Writing Events in Auckland

Check out happening writing events all around Auckland, AU

Mountain Goats | Powerstation, Auckland - VENUE UPGRADED!

 Fri, 10 Apr at 09:00 am Powerstation

140. Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern: A Different Kind of Power

 Sun, 17 May at 07:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

72. R. F. Kuang

 Sat, 16 May at 02:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

105. Dav Pilkey: Supercharged Creativity!

 Sun, 17 May at 11:30 am Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

6. Festival Gala Night: Resetting the Compass

 Thu, 14 May at 07:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

4. Lunch with Patrick Radden Keefe

 Wed, 13 May at 12:30 pm Metita

113. To Hell and Back

 Sun, 17 May at 02:10 pm Rangatira, Q Theatre

91. Roddy Doyle

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

45. (VIRTUAL) Ian McEwan

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

2. (VIRTUAL) Maggie O'Farrell

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

116. Weird Girl Lit

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

89. Tame Iti: Mana

 Sat, 16 May at 07:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

78. S. A. Cosby

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

83. Tayari Jones

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

82. Elizabeth Knox: Plausibility, Tone and Truth

 Sat, 16 May at 05:00 pm Waihorotiu

84. Who Gets to Tell the Story?

 Sat, 16 May at 05:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

77. Amitav Ghosh

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

127. Louise Erdrich

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

5. Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2026

 Wed, 13 May at 07:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

68. Charlotte McConaghy

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

3. Patrick Radden Keefe

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

67. Writing in Today's America

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

39. Tayari Jones: Finding Your Voice in a Chaotic World

 Fri, 15 May at 05:00 pm Waihorotiu

136. The 2025 Booker Prize Winner: David Szalay

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

63. Fail Again. Fail Better?

 Sat, 16 May at 11:30 am Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

138. The Dead Speak: A Life in Forensics

 Sun, 17 May at 05:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

40. Yann Martel

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

49. Down the Rabbithole...

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

88. Helen Garner: How to End a Story

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

128. The Mushroom Tapes

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

47. Mieko Kawakami

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

CreativeMornings Auckland

Thu, 23 Apr at 09:00 pm 2 Freyberg Place, Auckland, New Zealand 1010

123. Elizabeth Knox: Night, Ma

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

24. Barbara Demick

 Fri, 15 May at 01:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

23. Lily King: Two Truths and a Lie

 Fri, 15 May at 01:00 pm Waihorotiu

30. Authors and AI: A Moment of Reckoning?

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

107. Tareq Baconi

 Sun, 17 May at 11:30 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

124. Hannah Kent: A Love Letter to Iceland

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

135. Secret Art Powers: Achieving Change Through Creative Thinking

 Sun, 17 May at 04:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

133. Sliding Doors

 Sun, 17 May at 04:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

13. Inside the Story

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

110. The Rise of Romance

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

99. Lily King: Heart the Lover

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

86. Bora Chung

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

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

90. Grieving Together: Tusiata Avia and Nafanua Purcell Kersel

 Sat, 16 May at 07:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

75. Deepa Bhasthi: Translating with an Accent

 Sat, 16 May at 02:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

126. Zines NZ: From Punk to Present

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

102. Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century

 Sun, 17 May at 10:00 am Limelight, Aotea Centre

85. Art in the Time of War

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

117. Hot Takes, Sharp Lines: A Spoken Word Round Table

 Sun, 17 May at 04:00 pm Loft, Q Theatre

65. Between Dreams: Resistance and Representation in Asian Aotearoa

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

111. Dreaming for the Ocean In Us: Tangata Moana writers and Desire

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Loft, Q Theatre

100. David Moscrop: Canada at a Crossroads

 Sun, 17 May at 10:00 am Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

46. Florence Knapp

 Fri, 15 May at 07:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

34. A Shaken World Order?

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

35. Charlotte Grimshaw

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

69. Maria Reva

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

Secrets by the Seaside - St Heliers MITL

 Thu, 07 May at 08:00 am St Heliers Community Library (Saint Heliers)

Horses & Us Author Talk with Johanna Emeney

 Sat, 11 Apr at 04:30 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

42. Tony Tulathimutte: Rejection

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

131. Bryan Walpert: Digging Sideways into Character

 Sun, 17 May at 03:00 pm Waihorotiu

114. Thinking Differently

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Loft, Q Theatre

112. No One Cares About Your Writing the Way You Do

 Sun, 17 May at 01:20 pm Vault Q Theatre

64. Retelling Female Histories

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

15. The Cost of Care

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

32. From East to West and Back Again

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

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

12. Daniel Hahn: An Introduction to Translation

 Fri, 15 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

16. Alexandra Lapierre

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Limelight, Aotea Centre

37. Saltwater, Solitude and Songs of the Sea

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

Guided Walk: Poetry for Tamariki

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

98. Breton Dukes: Writing Fact into Fiction

 Sun, 17 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

31. The Happenstance Historians

 Fri, 15 May at 02:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

33. Emma Neale: Drafting and Crafting Your Poetry

 Fri, 15 May at 03:00 pm Waihorotiu

76. Tony Tulathimutte: Clean Writing

 Sat, 16 May at 03:00 pm Waihorotiu

104. Thammika Songkaeo: Writing Fear, Anger, and Sadness

 Sun, 17 May at 11:00 am Waihorotiu

109. Cards on the Table: Tarot and Writing

 Sun, 17 May at 11:50 am Vault Q Theatre

18. Siobhan Harvey: Mastering Place and Space

 Fri, 15 May at 11:00 am Waihorotiu

Big Feijoa: Multilingual Writing Club (Auckland)

 Wed, 08 Apr at 06:30 pm Ellen Melville Centre NZD 10

55. Maria Reva: Creating Character Networks

 Sat, 16 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

66. Noelle McCarthy: Shaping Your Story, Adding Voices to Your Own

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Waihorotiu

121. Victor Rodger: Putting Your Rage on the Page

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Waihorotiu

From the Author's Mouth

 Thu, 30 Apr at 12:00 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

Worldbuilding Workshop for Beginners (Ages 8+)

 Thu, 16 Apr at 11:00 am Avondale Library Free