News and Opportunities
Portrait: Brian Turner
Jillian Sullivan on her partner, the legendary Brian Turner, living with Alzheimer's in Oturehua
Posted: Monday March 7, 2022
The list of 163 books nominated for the 2022 IBBY Honour List has been released!
Posted: Monday March 7, 2022
Storylines New Zealand Writers and Illustrators' National Hui 2022.
Registrations OPEN!
Posted: Monday March 7, 2022
Kiwis love to read to their children, new report finds
Posted: Monday March 7, 2022
2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards - Finalists Announced
Judges announce 'surprisingly diverse' Ockhams Shortlist
Posted: Wednesday March 2, 2022
Ice Escape: Beatrice Hale
Beatrice Hale has relaunched her children’s book, Ice Escape, with The Kellas Cat Press, Aberdeen.
Posted: Tuesday March 1, 2022
Beatrice Hale relaunches historical adventure
Aberdeen-born author Beatrice Hale has relaunched an exciting historical adventure, The Resolute Heart, with The Kellas ...
Posted: Tuesday March 1, 2022
New contributions to Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition
Hurahia ana kā Whetū
Posted: Tuesday March 1, 2022
Otago University Press features in book award list
OUP continued its traditionally strong showing in the poetry section of the Ockham New Zealand Books Awards and will hav...
Posted: Tuesday March 1, 2022
The Winners of the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Robert Burns Poetry competitions
An opportunity to read the winning poems.
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
Landfall Review Online
Featuring Meeting Rita by Jenny Powell (Cold Hub Press, 2021)
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
Poetry Shelf celebrates:
Gregory O’Brien’s cover, Bill Manhire’s poem
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
We are delighted to announce the release of poet Alan Roddick's latest collection, 'Next'.
Writing from the eighth and ninth decades of his life, Alan examines the past, observes the present and speculates on th...
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
Introducing Nuku Collective
A collective based in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa dedicated to showcasing local creatives through an online community, aiming to f...
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
Landfall Review Online
From the Centre: A writer’s life by Patricia Grace - reviewed by Jacinta Ruru
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
Bloodways of Papatūānuku
David Young’s new book Wai Pasifika explores Indigenous views, values and practices about water across the Pacific. It c...
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
2022 Te Teuihu Short Story Awards
Open to all New Zealanders writing in English or te reo Māori
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
Vincent O'Sullivan: Frankenstein’s creature in Fiordland
"How we cope with life is finding an appropriate way to talk about it." Lovely chat with Vincent O'Sullivan about his ne...
Posted: Monday February 28, 2022
SOME GOOD NEWS FOR THE ARTS:
Major New Prize Announced for Aotearoa’s Live Performance Industry
Posted: Sunday February 27, 2022
Dunedin Public Libraries delighted to announce the recipient of the 2021 Citation ....
.... Paul S Allen
Posted: Thursday February 24, 2022
Hysterical
A two-woman, feminist poetry show which confronts the narrative that women are too emotional and celebrates the hysteria...
Posted: Thursday February 24, 2022
The Regent Book Sale is Happening!
April 1st - 10th, Advance Bookings Essential
Posted: Wednesday February 23, 2022
Dunedin Pride focusing on events
Dunedin Pride secretary Trak Gray is looking forward to celebrating the rainbow community during March.
Posted: Wednesday February 23, 2022
Diana Noonan wins Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal 2022
Writer Diana Noonan, author of more than 100 titles for children and young adults, is the 2022 winner of the Storylines ...
Posted: Wednesday February 23, 2022
Kathryn van Beek's Honey Babe 🍊🍒
Featured in Overland Literary Journal
Posted: Tuesday February 22, 2022
OPEN CALL FOR THE INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS!
Kraków UNESCO City of Literature announces the 2022 call for applications for the International Residency Program for wr...
Posted: Tuesday February 22, 2022
EK Books shortlisted for the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2022 Prize Best Children's Publishers of the Year
Smashing! 🤸♀️🤸🤸♂️
Posted: Tuesday February 22, 2022
The Secret History of Flight149
Number one on the Apple true crime podcast chart...
Posted: Tuesday February 22, 2022
Veteran poet Alan Roddick looks back - and forward
The past, present and even speculation about the future all find a place in the latest poetry collection Next by Ōtepoti...
Posted: Sunday February 20, 2022
Two additions for Dunedin Writers' Walk
Two Dunedin writers have been added to the Dunedin Writers’ Walk.
Posted: Sunday February 20, 2022
Two new names on Dunedin's Writers' Walk
Lynn Freeman speaks to Roger Hickin who is Peter Olds' long-time friend and publisher, and to Ted Middleton's widow, poe...
Posted: Monday February 14, 2022
Happy Library Lovers' Day!
Library Lovers' Day is observed on the 14th of February to honour libraries, librarians and book lovers.
Posted: Sunday February 13, 2022
NZSA Youth Mentorship Programme 2022 Seeks Emerging Young Writers
Four secondary school students will each have the opportunity to be mentored by one of New Zealand’s best professional a...
Posted: Thursday February 10, 2022
Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Project Fund
The arts project fund supports New Zealand professional arts companies, events and organisations to deliver projects tha...
Posted: Thursday February 10, 2022
Stories of silence, anxiety, retreat
Paddy Richardson reviews Emma Neale’s The Pink Jumpsuit, an extraordinary short story collection, longlisted for the Ock...
Posted: Wednesday February 9, 2022
ATTENTION ALL ART LOVERS
There is just over a month until the world’s southernmost Fringe Festival kicks off!
Posted: Tuesday February 8, 2022
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Images capture the joy and magic of this sold out production
Posted: Tuesday February 8, 2022
Jessie Neilson reviews THE FROG PRINCE by James Norcliffe
'The cover of James Norcliffe's latest work is extravagantly ebullient, a bunch of bright pink waterlilies parading thei...
Posted: Tuesday February 8, 2022
Hidden depth of taonga in still life
Ti kouka blooms tell a story, but sometimes there’s more to see
Posted: Sunday February 6, 2022
The Secret History of Flight149
Podcast contains new revelations about the appalling treatment of the Gulf War human shields and the secret mission that...
Posted: Thursday February 3, 2022
Congratulations to Swapna Haddow ....
University of Otago College of Education's 2022 Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence
Posted: Wednesday February 2, 2022
2022 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner
Congratulations Diana Noonan
Posted: Wednesday February 2, 2022
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID: A Chronicle of a Pandemic
Featuring Kerry Lane's poem ‘Uisge’, winner of the recent City of Literature Dunedin, New Zealand Robert Burns Poetry Pr...
Posted: Wednesday February 2, 2022
A Midsummer Night's Dream 3-13 February
Heading to the show this week but not familiar with the plot? Here’s a handy one-page guide:
Posted: Tuesday February 1, 2022
Dunedin Public Art Gallery longlisted in the Ockham Book Awards ...
... for their publication accompanying their nationally touring exhibition Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined in the context...
Posted: Monday January 31, 2022
BOUND nominated for Barry Award
🤩Congratulations🤩 to our Dunedin crime queen Vanda Symon
Posted: Monday January 31, 2022
A return to the scene of the crime
Liam McIlvanney returns to the grimly seedy side of Glasgow for his new crime thriller
Posted: Monday January 31, 2022
Submissions Now Open for New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Awards
The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is calling for entries for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adu...
Posted: Thursday January 27, 2022
The 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlisted books are announced
Congratulations to the longlistees
Posted: Wednesday January 26, 2022