Northland Writers Readers and Poets Festival

16/11/2025

Yay Charissa!!

Charissa Morris' story imagines a world where the internet vanishes overnight.

08/09/2025

Hi everyone, does anyone happen to know if the beautiful poem that Dame Fiona reads at the end of her film The House Within is published? I can’t find it anywhere so perhaps not

05/09/2025

Love this Greg!

04/09/2025

Morning everyone, very sorry to hear that one person has covid and a few more with the flu after our weekend. We hope you get better soon!

03/09/2025

02/09/2025

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/02/a-message-from-dame-fiona-to-erica-stanford/

An open poem to the Minister of Teachers from Dame Fiona Kidman

01/09/2025

We were honoured to have Moko Tepania - Mayor for the Far North open our Festival and present our Year 13 Short Story Award. Congratulations to Charissa. Look out for the publication of her amazing story in the Northern Advocate!

01/09/2025

A very poetic ending to our festival yesterday! Thank you all so much for coming, and for the feedback provided. We'll draw the 6 lucky winners of the book voucher prizes very soon!

30/08/2025

What a wonderful day! Thank you all so much for coming.

Thank you to all our wonderful authors, fantastic facilitators and outstanding volunteers.

And a big big thank you to all our sponsors!!!

Does anyone know a Leena who attended today? We have your notebook x