News and Opportunities
IT'S TIME TO REGISTER FOR PHANTOM BILLSTICKERS NATIONAL POETRY DAY 2024!
Mark your calendars! The date for this year’s nationwide celebration of poetry is scheduled for Friday 23 August. Regist...
Posted: Tuesday April 2, 2024
Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho, New Zealand Oral History Grants
Next Funding Round closes 15 April 2024
Posted: Tuesday April 2, 2024
2024 Dunedin Fringe Festival winners announced
Congratulations to all the 2024 Dunedin Fringe Festival winners especially The Trapeze Artists, Opera Otago, winner of t...
Posted: Tuesday April 2, 2024
New Youth Zone Show on Oar FM
Cutting Room Floor is a podcast where nothing is off-topic or too niche.
Posted: Wednesday March 27, 2024
2025 Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival Dates Announced!
Book lovers and literary fans, mark your calendars - the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival will be back for 2025, run...
Posted: Wednesday March 27, 2024
Final call for A&U NZ Fiction Prize submissions!
Submissions close this Sunday 31st March
Posted: Wednesday March 27, 2024
Liz Breslin attends NeMLA 55th Annual Convention in Boston
"It’s alllllll about community"
Posted: Tuesday March 26, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Listen to this special kōrero on ‘Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature' between Jeff Harford and Iona Winte...
Posted: Tuesday March 26, 2024
New tool to help creatives with copyright
Staggering stats on how little NZ creatives know about their rights when it comes to their mahi has prompted a new onlin...
Posted: Sunday March 24, 2024
Creative NZ Early Career Fund - Toi Tipu Toi Rea
Funding to support artists, practitioners, and collaboratives at the early stage of their career who wish to learn, crea...
Posted: Thursday March 21, 2024
Thousands expected to attend Pacific festival
A Dunedin festival which brings the Pacific "to people's backyards" is expected to continue its rapid growth and attract...
Posted: Thursday March 21, 2024
An incident in Millers Flat
Kyle Mewburn tells the story behind the house she bought after conducting the land transfer in Gore
Posted: Thursday March 21, 2024
World Poetry Day, 21 March 2024
To mark World Poetry Day, 21 March 2024, we are proud to be collaborating with City of Literature South D Poet Lorikeet,...
Posted: Wednesday March 20, 2024
Women play men in caricature of toxic masculinity
Five Dunedin women are tackling toxic masculinity by stepping into the shoes of white men.
Posted: Wednesday March 20, 2024
10 Questions with the editors of Katūīvei
Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
Posted: Wednesday March 20, 2024
Wild Dunedin NZ Festival of Nature 19-28 April 2024
Programme out now!
Posted: Monday March 18, 2024
Making It Up (One Playwright to Another)
On at the Dunedin Fringe Festival until Sunday 24 March
Posted: Monday March 18, 2024
Nonfiction Fundamentals Online
Join Paula Morris for a short course exploring the craft essentials of memoir, travel writing, personal essays and other...
Posted: Monday March 18, 2024
Far away city, but also close to home
Far away they may be but Dunedin and Edinburgh share a special bond, Sarah Boyack writes.
Posted: Sunday March 17, 2024
Book Launch Invitation
You are invited to the book launch of In the shape of his hand lay a river, Iona Winter
Posted: Sunday March 17, 2024
2024 Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency
Writers from Aotearoa are warmly invited to apply for this year's Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Wri...
Posted: Saturday March 2, 2024
Submissions for the Elsie Locke Writing Prize 2024 are now open!
The Writing Prize is offered by the Elsie Locke Memorial Trust. It provides a wonderful opportunity for young writers ag...
Posted: Friday March 1, 2024
Otago English PhD candidate to develop her digital skills through trans-Tasman opportunity
Congratulations to Otago English PhD candidate Mere Taito and the other recently announced participants in the Creative ...
Posted: Thursday February 29, 2024
NZSA Kaituhi Māori Mentorship Programme
Applications close 20 March 2024
Posted: Thursday February 29, 2024
Iona Winter heading to Newcastle Writers Festival in April
On Remembering, on forgetting: A Poetry Performance
Posted: Thursday February 29, 2024
A History of Kindness
Rescue yourself while you still can by Kirstie McKinnon
Posted: Wednesday February 28, 2024
Moana Nui Festival
Just 4 weeks away until the Moana Nui Festival lights up our shores with vibrant diverse cultures, delicious cuisine, an...
