News and Opportunities
Publisher continues award streak
Otago University Press publisher Sue Wootton is celebrating three titles making the Ockham award longlists
Posted: Wednesday January 26, 2022
Try out the NZSA Writer Toolkit!
First course - Storybuilding: Strategies and exercises to build solid foundations with Mandy Hager - is FREE to all NZSA...
Posted: Wednesday January 26, 2022
Hey Otago, got a research idea you want help getting off the ground?
2022 Science Into Action funding round is now open
Posted: Tuesday January 25, 2022
Young poets on fire with Burns’ themes
Poems about feelings of longing and celebrating belonging were recited yesterday at the 19th annual prizegiving ceremony...
Posted: Tuesday January 25, 2022
2022 Samesame but Different Festival going online!
It’s easier to attend Same Same than ever before - they're going full online so all you need is a screen and an internet...
Posted: Tuesday January 25, 2022
Otago University Press publisher Sue Wootton had a surprise parcel arrive on her doorstep recently...
... the Bulgarian edition of her novel 'Strip'
Posted: Monday January 24, 2022
Books for Topics - Books of the Year
My Dad is a Grizzly Bear - BEST Classroom Read-Aloud
Posted: Monday January 24, 2022
New RNZ National show to focus on Māori talent and stories
Acclaimed broadcaster Julian Wilcox (Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa) is to host a new RNZ National programme featuring Māori from acr...
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
New Zealand Society of Authors StartWrite Writing Sample and Synopsis Assessment Service
Open for submissions!
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
The NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival adds another exciting element to their repertoire - the Mountain Book competition!
The NZ Mountain Book of the Year, founded and supported by Dave Bamford and John Nankervis offers a $1000 prize
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
Mayhem Literary Journal
This year's Mayhem Literary Journal includes work by Eliana Gray, Victor Billot, Michael Steven, Sophia Wilson, and Dunc...
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
the other side of better
Academy of New Zealand Literature Book Review
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
ReadShareGrow Book Trail
Pick up your copy of the ReadShareGrow Book Trail from the Lilliput Library at 15a Marlow Street
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
In Memory of Keri Hulme
An appreciation of Keri Hulme by Kelly Ana Morey
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
Caledonian Noir with Liam McIlvaney
Listen to Caledonian Noir with Liam McIlvaney from RNZ's The Weekend with Emile Donovan
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2022
OPEN CALL FOR THE 2022 GRÖNDAL'S HOUSE UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE RESIDENCY
Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature offers a free one month residency for a writer from another UNESCO City of Literatur...
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022
Whitireia Graduate Diploma in Publishing (Applied)
Enrolments are now open - Start Date 28 February 2022
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022
University Book Shop Otago seeking a Marketing & Administration Assistant
This exciting and newly created opportunity supports the marketing and administrative team while the University Book Sho...
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022
Volunteers sought for the Dunedin Fringe Festival
Pre-festival: 9th February - 16th March | Festival: 17th March - 27th March | Post-festival: 28th March - 3th April
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022
New Scotland: Poetry Prize-giving 2022
25 January 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, Dunedin City Library
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022
Timatanga Hōu | New Beginnings Drama NZ National Conference 2022
CALL FOR PRESENTERS
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022
Neil Grant: Master Potter
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature was proud to partner with Otago Polytechnic’s Dunedin School of Art for the launch of Neil Grant: Master Potter by Peter Stupples, held on 20 October 2021.
Posted: Sunday January 16, 2022
In case of emergency:
The special bond between a search and rescue handler and their dog
Posted: Friday January 14, 2022
Samesame but Different festival
A celebration of Aotearoa New Zealand’s LGBTQI+ writing talent 16 – 20 February 2022
Posted: Friday January 14, 2022
Book Reviews:
The other side of better and Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories
Posted: Friday January 14, 2022
New calendar looking kinda empty?
Book in some good times for 2022 with Dunedin Fringe Festival 17-27 March 2022.
Posted: Friday January 14, 2022
Eager for a new role this year?!
University Book Shop Otago are looking for a Book Receiver to join our inventory team
Posted: Friday January 14, 2022
A day with Renée – celebrated playwright and feminist
Feminist playwright and poet Renée speaks about ageing, queerness and writing.
