Verb Showcase:
If This Finds You
Friday, 25 September, 6.30pm - 7.45pm
The Hannah, 12 Cambridge Terrace, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011 (map)
Ticket Prices: General Admission $30, Earlybird $27, Concession $26, Verb Community $25
Festival Passes cannot be used for this event.
We’re sorry to advise that, due to an injury, Elizabeth Knox is no longer able to appear at this event. John Summers, author of Green Sea, will be stepping in to Verb Showcase: If This Finds You in Elizabeth's absence.
Tomorrow arrives quickly. A hundred years from now takes its time.
Seven writers write a letter to a reader they will never meet, sending their words into the future in the hope they’ll find someone waiting on the other side. Through curiosity and speculation, they contemplate the future, our place within it and who is ahead of us.
Featuring Witi Ihimaera Smiler (Te Whānau A Kai, Te Aitanga A Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Ira, Ngāti Porou), John Summers, Tīhema Baker (Raukawa te Au ki te Tonga, Atiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangatira), Terri Te Tau (Rangitāne, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa), pip adam, Mia Farlane, and Shariff Burke.
Expect big ideas, peculiar predictions, reasons to look forward, and a few things we’d rather not leave behind. Hosted by Melody Thomas.
Order your copy of the featured writers’ books at Unity Books Wellington, Verb’s Official Festival Bookselling Partner.
Many thanks to our generous funders, sponsors and members of Verb Community in supporting Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2026.