Membership for businesses
Join us
By becoming a corporate member, you and your team are directly supporting our work to send hundreds of authors and illustrators to inspire over 50,000 tamariki and rangatahi across Aotearoa every year.
Partnering with us helps amplify the voices of Aotearoa's own creatives, helping our stories get published and read. You'll support unique programmes boosting literacy and creativity, along with our leading research and advocacy work.
Your impact
In 2024, our members helped us reach over 55,000 tamariki in Aotearoa with an author or illustrator in their classroom to help inspire a love of reading that will last a lifetime. We produced more than 200 reviews promoting Aotearoa New Zealand's books and authors, grew our database of New Zealand Writers Files to more than 700: and so much more! You can read more about everything we achieved together in our annual report and impact statement.
Membership benefits
Becoming a Read NZ Te Pou Muramura member means:
For corporates
Whether you do big or small business, we’ll work with you to create local or national impact. We’re happy to discuss bespoke or programme-based partnerships based on your scale and needs. You’ll receive our digital asset pack to help tell customers or stakeholders about your support, and our help to tell the story of your impact.
For bookshops
We love bookshops and the role you play in keeping Aotearoa’s book ecosystem humming. We keep our bookshop members connected with notifications of writers visiting schools in your region, and the chance to sponsor a Writers in Schools visit in your local area. We can offer programmes that fit your customer profile, e.g. Hooked on NZ Books reviewing for your YA book club, or much more.
For libraries
We’re keen to support your mahi as a cornerstone of your community. We’ll help you promote your special events or initiatives via our channels, and when we can, connect you with Writers in Schools visits in your local area. Browse our supporter newsletter for Aotearoa book recommendations and author deep dives, and check out which of our programme offerings might resonate with your local community.
For publishers
Getting the word out about new Aotearoa NZ titles is our mission, too! We’ll support you with promotions for two titles per year via our channels, and you can also choose two of your authors for us to spotlight in our communications. In return, you’ll get our digital asset pack to show you’re a generous supporter of Aotearoa’s readers and writers.
Sponsorship options
As well as our corporate membership option, we offer a range of packages for sponsorship support. From helping keen teens review titles to developing community writing projects, groundbreaking national research to Writers in Schools, we've got something to support your business' impact aspirations: and at a price point that suits you. We're also always keen to chat about bespoke sponsorship options - simply get in touch.