Join the coven-themed LitCrawl After Party, featuring the amazing 5ever X Nag; a human-powered book factory that also spins vinyl.

CANCELLED: We’re very sorry that due to COVID 19 restrictions this event is cancelled (almost all other LitCrawl events are still going ahead).

Novelists Jacqueline Bublitz (Before You Knew My Name) and Sally J Morgan (Toto Among the Murderers) talk about their acclaimed first novels with Maggie Tweedie.

Ida Lune join Kirsten Johnstone for the eighth annual songwriters chat at Alistair’s.

Shuffle into your Swanndri, crack open your thermos, chip the ice off your windshield and take a roadtrip through Te Waipounamu.

Five writers share work that reflects where our minds may go when we contemplate the next moments, days, years.

For this year’s coven-themed festival we welcome writers Melody Thomas, Kate Camp, Maeve Hughes and Rebecca K Reilly. Hosted by Tracy Farr.

End your night with something close to the boner… mmmm.

What kind of research is involved in creating a witchy character and magical world?

Launching Minarets 12, a special issue of poetry from Aotearoa and Singapore co-edited by Gregory Kan and Hao-Guang Tse.

Join a lit hexing sesh.

CANCELLED: We’re very sorry that due to COVID 19 restrictions this event is cancelled (almost all other LitCrawl events are still going ahead).

Join Dr Hirini Kaa (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu and Rongowhakaata), Ian Harris, and writer Danyl Mclauchlan for a conversation about the place for faith at a time of global crisis.

Art writers Arihia Latham (Te Ara Hikoi columnist The Dominion Post) and Maya Neupane (Salient) and Hamish Petersen (HAMSTER) discuss the future they see for art writing.

Join us for the launch to celebrate a lineup of glorious poets whose words are hot off the press in the new issue.

Writers Paula Morris and Gregory Kan have been influenced by the life and writing of Robin Hyde. IMAGE: from the Literary Coven Cards, by Sarah Laing.

LitCrawl Quiz with RNZ’s Rob Kelly replaces Greta & Valdin (cancelled due to COVID travel restrictions… though a podcast is coming!)

Hear from contributors to Atua Wāhine, a collective of wāhine Māori writers and their responses to Atua Wāhine from Papatūānuku to Hineahuone, all the way down to their grandmothers.

Emma Barnes and Johanna Knox talk to Sinead Overbye about dispelling dominant sexual narratives with their writing.

Emily Perkins and Joy Holley talk about their new work, and the appeal of transformation and mystery in fiction as well as in life.

CANCELLED: We’re very sorry that due to COVID 19 restrictions this event is cancelled (almost all other LitCrawl events are still going ahead).

Go behind the scenes to learn how Whiri Hereaka crafted her latest novel, Kurangaituku.

Kiran Dass talks with Sue Orr (Loop Tracks) and Kirsten McDougall (She’s A Killer) about politics in fiction.

A world premiere of a new Opera! This is a ticketed event.

Writers respond to Tarot Cards drawn for them by guest curator Joy Holley.

Pōneke’s new indie publishing baby on the block introduces their first four authors.

Six writers wrestle with the authority of the bio. Curated by Te Hā o Ngā Pou Kaituhi Māori.

Isa Pearl Ritchie and Elizabeth Knox discuss gardens in literature and in life.

A quickfire line-up of writers from the pages of Starling, an online journal publishing the best poetry and prose by New Zealand writers under 25.