Wellington Branch

Wellington branch is lively and engaged. Our 350-plus members range from renowned authors and emerging literary stars to aspiring writers, producing all kinds of work: non-fiction, literary through to speculative fiction, work for children and young adults, short stories, flash fiction, poetry and more. We enjoy our close connection with the Wellington Writers Walk. Our region includes te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa and Kāpiti Coast, and we welcome everyone who’s interested in writing and in our local writing community.

Branch Chair: Gigi Fenster
Secretary: Maya Cohen-Ronen
Treasurer: Tracy Farr
Regional Delegate: Currently vacant

Meetings and events

We hold in-person and online branch events through the year. Please check out our Facebook page for event news.

Upcoming events:

NZSA Wellington presents Shifting stigma through writing, Tuesday 14 July 2026

Our next NZSA Wellington Branch event will be held at two/fiftyseven from 6.30–7.30pm on Tuesday 14 July. In this talk specially crafted for NZSA Wellington Branch, Jan Jordan and Kristen Phillips will discuss why they chose to write about often-stigmatised topics and explore the power of writing to shift the dial on stigma. Read more …

Wairarapa meet-ups – watch this space

We’ve pressed pause for now on our informal meet-ups for writers in Wairarapa, or with a Wairarapa connection. Email us if you’d like to be added to our Wairarapa mailing list, for news about upcoming events and get-togethers.

Connect with NZSA Wellington

Facebook NZSA Wellington Writers

Instagram @nzsauthorswgtn

And we’re on Bluesky now, too @nzsauthorswgtn

Email nzsawellington@gmail.com

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Banner Image: Wellington Writers Walk.
Quote from Denis Glover (1912-1980)
From ‘Wellington Harbour is a Laundry’ in Come High Water, Dunmore Press, 1977

The harbour is an ironing board;
Flat iron tugs dash smoothing toward
Any shirt of a ship, any pillowslip
Of a freighter they decree
Must be ironed flat as washing from the sea.