Blue Oyster is pleased to announce that Abigail Aroha Jensen is our Caselberg artist in residence for 2025!
Read MoreWe're delighted to announce the Elizabeth Brooke Carr Emerging Writer resident for 2025 will be Toni Wi.
The Caselberg Trust announced today that its Creative Connections Resident 2025 will be Ōtepoti/Dunedin ceramic artist Jess Nicolson (Kāi Tahu, Pākehā). Originally from Whakatāne, Jess is an artist whose practice focuses on cultural and environmental sustainability.
Read MoreThe winners of the 2024 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize have been announced. The competition is now in its fourteenth year, and this year attracted 142 poems from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, UK, and Mauritius. This year’s competition was judged by poet Alan Roddick.
Read MoreWe’ve had a number of residents stay at Caselberg House over the last few months.
Read MoreWe're delighted to be welcoming Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie to the Caselberg house in September as she takes up the University of Otago Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies (CISS) Writing Fellowship.
Read MoreThe Caselberg Trust and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature are pleased to announce that the Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature writers resident for 2024 will be poet Alison Glenny. Alison was selected by the judges from a strong field, and will be welcomed to the Caselberg House in Whakaohorahi/Broad Bay from the start of November till mid-December this year.
Read MoreThe Caselberg Trust Creative Connections Residency is open for applications from 1 May - 31 May
Read MoreDan Welden and friends taking time out at Moeraki
Read MoreWe're delighted to announce Alan Roddick as the judge for the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition this year.
Read MoreThe Caselberg Trust and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature are pleased to offer the Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency. In 2024 the residency is offered from the beginning of November to mid December to a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read MoreThe Caselberg Trust announced today that the recipient of its Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Residency in 2024 will be Pōneke (Wellington) multi-media artist and writer Kate Aschoff.
As the original pioneer of alternative printmaking since 1970 and as co-author of Printmaking in the Sun, Dan Welden has been at the forefront of safe printmaking practice in the Arts.
Read MoreYvette Thomas, 2022 Caselberg International Poetry Prize Winner
Read More“It is a very special place and a very special opportunity made possible by very special people”.
Read MoreWe recently farewelled Shu-Ling Chua 蔡淑羚, Melbourne City of Literature’s award-winning writer and essayist and our inaugural Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency.
Read MoreThe winners of the 2023 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize have been announced. The competition is now in its thirteenth year, and this year attracted 152 poems from across New Zealand and Australia. This year’s competition was judged by poet Rhian Galagher.
Read MoreThe Caselberg Trust announced today that its Creative Connections Resident 2024 will be artist, educator, and remote community arts worker Katie Breckon.
Read MoreRhian Gallagher is judging the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2023
Read MoreShu-Ling Chua 蔡淑羚 - inaugural recipient of the Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency by Leah Jing McIntosh
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