Events

Hold onto your sonnets, it's Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day.

Join Nikki Perry and Kirsty Roby for the launch of their new novel at Enamoured Books!

The winers of the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults will be announced at a ceremony in Wellington.

Scorpio Books and Totara Press warmly invite you to join us for an author talk. An Uncommon Land: From an Ancestral Past of Enclosure Towards a Regenerative Future by Catherine Knight is out now.

Bookmark Kāpiti is a festival of stories, people and places connected to the Kāpiti Coast. It’s a book festival with a twist. The organisers, presenters and performers are all connected to this beautiful place and the events are held at venues, right along the Coast; not just in one place.

On August 5th at Tūranga, Ray Shipley interviews Heather McQuillan about her latest work TRUTH NEEDS NO COLOUR. Join us for a rich evening of ideas and conversation.

An annual weekend of wonderful writers and curious audiences in beautiful Marlborough.

Scorpio Books and Te Herenga Waka University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Sick Power Trip by local poet Erik Kennedy.

Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Touch Screen by Philip Armstrong.

Actors read NZ Short Stories: Live at The Nix, a monthly series

Scorpio Books and Ghostcat invite you to join us for the celebration of Ghosts On Every Corner, the incredibly special locally printed exhibition publication of the eponymous project.

Aotearoa's premier mountain festival with literary leanings!

Scorpio Books and Auckland University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson.

Scorpio Books and Massey University Press warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Short – Poto: The big book of small stories – Iti te kupu, nui te kōrero edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong.

Scorpio Books and Auckland University Press warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist by Mark Forman.

Scorpio Books and Penguin Books NZ warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of 1985: A Novel by best-selling author Dominic Hoey.

The shortlist for the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults will be announced.

Always wanted to join a book club? Come join ours! Share your thoughts and hear what others made of our Book of the Month at the Scorpio Books Club.

Tracy Farr, Mary McCallum, Unity Books, NZSA and The Cuba Press warmly invite you to the launch of WONDERLAND and TACKLING THE HENS.

On 22 May at 6.30 pm Harry Walker will be at Book Haven to talk about his book 'A Voice for the Silenced.' Published this year, the book features 'Stories from Inside and Outside the Cells of Aotearoa/New Zealand.'

Scorpio Books and Mary Egan Publishing warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Unsettled Bliss: whiteness in Aotearoa by Elizabeth Ann Cook.