Events

Welcome to NFFD 2025!

Nau mai rā tātou katoa I Everyone welcome

All events take place on Sunday, 22 June, 3-5pm, unless otherwise noted

Whangārei

Dickens Inn Private Function Room
71 Cameron Street, Whangārei

• with Tracie Lark as emcee
• featuring live music & story readings
• Including long-listings, Micro Madness and Te Moana o Reo
• Kai & kōrero

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 

Café 39

39 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland 1011

• Emceed by Renee Liang, also the 2025 co-judge of Micro Madness
• awards presented by 2018 NFFD winner Anita Arlov and Shilo Kino
• Including long-listings, short-listings, winners – and Micro Madness

About Café 39: An ode to venues past, 39 is a reincarnation of a time and place. Bohemian, a sanctuary of delicious drinks, good company and live entertainment. We’re about looking after you and making your night special.

Kirikiriroa Hamilton

• Reading from long and short lists
• Book giveaways
• Regional Prize
• Micro Madness
• Judges’ notes and more!

Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington 

Wellington College, 15 Dufferin St, Mount Victoria, Wellington

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• Live story readings
• Book giveaways
• Kai and kōrero
• Adult NFFD judge Brannavan Gnanalingam presenting awards
• Special guest readers from the new dual-language anthology Poto! Short! 

Taranaki

Gover Street Gallery

19 Gover Street, New Plymouth Central

Come and listen to our talented local writers and share your own gems of flash fiction (max 250 words), microfiction (100 words) and poetry!

• Open mic!
• Winners announced
• Readings from Poto! Short! just out from Massey University Press
• Free event open to the public. All welcome!

Supported by NZ Society of Authors Taranaki and Gover St Gallery, our own not-for-profit community art gallery.

Ōtautahi Christchurch

Tautoru / TSB Space Tūranga
60 Cathedral Square

• with Erik Kennedy as emcee
• featuring readers from School for Young Writers
• also featuring new anthologies Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages & Short | Poto
• prizes and more!

FB page: NFFD Ōtautahi Christchurch

Ōtepoti Dunedin

Alexander Pianos

8 Grant Dalton Street, Mosgiel

• Featuring readings from Poto! Short! including David Eggleton, Jessica Hinerangi, Kay McKenzie Cooke, Linda Collins, Lynley Edmeades, Robert Sullivan, Susan Wardell and special guest reader John Birnie
• Also featuring the 2025 Robert Burns Fellow Octavia Cade and Best Small Fictions 2025 contributors Majella Cullinane and Robert Sullivan
• And the ‘Climate and Creativity’ artist-micro collaboration with emerging voices and Otago artists Nigel Brown, Dee Copland, Manu Berry, Claire Beynon, Kirsti McKinnon, Jess Nicholson, Bridget Reweti, Pauline Bellamy & others
• Plus music and more!

Sponsored by Ōtepoti Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature, Alexander Pianos and DCC Creative Communities

Regional Prizes offered with sponsorship and support by local NZSA branches

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