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Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust announces early 2025 residencies and invites applications for 2025–26
Six writers have been awarded 2025 residencies at the historic cottage in Ōtepoti Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature, and...
Posted: Friday Nov 29, 2024
David Hill reviews Owen Marshall's new collection of short stories, NEW STORIES, published by Penguin
David Hill considers the masterful writing and predominantly male protagonists in Owen Marshall's latest book, the lacon...
Posted: Friday Nov 29, 2024
A huge congratulations to Franchesca Walker and Hannah August, joint-winners of the 2024 Landfall Essay Competition
Landfall Essay Competition judge Lynley Edmeades has announced the joint winners of this year’s competition: Franchesca ...
Posted: Friday Nov 29, 2024
Buy local this holiday season with BookHub!
Over one million books are ready for delivery or click-and-collect from NZ bookstores around the motu. BookHub is local....
Posted: Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Hot books summer: NZ fiction for holiday reading
The New Zealand Summer Reading Guide is packed with reading recommendations and book gift ideas for Christmas — brought ...
Posted: Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn named in the New Zealand Listener 100 best books of 2024
In fantastic company with the incredible pukapuka that came out this year!
Posted: Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
Ōtepoti Writers Lab – it’s been a HOOT!
Final meeting of the Octagon Poets Collective for 2024 and Book Launch!
Posted: Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Poetry Shelf Monday poem
‘Voice carried my family, their names and stories’ by Robert Sullivan
Posted: Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Solomon Aelan Pijin Langguis Wik - Celebrate Solomon Islands Pidgin Language week 24 - 30 November
Learn some Solomon Islands Pidgin to use this week!
Posted: Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Pukapuka Māori o te tau 2024-2025
Are you a kaituhi Māori who published a book since Matariki 2024? If so, Māori Literature Trust | Te Waka Taki Kōrero wa...
Posted: Monday Nov 25, 2024
Short story: second place in the Sargeson Prize
Our warmest congratulations to Dunedin author Craig Cliff for winning second place in this year’s Sargeson Prize Short S...
Posted: Monday Nov 25, 2024
Real Life: How having kids led author Vanda Symon to life of crime writing
“Had babies. Drove me to crime.”
Posted: Monday Nov 25, 2024
Music for the Bard
The Globe Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is infused with the Dunedin Sound.
Posted: Monday Nov 25, 2024
Ōtepoti poets top The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems
Posted: Friday Nov 22, 2024
Matatuhi Foundation Supports the Promotion of the Literary Legacy of Hone Tuwhare
Stay up to date on the Hone Tuwhare Legacy Project
Posted: Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Submissions Now Open for 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Books released between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025 can be entered. There are two submission deadlines!
Posted: Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Enrolments are now open for the Whitireia Graduate Diploma in Publishing
Learn the publishing process by working on real books with real publishing clients.
Posted: Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Asia New Zealand Arts Practitioners Fund
Next application round opens Monday, 2 December 2024. Applications close Monday, 13 January 2025
Posted: Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Today on Write Spot - Julie Woods' Wish List Coasters
That Blind Woman Julie Woods and her husband Ron Esplin, a watercolour artist, have produced a set of coasters depicting...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
A 'masterclass in the art of the short story'
Sally Blundell reviews NEW STORIES by Owen Marshall
Posted: Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
2025 NZ Booklovers Awards
NZ Booklovers are still accepting entries - Entries close 10 December 2024
Posted: Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Record Funding Round ends 2024 on a high note
Following the release of a new set of funding criteria in July 24, including an increase in grant size from $5,000 to $2...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Turner made NZ Poet Laureate of Nature
Our warmest congratulations to Brian Turner, awarded the title of NZ Poet Laureate of Nature for his lifetime’s work in ...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
Notes from a literary life
Papers left by Janet Frame illustrate a life of literature and adventure, write Anna Blackman and Kirstie Ross.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
Transgender Awareness Week, Nov 13–19, is a celebration leading into Trans Day of Remembrance Nov 20
To celebrate, Dunedin Public Libraries have put together a booklist of YA books that feature trans characters living the...
Posted: Monday Nov 18, 2024
The winners of the 2024 University of Otago Creative Writing Competition have been announced
This year's theme/writing prompt was “A place of many firsts” and was judged by the 2024 Robert Burns Fellow, Mikaela Ny...
