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Posted: Monday Apr 08, 2019
The Gulf Between Book Launch
The launch of Maxine Alterio’s third novel The Gulf Between (Penguin Random House, 2019) was held at Manaaki restaurant,...
Posted: Monday Apr 08, 2019
Translation workshop LitTransformer - July 8-18, 2019
Call for participation
Posted: Friday Apr 05, 2019
Announcing our 2019 Krakow UNESCO City of Literature Residency Programme Writers!
Posted: Thursday Apr 04, 2019
Ambitious local war film to Premiere in Dunedin
Posted: Thursday Apr 04, 2019
WELCOME TO THE 2019 NFFD COMPETITION
The 2019 National Flash Fiction Day Competition runs February 15 – April 15. Send your best 300-word story * Cash prizes...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 03, 2019
Open Call for Media Art Residency in Creative City Košice
Košice – the Creative City of Media Arts offers media artists a two-month stay in Košice in autumn 2019. The residency i...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 03, 2019
Un Holocaust Remembrance Day & Paul Seideman Award 2019 Competition
Posted: Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
Award-Winning Theatre Company Back With Electric New Season
“Arcade Theatre Company.. is proof that provocative, energetic theatre can still be offered in Dunedin” - THEATREVIEW
Posted: Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
Storylines Notable Books List 2019
The 2019 Storylines Children’s Literature Notable Book List, for the highest quality books in five genres published duri...
Posted: Monday Apr 01, 2019
Centre for the Book 2019 Research Symposium - Call for Papers
Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs
Posted: Thursday Mar 28, 2019
University of Otago College of Education - Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence 2020
Posted: Thursday Mar 28, 2019
Rapping like a bard
Rediscovering Shakespeare for the hip-hop generation is just one mission on Writers and Readers Festival visitor Akala’s...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
The war on truth
Stephen Davis’ life convinces him a war on truth is being waged and must be resisted. That is now our experience too. Br...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Interactive adventure in Botanic Garden
Posted: Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Gordon Brown on life at 103
Posted: Monday Mar 25, 2019
Bill Gosden farewells the NZ Film Festival after 40 years
Posted: Sunday Mar 24, 2019
The Art of healing
Posted: Sunday Mar 24, 2019
Author's quest to meet 120 Kiwi centenarians: Seeking meaning in longevity
The stories of New Zealand's centenarians show they are a complete cross-section of Kiwi society. Is there any special r...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 20, 2019
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival - 2019 Programme
The 2019 programme is live! For details see dunedinwritersfestival.co.nz
Posted: Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
A lead role in her life
In her new book Keepers of History, Dunedin-based writer Renee Hollis preserves the stories of some of our oldest citize...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
International Writer’s Residence In Reykjavík
In 2019 the Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature for the first time offers a free residency for a writer from another UNE...
Posted: Monday Mar 11, 2019
Open Call for the International residency in Ulyanovsk for writers and translators from the Cities of Literature of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network
This is a unique opportunity to work in the homeland of the great Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, the poet Nikolay Yazyko...
Posted: Monday Mar 11, 2019
Ruth Carraway creates drama in jail - and toilets!
Trouble-D is a play about the challenges, obstacles and enticements a recently released prisoner faces in the outside wo...
Posted: Monday Mar 11, 2019
Youth Zone Mobilised
Youth Zone Mobilised is the opportunity to get your music out to the world! This year, OAR FM Dunedin’s Youth Zone is gi...
Posted: Thursday Mar 07, 2019
Keynote experts to bring wealth of knowledge to short play festival
Chicago-based producer and director Tanya Palmer will add “an immeasurable wealth of insight, experience and knowledge” ...
Posted: Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Truthteller - An Investigative Reporter’s Journey Through The World Of Truth Prevention, Fake News And Conspiracy Theories
An essential guide for understanding the modern media world – for teachers, students and concerned citizens who want to ...
Posted: Monday Mar 04, 2019
The Incurable Imagination
Audrey has a severe case of ‘imaginitis’! And it’s contagious. A fun-filled story written by a primary school teacher pa...
Posted: Monday Mar 04, 2019
Saying Goodbye to Barkley
For many children experiencing the loss of a much-loved pet is likely to be their first brush with grief. This touching ...
Posted: Monday Mar 04, 2019
Stop Talking, Start Influencing
12 insights from brain science to make your message stick
Posted: Monday Mar 04, 2019
The Box Cars - Robert Vescio and Cara King
Remember when you had more fun playing with the box than the gift that was packed in it? This simple story of imaginatio...
Posted: Monday Mar 04, 2019
Otago University Press to move to ‘co-publisher’ model
Otago University Press is moving to a new management model in what is thought to be a New Zealand industry first.
Posted: Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Five Otago University Press authors in 2019 Ockham Book Awards longlist
Otago University Press congratulates all the authors in the longlist announced today for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Boo...
Posted: Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Are women past caring?
Care is essential to social relationships and individual well-being. It is woven into New Zealand’s key social instituti...
Posted: Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Writing course participants seek inspiration through exploration
A group of writers visited Port Chalmers yesterday as part of a short course, inspired by Dunedin, City of Literature, a...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
THE REALIZATION OF A DISTANT LONGING
1st place winner of A Distant Longing: Dunedin Chinese Garden Student Essay Competition
Posted: Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Forming a Forever Friendship: The Dunedin’s Chinese Garden
4th place winner of A Distant Longing: Dunedin Chinese Garden Student Essay Competition
Posted: Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
An Indissoluble Symbol of Friendship: Dunedin Chinese Garden Lan Yuan
2nd equal winner of A Distant Longing: Dunedin Chinese Garden Student Essay Competition
Posted: Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Antique Lan Yuan，everlasting milestone：a powerful witness to the China-New Zealand relations across oceans
2nd equal winner of A Distant Longing: Dunedin Chinese Garden Student Essay Competition
Posted: Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
A Distant Longing: Dunedin Chinese Garden Student Essay Competition Winners
‘How does the Dunedin Chinese Garden, Lan Yuan, enhance the story of Chinese in Otago and what future role does the Gard...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
KRAKOW UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE RESIDENCY PROGRAM 2019
The Krakow UNESCO City of Literature Residency Program is dedicated to young and emerging writers from the Cities of Lit...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
The Spirit of Literature Beyond Oceans
Kristyna O'Connell was a University of Otago HUMS301 Intern for Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature 2018
Posted: Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Tank the Flanker
Posted: Monday Jan 21, 2019
The Vegan Lion
Posted: Monday Jan 21, 2019
Otter Trouble
Posted: Monday Jan 21, 2019
The Birthday Boy
Posted: Monday Jan 21, 2019
The First Donkey in Space
Posted: Monday Jan 21, 2019
Socks or sausages?
Posted: Monday Jan 21, 2019
NZ Bookshop Numbers on the Rise
Since January 2018, Booksellers NZ has gained seven brand new members from everywhere from Vulcan Lane in Central Auckla...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 16, 2019
Mobile App for Dunedin’s Literary Locations
Introducing dtour: a Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature experience
Posted: Monday Dec 17, 2018
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 Dec 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 Dec 07, 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 Dec 07, 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 Dec 06, 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: Monday Dec 03, 2018