Become a sponsor

Connect with our audience!

Held annually in central Auckland, the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival is New Zealand’s largest literary event with an educated, engaged and discerning audience of over 31,000 in 2011.  

 Our typical audience member is:

• Female (64%)
• Aged 45 plus
• University educated (83% have degree)
• Passionate  and social (98% would recommend Festival to friends)
• Affluent (50% have household income over $100,000)

Place your brand in an experiential non-cluttered environment which challenges, delights and delivers excellence to a receptive audience.

We can offer:

• Category exclusivity
• Brand acknowledgment and advertising (in venue, online and social media channels, through our monthly e-zine to 3500 subscribers and in our 72 page programme: print run 62,000 of which over half are direct mailed into the hands of subscribers)
• Client and staff hospitality opportunities – place your brand in the company of some of NZ and the world’s greatest writers and thinkers
• Product placement (in venue and at Festival events)
• Enhancement of your brand through achieving corporate social responsibility objectives (such as promotion of literacy through our Schools Programme) and advocating for the creative economy

Let us tailor a package to meet your brand objectives.

Contact: 

Scott Ashton
Communications and Business Development Manager
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival

Email:  scott@writersfestival.co.nz
Mobile: 021 122 5465
Phone: 09 376 8074