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How We Survive: A Feminist Poetry Show
Lift Women’s Voices. Burn The Patriarchy Down.
Posted: Wednesday Jun 07, 2017
Rescued moggie kickstarts children’s book
When I found the rat on the ground I had no idea it would change my life.
Posted: Monday May 29, 2017
Playwright Robert Lord to be honoured with Dunedin Writers Walk Plaque
Playwright Robert Lord (1945–1992) is to be honoured with a plaque in the Dunedin Writers Walk in the Octagon.
Posted: Friday May 12, 2017
Hall of Fame (and Fortune)
Posted: Tuesday May 02, 2017
Landfall celebrates 70th anniversary with new prize for young writers
Landfall, New Zealand’s leading journal of arts and literature, has announced the winner of the inaugural Charles Brasch...
Posted: Thursday Apr 27, 2017
An Interview With Laurence Fearnley
Landscape is the most exquisite aspect of our country, and Laurence Fearnley’s writing is influenced by it. An author of...
Posted: Thursday Apr 27, 2017
Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen By Jocelyn Harris
In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues that Jane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-wa...
Posted: Monday Apr 24, 2017
‘Capturing Light – Roy Miller – New Zealand Stained Glass artist’,
‘Capturing Light – Roy Miller – New Zealand Stained Glass artist’, has just won a bronze medal in the Australasian non-f...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Taking our Children's Books to Bologna
UNESCO City of Literature Dunedin were offered an opportunity they couldn't ignore: to bid to have a stand at the Bologn...
Posted: Thursday Apr 13, 2017
Bologna showcases local writers
Dunedin is stealing the show in Bologna this week after the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature won a stand at the iconic ...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 05, 2017
Getting the Play Right
Bios for the panel of Fringe Festival playwrights
Posted: Thursday Mar 16, 2017
Students living up to literary reputation
With Dunedin’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature and its well-known legacy in publishing, it should come as no ...
Posted: Monday Mar 13, 2017
Writers Residency Opportunities in 2017 / 18 in Dunedin - City of Literature
The Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust, Dunedin announces the closing dates for residencies available at the historic Rob...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 28, 2017
Poetry Trail launches in Port Chalmers
Posted: Tuesday Feb 28, 2017
A tribute to Catriona Ferguson
Statement from Peter Biggs, Chair of the New Zealand Book Council
Posted: Tuesday Feb 21, 2017
Poems on the Street: Dunedin’s Poetic Parking Machines
In response to Dunedin’s status as a UNESCO City of Literature, lead designer Benjamin Alder and the team at Poetick est...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
Many steps involved in launching new Literary Walking Tours
Developing a new venture conducting literary walking tours through the University of Otago campus took the best part of ...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
Issue 8 of Down in Edin Magazine is now online
Posted: Wednesday Feb 01, 2017
University of Otago to offer City of Literature scholarship
The University of Otago and Dunedin City Council are excited to announce the launch of a new doctoral scholarship in lit...
Posted: Thursday Jan 26, 2017
Best Books 2016
What will you be reading in 2017? Choose from our library staff’s Best Books of 2016 list.
Posted: Wednesday Jan 18, 2017
Poems in the Waiting Room
Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ) distributes 8000 free poetry cards every season to medical waiting rooms, rest homes, hos...
Posted: Monday Jan 16, 2017
The University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship
The Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago invites applications for a new doctoral scholarship...
Posted: Friday Jan 13, 2017
A town trod by Poets: The search for truth on Dunedin streets
A paper by Roger Hickin delivered at the University of Otago Centre for the Book 2016 Symposium: Book and Place
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
Stories from our Vibrant Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
A Tale of Two Cities (Of Literature)
‘Chance is a fine thing’, the title of my 2009 memoir would have it, and chance had it that the start of our 2016 travel...
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
That Blind Woman said "Why Not?!" to the 7-day challenge!
When the 7-day challenge was first mooted, my ears pricked up...
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
The Star Regent 24-hour Book Sale: a Great Literary Event
A City of Literature is not something Dunedin has just become: Dunedin has been a city of literature for a long time. Wh...
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
Opening Doors in Rockfaces: David Howard’s poetics
David Howard is a prominent New Zealand poet and co-founder of the literary journal takahē. After 13 years at Purakaunui...
Posted: Monday Jan 09, 2017
Heritage Matters on Otago Access Radio
Twenty episodes of "Heritage Matters", the programme produced on behalf of Southern Heritage Trust for Otago Access Radi...
Posted: Friday Dec 23, 2016
Aotearoa Summer Reads to inspire nation to choose home-grown talent
A cast of New Zealand writers have selected their top picks from the Aotearoa-grown bookshelves to help guide kiwis in t...
