Joy for your eyes and ears this issue! We're looking forward to libraries full of music as well as the brilliant Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival. Plus new books, poetry and children telling tales.
Music, music, music! We celebrate New Zealand Music Month in May, alongside Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival and Tech Week, while June brings us the National Flash Fiction Awards. We've still managed to squeeze in some authors though - a speculative writers special, a Book Day Triptych and a Storytime Train!
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As Aotearoa’s only UNESCO City of Literature, Dunedin has quite the soft spot for the written word and its diverse practitioners.
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Books and art are both cultural barometers. They are a reflection of current society, connection and beauty.
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May’s Salon features two Dunedin based writers, Maxine Alterio and Heather Bauchop.
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The current Reed Gallery exhibition at Dunedin City Library, The Good Gray Poet, commemorates the 200th birthday of the American poet Walt Whitman, which occurs on 31 May 2019.
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A list of the winners of the 2018 UNESCO Dunedin City of Literature poetry competition.
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In this age of fake news and propaganda, we need high quality, courageous journalism to keep us all informed.
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Latest new and recommended to hit the non-fiction shelves.
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New storytime just for babies under 2 started 29th April
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Quite a few children who took part in our Summer Reading Programme wrote us some wonderful stories. Enjoy these bursts of youthful imagination!
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