The SKYCITY Auckland Community Trust is proud to support the attendance of schools at the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Giving students from low-decile schools the experience of meeting writers and listening to them discuss their craft is particularly rewarding as many may be budding authors themselves. We wish the festival team well in their preparations for the 2010 festival and hope the Schools programme is as successful as it was in 2009. Jock Irvine, Chair.

At South Pacific Pictures we know that great writing is the foundation of all drama and great execution is the realisation of that writing. What better way to encourage a love of words and stories in the next generation of New Zealanders than by supporting the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival 2010 Schools Programme.