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Save the Dates: Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025 
Main Festival Weekend 9-11 May 2025  Young Readers Programme 7-9 May 2025
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New Zealand's
Official Booktown

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Featherston Booktown - Celebrating Books, Storytelling and Ideas
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We are grateful to our major funders

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2024 Festival Feedback

A selection of choice words about Featherston Booktown's recent Karuaktea Festival held in May 2024.

“Welcoming, unique, accessible, out of the box, the opposite of a stuffy literature fest, inspiring, hope giving”

Huge small-town welcome. A vibrant celebration of the arts.”

Festival-goers, 2024 Survey feedback

...and a few reviews

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The Spinoff
'The indie book-fest bringing big ideas to small town Wairarapa' by Erin Banks

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Scoop
'A Village of Books' by Stephen Colson

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Newsroom'
'Featherston is better than Auckland' by
Steve Braunias

Latest News & Updates

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Sept 2023-July 2024: An Overview from the Chair 

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Latest Videos

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The Sights & Sounds of Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2024

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Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2024 Programme Launch

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Featherston Booktown's Rural Readers Outreach Programme Pilot

Jump directly to our main page on YouTube:

Booklover's Trail 
Te Ara Kai Pukapuka

Check out our free smartphone app to learn more about the Wairarapa’s literary sites of interest! 

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The Featherston Booktown Podcast

Available on Apple, Spotify and Buzzsproat!

Musical theme by Kolya Marks. Produced by Denver Grenell & Phil Quin for Featherston Booktown. 

About Featherston Booktown 

Booktowns are an international phenomenon, celebrating books, from their stories through to their paper, glue and ink.

 

Featherston is now a fully-fledged, internationally recognised Booktown.

Special thanks to Pete Monk for putting together this video.


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Featherston's Bookstores
 

For full details about our town's eight all year round bookmongers, visit our Bookstores page.
 

Chicken and Frog Bookshop
Chicken and Frog Bookshop
For the Love of Books
For the Love of Books
The Dickensian Bookshop & Tea Rooms
The Dickensian Bookshop & Tea Rooms
Loco Cafe & Books
Loco Cafe & Books
Featherston Crystals and Curiosities
Featherston Crystals and Curiosities
Messines Bookshop: Military History
Messines Bookshop: Military History
Featherston Ferret
Featherston Ferret
Mr Feather's Den
Mr Feather's Den

Can we ask you a favour?​

Would you consider helping us fill the funding gap by making a donation? We know that not everyone is in a position to do so, but every gift helps us deliver the Karukatea Festival and our other events throughout the year and supports our writers and readers.

We hope you enjoy our online events and that you come away inspired and uplifted. Thank you again for supporting Featherston Booktown.

  1. Click on the green button below and you'll be redirected to a form on a new browser tab using POLi Pay.
     

  2. Type in a donation amount and please provide your name and your email address so that we can email you receipt - as all donations are tax deductible as Featherston Booktown is a registered charity.
     

  3. You may be prompted to prove you are a human by selected images from a standard Captcha 'security' feature
     

  4. You will be asked to choose your NZ bank and then you'll need to supply your Internet Banking login details, the account you wish to pay from and a 'Payers' code.

...Thank you. We really do appreciate your support.

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