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28 January: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist Announced
18 February: NZ Booklovers Awards Shortlist Announced
February: Hamlit, Hamilton Arts Festival Toi Ora ki Kirikiriroa
February: International Booker Prize Longlist Announced
10-14 february: ABA Winter Instutute
3 March: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Shortlist Announced
10 March: Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist Announced
March: Stella Prize Longlist Announced
18 March: NZ Booklovers Awards Winners Announced
March: Aspiring Conversations, Wānaka
15 April: International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
April: Stella Prize Shortlist Announced
19 – 25 April: Global Book Crawl 2027
18-19 April: EIBF RISE Conference, Galway
28 April: Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced
May: International Booker Prize Winner Announced
7 – 9 May: Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2026
11 – 16 May: Auckland Writers Festival
May: Stella Prize Night
12 May: Ockham Awards Ceremony – 2027 Winners Announced
May: The Orwell Prizes Finalists Announced
June: New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults Shortlist Announced
17 June: Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner Announced
19 – 21 June: ABA Conference, Hobart
June: Wānaka NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival
June July: Winter Fest, Taranaki
July: Booksellers Conference 2026
July: Marlborough Book Festival
June: Queenstown NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival
June: The Orwell Prizes Winners Announced
August: Hamilton Book Month
August: Photobook/NZ
August: Aotearoa NZ Children’s Book Week
August: New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults Ceremony – 2026 Winners Announced.
September: Word Festival, Christchurch
September: Kia rerekē te hua, Ōtaki / In other words, Ōtaki
September: PANZ Design Awards
September: Tamariki Book Festival, Christchurch
September: Verb Readers & Writers Festival
September: Christian Book Expo
October: Bookshop Day
October: Hawke’s Bay Readers and Writers Festival
October: Yarns in Barns
November: Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka Talks
November: Tauranga Arts Festival
November: The Women’s Bookshop Ladies’ Litera-Tea
November: Queenstown Writers Festival
November: LitCrawl 2026, Wellington