Posted: Friday January 14, 2022
Get writing young writers!
Entries are now open for the 2022 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition
Posted: Wednesday January 12, 2022
Beques Montserrat Roig, a grant program for writers!
Barcelona is launching again its grants program for writers
Posted: Monday January 10, 2022
Tūhura, New Zealand’s biggest science centre!
Did you know that Otago Museum’s Tūhura Science Centre is the only bicultural science centre in the world and tells the ...
Posted: Monday January 10, 2022
DOWN IN EDIN ISSUE 24 - ONLINE NOW!
Arts, Culture and the Natural World in Dunedin and Otago, the South Island, New Zealand
Posted: Monday January 10, 2022
Jacinta Ruru: Top legal scholar hopeful of more inclusion for Māori
Aotearoa's first Māori professor of law who is regarded as one of the country's leading Māori legal scholars wants to se...
Posted: Thursday December 30, 2021
Twisty Plots Young Writers Workshops with Ella West
Dunedin City Library 8 February - 13 December 2022
Posted: Wednesday December 22, 2021
Write Spot Oarsome Morning Show
Poet Sandie Forsyth chatted with OAR FM’s Jeff Harford on Write Spot on Wednesday – what a wonderful conversation, thank...
Posted: Wednesday December 22, 2021
Annie Villiers in Utrecht City of Literature's wonderful international chain poem
Read the wonderful post below and listen to Annie reading her lines
Posted: Tuesday December 21, 2021
Māori and Pacific Publishing scholarship set to open doors for a second year
Applications are now open for the 2022 Māori and Pacific Publishing scholarship from Whitireia Community Polytechnic Ltd...
Posted: Tuesday December 21, 2021
Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2022
Blue Oyster is pleased to announce Madison Kelly as Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2022
Posted: Sunday December 19, 2021
And the winner is...
Congratulations to the winners of the National Poetry Day 2021 Shape Poetry competition
Posted: Wednesday December 15, 2021
📢 Calling all artists! 📢
Asia New Zealand Foundation are excited to share that their IN TOUCH Arts Commissions are back for 2022! 📺
Posted: Wednesday December 15, 2021
Academy of New Zealand Literature Book Review
The Pink Jumpsuit by Emma Neale
Posted: Wednesday December 15, 2021
Neil Grant: Master Potter
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature was proud to partner with Otago Polytechnic’s Dunedin School of Art for the launch of ...
Posted: Wednesday December 15, 2021
Kissing a Ghost anthology available now
The New Zealand Poetry Society is exceedingly pleased to announce the launch of their 2021 Anthology
Posted: Wednesday December 15, 2021
I See Mycelium / I Hear the Sound of Breaking Glass
Georgette Brown
Posted: Tuesday December 14, 2021
CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY!
This Booksmas OUP have two summer reading prize packs to give away.
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
This week's bus stop decal
280 Andersons Bay Road, outside Mitsubishi dealer
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
Above the Treeline - a guide to the plants and animals of alpine New Zealand
Challenges facing alpine NZ - Sir Alan Mark
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
New sponsor announced for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults ....
.... are excited to reveal their fantastic line up of judges for the 2022 awards!
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
'A Definitely Different Summer'
New young adult novel based on Kiwi maritime tragedy
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
CALLING NEW ZEALAND FICTION WRITERS!
Are you the next big thing in fiction writing? Have you got a burning idea for a bestselling novel? Could you be the nex...
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
OARsome Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature
Check out the latest Podcast with Poet Sudha Rao - the current resident in the Robert Lord Writers' Cottage
Posted: Monday December 13, 2021
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Toitoi office!
Check out the Toitoi website for some awesome gift ideas for your young writers and artists
Posted: Wednesday December 8, 2021
🌟 Christmas Freebie 🌟
These would look gorgeous with some glitter too...get creative!
Posted: Tuesday December 7, 2021
Announcing the winner of the 2021 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize judged by John Allison:
Claire Beynon
Posted: Tuesday December 7, 2021
Congratulations to author Diana Morrow who has been awarded a Whiria Te Mahara New Zealand History Grant for her upcoming biography on Ruth Dallas.
Diana is the author of 'Kate Edger: The life of a pioneering feminist', which was published earlier this year. We look f...
Posted: Tuesday December 7, 2021