Otago University Press publishes books of scholarly and cultural significance that enrich our society. We produce a range of quality non-fiction books on New Zealand and the Pacific, focusing on history, Māori/Pacific, natural history, contemporary issues, biography/memoir, essays and creative non-fiction, literature and the arts.
Otago University Press also publishes a small amount of poetry as well as Landfall, New Zealand's longest-running and leading journal of new writing and art.
Latest books
The Intimacy Bus
In The Intimacy Bus, award-winning poet Janet Charman reckons with some of life’s heaviest traffic: bereavement, grief,...
Books of Mana
Books of Mana celebrates the rich tradition of Māori authorship in Aotearoa New Zealand. It reveals the central place of...
Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit
Fibs, porkies, little white lies, absolute whoppers and criminal evasions: the ways we can deceive each other are legion...
Landfall 248: Spring 2024
Landfall is Aotearoa’s longest-running arts and literary journal. Each volume brims with vital new fiction, art, poetry,...
Pretty Ugly
Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn is the inaugural title in a new series of short story collections from Landfall Tauraka and O...
Remembering and Becoming
Remembering and Becoming: Oral history in Aotearoa New Zealand investigates how oral history enriches our understanding...
Blue Hour
Set in the green spaces and urban grit of contemporary Te Whanganui-a-Tara, this award-winning debut collection from poe...
The Twisted Chain
The Twisted Chain combines a personal story about the impacts of rheumatic fever in Jason Gurney’s family with an explor...
Forms of Freedom
In Forms of Freedom Dougal McNeill explores how the creative literary imagination can influence progressive social chang...
Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology
With more than 100 poems of celebration, elegy, fear, hope and activism, Koe An Aotearoa Ecopoetry Anthology provides a...
Power to Win
Power to Win tells the story of the living wage movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. Here, Lyndy McIntyre documents the mov...
Echoes from Hawaiki
Echoes from Hawaiki is a comprehensive account of taonga pūoro ancestral musical traditions and instrument-playing techn...
Landfall 247: Autumn 2024
Landfall is Aotearoa’s longest-running arts and literary journal. Each volume brims with vital new fiction, art, poetry,...
Meantime
During the Covid-19 pandemic, eighteen thousand uncrossable kilometres lay between poet Majella Cullinane in Aotearoa Ne...
Heart Stood Still
Heart Stood Still is an eco-memoir and a lyrical portrait of Manawatū, Aotearoa. In early 2020, Miriam Sharland was near...
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14 Mar 2025
Launching The Intimacy Bus by Janet Charman
On the evening of Thursday 13 March, we launched Janet Charman's new collection, The Intimacy Bus. With friends and fami...
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06 Mar 2025
OUP titles shortlisted in Ockham Book Awards
Two books published by Otago University Press (OUP) have been shortlisted for the country’s top literary honours.
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10 Feb 2025
‘Books of Mana’ a tribute to significant Māori writing
A carefully curated reading list of Māori non-fiction books has become the inspiration for a book of its own.
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