Writers are converging from the USA, UK, Ireland, China and Australia, including a Carnegie Medal winner, a Granta Best of Young British Novelist, and a Booker Prize longlister. We have events headlined by international leaders in Indigenous publishing, activists who have changed our country for the better, and rangatahi who are proudly extending literary art forms in exciting new directions. 

We're so proud to offer you our eleventh festival programme where you can find events spanning the range from nourishing and heartwarming to joyous and wildly fun. There is something for all book lovers across genre and form. 

At Verb, we look to a bright future, a radical one, where the creative work that keeps people and communities going is at the centre of national and international conversation. And where the literary arts are supported and celebrated for the enormous contributions they make to our cultural wellbeing and community vibrancy. Welcome to the festival: enjoy!