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http://www.dunedinlibraries.govt.nz 12-02-2009 01:45:24
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DN Public Libraries, NZ Society of Authors Otago/Southland Branch and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature warmly invite you to celebrate National Poetry Day 2024 with us. 🗓️Fri 23 Aug ⏰5.30pm 📍4th Floor | City Library RSVP ESSENTIAL by Fri 16 Aug - Limited Spaces!: tinyurl.com/DPLNPD24



Join us for a week of exploration, learning, and fun! 📚Sign up in the library during the week, or come in and issue any item and you will automatically be entered into the draw to win a book voucher! Dunedin Public Libraries 19-25 August 2024 More info: dunedinlibraries.govt.nz/rediscover

Beyond whodunnit: 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards finalists offer page-turning tales and social critiques across time and place. Whakamihi (congrats) to the 15 fantastic Kiwi storytellers who are this year's finalists, across three categories. #yeahnoir #2024Ngaios WORD Christchurch

To celebrate Janet Frame's 100th birthday, Heritage Collections at DN Public Libraries City Library has put together 2 displays to honour her legacy. 👉Ground floor - a selection of her poems in NZ poetry collections 👉Heritage Collections, 3rd floor - view some other treasures!


Fancy seeing Scotland’s Makar and one of Aotearoa’s finest writers? Thought you might. Come and see Kathleen Jamie and Talia Marshall 🍉🍉🍉, chaired by Dr Majella Cullinane, 5.30pm, 13 September, Dunedin City Library. Free admission. All welcome. See you there…!


We were thrilled to collaborate with DN Public Libraries and NZSA Otago Southland on this special celebration. Heartfelt thanks to all our wonderful poets who made it such a success and to The Star’s Brenda Harwood. odt.co.nz/the-star/antho…

The Write Time with children’s author Emma Wood at DN Public Libraries Stop in for one-on-one help and advice or just sit and write in the company of a fellow writer. FREE 🗓️Tues 10 Sep ⏰3.30pm – 4.30pm 📍Teen Space, 2nd Floor, City Library


Waldronville bookbus stop will not be visited this afternoon (3pm – 4pm), Tuesday 15 October. All other Tuesday stops will be visited: Ocean view St Kilda Corstophine Parkside Waverley Any concerns please call 03 474 3690 or email [email protected]


The Library of Ralph Hotere is now open 📖 DN Public Libraries hope visitors to the Reed Gallery on the 3rd floor of the Dunedin City Library will enjoy the exhibition which runs from 15 November 2024 to 16 March 2025. More details 👇 hail.to/dunedin-public…


Transgender Awareness Week, Nov 13–19, is a celebration leading into Trans Day of Remembrance Nov 20. To celebrate, DN Public Libraries have put together a booklist of YA books that feature trans characters living their lives, and/or written by trans authors. hail.to/dunedin-public…

Today's Dublin Literary Award longlist spotlight is on Laurence Fearnley's At the Grand Glacier Hotel. Nominated by DN Public Libraries and published by Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 New Zealand. 🧵 1/3



The Ngaio Marsh Awards, in association with DN Public Libraries, invites booklovers to a thrilling evening of criminally good conversation featuring four outstanding Aotearoa storytellers. Free event, more details here: facebook.com/events/5990834… #yeahnoir #yeahnoir #2025Ngaios

