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Booking The Trend: Surging Ticket Sales Show Books And Big Ideas Are Hot Tickets In Auckland
Thursday, 16 April 2026, 9:04 am | Auckland Writers Festival
The event is a great way for readers who haven’t experienced a literary Festival before to experience the buzz. Accessibly priced tickets start from just $10. More >>
The Biggest Names In Books Are Coming To Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki In May
Thursday, 12 March 2026, 10:48 am | Auckland Writers Festival
The annual event is one of the biggest festivals of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, with 2025 seeing more than 85,000 attendances and a staggering 12,000 books sold – testament to New Zealanders passion for books, reading and big ideas. More >>
The First Chapter Reveal For Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki 2026
Friday, 31 October 2025, 5:48 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
Latronico is presented in partnership with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, where he will discuss Perfection, which Lauren Groff called “a jewel of a novel: precisely cut, intricately faceted, prismatically dazzling”. More >>
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki To Present Multi-Award Winning Historian And Podcaster William Dalrymple
Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 11:03 am | Auckland Writers Festival
William Dalrymple‘s sole public Aotearoa New Zealand event will take place in Auckland on Wednesday 5 November and is the third in a special Spring season of events that also includes Romantasy queen Callie Hart (Monday 13 October) and Festival favourite ... More >>
Book Lovers Flock To The Party-like Atmosphere Of Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki
Monday, 19 May 2025, 7:10 am | Auckland Writers Festival
The annual event is the highlight of the literary calendar and 2025 was no exception with sold-out theatres, bustling crowds and signing queues that lasted for hours. The Festival prides itself on being welcoming and accessible to all, with over 25% ... More >>
STREETSIDE: BRITOMART – AWF's First Event Promises A Riotous Evening Of Words And Creativity
Monday, 28 April 2025, 5:37 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
The fun runs from 6 – 8pm with events across seven Britomart venues and provides a vibrant appetiser to the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki wider programme, taking place at the Aotea Centre from Tuesday 13 May. More >>
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki Launches Ambitious, Wide-ranging 2025 Programme
Sunday, 16 March 2025, 10:18 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
More than 170 New Zealand writers and close to 50 international participants will appear in the programme, which is bursting with well-known literary powerhouses, global thinkers and fresh new voices. More >>
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki Welcomes New Principal Partner
Monday, 3 March 2025, 3:19 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
ARA Group is a staunch supporter of the arts, particularly books and literature. ARA currently supports Sydney Writers’ Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival and a number of other Australian organisations focused on arts, higher education, children's ... More >>
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki Offers A Sneak-peek Of The 2025 Programme
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 2:20 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
This year’s Festival takes place at the Aotea Centre from 13 – 18 May and will feature over 200 writers from Aotearoa and abroad. It promises a rich and diverse programme bursting with well-known literary powerhouses, global thinkers and fresh ... More >>
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 >>