Posted: Monday Nov 18, 2024
Māori on the home front
Listen: Lachy Paterson and Angela Walhalla, editors of Te Hau Kāinga and Raupanga, companion books that explore the tran...
Posted: Monday Nov 18, 2024
The Library of Ralph Hotere is now open
Dunedin Public Libraries hope visitors to the Reed Gallery on the 3rd floor of the Dunedin City Library will enjoy the e...
Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2024
School Library: Term Four giveaway
To be in to win any of these incredible titles, just email communications@read-nz.org with the book's title in the subje...
Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2024
Current Exhibition at White Box - Radiant Small: Curated by Meta Balko
“I chose [to do] the show because I think people should be happy doing art, I think it’s fun to do art, and people shoul...
Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2024
Pre-order Cultures of Sustainable Peace: Conflict Transformation, Gender-Based Violence, Decolonial Praxes - Edited by: Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé
50% discount code: CSP50 - Expires: 31 December 2024
Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2024
Keep Telling Of Gaza by Khawla Badwan and Alison Phipps is out now!
Find links on how to purchase the print version or the ebook here.
Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2024
'Teddy’s Life Journey' delights and inspires young poets at Dunedin Rudolf Steiner School
In May this year, City of Literature South D Poet Lorikeet, Jenny Powell, visited Dunedin Rudolf Steiner School’s Class ...
Posted: Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Congratulations to all the 2024 Storylines Notable Book Award winners
Check out all the winners here.
Posted: Thursday Nov 14, 2024
UBS Spotlights David Elliot
Posted: Thursday Nov 14, 2024
The Arts Foundation Nominations are now open!
Springboard is back for 2025, and you have until Friday 13 December to kickstart careers for artists of any discipline b...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award
Nominations close 30 November 2024
Posted: Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 - now open for entries
Entries close 10 December 2024
Posted: Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Dunedin Fringe Festival 2025 - Artist Registration Reminder!
Registrations close: Sunday 17 November 2024
Posted: Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Birds of a Feather present the Tony and Olivier multi award-winning play, Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
Only 6 more shows - ticket numbers are dwindling - it's now or never!
Posted: Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2024 – open for applications
Award for fresh writing with a ‘unique and original vision’ - Applications close 15 March 2024
Posted: Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Get published!
Little Moa is opening for children's book submissions for one week only, from 25 November.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Implementing a global health programme: Smallpox and Nepal by Susan Heydon
Get 30% off this title when you order through the Manchester University Press website - pre-orders available now!
Posted: Monday Nov 11, 2024
Poetry Shelf review
Faces and Flowers Poems to Patricia France by Dinah Hawken (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024)
Posted: Thursday Nov 07, 2024
Book review: New Stories by Owen Marshall
Harry Ricketts reviews New Stories by Owen Marshall published by Penguin Random House NZ
Posted: Thursday Nov 07, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Emma Neale poetry collection Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit - Emma talks about her new poetry collection, which explores the way...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
'Te Hau Kāinga' and 'Raupanga', two companion books which tell the story of profound transformation in Māori life during the Second World War.
Available in stores from 7 November 2024
Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Out March 2025! Available now for pre-order!
Books of Mana: 180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance, Edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira
Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
First Kiwi writer to win coveted residency
Award-winning New Zealand poet Alison Glenny has been selected for a writers’ residency in Dunedin.
Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Congratulations to Alison Wong
2024 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate, recipient of the Burr/Tatham Trust Award recognising her contributions to lit...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Book Review: Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn
Unsettling stories from a writer who dares to challenge and confront us.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Hope festival will be city’s biggest yet
A cultural group aims to create the largest Diwali celebration the city has ever seen.
Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2024
'Grief Momentarily Suspended' - Genevieve Scanlan reviews:
Meantime by Majella Cullinane (Otago University Press), Tidelines by Kiri Piahana-Wong (Anahera Press) and Chew the Brig...
Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2024
Doctor’s tale has striking parallels
Dr Mira Harrison-Woolrych’s debut novel taps into doctors’ “primal fear that you won’t be able to do everything you can ...
Posted: Friday Nov 01, 2024
Rap Like Robbie Poetry Competition 2024
Entries close Saturday 30 November 2024
Posted: Friday Nov 01, 2024
Robert Burns Poetry Competition 2024
Entries close 5pm Saturday 30 November
Posted: Friday Nov 01, 2024
Adam NZ Play Award Submissions are open
Submissions close on 1 December
Posted: Thursday Oct 31, 2024