Literary-art Events in Auckland

Check out happening literary-art events all around Auckland, AU

BANZI Boishakhi Mela/ Bengali New Year Celebration 1433

 Sat, 16 May at 04:00 am Barfoot & Thompson Stadium

4. Lunch with Patrick Radden Keefe

 Wed, 13 May at 12:30 pm Metita

45. (VIRTUAL) Ian McEwan

 Fri, 15 May at 07:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

91. Roddy Doyle

 Sat, 16 May at 08:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

3. Patrick Radden Keefe

 Tue, 12 May at 08:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

128. The Mushroom Tapes

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

49. Down the Rabbithole...

 Fri, 15 May at 09:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

68. Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

88. Charlotte McConaghy

 Sat, 16 May at 07:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

116. Weird Girl Lit

 Sun, 17 May at 03:40 pm Rangatira, Q Theatre

2. (VIRTUAL) Maggie O'Farrell

 Tue, 12 May at 06:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

78. S. A. Cosby

 Sat, 16 May at 04:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

136. The 2025 Booker Prize Winner: David Szalay

 Sun, 17 May at 05:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

40. Yann Martel

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

77. Amitav Ghosh

 Sat, 16 May at 04:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

83. Tayari Jones

 Sat, 16 May at 05:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

127. Louise Erdrich

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

103. Betsy Balloon

 Sun, 17 May at 10:00 am Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

82. Elizabeth Knox: Plausibility, Tone and Truth

 Sat, 16 May at 05:00 pm Waihorotiu

137. Lessons on Living: A Tribute to Nigel Latta

 Sun, 17 May at 05:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

47. Mieko Kawakami

 Fri, 15 May at 07:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

Artist Talk: Makyla Curtis | Printmaking with Nature

 Sun, 03 May at 10:00 am Studio One Toi Tu Free

30. Authors and AI: A Moment of Reckoning?

 Fri, 15 May at 02:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

13. Inside the Story

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

86. Bora Chung

 Sat, 16 May at 05:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

99. Lily King: Heart the Lover

 Sun, 17 May at 10:00 am Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

124. Hannah Kent: A Love Letter to Iceland

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

14. The Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2026 Winner

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

70. The Chief and The Empire

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

110. The Rise of Romance

 Sun, 17 May at 12:40 pm Rangatira, Q Theatre

129. No Country for Middle-Aged Men?

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

Deadly in Devonport - Mystery in the Library

 Wed, 06 May at 08:30 am Devonport Library (Devonport)

22. The Mother of All Journeys

 Fri, 15 May at 11:30 am Limelight, Aotea Centre

43. Small Towns, Dark Truths

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

Love is an action: Zine-making workshop with Kerry Ann Lee and Moira Clunie

 Sun, 10 May at 10:00 am Objectspace NZD 17

65. Between Dreams: Resistance and Representation in Asian Aotearoa

 Sat, 16 May at 11:30 am Limelight, Aotea Centre

85. Art in the Time of War

 Sat, 16 May at 05:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

69. Maria Reva

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

32. From East to West and Back Again

 Fri, 15 May at 02:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

58. If This Be Magic: Shakespeare in Translation

 Sat, 16 May at 10:00 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

37. Saltwater, Solitude and Songs of the Sea

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

12. Daniel Hahn: An Introduction to Translation

 Fri, 15 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

25. Vincent O'Malley: From Aotearoa New Zealand to the Emerald Isle

 Fri, 15 May at 01:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

15. The Cost of Care

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

64. Retelling Female Histories

 Sat, 16 May at 11:30 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

131. Bryan Walpert: Digging Sideways into Character

 Sun, 17 May at 03:00 pm Waihorotiu

21. Discovering Medieval Manuscripts in Aotearoa New Zealand

 Fri, 15 May at 11:30 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

98. Breton Dukes: Writing Fact into Fiction

 Sun, 17 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

18. Siobhan Harvey: Mastering Place and Space

 Fri, 15 May at 11:00 am Waihorotiu

Guided Walk: Poetry for Tamariki

 Sun, 31 May at 10:00 am Huia Lodge, Cornwall Park Free

Archangel's Eternity Book Launch with Nalini Singh

 Tue, 05 May at 09:00 am Chapter Book & Tea Shop

38. Gertrude Stein and a Companion

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

Storytime Stitching May book club Hobsonville

 Sun, 24 May at 12:30 pm 214 Buckley Avenue NZD 108

121. Victor Rodger: Putting Your Rage on the Page

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Waihorotiu

Wednesdy Book Chat

 Wed, 06 May at 12:00 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

2026 Alice Griffin Shakespeare Lecture

 Wed, 13 May at 06:00 pm B401-401 Free