{"id":156445,"date":"2025-06-04T03:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156445\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T03:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:23:17","slug":"awf-2025-attendance-book-sales-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156445\/","title":{"rendered":"AWF 2025: attendance, book sales up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tWednesday, 4 June 2025 \u00a0\u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAuckland Writers Festival Waituhi o T\u0101maki (AWF) has reported the overall attendance for the 2025 program, which ran 13\u201318 May, slightly exceeded last year\u2019s record number of 85,000, as well as an increase in book sales. In a joint statement, artist director Lyndsey Fineran and managing director Catriona Ferguson said:&#8230; \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=festivals\" class=\"catitem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Festivals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 4 June 2025 \u00a0\u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o T\u0101maki (AWF) has reported the overall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[11410,186,29677,29680,29674,17976,3444,29679,29681,77,29676,704,29678,29675,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-156445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-author-interviews","11":"tag-book-awards","12":"tag-book-news","13":"tag-book-reviews","14":"tag-books","15":"tag-bookseller-jobs","16":"tag-ebooks","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-library-news","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-publishing-jobs","21":"tag-publishing-news","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114622955975390900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}