News and Opportunities
“Winsome to Worldly: Lake Wanaka and its people” – Deed of Trust Anniversary
Dr Jonathan West, the Hocken Friends’ Research Award 2019 recipient, will speak about his research on the southern lakes...
Posted: Tuesday August 24, 2021
James Courage Diaries, edited by Chris Brickell
A series of journals by a trailblazing New Zealand author, locked away in the Hocken for decades after his death, has be...
Posted: Monday August 23, 2021
DUNEDIN UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE – AUTHOR POSTCARDS
Posted: Monday August 9, 2021
DUNEDIN UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE BOOK LAUNCH EVENT – MEETING RITA by JENNY POWELL
In partnership with Dunedin Public Libraries and Cold Hub Press, Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature was proud to host a w...
Posted: Monday August 9, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Jenny Powell reads from Finding Rita
Posted: Monday August 9, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Sixteen poems of land
Posted: Monday August 9, 2021
Given Words competition 2021 – Noho Mai
Posted: Monday August 9, 2021
Virtual Writer in Residence
Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature is now open for applications for our first virtual writers in residence program
Posted: Friday August 6, 2021
Entries now open for 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Posted: Friday August 6, 2021
Louise Ward of Wardini Books reviews The Memory Thief by Leonie Agnew, published by Penguin Random House NZ
Posted: Friday August 6, 2021
Applications are open for the sixth University Book Shop Otago & Robert Lord Writers' Cottage Trust Emerging Writers Residency.
Posted: Thursday August 5, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Paula Green reviews Jenny Powell’s Meeting Rita at Kete Books
Posted: Tuesday August 3, 2021
2022 Michael Gifkins Prize opens
Posted: Friday July 30, 2021
Interview with Leonie Agnew
Posted: Friday July 30, 2021
Verb Wellington 2021 Writer in Residence
Posted: Tuesday July 27, 2021
Media Art Residency in Košice – UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts
Posted: Monday July 26, 2021
2021 International Poetry Competition results
Posted: Monday July 26, 2021
Writers’ group speaks up on vandalism
The poem "Being and Pointlessness" is the latest target of vandals in the often quiet, unsealed Peninsula Beach Rd behin...
Posted: Sunday July 25, 2021
Writer’s three reasons to celebrate
For the next five weeks, Pennie Hunt will sit where New Zealand’s first professional playwright once sat, working on her...
Posted: Sunday July 25, 2021
Time and space to grow voice
This year’s Robert Burns Fellow, Becky Manawatu, has followed tradition and fallen in love with Dunedin. The writer tell...
Posted: Thursday July 22, 2021
Local Poet Claire Lacey chatted with Jeff Harford for Write Spot on OAR FM Dunedin - Community Access Media on 21 July.
Posted: Thursday July 22, 2021
Life and works of Neil Grant with text by Peter Stupples and lavishly illustrated with archival and collection images.
Posted: Tuesday July 20, 2021
‘Wuthering Heights’ flash mob serves as fundraiser
The Yorkshire moors came to Dunedin at noon on Saturday as a flash mob assembled in the Octagon for The Most Wuthering H...
Posted: Tuesday July 20, 2021
Introducing Ōtepoti Theatre Lab's Playwrights Programme writers for 2021.
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Hopes of nation on 15 men
Prolific Dunedin author Ron Palenski has again been busy. His new book, Brutal: The 100-year fight for world rugby supre...
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Twelve poems about kindness
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Create a piece of ‘concrete poetry’
If a poem creates pictures with words, shape poetry creates words in pictures.
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Carlos Biggemann's new book
Posted: Monday July 19, 2021
Martin Swann's Bent but Not Broken
Our latest commission, Martin Swann's Bent but Not Broken, is online now at the wonderful Verb Wellington platform!
Posted: Friday July 9, 2021
City’s history, horror woven in drama
It is a tale of hidden lies and twilight prowls, of secret purpose and the madness of the mind.
Posted: Thursday July 8, 2021
Poetry Shelf review: Iona Winter’s gaps in the light
Posted: Thursday July 8, 2021
Owen Marshall dives into the dark side
One of the bleakest stories by respected writer Owen Marshall, Coming Home in the Dark, is the basis for a new film of t...
Posted: Wednesday July 7, 2021
Repeat Broadcasts of special content from the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival 2021.
With Puaka Matariki Festival 2021 providing a platform for sharing stories and experiences, OAR FM is pleased to be givi...
Posted: Wednesday July 7, 2021
Iona Winter's Podcast - Gaps in the Light
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
Thomas McLean reflects on the career of sculptor Peter Nicholls in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
News from Otago University Press
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement 2021
There’s just over a week left to nominate an outstanding New Zealand writer for the 2021 Prime Minister’s Awards for Lit...
Posted: Monday July 5, 2021
Literary Tram – Ulyanovsk City of Literature
The Ulyanovsk Literary Tram is an annual event that had its beginning in 2015. This project is extremely popular globall...
Posted: Sunday July 4, 2021
Rob McDonald's second novel, The Nancy Business
Posted: Friday July 2, 2021
Poetry roundup: Eggleton work worth the wait
A roundup of the latest in works of poetry reviewed by Hamesh Wyatt.
Posted: Friday July 2, 2021
Author to discuss story of family life
The author behind what is shaping up to be the country’s most controversial book of the year is heading to Dunedin to di...
Posted: Friday July 2, 2021
6th Transported decal
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust announces residencies for 2021
Five writers have been awarded residencies for 2021, and applications are now invited for the 2022 Summer Writer in Resi...
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Official Launch of Prague in my Bones by Jindra Tichý
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature in partnership with Quentin Wilson Publishing and Dunedin Public Libraries was thrille...
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Dunedin Launch – A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature was proud to partner with Auckland University Press and Dunedin Public Libraries on th...
Posted: Thursday July 1, 2021
Podcast on NZ International Science Festival Event preview
With award-winning comedian and playwright Abby Howells and director Alex Wilson
Posted: Wednesday June 30, 2021
Matariki Winter Reading Catalogue 2021
Posted: Monday June 28, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Radical Languages event – Behrouz Boochani and Vana Manasiadis challenge monolingualism
Posted: Monday June 28, 2021
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Vaughan Rapatahana on David Eggleton at Jacket 2
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Thirteen poems about home
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
$5K Surrey-Newsroom writers residency open
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
New Zealand National Commission (UNESCO) 2021/22 contestable funding round
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Liz Breslin reads from in bed with the feminists
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Concussion Episode 7: There's A Body All Right
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
5th Transported decal
Posted: Thursday June 24, 2021
Announcing… the 2021 NFFD WINNERS
Posted: Wednesday June 23, 2021