Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
tasmin 🔸 @tasmin.bsky.social overall normal guy / they:them
Leah Dodd @leahjd.bsky.social poet :)
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
Matthew King @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist/Game Developer @ Flex Fish Games. We're makin' a BAD-ASS, Pac-Man-styled, HAND DRAWN!!!!... 2D Arcade Game called... SUPER PUNKS N GUTS for consoles and PC cause we cool, yo! Follow our journey as we game dev the CRAP out this TREASURE!!!
Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social Lotographia on various other social networks.
Person of Pōneke, Aotearoa. They/He (in that order). Green Party supporter & volunteer. Lego collector. Trying to build a website and write a book and failing at both.
"David Thomsen".
@seanmolloy1973.bsky.social @seanmolloy1973.bsky.social 
Simon Carryer @simoncarryer.bsky.social 
Talia Marshall @princesstehangi.bsky.social failed poet
bad apple @badappledotgay.bsky.social Aotearoa’s tastiest queer arts and literature journal. Run completely on volunteer work.
Kōtuku Titihuia (she/they) @nettlebeading.bsky.social mostly here for reading recs tbh. You can find my book "Tauhou" from Te Herenga Waka Press (AUS/NZ) and House of Anansi Press (US/CAN). (te ātiawa / ngāti tūwharetoa / W̱SÁNEĆ)
FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social pākehā, she/her, very successful and famous.
wrote a book it's called HEAD GIRL. there's poems in it.
freyadalysad.com
Jillian Robinson @jillianrobinson.bsky.social Pocket reckons about books and life
Toitū te tiriti
She/her
Heather Noisy 🖤🏳️⚧️ @hdnoisy.bsky.social Full time chef, part time clocked out.
Te Whanganui a Tara.
anti-ops. pro-gay.
the people’s autistic boyslut @sithbheire.bsky.social 𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖝𝖚𝖆𝖑 𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖆𝖈𝖊 | ᴘᴀ̄ᴋᴇʜᴀ̄ ᴏғ sᴄᴏᴛᴛɪsʜ ʜᴇʀɪᴛᴀɢᴇ
Samantha Lane Murphy @sammurphy.bsky.social writer of small things. she/her, they/them. pākehā. aussie born.
2020 Modern Letters Fiction Prize, shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Dee @deerberrynz.bsky.social Kiwi counsellor living with chronic migraine and cats. Tangata tiriti, late Gen X, polyam, kinky, queer, fat. Covid-cautious mask-wearer. Free Palestine. Anti-AI. (they/she)
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Julie @kvarko.northsky.social Roller derby, Computer engineer, Esperanto, Aotearoa NZ, 🏳️⚧️
Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social SFF writer, disability comms person. Likes: knitting🧶 board games🎲 sea creatures🐙 reading📚 cheese🧀. Lives: Te Awakairangi ki Tai | Lower Hutt. Pronouns: they/them. 🏳🌈🏳️⚧️🩼♾️
https://linktr.ee/andiwrites
JOMTaylor (she/her) @reverendjasmine.bsky.social poet/human
toitū te Tiriti
no to AI
#beer #poetry #bipride #ōtepoti #cannabislawreform #aotearoa
sporadically i put poems here: jasminetaylorpoetry.co.nz
prismata.press @prismata.press A trans owned and operated micro press based in New Zealand committed to telling passionate trans stories 🏳️⚧️
Transistance Press + Galaxy Moth Press = Prismata Press
https://prismata.press/links
Lil O'Brien @lilobrien.bsky.social Author of memoir Not That I’d Kiss A Girl, editor of 'OTHERHOOD essay anthology, copywriter as Lil Cameron, lush. http://linktr.ee/Lilobrien
Daem Owl @daemowl.bsky.social 30. They/them. An Association of Demons. Ego Anarchist. Currently studying Psychology. We are happily bound by @cerberuscorsage.
No Gods in Hell
The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com by transfemmes. for transfemmes. about transfemmes. | @transjournalists.org member | thetransfemininereview.com | ed. Bethany Karsten
@hurtbooks.bsky.social @hurtbooks.bsky.social HuRT is a t4t publishing project
Emma Shi | 石艾玛 @emmlexx.bsky.social poet, writer, editor
Whitireia Publishing @publishingwhiti.bsky.social Home to Aotearoa New Zealand's Whitireia Publishing Programme
https://www.whitireiaweltec.ac.nz/study-programmes/creativity/creative-writing-and-publishing/
Beezy Pops @beezypops.bsky.social Becks Popham: Artist, Bookseller-on-hiatus, doer of things.
Helen Rickerby @helenrickerby.bsky.social Poet and so forth.
Author M. I. Verras @miverr.bsky.social Renowned author, singer, pianist, music composer.
If not me, then no one else. Soon, you will know my name.
