News and Opportunities
Call for submissions for the 2023 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award
The award is open to previously unpublished illustrators. This years story has been provided by Heather Haylock.
Posted: Thursday April 7, 2022
Bucheon City of Literature has opened a call for their 2022 Residency Program
7-week stay for 2 writers and artists in October
Posted: Thursday April 7, 2022
Ōtepoti Theatre Lab Public Programme
Introducing a new collaboration with Toitū Otago Settlers Museum
Posted: Thursday April 7, 2022
Calling Speakers, Workshops and Educators to submit your EOI's to be part of Matariki Festival 2022
Applications close April 14
Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2022
A message from Lviv City of Literature, a city of unbreakable poetry
Thank you to our friends Богдана Брилинська and Pavlo Koriaga from Lviv City of Literature for sharing this message abou...
Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2022
Alan Roddick has published NEXT, his third collection of poems in 50 years, with Otago University Press
Listen to him here on the OAR FM Morning Show
Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2022
Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award 2022 Winner is ...
Samantha Montgomerie
Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2022
Landfall Review Online
The Outrageous and the Everyday: Kerry Lane reviews The Pink Jumpsuit: Short fictions, tall truths by Emma Neale (Quenti...
Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2022
New Zealand women in World War II: Author puts out call for letters, diaries
Posted: Monday April 4, 2022
How cool is this!
Posted: Monday April 4, 2022
I Know a Published Author
The New Zealand Women's Weekly ran a short story competition which Christine Athenaeum from Dunedin Athenaeum & Mechanic...
Posted: Sunday April 3, 2022
Exhibition - The Four Seasons (Spring)
Posted: Sunday April 3, 2022
Te Papa Tupu 2022 – applications open!
Posted: Thursday March 31, 2022
2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Samplers
Posted: Wednesday March 30, 2022
5,000 words, $10,000
Entries open for NZ’s richest short story competition
Posted: Wednesday March 30, 2022
Listen to Swapna Haddow on the OARSome Breakfast Show
Posted: Wednesday March 30, 2022
Dunedin Fringe Festival Beyond Words Award sponsored by the City of Literature
.... and the winner is ....
Posted: Tuesday March 29, 2022
Entries are now open for the Secret Lives Short Story Competition.
Posted: Tuesday March 29, 2022
Win for Dunedin playwright
Dunedin playwright Emily Duncan has won the McNaughton South Island Play Award at the Adam Foundation New Zealand Play A...
Posted: Tuesday March 29, 2022
My Grandfather is a Canoe wins prestigious Dunedin Fringe Festival’s Touring Award to perform at Auckland Fringe
Posted: Tuesday March 29, 2022
Poet well versed in taking it to street
Do you wish you were quick, concise and confident in your speaking? It can be hard enough stringing together a sentence,...
Posted: Sunday March 27, 2022
Mātātuhi Foundation's Biannual Seed Funding round is NOW OPEN
Do you know some new and imaginative ways to increase the reach and engagement of NZ writers with NZ readers? The Mātātu...
Posted: Sunday March 27, 2022
Centuries of Ngai Tahu history in 50 stories
Posted: Sunday March 27, 2022
Adam NZ Play Awards announced
Congratulations to all the wonderful winners in the Adam NZ Play Awards, including our own Emily Duncan who again won th...
Posted: Sunday March 27, 2022
Contributions sought for centenary limited-edition hand-printed publication
Posted: Sunday March 27, 2022
New Zealand writers under 25
Starling are seeking submissions for the 14th issue of Starling
Posted: Thursday March 24, 2022
The subversive compassion of Vincent O’Sullivan
Emma Neale, something of a literary polymath herself, reviews Vincent O’Sullivan’s new short story collection Mary’s Boy...
Posted: Thursday March 24, 2022
Reading group aims to help
Book lovers living with dementia will be supported to enjoy their reading with the launch of dementia-friendly reading g...
Posted: Wednesday March 23, 2022
Puaka Matariki Festival
Event Registration and Contestable Funding Application forms are live!
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Books galore filling the store
Books are piling so high in storage for the Regent Book Sale organisers reckon it is starting to look like the New York ...
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Grant Funding available to become a Library and Information Professional
A grant of up to $10,000 may be available to help you get your qualification.
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Arts Project Fund Round One Now Open
The arts project fund supports New Zealand professional arts companies, events and organisations to deliver projects tha...
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Call for submissions for new Māori story anthology, including both established and emerging writers
Deadline Monday 2 May 5.00pm
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Exciting news for Dunedin book lovers!
Alzheimers Otago and Dunedin Public Libraries are starting Dementia Friendly Reading Groups.
Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2022
Nature festival focusing on sea
Posted: Monday March 21, 2022
Book of the Week: Crime is endless, time is short
Britain's best crime novelist who lives in Dunedin
Posted: Thursday March 17, 2022
Dunedin Youth Writers’ Group
Hear all about the Dunedin Youth Writers’ Group in this excellent conversation between Jeff Harford and Shima Jack on OA...
Posted: Thursday March 17, 2022
A year of poetry and a patchwork of poetic languages
red blossoms flower as seasons unfold, children inhale the warm fragrance forgetting there ever was a blood-longing gibb...
Posted: Thursday March 17, 2022
Action time here for Fringe Festival
Dunedin artists are in the final phases of assembling their shows as the Dunedin Fringe Festival starts today.
Posted: Wednesday March 16, 2022
Dunedin brothers helping refugees
Brothers from Dunedin have opened their homes in Bulgaria to Ukrainian refugees and they are eager to do more to help.
Posted: Wednesday March 16, 2022
Library hosting Pride Mixer
Posted: Wednesday March 16, 2022
Huge congratulations to Emily Duncan, and all the other talented writers, for making the Adam NZ Play Award shortlist!
We are thrilled to celebrate the shortlisted plays and playwrights for the 2022 Adam NZ Play Award.
Posted: Wednesday March 16, 2022
Robert Lord Residency: Where the unexpected happened
Posted: Monday March 14, 2022
Creative NZ Funding Opportunities Open
Posted: Sunday March 13, 2022
NZSA Mentorships 2022 announced from record field of entries
Posted: Sunday March 13, 2022
6 days and counting...
17-27 March the Dunedin Fringe Festival is taking over Ōtepoti Dunedin and your screens.
Posted: Friday March 11, 2022
Resilience - a lockdown theatre response (the film)
The Production of the Year (Dunedin Theatre Awards 2021) by Wow Productions is now a film!
Posted: Friday March 11, 2022
In search of stories from New Zealand’s ‘Silent Army’ during World War II
The silent sacrifice of New Zealand women during World War II and their service in New Zealand and overseas is often ove...
Posted: Thursday March 10, 2022
Kyiv Classic Orchestra performs concert on Maidan Square
Posted: Wednesday March 9, 2022
PANZ launches Educational Publisher Hub
Posted: Monday March 7, 2022
Nominations for the 2022 Sir Julius Vogel awards Open
Sir Julius Vogel Award nominations for the 2021 calendar year are now open. The nomination period will close at 11:59pm ...
Posted: Monday March 7, 2022