Posted: Tuesday February 27, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Don’t miss this update from Caselberg Trust chair Janet Downs in conversation with Jeff Harford, announcing the opening ...
Posted: Tuesday February 27, 2024
Call for contributions to a book of written and visual creative work by young people from refugee backgrounds
What would you like young people in NZ to know (about you)?
Posted: Monday February 26, 2024
2024 Robert Burns Fellow, Mikaela Nyman's poetry collection nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize
Congratulations to 2024 Robert Burns Fellow, Mikaela Nyman whose poetry collection is nominated for the Nordic Council L...
Posted: Monday February 26, 2024
Quiet afternoons at Tūhura Otago Museum
In support of the neurodiverse community, Tūhura Otago Museum provide a space for visitors who prefer a low-sensory envi...
Posted: Monday February 26, 2024
The 2024 NFFD competition is open!
Send your best 300 words - Submissions open through 30 April
Posted: Sunday February 25, 2024
Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a much-loved book
Nominate now! Nominations close 29 Feb 2024
Posted: Sunday February 25, 2024
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust announces residencies for 2024
Six writers have been awarded 2024 residencies at the historic cottage in Ōtepoti Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature, and...
Posted: Thursday February 22, 2024
Poltavshchyna from above
Lviv and Odesa Cities of Literature in Ukraine are renowned for their rich literary and publishing history, and our dear...
Posted: Thursday February 22, 2024
David Howard reading at the New Zealand High Commission in London, Thurs 18 April
David will be reading from 'Mate' and tell of the early Dalmatian immigrants to New Zealand with Māori links which inspi...
Posted: Thursday February 22, 2024
Kura Reo courses sell out in minutes as demand grows
Popularity a sign that te reo is on the rise
Posted: Thursday February 22, 2024
NZ Booklovers Awards 2024 Shortlist announced
Check them all out here
Posted: Monday February 19, 2024
Kōanga Festival Playwrights Programme 2024
Submissions close 25 February 2024
Posted: Monday February 19, 2024
10-Minute Play Competition 2024
Submit one or two 10-Minute Plays to the Playwrights Association of New Zealand 10-Minute Play Competition 2024 to be in...
Posted: Monday February 19, 2024
Ngā Kōrero Tuku Iho, New Zealand Oral History Grants
Ministry for Culture and Heritage provide financial help for oral history projects that relate to the history of Aotearo...
Posted: Sunday February 18, 2024
City’s theatre scene celebrated
Huge congratulations to all the winners of the 12th Dunedin Theatre Awards
Posted: Thursday February 15, 2024
Today on Write Spot
Writer, editor and educator Michelle Elvy brings us up to date with New Zealand Society of Authors projects, and her own...
Posted: Thursday February 15, 2024
‘My salamander’ by Emma Neale translated for new anthology
Posted: Thursday February 15, 2024
Stories from the Cities
Recent Dunedin titles featured at Jakarta Content Week 2023
Posted: Thursday February 15, 2024
Plaque unveiled for Gaelic bard
Otago Scottish Heritage Council, Dunedin Public Libraries and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature were thrilled to celebra...
Posted: Thursday February 15, 2024
Ōtepoti writers make the world a better place
#17Booksfor17SDGs Campaign
Posted: Thursday February 15, 2024
Have you heard the locally produced podcast 86b?
It's well worth a listen!
Posted: Thursday February 15, 2024
Taranaki author wins international award for poetry
Wonderful recognition for the 2024 University of Otago Robert Burns Fellow, Mikaela Nyman. Congratulations Mikaela.
Posted: Wednesday February 14, 2024
How to be well read in a year of dragons
Poet Laureate Chris Tse has curated a reading list of East and South East Asian writers from Aotearoa for the Lunar New ...
Posted: Tuesday February 13, 2024
Call for Applications
Translating Ukraine Summer Institute Wroclaw, Poland 3-15 June 2024
Posted: Monday February 12, 2024
Short story: Broderick and Riley, by Owen Marshall
Two lifetimes of two Kiwi men, told in 1609 words
Posted: Monday February 12, 2024
Valentine’s and Alzheimer’s
“I used to picture that he would marry me”: A love letter to Brian Turner
Posted: Monday February 12, 2024
Calling all enthusiastic creators, passionate artisans, and dynamic community groups
Join the South Dunedin Street Festival 2024: A Celebration of Local Talent and Community Spirit!
Posted: Monday February 12, 2024