The 2025 Festival will be held 13 - 18 May.
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2025 Ockham NZ Book Awards Judges' Announcement
Award-winning writers, journalists, reviewers, respected academics, curators and booksellers are among the 12 experts selected to judge the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Read more › -
Record-breaking attendance signals a new era for Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki
The Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki has broken all attendance records, ushering in a bold and exciting new era for the Southern Hemisphere’s largest literary festival. Read more › -
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 Winners’ Announcement
Internationally acclaimed New Zealand writer Emily Perkins MNZM has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards forLioness– a smart, multi-layered, laugh-out-loud novel exploring wealth, class and female mid-life reckoning. Read more ›