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Come and Work With Us!
Come and Work With Us!

The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival is currently looking to fill two positions. A Bookkeeper & Board Administrator, as well as a vacancy on the Board of Trustees. If you want to find out more about either of these, you can download the info pack here!

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2025 Dates Announced!
2025 Dates Announced!

Book lovers and literary fans, mark your calendars - the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival will be back for 2025, running over the weekend of the 17th - 19th October!

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2023 Podcasts Now Live!
2023 Podcasts Now Live!

We couldn't be happier to announce our 2023 Podcast Series is now live!

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A Kind of Magic
A Kind of Magic

Key listener Helena Mayer is German Pākehā, queer, a writer and reader, and is studying for a BA in Sociology at Otago University. We are so pleased to share her experience here.

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Dunedin Writers & Readers

The Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival is a celebration of writers, readers, ideas and all things literature. You’ll love this festival if you enjoy library shelves stacked with treasure, discussing books with avid readers, being part of big conversations and expanding your horizons. Join with like-minded book lovers as we gather around the ancient fire of story.

Our city is a stronghold of indigenous story in Te Waipounamu, mai rā anō (since long ago). It is a UNESCO City of Literature, the home of Aotearoa’s first university, built on a bedrock of letters, poetry and prose crafted for us by generations of storytellers. A literary festival has been part of that heritage for more than 30 years.

Behind the scenes

The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival (DWRF) is starting a new chapter with the recruitment of Kitty Brown (Ngāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) as Event Manager, four new Trustees and a fundraising manager.

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We are growing our team! If you love organising events and enjoy reading and sharing the joy of the written word with others, we have a place for you! We have a vacancy for Contract Event Coordinator Approx 30 hrs per week now until end of November
There was something just a little fishy about this giveaway....Like this post and tell us a favourite book film and you could win a double pass to this great Madman Films production which opens on the 27th of April.
Building this festival from the ground up is not a problem in this city of dreams. We are excited to share our venues @Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Te Whare o Rukutia, Athenaeum Public Library, Dunedin Community Gallery. We'll be warm and comfy! Now w

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