Verb Readers and Writers Festival takes place every November and includes the famous LitCrawl Wellington.
The most recent festival took place 7 - 10 November 2024. The programme is available to view here.
Browse previous festivals:
Verb Readers and Writers Festival 2023
Our 10-year anniversary programme, beautifully crafted by a new team of programmers: Rangimarie Sophie Jolley, Trinity Thompson-Browne, Damien Levi, Rosabel Tan and Chris Tse. These remarkable artists created a spectacular, surprising and inventive festival.
Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2021
Our Coven themed festival was a shimmering, sparkling celebration of strong female characters, motherhood, writing resistance, magic and more.
Our fifth festival and the first to welcome a guest curator into our family. Poet, Chris Tse created some incredible events for our birthday extravaganza.
2018
LitCrawl number three! We jumped up in size to accommodate a very eager audience.
2016
2015
Our second festival in which we learnt almost as much as we did for the first.
Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022
The theme of this festival was ‘radical’: radical art, radical ideas, and radical fun. One of our biggest festivals yet!
The Garden Party
A new, Summer festival of books, music & food created with our mates at The Spinoff
February 2021
2020
Verb Festival 2020
Our largest programme yet… international and Aotearoa writers joined audiences from all over NZ in over 32 venues in the City. Wonderful guest curators included Morgan Godfery, Tina Makereti, Ataria Sharman, Chris Tse, Motif Poetry (Ben Fagan and Sara Hirsch), and Annaleese Jochems.
2019
Lucky number four. We were really getting into the swing of things with this festival.
2017
The night that started it all: the first LitCrawl Wellington and the beginning of the Verb journey.
