News and Opportunities
Prof aims to promote Chinese Garden
Posted: Saturday July 20, 2019
Five things Dunedin is still famous for after losing the title of world's steepest street
Posted: Thursday July 18, 2019
Pacifist memorial funds goal reached
Posted: Wednesday July 17, 2019
‘Peat' by Lynn Jenner a literary road between the past and the present
Posted: Wednesday July 17, 2019
How to do your family tree
Each of us has a story written in our DNA. But that's only part of the puzzle. Researching the family tree is one of tho...
Posted: Tuesday July 16, 2019
UKU//UTU - With Nigel Borell, Heramaahina Eketone and Wi Taepa
Curated by Māia Abraham and Jesse-James Pickery 17 July 2019 - 24 August 2019
Posted: Monday July 15, 2019
Prague - Unesco City of Literature Creative 2-Month Residency 2020
Calling writers and translators
Posted: Monday July 15, 2019
Notice of the Friends of the Hocken Collections Award 2020
Friends of the Hocken Collections Award 2020 is now open for applications. The intended outcomes of the 2020 Award are c...
Posted: Monday July 15, 2019
NZIFF 2019 Dunedin Programme Launched
The full programme for the 43rd New Zealand International Film Festival has been revealed in Dunedin. 79 feature-length ...
Posted: Monday July 8, 2019
The artful forger
New Zealand's only convicted art forger, Karl Sim, and his associates entangled art experts from around the country in t...
Posted: Monday July 8, 2019
In search of untold stories from World War II
War divides us | War unites us | War changes us
Posted: Monday July 8, 2019
Young poets invited to find ‘voice’ via contest
Posted: Sunday July 7, 2019
The Flick - Theatre Review
Significant Issues Smuggled in under the Seemingly Innocuous Dialogue
Posted: Saturday July 6, 2019
Issue 17 of Down In Edin Magazine
New Issue! Hot off the digital press!!! A special bumper Issue 17 of Down in Edin Magazine is now up. Enjoy!
Posted: Friday July 5, 2019
Bellbirds, books and baroque architecture: visiting New Zealand’s oldest city Dunedin
The South Island destination has gothic buildings and golden beaches, with plenty of wildlife, delicious food and live m...
Posted: Friday July 5, 2019
Have you got YOUR 'University of Otago - FONEBOOK 150' yet?
Posted: Thursday July 4, 2019
At home in the movies
Posted: Thursday July 4, 2019
Archibald Baxter Memorial Peace Garden Crowdfunding Campaign - Update
Posted: Wednesday July 3, 2019
High-flying life recalled in memoir
Posted: Sunday June 30, 2019
A Voice from Manus Island
An Evening with Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian - Sunday 30th June @ 4pm
Posted: Friday June 28, 2019
Literary Tram 2019 in Ulyanovsk: photos and video
June 21, Literary tram drove through Ulyanovsk. For the fourth time, the townspeople traveled around the night city and ...
Posted: Tuesday June 25, 2019
West Papua: The Pacific Crisis we can no longer ignore
Meet Rosa Moiwend, West Papuan activist, human rights defender, and researcher
Posted: Monday June 24, 2019
Carnival attracts record crowd
Posted: Monday June 24, 2019
Art with a heart will help refugees
Posted: Thursday June 20, 2019
First comic venture award-winner
Posted: Wednesday June 19, 2019
The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History
‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the ...
Posted: Tuesday June 18, 2019
Landers lend a hand
Posted: Monday June 17, 2019
Archibald Baxter Memorial Peace Garden Crowdfunding Campaign
Posted: Friday June 14, 2019
The Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2019 Judged by Dinah Hawken
Posted: Thursday June 13, 2019
WOW PRODUCTIONS presents THE FLICK by ANNIE BAKER
NZ PREMIERE / Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize
Posted: Wednesday June 12, 2019
Congratulations to Robyn Maree Pickens from Dunedin on becoming a finalist of the University of Leeds Inaugural Brotherton Poetry Prize ....
Robyn is fourth from the left
Posted: Tuesday June 11, 2019
Flour to oats; 150 years of milling
Jim Sullivan reviews Going for Grain, a history of the last 150 years of the iconic Dunedin company Harraway and Sons Lt...
Posted: Monday June 10, 2019
Making Winter Sparkle
Posted: Monday June 10, 2019
'A Hundred Words for Snow' by Tatty Hennessy
Posted: Sunday June 9, 2019
Dunedin's vanishing cinemas
Posted: Sunday June 9, 2019
Dunedin authors make book awards shortlist
Posted: Sunday June 9, 2019
The best of New Zealand crime writing
Posted: Sunday June 9, 2019
At The End of Holyrood Lane by Dimity Powell and Nicky Johnston
WINS THE SCWBI CRYSTAL KITE MEMBER CHOICE AWARD 2019
Posted: Friday June 7, 2019
Access, Inclusion and Participation Advisor
Arts Access Aotearoa | Putanga Toi ki Aotearoa is looking for a networking expert to fulfil the role of Access, Inclusio...
Posted: Thursday June 6, 2019
Exilse Publishing - Made in NZ Catalogue
Posted: Thursday June 6, 2019
City Choir's complex 150-year history charted in new book
Posted: Thursday May 30, 2019
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival - Thanks for joining us!
Posted: Friday May 24, 2019
Call for expressions of interest - major grant funding
The New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO is inviting expressions of interest (EOI) for major grant funding from or...
Posted: Tuesday May 21, 2019
Top prize for Hudson & Halls book
Posted: Wednesday May 15, 2019
5 questions with: Stacey Morrison
Posted: Monday May 13, 2019
Privilege to hear from two of the best writers in the business
Review: John Boyne and Markus Zusak - OBHS Auditorium Saturday, May 11
Posted: Monday May 13, 2019
Writers tackle moral dilemma
Posted: Saturday May 11, 2019
Taking young on journey of growth
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival programme director Claire Finlayson throws some questions to Australian Children's La...
Posted: Saturday May 11, 2019
Packed venue for Akala
Posted: Saturday May 11, 2019
Plenty of advice for aspiring young writers
Posted: Friday May 10, 2019
2019 Midwinter Carnival’s public lantern building workshops
Registrations for the 2019 Midwinter Carnival’s public lantern building workshops open today, and are expected to fill f...
Posted: Monday May 6, 2019
2019 WriteNow Poetry Competition for Dunedin secondary school students OPEN for entries
Posted: Monday May 6, 2019
Gender-bending solo performance
Posted: Thursday May 2, 2019
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fund
Do you have an area of interest that you’ve always wanted to pursue overseas? Do you have a research question that could...
Posted: Wednesday May 1, 2019
Haere mai! Meet Marten Rabarts our new Film Festival Director – Kaiurungi
Posted: Monday April 29, 2019
Book reveals story of brothers
Posted: Thursday April 25, 2019
Carnival Theme Honours Continent of Never Ending Night
Posted: Tuesday April 16, 2019
A Scattering of Words – Creative Writing from Artsenta
Posted: Tuesday April 16, 2019