Understated comedy and stark horror in winning Landfall essay
Tuesday, 13 November 2018 3:34pm
Alice Miller, a New Zealand writer based in Germany, is the winner of the Landfall Essay Competition 2018.
Her winning entry ‘The Great Ending’ impressed with “its teeming yet elegantly controlled catalogue of international and national, Pākehā and Māori historical events”, says competition judge and Landfall editor Emma Neale.
Otago University Press celebrates PM's award for poet Michael Harlow
Tuesday, 9 October 2018 2:35pm
Otago University Press has congratulated Otago poet Michael Harlow who has been honoured as one of three winners in this year’s Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement.
Burns Fellowship 60th: Cilla McQueen 'Poeta' book launch
Friday, 7 September 2018 10:54am
On 6 September 2018 the University Book Shop hosted the launch of Cilla McQueen's collection Poeta: Selected and new poetry as part of the 60th anniversary of the Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University. The event was attended by many former Burns Fellows.
Alan Roddick launches Edgeland and other poems by David Eggleton
Friday, 13 July 2018 1:23pm
Alan Roddick launches Edgeland and other poems by David Eggleton
To the Mountains wins New Zealand Mountain Film and Book Festival Book Awards 2018 Non Fiction prize
Friday, 22 June 2018 12:54pm
The Non Fiction award goes to Laurence Fearnley and Paul Hersey for their book ‘To the Mountains’. This book offers a fascinating glimpse into New Zealand’s mountaineering culture and history.
Landfall exhibition connects art and literature
Thursday, 10 May 2018 3:12pm
The Otago Art Society and Otago University Press are joining forces to present a unique exhibition that celebrates the connections between the artistic and literary worlds fostered by Landfall journal.
The exhibition will run from Friday 25 May to Sunday 17 June 2018 at the Otago Art Society at the Dunedin Railway Station.
Winner of Young Writers' Essay Competition announced
Thursday, 3 May 2018 2:33pm
Landfall, New Zealand’s leading journal of arts and literature, is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2018 Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition is Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor, whose essay is titled ‘Disappearing Disease’.
Otago well represented in 2018 Ockhams shortlist
Tuesday, 6 March 2018 3:47pm
The Yield by Sue Wootton and The Face of Nature by Jonathan West are two books from Otago University Press shortlisted in the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
