Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival

Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival
Kyle Mewburn, Robyn Belton and David Elliot during the 2021 festival session "Writing for Children"
Genreliterary festival
CountryNew Zealand
Established2014
Patron(s)Lynley Hood
Websitehttps://www.dunedinwritersfestival.co.nz/

The Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival (abbreviated as DWRF) is a literary festival held in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. Since its inception in 2014, there have been in total six festivals, including a special Celtic Noir event in 2019. The event is based mainly at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery but utilises Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, the Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Hall, the Dunedin Central Library and in 2021 the central live music venue Dog with Two Tails. Festival events include talks, book launches, workshops, a storytrain or storybus, and in some years the unveiling of a new plaque on the Dunedin Writers' Walk.

In 2020 Hannah Molloy replaced Claire Finlayson as director of the festival.

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