News and Opportunities
Antarctic Poetry Exhibition
The IPCC recently released a report stating that should we not drastically cut down on our greenhouse gas emissions with...
Posted: Friday December 14, 2018
New book focuses on filming the NZ Wars
The New Zealand Wars were defining events in the nation’s history. Filming the Colonial Past by Annabel Cooper tells the...
Posted: Friday December 7, 2018
Entries open for 2019 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition
Entries are open for the Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition, an annual award open to New Zealand writers ag...
Posted: Friday December 7, 2018
Warts-and-all portrait of a complex colonial character
A new biography of early Otago settler James Macandrew paints a warts-and-all picture of one of New Zealand’s most colou...
Posted: Thursday December 6, 2018
Capturing the wisdom of a lifetime
South Island publisher launches a unique initiative to help people reflect on their life experiences and capture their p...
Posted: Sunday December 2, 2018
Judges for 2019 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults share a passion for the transformative power of books
A panel of judges combining deep knowledge of the children’s literature community with youthful wisdom and a shared pass...
Posted: Thursday November 29, 2018
"How Art" by Des O'Brien
Writing poetry about the experience of Alzheimer’s is an audacious act. “How Art” is a set of handcrafted poems written ...
Posted: Thursday November 22, 2018
Twice the Speed of Dark by Lulu Allison
In an isolated house surrounded by fields and woodland, Anna sits at her kitchen table, her cramped writing fills the no...
Posted: Monday November 19, 2018
Exisle Publishing - Latest Titles
Posted: Thursday November 15, 2018
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2018 - winners announced
The winners of the 2018 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize have been announced. The competition is now in its ei...
Posted: Wednesday November 14, 2018
New biography highlights life of trailblazing woman scientist
Pioneering nutritionist Muriel Bell had a profound effect on the health of New Zealanders in the 20th century, yet her m...
Posted: Wednesday November 14, 2018
Summer Learning at University of Otago
Posted: Wednesday November 14, 2018
Open call for external peer assessors for literature
Make an important contribution to literature in New Zealand. Gain valuable insight into the funding process. Register yo...
Posted: Wednesday November 14, 2018
Understated comedy and stark horror in winning essay
Alice Miller, a New Zealand writer based in Germany, is the winner of the Landfall Essay Competition 2018.
Posted: Tuesday November 13, 2018
Local researcher awarded prestigious fellowship
The world of Augmented Reality will soon be leaping into our everyday lives thanks to the work of award-winning Universi...
Posted: Sunday November 11, 2018
An extraordinary body of work for children - Robyn Belton
Posted: Sunday November 11, 2018
Dunedin writer scoops award in international competition
Emma Neale from Dunedin is just one of three writers highly commended in this year’s prestigious UK Bridport Prize flash...
Posted: Sunday November 11, 2018
Calling all playwrights! The University of Otago and UNESCO need your scripts!
While it may be almost a year until the house lights are dimmed and actors tread the boards, organisers are calling for ...
Posted: Thursday November 1, 2018
New Zealand writers to showcase Māori and Pacific literature in the United Kingdom
Five of New Zealand’s leading Māori and Pasifika writers will be showcasing their work in the United Kingdom next month ...
Posted: Monday October 15, 2018
Philip Temple - The life of Maurice Shadbolt
Posted: Monday October 15, 2018
Exisle Publishing - Latest titles
Posted: Thursday October 11, 2018
Otago University Press celebrates PM's award for poet Michael Harlow
Otago University Press has congratulated Otago poet Michael Harlow who has been honoured as one of three winners in this...
Posted: Tuesday October 9, 2018
2018 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement: winners announced
Feminist and working-class stories, poetry as song, and a deeper understanding of New Zealand art – these are just some ...
Posted: Monday October 8, 2018
BUT I CHANGED ALL THAT: ‘First’ New Zealand women, by Jane Tolerton
But I Changed All That is a collection of New Zealand women ‘firsts’ – from 1893 to 2018. The 76-page book, put out to c...
Posted: Sunday September 30, 2018
New Citywide Event Calendar
The new citywide event calendar is now live on DunedinNZ.com.
Posted: Sunday September 30, 2018
Wordsmith course: Radio Drama II
This is a short course proposed for February 2019. The focus would be on writing radio drama but, depending on interest,...
Posted: Thursday September 27, 2018
Auckland Writers Festival Launches Literary Foundation
A new Foundation established by the Auckland Writers Festival aims to strengthen Aotearoa’s literary landscape.
Posted: Monday September 24, 2018
Dunedin City Of Magic
Anyone living in Dunedin knows the magic of our city. Kura Carpenter thought she’d share that with the world. Her debut ...
Posted: Monday September 24, 2018
A decade of New Zealand Bestsellers to celebrate this NZ Bookshop Day
Seven NZ novels, eight children’s & YA books and five non-fiction titles comprise the Top 20 Bestsellers voted as favour...
