All tickets are available for purchase online right until the events start. Just click on the ticketing button on the event you’d like to go to and you’ll be taken to Humanitix to complete the purchase.
All tickets are $19 (concession/student/unwaged) and $23 (general admission), unless otherwise stated.
Door sales: You can purchase door sales at the venue 30mins before start time, unless the event is sold out.
Accessibility: All venues are wheelchair accessible, unless stated otherwise. The following events will be translated by New Zealand Sign Language interpreters: Universe-Hopping with Radical Crip Imagination, Letters to Disabled Friends.
Durations: Ticketed and free events are 60 minutes, unless otherwise stated. LitCrawl events are 45 minutes.
You don’t have to print your ticket: On the day of the event you can just show your ticket to our ushers using your phone (you don’t have to print them).
VERB READERS AND WRITERS FESTIVAL 2023
TICKETS
FESTIVAL PASSES
Festival Passes are a great way to save money and also get the full festival experience. You can save up to 25%*.You can purchase them (4-pass, 6-pass, or 8-pass) here. It is a very simple and easy process, we promise.
*Special events and ticket offers not eligible for Festival Passes:
bad apple: Spoiled Fruit launch party, Thurs 9 Nov
The Anti-Slam: Worst Poet Wins, Fri 10 Nov
LitCrawl After Party, Sat 11 Nov
Ticket + Book bundles
Workshops
Limited Festival Pass tickets are available for Her First Roast, Fri 10 Nov, and This Be The Verse, Sun 12 Nov.
VERB COMMUNITY
Verb Community members get 10% off ticket prices and advance access to sales:
Click here to join the Verb Community. If you are already a member you will receive your discount code via your dedicated news, the ReVerb. Just email us at info@verbwellington.co.nz if you have any queries.
LOCATIONS & VENUES
Meow, 9 Edward St
BATS, 1 Kent Terrace
St Peter’s, 211 Willis Street
Pātaka Art + Museum, Cnr Parumoana & Norrie Streets, Porirua
LitCrawl, various venues (check the individual event pages found here).
ENTRY TO LITCRAWL
Entry is by donation at the door. Just rock up and either give cash or use our paywave eftpos machines at the door (recommended $5).
WHERE TO GET YOUR BOOKS
The amazing Unity Books are our Festival Booksellers. You can purchase books in advance online when you buy a ticket, and you can also purchase at events where Unity Books will be stationed (all weekend at Meow and at other selected events). Or you can buy directly from Unity Books online here.
Many LitCrawl events won’t have books available for purchase, so we do encourage you to buy those in advance of the festival, or at Unity’s book table at Meow over the weekend.
PROGRAMME CHANGES
The LitCrawl event, Letters to Disabled Friends (Sat 11 Nov, 6pm; previously at Arty Bees), has been moved to St Peters, 211 Willis street.
Any changes to the programme will appear on our website, social media and in our newsletters. You are also welcome to email us at info@verbwellington.co.nz
All of the income from ticket sales and donations goes straight to the making of this festival and supporting the incredible writers and artists who are at the core of all that we do. Thank you to our generous partners, sponsors, supporters and Verb Community - your support makes this wonderful event possible!