ComicFest 2024 is Sat 4 May! Register your interest

ComicFest 2024 Website

This May 4th 2024, Wellington City Libraries in association with the National Library of New Zealand, will be celebrating 10 years of ComicFest — join us for this fantastic, and totally free, national celebration of all things comics-related in New Zealand!

Explore the world of cartoons and comics at the National Library of New Zealand in Thorndon! From 9am – 4:30pm, we will be hosting a festival of workshops, talks, comic giveaways, live drawing, and even a children’s cosplay competition!

We’ll be teasing our full line-up of amazing artists in the upcoming month, so save the date and stay tuned!

Register your interest in ComicFest

What? ComicFest 2024!
When? 4 May 2024, 9am – 4:30pm
Where? National Library Wellington,
Cnr Molesworth and Aitken Street

Villainous Newtown: crime writers author talk 22 March

 

The Ngaio Marsh Awards, in association with Wellington City Libraries, invites booklovers to an unmissable crime and thriller event coming up, as part of the build up to the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards.

The event features two Ngaio Marsh Award winners, one finalist and one of the hottest debut crime writers around!

When: Friday 22 March 6.00 – 7.00pm

Where: Newtown Library

Villainous Newtown Ngaio Marsh Awards Facebook Event

This is a free event, featuring:

Debut author and 2024 entrant Nick Davies, author of El Flamingo

Ngaio Marsh Best First Novel finalist and 2024 entrant Kim Hunt, author of The Quarry

Ngaio Marsh Best First Novel winner Jennifer Lane, author of Miracle

and, rounding this incredible panel off:

Ngaio Marsh Best Novel winner 2023 Charity Norman, author of Remember Me

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Summer Reading is back!

Summer Reading 2023 Blog

Summer Reading 2023 Blog

Read books, explore the city, win prizes! This year the Summer Reading Adventure runs from 1 December 2022 — 31 January 2023, and we are inviting intrepid explorers of word and page of all ages to join us — children, teens, and adults!

Pre-registrations are open from the last week of November — find all the information over on our Summer Reading information page, or head straight to our Summer Reading Beanstack website to get started!

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