He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Applications open for Michael King Writer's Fellowship
Creative New Zealand is calling for applications from established New Zealand writers for the Michael King Writer's Fell...
Posted: Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Waewae Kai Pakiaka is back for 2021.
Posted: Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Virtual Writer’s Residency – Norwich City of Literature
Dunedin poet Liz Breslin was selected by Norwich UNESCO City of Literature for a virtual writer’s residency, ‘Imagining ...
Posted: Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Five Writers. One Month.
We are delighted to welcome five writers from UNESCO Cities of Literature around the world to Norwich for a virtual resi...
Posted: Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlists for 2021 have been announced
Posted: Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
The Pursuit of Freedom
Political protest and Te Reo has featured strongly in this year’s Robert Burns Poetry Competition entries.
Posted: Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
OU Press books long-listed
Three Otago University Press titles have made the long list for this year’s national book awards.
Posted: Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
2021 BOOK SALE UPDATE
Posted: Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Read Share Grow Update
Posted: Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Poetry Shelf review: Fiona Farrell’s Nouns, verbs, etc
Nouns, verbs, etc. Fiona Farrell, Otago University Press, 2020
Posted: Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
CURRENT CALLS FOR SUBMISSION
Paper Road Press is calling for submissions to the third annual Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fanta...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
NZSA Auckland Museum Research Grant + Residency
The New Zealand Society of Authors in association with the Auckland Museum is delighted to offer a grant that gives the ...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Historic temporary home for bookshop
A stockpile of cardboard boxes awaits 38,000 books as staff at a landmark Dunedin bookshop prepare to pack up and move i...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Around the World in 80 Tales Storytelling Festival
Posted: Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
***Calling all UNPUBLISHED POETS***
For the first time ever, we are running a Phantom Poetry Open Mic contest!
Posted: Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Voucher
Posted: Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Otago academic 'giant' Jim Flynn dies
Internationally renowned academic and University of Otago Emeritus Professor of Political Studies Jim Flynn has died age...
Posted: Monday Dec 14, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Sophia Wilson’s ‘Foreign’
Posted: Monday Dec 14, 2020
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Anna Jackson reviews Bill Manhire’s Wow at ANZL
Posted: Monday Dec 14, 2020
Te Tahua Whakakaha | Cultural Sector Capability Fund
Manatū Taonga is now accepting applications for round one of the Capability Fund. Applications for round one must be sub...
Posted: Monday Dec 14, 2020
Short story: The undertaker’s story, by Owen Marshall
"It was almost dark on the evening I witnessed Carl strike his wife": a story of high gothic by New Zealand's master of ...
Posted: Monday Dec 14, 2020
Work on indexing ‘ODT’ files recognised
An autistic Dunedin man who delights in reading old copies of the Otago Daily Times has gained a special honour.
Posted: Friday Dec 11, 2020
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Ursula Bethell Residency 2021
The writers in residence in the University of Canterbury’s (UC) College of Arts will be Vana Manasiadis and Behrouz Booc...
Posted: Friday Dec 11, 2020
The Dunedin Dream Brokerage is currently calling for proposals for their latest initiative, Off The Ground.
The Dunedin Dream Brokerage is looking to fund collaborative art projects that activate the places we live and work in a...
Posted: Friday Dec 11, 2020
Te Awhi Rito NZ Reading Ambassador nominations open
Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand and our partners are calling for nominations for Te Awhi R...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
The Suitcases (Part Two)
Posted: Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Dr Smith of Rawene
Posted: Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
To Medicine via Paradise
Posted: Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Rhian Gallagher’s Far-Flung
Posted: Monday Dec 07, 2020
December from the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
Posted: Thursday Dec 03, 2020
New Poems Hit The Streets Of Aotearoa
As 2020 enters its final phase, Phantom has curated a selection of original works by Becky Woodall, Eamonn Tee, Simon Sw...
Posted: Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Tagaloa Scholarships
Growing Pacific capacity and capability within communities and the education sector.
Posted: Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Elaine Wills, Library manager, Enner Glynn School, Nelson reviews Bruce Goes Outside by Kathryn van Beek
Posted: Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Te Tahua Whakakaha | Cultural Sector Capability Fund overview
The Capability Fund supports the cultural sector to adapt to the COVID-19 environment by funding activities that build s...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Read for animals this summer with the SPCA Reading Challenge
Posted: Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
After 30 years, a ‘Dunedin institution’ set to close
It has been said that a room without books is like a body without a soul.
Posted: Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is calling for entries for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adu...
Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020
Vacancy at Exisle Publishing
Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020
Greatness is Infectious
Their written words have made long-lasting, generational impacts on this country - and beyond.
Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020
A river runs through him
We only truly know one river in our lives. US writer Thomas McGuane said so and even this struck him as too expansive. S...
Posted: Monday Nov 30, 2020
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: The inaugural recipient of The Caselberg Trust’s new Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Residency in 2021
The Caselberg Trust announced today that the inaugural recipient of its new Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Resid...
Posted: Friday Nov 27, 2020
Playwright wins top award, $10K prize
Emily Duncan’s sharp, sophisticated, passionate, quirky, evocative and unsettling writing style has won her yet another ...
Posted: Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Two awards in a month for local writer
Prolific, award-winning Wanaka writer Liz Breslin has had a stellar month: picking up prizes from both the International...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
POETRY PRIZE 2020 WINNERS ANNOUNCED...
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 – winners announced – Third time lucky for Palmerston North poet...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Give a kid a book and you give them the world
Last year the fledgling charity scheme Kiwi Christmas Books gave 1600 children’s books to Auckland Women’s Refuge and th...
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR 2021 NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is now inviting submissions for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Youn...
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
Landfall 240 has arrived!
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Sue Wootton’s ‘At Moeraki’
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
Poetry Shelf review: Bill Manhire’s Wow
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
A World History of Bluff: Dr Michael Stevens
Ngāi Tahu historian Dr Michael Stevens has just been recognised by the Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Kōpūnui with a Māori...
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
Following Colin McCahon
Everything seems to come a little late to Aotearoa New Zealand, and even later to Dunedin, its southernmost university t...
Posted: Monday Nov 23, 2020
Read Share Grow — children’s books for South Dunedin
Something big is happening in South Dunedin! It's happening in schools and early childhood centres, in community organis...
Posted: Friday Nov 20, 2020
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Newsletter
Posted: Thursday Nov 19, 2020
te haerenga o reo pepi – the next chapter
The Reo Pēpi series is one of the real success stories in the Aotearoa world of publishing for littlies. The popularity ...
Posted: Monday Nov 16, 2020
Book review - Landmarks by Grahame Sydney and Owen Marshall
Posted: Monday Nov 16, 2020
Poetry Shelf Lounge: Alison Wong reads and discusses her poem ‘Earth’
Posted: Monday Nov 16, 2020
Celebrating continuing relevance that is Hotere
Dunedin Public Art Gallery will this week open the first major exhibition of Ralph Hotere’s work in 20 years. Rebecca Fo...
Posted: Friday Nov 13, 2020