Aug 27, 2024

From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100

The New Zealand author channelled her experience of tragedy and mental illness with dazzling results. Now centenary cele...

Posted: Tuesday Aug 27, 2024

Writers on Janet Frame event

At an event in Oamaru on Saturday, a group of prominent authors gathered to discuss Janet Frame's writing and its influe...

Posted: Monday Aug 26, 2024

Poetry Shelf celebrates Poetry Day with Janet Frame

∗ an intro and three poems chosen by Paula Green ∗ a poem written by Bill Manhire for Janet ∗ three poems chosen by Pame...

Posted: Friday Aug 23, 2024

Happy Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day!

Today’s the day to celebrate the power of poetry in all its forms.

Posted: Friday Aug 23, 2024

Celebrating Art and Science: flows like water Book Launch

Weaver, sculptor, photographer and curator Pam McKinlay recently celebrated the launch of her latest book, flows like wa...

Posted: Friday Aug 23, 2024

Meet the Pasifika poet and 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow making history.

Congratulations to Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh ONZM, FRSNZ who has been awarded the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellows...

Posted: Thursday Aug 22, 2024

Rediscover your library

Read what the library means to Jessica Hinerangi Thompson-Carr - Māori Mermaid

Posted: Thursday Aug 22, 2024

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem

The Ribbon-Maker by Madeleine Fenn

Posted: Thursday Aug 22, 2024

Poetry Shelf themes

The Moon

Posted: Thursday Aug 22, 2024

NZ Young Writers Festival

Pony Camp is coming to Ōtepoti

Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

Rediscover your library

Read what the library means to Ian Chapman - Dr Glam

Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

Heritage Collections has put together two small displays to celebrate Janet Frame's legacy

Dunedin author Janet Frame would have turned 100 this month.

Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

A Poem: Connect - arrival and departure

We're excited that Kirstie will be appearing in our awesome National Poetry Day line-up on Friday

Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

A History of Kindness

Moonlight and Gold: found, lost and unknown

Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

“I was so hungry for anything other than the way I grew up” - writer and poet Sasha LaPointe

Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe from Seattle City of Literature will be appearing in several sessions at the WORD Christchurch ...

Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist revealed

Congratulations to the 15 fantastic Kiwi storytellers who are this year's finalists, across three categories.

Posted: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

Moa in the Matukituki Valley: A Cento

With the lead-up to National Poetry Day, enjoy this wonderful new poetry video by David Eggleton and Richard Wallis

Posted: Monday Aug 19, 2024

Help Me Hera: Is it selfish to RVSP ‘no’ to my good friend’s fancy Spanish wedding?

I can afford it, but not by heaps, and I’d love to go, but I’m unsure how much she values my presence. Help!

Posted: Monday Aug 19, 2024

Beach House Pictures documentary film making internship, Singapore

Applications close 28 August 2024

Posted: Monday Aug 19, 2024

Poetry Shelf themes:

Rain

Posted: Friday Aug 16, 2024

Stories reimagined in 3-D form

Award-winning illustrator and writer David Elliot has delved into the art of 3-D drawing, an exciting and original way o...

Posted: Friday Aug 16, 2024

Rediscover your Library

Dunedin Public Libraries 19-25 August 2024

Posted: Friday Aug 16, 2024

Winners of the 2024 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults announced

Congratulations to all the winners!

Posted: Thursday Aug 15, 2024

Today on Write Spot

National Poetry Day - Michelle Elvy looks ahead to National Poetry Day celebrations to be held at Dunedin City Library o...

Posted: Wednesday Aug 14, 2024

NZ Young Festival 2024

Meet the writers

Posted: Wednesday Aug 14, 2024

NZ Young Writers Festival Competition

Entries close Thursday 22 August 2024 8.00pm

Posted: Wednesday Aug 14, 2024

Word Christchurch Festival 2024 27 Aug - 1 Sep

Tickets selling fast

Posted: Tuesday Aug 13, 2024

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: Tuesday Aug 13, 2024

National Poetry Day would not be complete without David Merritt's poetry 'bricks'!

Find out where you can read David's poems on 23 August here:

Posted: Monday Aug 12, 2024

Name the chick competition

The Royal Cam chick needs a name. Submit your name along with an environmental action to be in to win great prizes. Entr...

Posted: Monday Aug 12, 2024

Submissions for Brown Ink are open

Submissions close 1 October 2024

Posted: Thursday Aug 08, 2024

Sunshine Scoop August Issue

Check out the 'Spotlight' featuring our very own Susan Frame

Posted: Thursday Aug 08, 2024

Poetry Box Listening Corner

Elena reads 5 poem + a spooky popUP poem challenge

Posted: Tuesday Aug 06, 2024

Creative Impact Fund 2024 - Round 2 open

For activities taking place between:4 Dec 2024 - 4 Jun 2026. Closes: 17 Sep 2024, 1PM

Posted: Tuesday Aug 06, 2024

Creative Fellowship Fund 2024 - Round 2 open

For activities taking place between:4 Dec 2024 - 4 Jun 2026. Closes: 19 Sep 2024, 1PM

Posted: Tuesday Aug 06, 2024

Bookshop detectives: Gareth and Louise Ward

Listen to this! And then get all hyped up and excited to meet them at UBS August 29.

Posted: Monday Aug 05, 2024

Help Me Hera: Should I publish a creative essay about my ex?

I’m worried my musings will be less Richard Gadd and more Martha.

Posted: Monday Aug 05, 2024

Fiona Kidman documentary screens at New Zealand International Film Festival

A film which holds the camera up to the life and writing work of Aotearoa literary luminary Dame Fiona Kidman has been s...

Posted: Monday Aug 05, 2024

Short story: Hitch, by Emma Neale

A gothic masterpiece by the great Emma Neale

Posted: Monday Aug 05, 2024

Megan Kitching and her Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day Poster!

You can find her poem ‘Botanising’ on George Street here in Ōtepoti and in other locations around the country!

Posted: Friday Aug 02, 2024

'Marimari' - Paul Wolffram interview on OAR FM

Jeff talks with Producer/director Paul Wolffram about his urgent documentary 'Marimari', showing at the Regent Theatre 1...

Posted: Friday Aug 02, 2024

New podcast fund to support media coverage of arts and culture

Applications close 1pm, 9 August 2024

Posted: Friday Aug 02, 2024

100 days of Janet Frame

Poems read on Arrow FM to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Janet's birth

Posted: Friday Aug 02, 2024

Passion for poetry shared through workshops

We were thrilled to collaborate with SuperGrans Dunedin on this series of poetry workshops led by wonderful City of Lite...

Posted: Thursday Aug 01, 2024

Our very own Sue Wooton features in a thrilling new anthology, Forty South Short Story Anthology 2024

'Mandatory' is one of the ten best entries from the Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2024. Congratulations Sue!

Posted: Thursday Aug 01, 2024

Sugar Loafing Arts Cast Podcast

Listen to this interview between Mikaela Nyman and Lola Elvy on Mikaela’s radio show Sugar Loafing Arts Cast

Posted: Thursday Aug 01, 2024

Today on Write Spot - Frances Pavletich talks about the upcoming Small Press Fest

Frances Pavletich from Evening Books is coordinating the Small Press Fest, a three-day programme for small presses and i...

Posted: Wednesday Jul 31, 2024

Congratulations Dunedin City Library

Dunedin Public Libraries wins Best Community Library Display in the 2024 Out on the Shelves Display Competiton

Posted: Tuesday Jul 30, 2024