THE HIDDEN FACE is the metaphysical mystery book that STUNNED even people who didn't like reading! Get it here:
https://a.co/d/4lRdJee
Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
Giselle @giselledraws.bsky.social Illustrator/Author/Cartoonist in Aotearoa NZ
S kinteh😎💯 @6391198.bsky.social Lead from the heart, not the head. Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.🖤✌🏾💯
Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Raven’s Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) 🍃Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com
Murdoch Stephens @murdochstephens.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
Alice Tawhai @alicetawhai.bsky.social
Life is but a fever dream
www.alicetawhai.com
T-shirt in banner by @thanepullan.bsky.social
Brannavan Gnanalingam @brannavan.bsky.social Novelist and occasional reviewer 
morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social good evening 
Theresa Crewdson @theresacrewdson.bsky.social Approximately 80% books, 5% tea and 15% chocolate.
Freelance editor. Tutor at Whitireia Publishing.
Caoimhe @caoimhe-rose.bsky.social Publicist @THWUPbooks
Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social Rebecca Hawkes: bitchy damsel, beefy eel, haggard sylph. NZ poet: author of Meat Lovers, king simp for poems at Sweet Mammalian. Words in Palette, Glass, Cordite, & suchlike
Niamh Hollis-Locke @niamhvh-l.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, too many hobbies-haver, etc. Shortlisted Ginkgo Prize, Heroines Prize. Writing a book (very slowly).
UK born, Aotearoa-based, holder of slightly too many English degrees. Enjoys a good walk.
https://linktr.ee/nh_l
Marlon @marlonmk.bsky.social 
Hiona Henare @hiona.bsky.social 
Jenny Nimon @jennynimon.bsky.social 🍄🦌🧚🏻
Writer, insomniac, neighbourhood witch
(she/her)
Wellington, NZ
Muscle Mommy in Training @disastideas.bsky.social she/her
rambunctious sword lady and overall rascal
🔞
Lily Holloway @milfs4minecraft.bsky.social trapped in a little fish tank
syracuse mfa '25
co-editor-in-chief Salt Hill
lilyholloway.co.nz
Whiti Hereaka @whitihereaka.co.nz Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui, Pākehā. Kaituhi Māori. Author of “Kurangaituku”.
Writer of things. Popular emotional cheese dish.
She/her/ia.
www.whitihereaka.co.nz
Profile photo by Tabitha Arthur- B @bmcintyre.bsky.social @bmcintyre.bsky.social
Francis Cooke @franciscooke.bsky.social 
Khadro 🇸🇴 @itsmekhadro.bsky.social 25. author. poet & that’s kinda it 
loretta @ghostb1rd.bsky.social poet. they/them
Sam Orchard @samorchard.bsky.social Queer, Trans and Nerdy. Making comics, reading comics, researching comics. http://patreon.com/roostertails
He/They- H Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social Facta non verba.
Catherine Robertson @cjrauthor.bsky.social Author of Flora Valley, Miss Lovelock and Imperfect Lives series romcoms (catherinejrobertson.com) she/her, trans rights, vote Green, owner of cats, dogs and chickens. Banner pic is Bernie judging you
Dani Yourukova @daniyourukova.bsky.social 🌙✨ poet, bookhag, moonwife. I’ve written a book (which you can find here): https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/transposium/
Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
Peach Sometimes @ehjc.bsky.social Aro Valley. Powerlifting. Feelings. Pākehā. Fatty. Queer + non-binary + femme. They/them. Non-monogamous. C-PTSD. Knows one good joke. Wedding celebrant. Muscle Pisces. https://famous-knots-of-history.ghost.io
🐈🏋🏻♀️🔮☕️🎮🎤🍑✨😚👌🏼🍉📚🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Lo @lozerapam.bsky.social 
GOOD BOOKS @goodbookshopnz.bsky.social www.goodbookshop.nz
GOOD BOOKS is a small independent bookshop on Jessie Street in Te Aro, Pōneke Wellington.
We’re proud to be Aotearoa New Zealand’s first (and only) Living Wage bookshop, with a select and inclusive range of books for all.
van @deathbypdf.bsky.social nonbinary princess pirate boy 💪🫶
professionally lying down
views my own
Sorry if u sense mental illness on the TL
Sascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Lambda Award finalist. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social
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ashleigh @ashleighyoung.bsky.social Writer and editor. SOME FLAILING
https://eyelashroaming.substack.com/
Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social writer ~ doing my PhD?! ~ wellington, nz ~ she/her
www.janearthur.co.nz
Jackie Lee Morrison @jaxies.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇭🇰 🇳🇿 Writes words, pets animals, eats noods 🍜 Rep.: Naomi Eisenbeiss @ InkWell Management
https://linktr.ee/jaxieslm
te kootahekore ranapiri @ired0mi.bsky.social essa may ranapiri / they/ia / Ngaati Wehi Wehi / Ngaati Puukeko / Ngaati Rangiwewehi / Torere / Clan Gunn / kootuku maa / author of ransack & ECHIDNA
Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social Audition :: Nothing to See :: The New Animals :: I'm Working on a Building :: Everything We Hoped For :: Better off Read :: she's no Hemmingway.