What’s on
Find out where you can find inc. From book launches and design festivals to industry awards, fairs and events we’re involved with across Aotearoa.
The National Grid Book Launch
The National Grid #10 returns with a bang, covering conspiracy theories, activism, hostile architecture, Māori printing presses and Tongan design practices. The issue includes contributions from Tamsen Hopkinson, Jane Wallace, Matthew Galloway, Kim Paton, Catherine Griffiths, Fiona Jack, Shaun Naufahu, Ann Shelton, Layla Tweedie-Cullen and David Bennewith.
Preorder your copy now (even better, get an annual subscription!) and join us for the THREE launches:
25 October: @samepageartbookfair in Naarm
10 November: @objectspace in Tāmaki Makaurau
13 November: @peg_gallery_ in Pōneke
The Purpose of the Space Is What It Does
Join us at Artspace Aotearoa to celebrate the launch of The Purpose of the Space Is What It Does: Five Notes from Aotearoa, a new publication initiated by Jingcheng Zhao, bringing together arts practitioners across Aotearoa who are constructing space on their own terms.
The publication takes its title from a prompt first offered by artists Nathan Joe and Bea Gladding during a workshop under GAMER: Night School, one of the programmes developed during Jingcheng Zhao’s curatorial internship at Artspace Aotearoa. The prompt became the seed for continued exploration within and beyond the internship.
A space can be physical, but it is also relational, emotional, practical and ongoing. The publication contributors looked at ‘community’ through actions of community: the curator as accompanist; growing food as cultural sovereignty; learning about curatorial work through its contradictions; the bookstore as a site of collective cultural life.
Contributors include Bea Gladding, Balamohan Shingade, Soil of Cultures, Jingcheng Zhao and Nowhere Aotearoa.
This project is funded through the Asian Artist Fund 2025 and made possible through the support of Artspace Aotearoa, Satellites, Foundation North, Creative New Zealand and Auckland Council.
Games Fair
A celebration of all things games, bringing together tabletop games, role-playing, trading cards and more for a day of play, discovery and community. Hosted by the Cancer Society of New Zealand, Games Fair raises funds to support people affected by cancer while bringing gamers and game makers together.
Auckland Writers Festival
Every year we stage over 200 public events, gathering over 220 of the world’s best writers and thinkers to celebrate the world of books and ideas. For the past 24 years the Festival has enriched the culture of our city and established itself as a major Australasian festival, characterised not only by the calibre of our guest authors but also by the enthusiasm and engagement of our audience and the warmth and welcome provided by Auckland as our setting.
The Festival brings the very best local and international writers of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, scientists, economists, poets, journalists and thinkers together with audiences to explore ideas, share stories and experience brilliant conversations. We celebrate curiosity and a sense of intellectual adventure and our programme is driven by the desire to spark ideas, to get us talking and to give us a time and place to engage with the world.
Objectspace Book Fair
A celebration of the book as an object of design, bringing together independent publishers, designers, artists and book lovers. The fair showcases a wide range of local and international publications, with plenty of opportunities to browse, buy and talk books with the people who make them. inc. was proud to be part of the 2026 fair at Objectspace in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Overprint Art Book Fair
Overprint Art Book Fair is a new fair purpose-built for Sydney. Run by Ruby Powell-Hughes (Always Friends ©) and Matt Dunne (Tall Poppy Press, MEL Photobook Fair), OABF builds on their expertise and experience attending, organising and developing book fairs.
Overprint is aiming to be the flagship art book fair for Sydney - a large annual event for atelier publishers, independent publishing houses, self-publishers, zine makers, designers, artists and audiences to congregate and celebrate art books and their diverse forms.
Rooted in Australia, with an eye to international events, OABF promises to be the home for independent publishing in Sydney.
All are welcome to our inaugural event, November 8th, 2026.
