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29 January: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist Announced
19 February: NZ Booklovers Awards Shortlist Announced
21–22 February: Hamlit, Hamilton Arts Festival Toi Ora ki Kirikiriroa
24 February: International Booker Prize Longlist Announced
4 March: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Shortlist Announced
4 March: Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist Announced
11 March: Stella Prize Longlist Announced
19 March: NZ Booklovers Awards Winners Announced
27–29 March: Aspiring Conversations, Wānaka
31 March: International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
8 April: Stella Prize Shortlist Announced
20–26 April: Global Book Crawl 2026
22 April: Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced
May: International Booker Prize Winner Announced
8–10 May: Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2026
12–17 May: Auckland Writers Festival
13 May: Stella Prize Night
13 May: Ockham Awards Ceremony – 2026 Winners Announced
13 May: The Orwell Prizes Finalists Announced
10 June: New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults Shortlist Announced
11 June: Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner Announced
19–23 June: Wānaka NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival
18 June – 8 July: Winter Fest, Taranaki
24–25 July: Booksellers Conference 2026
25 July: Book Industry Awards
24–26 July: Marlborough Book Festival
25–26 June: Queenstown NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival
25 June: The Orwell Prizes Winners Announced
August: Hamilton Book Month
6–9 August: Photobook/NZ
19 August: New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults Ceremony – 2026 Winners Announced.
28 August 2026: Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day
1–6 September: Word Festival, Christchurch
11–13 September: Verb Readers & Writers Festival
3–4 October: Storylines Children’s Writers and Illustrators’ National Hui
10 October: Bookshop Day
15–25 October: Yarns in Barns
22 October – 1 November: Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka Talks
22 October – 1 November: Tauranga Arts Festival
1 November: The Women’s Bookshop Ladies’ Litera-Tea
1.00pm–5.30pm
Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Epsom Girls
An afternoon of women’s words, wit & wisdom
6–8 November: Queenstown Writers Festival
14 November: LitCrawl 2026, Wellington