News and Opportunities
Poetry Shelf favourite poems: Kay McKenzie Cooke’s ‘Blue Person’
Favourite Poems is an ongoing series where a poet chooses a favourite poem from their own backlist and writes a short no...
Posted: Thursday June 1, 2023
Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa: Samoan Picture Books
It’s Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa / Samoan Language Week!
Posted: Thursday June 1, 2023
Creative Writing for Games and Interactive Media
At the University of Otago - on campus and distance!
Posted: Thursday June 1, 2023
Celebrate Samoa Language Week 2023: Sunday 28 May - Saturday 3 June
The theme for Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Samoa Language Week 2023 is ‘Mitamita i lau gagana, maua’a lou fa’asinomaga’ wh...
Posted: Monday May 29, 2023
2023 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition
Entries open 1 June
Posted: Monday May 29, 2023
The 2023 Dunedin Puaka Matariki Festival event registration and contestable funding round is open
Applications close 5pm Wednesday 31 May 2023
Posted: Monday May 29, 2023
Beautiful mystery behind donated photo at Port Chalmers' Pea Sea Art Gallery
It's a beautiful mystery
Posted: Monday May 29, 2023
Inaugural recipient of the Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency announced
Warmest congratulations to Melbourne City of Literature’s award-winning writer and essayist Shu-Ling Chua 蔡淑羚
Posted: Friday May 26, 2023
Books in world languages
Books in world languages help reinforce a sense of identity. Having them for students to enjoy, allows you to build a cu...
Posted: Thursday May 25, 2023
Calling student poets from Aotearoa!
a fine line is searching for their next Featured Student Poet for their winter edition.
Posted: Thursday May 25, 2023
Legend signs Parkins' 'inspiring' novel about gaslighting in the 19th century
Legend Press has signed a "moving and powerful historical novel" An Idle Woman by Wendy Parkins, based on true events.
Posted: Wednesday May 24, 2023
Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
Poet Louise Wallace talks about her new collection - This is a story about your mother
Posted: Wednesday May 24, 2023
2023 Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition Winner
Xiaole Zhan
Posted: Wednesday May 24, 2023
The Elsie Locke Writing Prize 2023
Submissions for this year's Writing Prize are now open!
Posted: Wednesday May 24, 2023
Birth, death and love poems: A conversation between Louise Wallace and Jane Arthur
Poets Louise Wallace and Jane Arthur talk their new collections, writing about motherhood, birth, death, love poems… and...
Posted: Monday May 22, 2023
Review: This is a story about your mother
"Great tenderness pervades many of the poems, underlying the sharp questioning of society’s undervaluing of women’s labo...
Posted: Monday May 22, 2023
Save the dates: 13-15th Oct 2023
Star studded Opera premiere opens the flow of exciting events...
Posted: Monday May 22, 2023
Review: A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world
"So much fine thinking and beautiful writing curated expertly by the master editors," Tania Roxborogh reviews A Kind of ...
Posted: Monday May 22, 2023
Storylines invites submissions to the Storylines Notable Book Awards
Entries close at 5pm on 31 August 2023 for the 2023 awards.
Posted: Monday May 22, 2023
Live English interpretations provided for the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2023
This Festival had something for everyone in its 8th year!
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Book review: The Deck by Fiona Farrell
Lynn Freeman reviews The Deck by Fiona Farrell
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Marketing & Communications Manager
Job Opportunity - New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Production Manager
Job Opportunity - New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Young Writer in Residence at Robert Lord Writers Cottage
Opportunity - New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Guest Curator
Job Opportunity - New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Pieces Spaces Species public programming
This May Blue Oyster have an exciting programme of events for the exhibition Pieces Spaces Species.
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Applications for the 2023 CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants are now open
Four grants ($5,000 each) are available for Aotearoa New Zealand writers to conduct research for a fiction or non-fictio...
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Huge congratulations to the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards winners
Read all about it here:
Posted: Thursday May 18, 2023
Poetry Shelf readings: Louise Wallace
Listen here to two poems from Louise Wallace’s collection, This Is A Story About Your Mother, published by Te Herenga Wa...
Posted: Monday May 15, 2023
Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Project Fund
Applications close Monday 29 May
Posted: Monday May 15, 2023
Kia Mau 2023 Programme featuring The World's First Lovers
nā Jessica Latton
Posted: Monday May 15, 2023
Writing back in author’s sights after pain study
Dunedin author Dr Lynley Hood is "charging ahead" with research for books she plans to write, after taking part in a chr...
Posted: Sunday May 14, 2023
Memoir takes a look at pre-TV Dunedin
Author and heritage advocate Lois Galer reminisces about "pre-TV era" Dunedin in A Memoir ... But I Digress.
Posted: Friday May 12, 2023
Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru Taha - Michelle Elvy has co-edited with Witi Ihimaera an anthology of new writing for a chan...
Posted: Thursday May 11, 2023
Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwright Programme Writers
Supporting writers to dream and grow is exactly what this programme is about.
Posted: Thursday May 11, 2023
Announcing the theme for the Open Junior category – 2023 NZPS International Poetry Competition
MYTHOLOGY
Posted: Monday May 8, 2023
AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU - 2023 manuscript competition
Submit your manuscript for this new prize!
Posted: Monday May 8, 2023
Special Events at Dunedin City Library
Check out these special events for this week.
Posted: Monday May 8, 2023
Contract Opportunity
Guest Curator, New Zealand Young Writers Festival 2023
Posted: Sunday May 7, 2023
Announcing the Aotearoa Children’s Junior Fiction and Young Adult Bestseller List
Sponsored by Storylines
Posted: Thursday May 4, 2023
Calling all Young Poets!
Entries are open to the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2023
Posted: Thursday May 4, 2023
Arasan FM Community Radio
Coming to you for the first time on Otago Access Radio 105.4 FM
Posted: Thursday May 4, 2023
Poetry Shelf review: Barbara Else’s Laughing at the Dark
Posted: Wednesday May 3, 2023
Entries for the 2023 PANZ Book Design Awards are now open
The PANZ Book Design Awards were established to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design...
Posted: Wednesday May 3, 2023
Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme 2023
Accepting Submissions Now!
Posted: Monday May 1, 2023
Rāwaho - The Completed Poems by David Howard
Croatian publisher has plans for a translated selection of poems - watch video here
Posted: Monday May 1, 2023
Landfall Essay Competition 2023
Entries for the 2023 Landfall Essay Competition are open!
Posted: Sunday April 30, 2023
Book Review - Aftermaths: Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
An essay collection that confronts the violence of the colonial past, and the perils of forgetting.
Posted: Sunday April 30, 2023
The Great Kiwi Poster Competition
Calling on New Zealand Residents (Age 5 - 105)
Posted: Thursday April 27, 2023
Kete Books
Book Reviews - The Deck; Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019 - 2022 and Laughing at the Dark: A memoir
Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023
Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Applications are open now and close 18 June 2023
Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023
Job Opportunity: Contract Event Coordinator
Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023
#DrawWithDenmark – Green Together 2023
Do you want to be part of a global green drawing campaign 2023?
Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023
The Whale Rider - an exploration of New Zealand through Witi Ihimaera’s Novel
Hybrid lecture series
Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023
2023 Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Playwrights Programme
Sending in your submissions from Mon 1 May
Posted: Wednesday April 26, 2023