He pānui, he angitu | News and Opportunities
Guest Speaker: Melanie Kidd
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes MELANIE KIDD from Norwich UNESCO City of Literature. Melanie will be speaki...
Posted: Thursday Oct 05, 2017
Mystery guest: David Loughrey
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes DAVID LOUGHREY as delegate and mystery guest. David will be participating i...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 04, 2017
Guest Speaker: Karen McAulay
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes KAREN McAULAY as guest speaker. Karen will be speaking at Centre for the Bo...
Posted: Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Guest Speaker: Alexandra Newman
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes ALEXANDRA NEWMAN as guest speaker. Alexandra will be speaking at Centre for...
Posted: Monday Oct 02, 2017
Guest Speaker: Guy Ryan
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes GUY RYAN as delegate and guest speaker. Guy will speaking at Creative Conne...
Posted: Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Guest Speaker: Victor Rodger
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes VICTOR RODGER as delegate and guest speaker. Victor will be participating i...
Posted: Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Guest Speaker: Elaine Webster
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes ELAINE WEBSTER as guest speaker. Elaine will be speaking at Centre for the ...
Posted: Saturday Sep 30, 2017
Guest Speaker: Moira White
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes MOIRA WHITE as guest speaker. Moira will be speaking at Centre for the Book...
Posted: Friday Sep 29, 2017
Guest Speaker: Iona Winter
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes IONA WINTER as delegate and guest speaker. Iona will be speaking at Creativ...
Posted: Thursday Sep 28, 2017
Guest Speaker: Sue Wootton
Creative Cities Southern Hui warmly welcomes SUE WOOTTON as guest speaker. Sue will be speaking at Centre for the Book: ...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
Telling tales
Our lives are all made up of many stories and everyone has a tale to tell.
Posted: Friday Sep 22, 2017
LIM - LESS IS MORE 2018
International call for projects
“Created by filmmakers for filmmakers”
Posted: Friday Sep 22, 2017
Festival of Colour hit The Blue Moments Project to perform in Dunedin
It’s a show that brings new meaning to the phrase “music and lyrics”. The Blue Moments Project, an evening of jazz, blue...
Posted: Friday Sep 08, 2017
Navigator by Anne Moir
NAVIGATOR, Anne’s first novel, was inspired by her experiences as a child during the post-World War Two era, when many m...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 05, 2017
September 2017 Script Call
Short Film Otago has a new funding round open for new writers and filmmakers.
It is calling for scripts/film ideas/outl...
Posted: Monday Sep 04, 2017
The third New Zealand Young Writers Festival to be held in Dunedin - UNESCO City of Literature.
Sex, dairy farming and feminism are among the unlikely bedfellows at this year’s New Zealand Young Writers Festival, fif...
Posted: Wednesday Aug 16, 2017
City author wins book awards
Port Chalmers author and illustrator David Elliot has won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the New Zealand Bo...
Posted: Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
Announcement of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award 2017
Waikato novelist Catherine Chidgey has been named as the recipient of a Janet Frame Literary Trust Award worth $5,000.
Posted: Friday Jul 21, 2017
Bird Dog Hot Dog
‘Tītī hotdog with horopito pickled onions and mānuka smoked chilli relish’.
Posted: Thursday Jul 20, 2017
Reed Gallery exhibition showcases diverse examples of bookbindings
The latest Reed Gallery exhibition at Dunedin Public Library explores the outer covers of books - their bindings.
Posted: Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Östersund, UNESCO City of Gastronomy
It is late April or early May and the thick ice from Lake Storsjön is breaking up.
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Bird Dog - Song, Drink, Food
It’s late 2016 and two 40-something males, whose formative years were filled with the heady melodies of the 1980s “Duned...
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Irish Stew
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Pálenec (Roasted Sprouted Green Peas)
from Eighty-fourers (Osmačtyřicátníci, 1924) by Jindřich Šimon Baar
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Nottingham and Mushy Peas
The recipe that captures the spirit of Nottingham people best is Mushy Peas with Mint Sauce, a recipe long associated wi...
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Chestnut Soup
Chestnuts are well known as a roasted snack at fairs and as stuffing for poultry. They are also suitable for a creamy au...
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Tītī Hotdog with Horopito Pickled Onions and Mānuka Smoked Chilli Relish
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
SAVOIR FAIRE: A BOOKING AT THE CITIES OF LITERATURE TABLE
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Strawberry Jam
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Foreword
The 2016 UNESCO Creative Cities Forum revolved around food. Naturally – the host city, Ostersund, is a City of Gastronom...
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Mushy Peas and Mint Sauce
What accounts for the enduring popularity of mushy peas and how do you cook them?
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Christmas Canapés
An excerpt from the biography Hilde Domin, Dass ich sein kann, wie ich bin, by Marion Tauschwitz.
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Roasted Sardines
Strange calluses are suddenly appearing on my hands and feet, said the young boy, seated at the table in the dark kitche...
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Extremely Thick Rice Pudding with Cinnamon Sugar
Icelandic rice pudding comes in a few different variations, all of which are served warm. Two of the most common are a t...
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
The Forgotten Rye
If there were ever a grain that reflected the character of the Slovenian countryside throughout its long history of self...
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Crankshafts Don’t Cry. Jojo’s First Case
An excerpt from the book by Hans Dölzer
Posted: Monday Jun 26, 2017
Spotlight on colonial feminist ‘fanatic’ Mary Ann Colclough 1836–1885
Polly Plum is a biography of one of New Zealand’s earliest feminists, Mary Ann Colclough, whose publicly voiced opinions...
Posted: Monday Jun 12, 2017
Dunedin author and illustrator shortlisted in prestigious awards
Dunedin author and illustrator David Elliot is a finalist in 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults ...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 07, 2017
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