What's On

The Write Time

Develop your skills, workshop your stories, and grow your network with published author Ella West! Each session focuses on a different part of writing: finding story, character, setting, and audience.

This session: FIND YOUR STORY

Every author knows this struggle all too well – where to start? This session will focus on finding your story, crafting your ideas, and fleshing them out.

Tuesday 4 March, 4pm
Suitable for students Years 7-13.
Teen Space, 2nd Floor, City Library

RSVP essential: www.tinyurl.com/DPLFindYourStory

Poetry from Out of the Rubble

Join poets Alison Phipps and Tawona Ganyamatopé Sitholé from Glasgow in conversation with Neil Vallelly.

Alison and Tawona will perform work from their first collection The Warriors who do not Fight and their upcoming collection In this Warriors Cry (Wild Goose Publications). Alison will also share from her bestselling collection Keep Telling of Gaza (Sìdhe Press), written with Khawla Badwan.

Please join us afterwards for tea/coffee and cake.

‘Expect an evening of emotion, plenty of laughter and nourishing, resistant, joy in life.’

Friday 7 March, 6pm
Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, City Library

Fringe Festival: Rare Public Appearance of Miss Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer, international bestselling writer of romantic historical fiction, firmly refused interviews and public appearances during her lifetime, so Dunedin Library is thrilled and honoured to mark the 50th anniversary of Heyer’s death with this unique celebration: the actual appearance of the beloved author!

Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, City Library

Friday 14 March, 6pm
Saturday 15 March, 12pm
Sunday 16 March, 2pm

Continued Sense of Wonder: Treasured Treasuries

Annuals, anthologies, collections, and treasuries.
Share a favourite or a new discovery, for this adult conversation about children’s books.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL: 03 474 3690 or library@dcc.govt.nz
For more information: jackie.mcmillan@dcc.govt.nz
Wednesday 19 March, 7pm
Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, City Library

Visions for Dunedin: Our Heritage, Our Future
Dunedin’s Early Exhibitions in a City of Gold

Speaker: Brian Miller (geologist, author, publisher, and photographer)

2025 is the centenary year of the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition. Brian explains how the wealth earned from the gold rush led to four exhibitions (some largely forgotten), which attracted artists from around the world - creating a strong commercial and arts culture in the city.

Wednesday 26 March, 5.30pm

Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, City Library

Mystery in the Library: Deadly in Dunedin

Award-winning YA author Ella West will chair Ngaio Marsh Awards winning novelists Jacqueline Bublitz and Liam McIlvanney, and 'New Zealand's modern-day Queen of Crime' Vanda Symon in a thrilling discussion about the art and craft of storytelling, creating memorable characters, the importance of setting, and what drew each of them to crime and mystery writing.
RSVP essential: www.tinyurl.com/DeadlyinDunedin25
Thursday, 27 March, 6pm
Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, City Library