Festivals
2023
Featherston Booktown May 12-14 2023
Auckland Writers Festival Auckland, 16-21 May 2023
Between the Lines Central Hawkes Bay, 25-28 May 2023
Blackball Readers & Writers Festival West Coast, 3-4 June 2023
Readers and Writers Akaroa Akaroa, 10-11 June 2023
NZ Mountain Book and Film Festival 23-30 June 2023
Marlborough Book Festival 21-23 July 2023
Hamilton Book Month 1-31 August 2023
WORD Christchurch Christchurch, 23-27 August 2023
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, 13-15 October 2023
Nelson Arts Festival, 19-29 October 2023
Tauranga Arts Festival, 19-29 October 2023
Going West Auckland — dates to be confirmed
Verb Wellington Wellington — dates to be confirmed
2022
Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts, Wellington, Writers: 25 February-20 March 2022
Aspiring Conversations, Wanaka, 25-27 March 2022 (biennial even years)
Auckland Writers Festival, 10-15 May 2022
Between the Lines, Central Hawkes Bay, May 2022 tbc
Blackball Readers & Writers Festival, West Coast, Writers’ Retreat, June 2022 tbc
Escape! Literary Weekend, Tauranga, 3-6 June 2022 (biennial even years)
Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival, 6-8 May 2022
Going West Writers Festival, Titirangi, 9 April 2022
Hamilton Book Month, 1-31 August 2022
Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival, 18-27 February 2022
Hawkes Bay Readers & Writers Festival, October 2022 tbc
Ignition Children’s Book Festival, Dunedin, October 2022 tbc
Kāpiti Writers Retreat, 25-27 February 2022
Kupu Māori Writers Festival, Rotorua, 12-19 June 2022
Ladies’ Litera-tea (The Women's Bookshop) Auckland, 20 March 2022
Manawatu Writers Festival, Fielding, September 2022 tbc
Marlborough Book Festival, Blenheim, 7-10 July 2022
New Zealand Mountain Film & Book Festival, Wanaka, 24-29 June 2022
New Zealand Mountain Film & Book Festival, Queenstown, 30 June-2 July 2022
New Zealand Young Writers Festival, Dunedin, October 2022 tbc
Queenstown Writers Festival, November 2022 tbc (biennial even years)
Same Same But Different, Auckland, 16-20 February 2022
VERB Writers & Readers Festival, Wellington, November 2022 tbc
Whanganui Literary Festival, 22-25 February 2022
(Note: usually biennial, October, odd years, 2021 event postponed)
Womad World of Words, New Plymouth, 18-20 March 2022
WORD Christchurch, August 2022 tbc
Yarns in Barns, Wairarapa, 15-24 October 2022 (biennial even years)