Poets have depicted queer desire, same-sex love, and life outside gender norms since the beginning of the written word. Across eras and generations—from cl... | CUP

We are deeply saddened by the death of former Otago University Press publisher Wendy Harrex, who led the Press for 20 years and played a defining role in shaping it into the publishing house it is tod...

Join us for some refreshments and the NZYWF opening event, featuring this year’s cohort of talented emerging voices. Through poetry, song, performance and prose, storytellers are the pou, the speak…

Shelley’s mythmaking

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Awaiting Orders,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005.

A recent Wellington graduate says she has undertaken more than 600 job applications and 53 interviews in a year amid a tough job market.

The greenhouse gases that cause global warming have increased to new record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows.

INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS Kaipukahu Writer in Residence 2027 – a full-time residency fostering NZ writing at the University of Waikato, supported by Creative New Zealand. The late Ngāti Wairere elder...

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Comment from Otago University: As AI safety warnings mount, NZ parties must adopt multipartisan regulation, data centre rules, and oversight bodies

Join us for a special evening of stories, conversationsnbsp;and music.\nListen to author Monica Macansantos as she talks about her writing journey to our emcee Becky Buadanbsp;and shares readings from...

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) has announced that its Core Funding Programme, which provides ongoing operational funding to screen organisations…

MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional. And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it. The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe t…

If your first draft is imperfect, you haven’t failed —you are exactly where you need to be. By Dinty W. Moore One of the most difficult lessons we have to learn when writing our first book is this:…

Wellington’s arts organisations are being asked to deliver more with less, but there is a limit to how far resilience can stretch, writes Tāwhiri executive director Angela Green.

I’ve recently gotten a slew of reports of emails purporting to be from editors at Big 5 and other large publishers, in which the supposed editor expresses interest in the writer’s work and asks whethe...

Analysis: It was a set of interviews I did on the Māori delegation to Israel for Te Ao with Moana recently – and the release of the Nicky Hager book Dirty Work – that took me back

Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — threatening water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe.

Fletcher Building leads a group of big employers saying a members' bill seeking to define men and women creates operational risks and uncertainty. Andrew Bevin reports.

'Just before I die, I’ll open the Universe Splitter – a quantum-induced universe bifurcation app.'

The last general practitioner of a clinic for 4500 patients in Horowhenua has resigned.

The Government's top law officer warned that if ministers blocked Mike Smith's Fonterra lawsuit, the next case would target the Crown directly. She's been proven right, reports Jonathan Milne.

The institutions charged with protecting Aotearoa’s documentary memory are facing another major round of job cuts, with a proposal to axe 47 full-time equivalent roles across the National Library and ...

If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures

While Australia is fronting up to large tech companies, New Zealand keeps dragging the chain.

Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue

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