Waiheke Whispers Book Launch
If you are on Waiheke this coming Sunday, 1 November, catch the wonderful film and television actor Roy Billing reading excerpts from our new periodical Waiheke Whispers, old stories from the Hauraki Gulf. They are launching Vols 1 + 2 at the Waiheke Library, Sunday at 5pm. Shanties from the Ōmiha Folk Club! Beer from Urbanaut!
Book Launch: Recipes from the Supper Club
Join Peta Mathias at Farro Fresh Newmarket to celebrate the launch of her latest cookbook, Recipes from the Supper Club: A ritual of togetherness.
Beautifully designed and brimming with taste-forward recipes, Peta’s 21st book is an invitation to bring people together over good food. Think salade Niçoise tart, ginger and raspberry madeleines, and plenty of inspiration for your next gathering.
Peta Mathias Recipes from the Supper Club Book Launch
Join Peta at Soho Wines on Sunday 25 October, from 5.30pm. Peta will talk about the book, followed by questions, drinks, snacks inspired by the recipes and, of course, books to buy and have signed by Peta.
Festival of Design Aotearoa
Festival of Design Aotearoa is a national festival celebrating how design shapes life in New Zealand and beyond, from the streets we walk to the systems we rely on and the stories we tell.
The 10-day event will be anchored in Whanganui – Aotearoa's UNESCO City of Design – and extend to Palmerston North, bringing together designers, technologists, businesses and communities.
Across both cities, galleries, theatres, public spaces and unexpected locations will come alive. Each city connects through a festival hub, linking people, ideas and everyday spaces through creativity and light.
It's a festival where big ideas meet everyday life, inviting everyone, from practising designers to the simply curious, to see, test and co-create the future of design in Aotearoa.
Peta Mathias Book Signing
It's New Zealand's Bookshop Day on Saturday 10th October. To celebrate, The Women's Bookshop on Ponsonby Rd in Auckland has invited some authors in to meet, greet & sign books.
At 11am Peta Mathias will be in the shop with her new book Recipes From The Supper Club. Karen Holdom & Nic Russel will also be there.
Then at 1pm Dame Silvia Cartwright, Charlotte Grimshaw & Liv Sisson will be in the house.
Best Design Awards
The Best Design Awards is an annual showcase championing Design excellence (Whakamana Te Toi) in animation, digital, film, graphics, industrial design, spatial. Along with three special awards - Social Good, Toitanga (our indigenous award) and Value of Design.
CIRCUIT Dialogues in Artist Moving Image Book Launch
Lamp Light Books
G01/100 Parnell Road
Auckland.
Book Launch | This Imperfect Light by Ben Brown
Scorpio Books and Dead Bird Books warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of This Imperfect Light by Ben Brown with original artwork by Bill Hammond (29 Aug 1947 – 30 Jan 2021).
PANZ Book Design Awards
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) established the PANZ Book Design Awards to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design in New Zealand.
The Sleeptalker Poems Book Launch
If you have seen a copy of either of Schaeffer's chapbooks, you will know they are very particular objects. True to the poet, the material decisions are an intoxicating mix of intensely thought out and devil may care.
SLEEPTALKER was printed on extremely fine, almost translucent newsprint-like paper, and bound with staples. His first name and the title are on the cover in green ink in all caps, and the typefaces throughout are all serifs. 70 copies were made.
sleeptalker 2 was printed on a sky blue paper with some lettering in variously coloured inks, all in lower case sans serif. It was simply folded and left unbound, and some of the 100 copies have made their way into the world with slightly different page ordering.
In honour of Schaeffer's idiosyncratic methods, our new edition that collects 'the sleeptalker poems' embodies an obsessive search for matching materials, as well as the deepest breaths of pragmatic compromise.
Auckland Zinefest
Auckland Zinefest is a celebration of creativity and self-publishing, based in Tāmaki Makaurau Aotearoa. We’re a local hub for zine culture, organising community events and activities that share and support DIY-publishing in Auckland and beyond.