Every two years Wairarapa’s festival of reading – Yarns in Barns – brings some of New Zealand’s best writers, poets and storytellers together, celebrating books and storytelling with a country twist.
Events are held in various locations Wairarapa-wide, from a yarn in an iconic woolshed, to poetry at Gladstone Vineyard, and literary gatherings at Hedleys Bookshop, Masterton Library, Aratoi and the Carterton Courthouse.