Posted: Sunday September 23, 2018
Robert Burns Fellows get-together frequency could double
The success of a reunion of University of Otago Robert Burns Fellows, means that their next get-together could come soon...
Posted: Tuesday September 11, 2018
New Zealand Young Writers Festival Launches 2018 Programme
Robot poetry, decolonising literature, and feminism in the age of #metoo are among the hot button topics at this year’s ...
Posted: Tuesday August 14, 2018
Robert Burns Fellowship Exhibition, University of Otago, Dunedin
‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ Charles Brasch, ‘Notes...
Posted: Tuesday August 14, 2018
September sees Saxons and sorcery in German drama
A modern adaptation of a traditional Saxon tale about a sorcerer’s apprentice is coming to the Dunedin stage in Septembe...
Posted: Monday August 13, 2018
Opportunity for Southern Screenwriters in China
Local screenwriters are being sought for a two-month residency in Shanghai as part of a new joint initiative of the Dune...
Posted: Monday August 6, 2018
Blue Oyster Proposals open for submissions
Blue Oyster are currently accepting proposals for their 2019 Annual Programme as well as proposals towards the 2019 Blue...
Posted: Thursday August 2, 2018
Painted Poems at Portobello School
Posted: Tuesday July 31, 2018
UBS Otago Summer Writer in Residence Applications Open Now!
Are you an emerging writer? Do you know an emerging writer who’d appreciate a summer sojourn in our fantastic little Cit...
Posted: Monday July 30, 2018
Exhibition showcases early New Zealand women writers in suffrage tribute
The latest Reed Gallery exhibition at Dunedin Public Library showcases early women writers and other creative women of t...
Posted: Monday July 30, 2018
CLNZ Writers’ Award 2018
The $25,000 CLNZ Writers’ Award is one of the investments made through CLNZ’s Cultural Fund. The Writers’ Award is offer...
Posted: Tuesday July 10, 2018
Hostage: One Gun, Many Triggers
Experience the thrill of the live radio play, live to air on Otago Access Radio.
Posted: Tuesday July 10, 2018
Brockville School Final Week
Posted: Monday July 2, 2018
WriteNow opens to young poets
Dunedin poet Sue Wootton, co-organiser and judge of this year's WriteNow poetry competition for secondary school pupils,...
Posted: Sunday July 1, 2018
Concord School Final Week
Posted: Thursday June 28, 2018
Pine Hill School Final week
Posted: Tuesday June 26, 2018
Poland visit highlighted Dunedin as creative city
Dunedin was certainly taken notice of during a world creative cities event in Poland earlier this month, the mayor says.
Posted: Tuesday June 26, 2018
Concord School update 15 June
Posted: Monday June 18, 2018
Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Research Grant – 2018
The Dorothy Neal White Collection (9,000 books), in the National Library of New Zealand, is a research collection of chi...
Posted: Thursday June 7, 2018
Looking for poems by writers with a migrant/former refugee background
Landing Press, a small Wellington publisher, is inviting migrant and former refugee poets to send in their work for a co...
Posted: Tuesday June 5, 2018
New local drama asks: Who’s really responsible?
A dramatic new radio play by a local playwriting group will be heard live at the Dunedin Public Library later this month...
Posted: Friday June 1, 2018
Four plays will take the stage
Four short plays are to get their moment on stage, despite Fortune's closing, writes Kim Dungey.
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
Science in crime novels should be real - writer
Readers are keen for accurate forensic science to be conveyed through crime fiction, Dunedin researcher and crime noveli...
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
Joint exhibition to celebrate 'Landfall'
Landfall’s position as New Zealand’s pre-eminent literary and art journal is being celebrated in a unique way by the Ota...
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2018
PINE HILL SCHOOL - Week 1
Posted: Tuesday May 15, 2018
Landfall exhibition connects art and literature
The Otago Art Society and Otago University Press are joining forces to present a unique exhibition that celebrates the c...
Posted: Thursday May 10, 2018
Winner of Young Writers' Essay Competition announced
Landfall, New Zealand’s leading journal of arts and literature, is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2018 Cha...
Posted: Thursday May 3, 2018
Freedom Song
Emma Farry’s Freedom Song is a powerful and beautiful panacea for the world we live in. It’s a go-to book in times of tr...
Posted: Sunday April 29, 2018
CALLING ALL MUSICIANS AND SONGWRITERS
Youth Zone Unplugged is back for 2018! This year we are giving ten young musical acts the opportunity to record and prod...
Posted: Thursday April 5, 2018
Why Go Girl needed to be written
New Zealand's answer to Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls is in bookshops now. It's called Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic ...
Posted: Tuesday April 3, 2018
Dunedin Opera Company Inc./Opera Otago AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
Opera Otago seeks a suitably qualified person to carry out a project to develop audiences for its productions.
Posted: Monday March 19, 2018