Posted: Friday Dec 09, 2016
Cast of storytellers to delight with tales in many tongues
Dunedin (Thursday, 8 December) – The organisers of Dunedin’s inaugural International Storytelling Festival have been ove...
Posted: Friday Dec 09, 2016
Dunedin, New Zealand
Posted: Thursday Dec 08, 2016
Airini Beautrais wins Landfall Essay Competition 2016
Airini Beautrais has been named the winner of the 2016 Landfall Essay Competition for her essay ‘Umlaut’.
Competition j...
Posted: Thursday Nov 03, 2016
First complete edition of Katherine Mansfield’s poems
Oh God! I am divided still. I am bad. I fail in my personal life. I lapse into impatience, temper, vanity & so I fail as...
Posted: Thursday Nov 03, 2016
Announcing the 2016 Blue Oyster Summer Writing Resident:
Robyn Maree Pickens
With support from the Quarantine Island Kamau Taurua Community, Dunedin-based writer Robyn Maree Pickens will be spendin...
Posted: Monday Oct 17, 2016
Stepsisters take on Filluel St carpark
Posted: Tuesday Oct 11, 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS - Screenwriting: Fact and Fiction, Truth and the Real
In order to ensure timely notification and subsequent travel planning, please note the deadline: Abstracts for original ...
Posted: Friday Oct 07, 2016
Blanket Hut Braille
This Blind Week Julie Woods is responding to a 7 day challenge put out by the Blind Foundation in conjunction with an or...
Posted: Thursday Sep 29, 2016
Worth the Wait: Alan Roddick’s second poetry collection
After establishing a poetic presence on the literary scene in the early 1960s, Dunedin’s Alan Roddick published his firs...
Posted: Thursday Sep 29, 2016
The Other Side of the Mountain: Rewriting NZ climbing history
The story of Edmund Hillary’s ascent of Everest is familiar to all New Zealanders. Now a new book focuses on the previou...
Posted: Thursday Sep 29, 2016
Book and Place: University of Otago Centre for the Book Symposium 2016
Posted: Tuesday Sep 27, 2016
The Friends of the Hocken Collections 2016 Research Award
In 2016 the Friends of the Hocken Collections celebrate their 25th anniversary of
establishment.
Posted: Monday Sep 12, 2016
Recent publications by Dunedin publisher Paua Press Limited
Sir George Grey and the moa by Bruce Spittle, 2015. Education and fluoridation in New Zealand: an historical study by Jo...
Posted: Thursday Sep 08, 2016
A poem when you park
Next time you pay for parking, your ticket might come with a poem.
Posted: Friday Aug 26, 2016
Michael Harlow’s Winning New Poetry Collection
The poems in Michael Harlow’s new collection, Nothing for it but to Sing, are small detonations that release deeply comp...
Posted: Thursday Aug 11, 2016
Blue Oyster call for proposals
Blue Oyster is pleased to announce a call for solo, duo, group and curated exhibition proposals for the first half of 20...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 02, 2016
Call for Participation for the forthcoming 5th International Summit of the Book 2016, Limerick City, Ireland
Please note the information below and consider whether you may wish to respond to the call and/or to make suggestions fo...
Posted: Friday Jul 22, 2016
BOOK SHOP ESTABLISHES NEW ZEALAND
WRITERS RESIDENCY
New Zealand’s first writing residency, the Robert Burns Fellowship, was established in 1958 in Dunedin marking the bicen...
Posted: Friday Jul 22, 2016
Two books by local author Beatrice Hale
Two books by local author Beatrice Hale, both available as e-books on Smashwords and on Amazon.com, which also provides ...
Posted: Tuesday Jul 19, 2016
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections
de Beer gallery, Special Collections, University of Otago, 10 June to 26 August 2016
Posted: Monday Jul 11, 2016
Lotteries Award to help establish the first writers’ residency in the home of a Māori writer
The Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust has just been awarded $100,000 by the Lottery World War One Commemorations, Environmen...
Posted: Friday Jun 17, 2016
CALL for PAPERS - Book and Place
The University of Otago Centre for the Book announces its 2016 Annual Symposium
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zeala...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 15, 2016
A Call for Project/Products for 2016 Bologna Design Week
Posted: Wednesday Jun 15, 2016
Corpus: Conversations about Medicine and Life
“Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognise… the true poetry of life.”
Sir William Osler (1849-...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 08, 2016
Director appointed for City of Literature Dunedin
The Dunedin City Council has appointed Nicky Page as Director City of Literature.
Ms Page is currently an Academic Mana...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 19, 2016
Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Research Grant – 2016
Posted: Tuesday Mar 22, 2016
Thorpe Talbot
Dunedin barely remembers but should honour a pioneer, formerly internationally famous, writer. She is Frances Ellen Talb...
Posted: Friday Dec 11, 2015