Join us for some refreshments and the NZYWF opening event, featuring this year’s cohort of talented emerging voices. Through poetry, song, performance and prose, storytellers are the pou, the speaking posts, of our histories and our futures.

Celebrate powerful new writing in this mix-and-mingle reading event featuring the talented group of emerging voices joining us for the 2026 NZYWF. Take a seat in the Fale and listen to the posts that speak. Hosted by Eric Soakai!

Doors open and refreshments served at 5.30pm, event starts at 6pm.

With thanks to Ōtepoti - He Puna Auaha | Dunedin Unesco City of Literature