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Record-breaking Attendance Signals A New Era For Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki
Monday, 20 May 2024, 6:52 am | Auckland Writers Festival
Held at Auckland’s Aotea Centre from 14 – 19 May, attendance reached a record high of more than 85,000. The programme was designed to bring the bookshop to life, flinging open the doors to all and dazzling with 167 events featuring 240 talented ... More >>
Auckland Writers Festival Announces Unbeatable Lineup For This Year’s Festival
Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 12:00 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
The Auckland Writers Festival today unveils the full Festival programme with more than 40 international authors and 200 events live in Auckland this autumn The 2024 Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki reveals one of the starriest lineups ... More >>
Auckland Writers Festival Announces New Artistic Director
Friday, 2 June 2023, 11:06 am | Auckland Writers Festival
Auckland Writers Festival | Waituhi O Tāmaki is thrilled to announce one of the UK’s leading literary industry talents as its new Artistic Director – ushering in a bold and exciting new era for New Zealand’s largest and most anticipated annual ... More >>
Auckland Writers Festival Attracts Capacity Crowds At Fully Live Events
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 2:43 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
Over 60,000 attendees of all ages flocked to the 2023 Auckland Writers Festival | Waituhi o Tāmaki, marking a triumphant week for New Zealand’s most beloved annual literary event. From 16 – 21 May 2023, the Auckland Writers Festival, renowned ... More >>
Auckland Writers Festival Announces 2023 Programme
Thursday, 23 March 2023, 6:16 am | Auckland Writers Festival
The Auckland Writers Festival tonight unveiled the full programme for its 23rd Festival, with 160 live events in Auckland over six days, 16 – 21 May 2023. Every year the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki sets the cultural agenda in Aotearoa, ... More >>
Kathleen Drumm Appointed Chief Executive Of Auckland Writers Festival | Waituhi O Tāmaki
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 5:50 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
The Board of Auckland Writers Festival is delighted to announce the appointment of Kathleen Drumm as Auckland Writers Festival | Waituhi o Tāmaki's new Chief Executive. Since 2019, Drumm has been Chief Executive at the Hundertwasser Art Centre and Whangārei ... More >>
Aotearoa’s Most-anticipated Literary Event Of The Year Reveals 2022 Programme
Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 8:17 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
Each year the world-renowned Auckland Writers Festival defines the cultural agenda in Aotearoa. This August, Kiwis will be treated to a marquee line-up of the world’s best and brightest writers and thinkers, as they descend on Tāmaki Makaurau for ... More >>
Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Programme Announced
Thursday, 12 March 2020, 8:27 am | Auckland Writers Festival
Book lovers have been bursting to know what’s in the 20th Auckland Writers Festival, Waituhi o Tāmaki, programme, revealed this evening. The good news is the 2020 line-up for what is one of the most respected literary showcases on the planet is as super-charged, ... More >>
The PM, Tweedy, Sir Antony Beevor among Lineup
Thursday, 14 March 2019, 9:05 am | Auckland Writers Festival
The Prime Minister, Jeff Tweedy, Sir Antony Beevor among Stellar 2019 Auckland Writers Festival Line-up More >>
Thousands flock to country’s largest writers festival
Monday, 21 May 2018, 9:39 am | Auckland Writers Festival
Women and men of all ages and children young and old flocked to the Auckland Writers Festival this week, which broke its own record with more than 74,000 seats filled across six days of tremendous conversations, performances, speeches and stand-up ... More >>
2018 Auckland Writers Festival
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 7:38 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
The country’s largest literary showcase, the Auckland Writers Festival, brings a world of stories and ideas to the city from the 15th to the 20th May, offering laughter, knowledge, ideas and inspiration for audiences of all ages with more than ... More >>
New Zealand’s Largest Literary Festival Opens Tomorrow!
Monday, 15 May 2017, 1:21 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
The 17th Auckland Writers Festival opens tomorrow, in its most ambitious programme yet, which sees more than 40 international writers, historians, scientists, radicals and thinkers team with the world’s largest showcase of New Zealand literary talent ... More >>
Largest Literary Festival Launches Expansive Programme
Thursday, 16 March 2017, 9:57 am | Auckland Writers Festival
The 18th Auckland Writers Festival takes to the sea, the pavement, festival halls and a glittering pop-up venue in its most ambitious programme yet, which sees a record 42 international writers, historians, scientists, radicals and thinkers team with ... More >>
Students to Join Internationally Renowned Authors
Thursday, 2 February 2017, 12:01 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
Students from three South Auckland schools will attend the Auckland Writers Festival Schools Programme and receive one-on-one mentoring, gratis, in an initiative aimed at fostering Māori and Pasifika writing talent. More >>
Auckland Writers Festival 2016 Breaks All Records
Monday, 16 May 2016, 10:59 am | Auckland Writers Festival
The City of Sails placed itself at the heart of the written world this week as the Auckland Writers Festival broke its own record, with 63,000 seats filled. More >>
Star-Studded Literary Line-up for Auckland Writers Festival
Thursday, 17 March 2016, 3:09 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
Booker and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, a British knight of the realm, feminist icons, literary funny men, blockbuster children’s writers, together with some of the world’s best political, historical and philosophical thinkers, join many of ... More >>
Low-Decile School Students to Join Auckland Writers Festival
Monday, 22 February 2016, 1:04 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
Students from three low-decile schools will be rubbing shoulders with international and local writers at the 2016 Auckland Writers Festival Schools’ Programme thanks to the generosity of two passionate festival supporters. More >>
Auckland Writers Festival 2015 Breaks All Records
Monday, 18 May 2015, 9:48 am | Auckland Writers Festival
With more than 60,000 seats filled, and an estimated 20 percent increase in ticket issues, the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival has broken all records. More >>
Record Numbers at Auckland Writers Festival
Thursday, 14 May 2015, 11:44 am | Auckland Writers Festival
Record numbers are expected to attend the country’s biggest festival of words and ideas, the Auckland Writers Festival, which opens today. More >>
Literary Giant Haruki Murakami Headlines Writers Festival
Wednesday, 18 March 2015, 9:34 am | Auckland Writers Festival
One of the world’s most lauded and elusive literary greats, Haruki Murakami , will appear at this year’s Auckland Writers Festival which takes place from 13-17 May at the Aotea Centre. More >>
