Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
Leah Dodd @leahjd.bsky.social poet :)
tasmin 🔸 @tasmin.bsky.social overall normal guy / they:them
Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
Jennifer @jennifilm.nz Queer & trans writer, photographer, and advocate from Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Gender villain, woke ideological feral, extremist lefty loser, party witch, etc.
I ako tonu au i te reo Māori - mehemea ka hē au, kia pai mai!
jenniferkshields.nz
Torrey Peters @torreypeters.bsky.social On social media hiatus! For contact info check my website torreypeters.com
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)
Evelyn @depressionerror.bsky.social I draw pictures of a ghost and a goblin
Heather Noisy 🖤🏳️⚧️ @hdnoisy.bsky.social Full time chef, part time clocked out.
Te Whanganui a Tara.
anti-ops. pro-gay.
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
Marie Cardno @mariecardno.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/mariecardno
Writer of cozy fantasy. Winner of the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella: How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster). she/her
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
@hurtbooks.bsky.social @hurtbooks.bsky.social HuRT is a t4t publishing project
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Emma Shi | 石艾玛 @emmlexx.bsky.social poet, writer, editor
Beezy Pops @beezypops.bsky.social Becks Popham: Artist, Bookseller-on-hiatus, doer of things.
Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social Writer, performer, facilitator, somatic coach & dreamer. Author of FIERCE FEMMES & NOTORIOUS LIARS, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, FROM THE STARS IN THE SKY TO THE FISH IN THE SEA, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN. https://linktr.ee/kaichengthom
Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
Professor (Ohio University)
Writer (✨✨✨)
https://linktr.ee/caseyplett
Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
Sara Salt-Marsh Wolfthing @never.horse Publishing as n͓̽e͓̽v͓̽e͓̽r͓̽ ͓̽a͓̽n͓̽g͓̽e͓̽l͓̽i͓̽n͓̽e͓̽ ͓̽n͓̽ø͓̽r͓̽t͓̽h͓̽ ♥ Writer, Entroponeticist, Trivigaunti Spy. The worst photographer on Ebird. Poetry Editor for @anewsession.com.
Homepage: http://never.horse
midden rahurahu @tainuitillidienui.bsky.social Maaori / Irish rat
worstselling author of the novel "Poorhara"
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/poorhara/
NOT A WOMAN OR A MAN
Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Issy Waldrom @iwaldrom.bsky.social She/her. Trans woman author of queer fantasy and supernatural stories (usually sapphic).
Latest release: Heart's Whispers
(universal link) https://books2read.com/ap/n7L2B2/Issy-Waldrom
(itch) https://issy-waldrom.itch.io/
Aubrey Wood - BANG BANG BODHISATTVA paperback and audio out now! @briewoodfiction.bsky.social I write books & bad skeets. She/her.
Science fiction author based in Aotearoa NZ. Lambda and Kitschies Golden Tentacle finalist. Foul-mouthed transfemme butch and burger enthusiast. Queer cyberpunk debut BANG BANG BODHISATTVA out now from Solaris!
The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com by transfemmes. for transfemmes. about transfemmes. | @transjournalists.org member | thetransfemininereview.com | ed. Bethany Karsten
Sophia Turner (Mara out now!) 🏳️⚧️ @sophiajt.com Soph. She/her. Kiwi. Trans lesbian author of Mara, Machines of Consent, and more. 💕 wife @embermoth.prismata.press. Co-founder @prismata.press.
No genAI. Ever.
Personal: https://www.sophiajt.com
Writing: https://prismata.press/links/
demon grrl | cyberdemon era @demongrrl.gay Aurora | she/her/ae/aer | AU | 26
Lesbian disaster. Emergency rations futch. Cartographer. Composer.
Writing GO brainrot <3
All thoughts and opinions my own.
~
Links: https://demongrrl.com/links
Alt🔞: @afterdark.demongrrl.gay
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
Helen Rickerby @helenrickerby.bsky.social Poet and so forth.
Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
Tara @taracomics.bsky.social Author of This is Not a Pipe. Posts comics at taracomics.substack.com (they/them: tangata Tiriti)
Archive of live drawings (2017-2024) available at the National Library: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/55900477
Anthony Lapwood @antzlapwood.bsky.social Fiction writer. He / him. Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Pākehā. Won the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction for HOME THEATRE. Novel MINCEMEAT out in November. Views my own. 📷 Trinity Thompson-Browne
www.anthonylapwood.com
microplæst[이]ks @plaest2k.bsky.social Sloane Hong // she/her // award-winning something-or-other
email: plaest2k@gmail.com
portfolio: http://plaest2k.xyz
digital comics: https://plaest2k.itch.io
patreon: http://patreon.com/plaest2k
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/plaest2k
tumblr: plaest2k.tumblr.com
ashleigh @ashleighyoung.bsky.social Writer and editor. SOME FLAILING
https://eyelashroaming.substack.com/
Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
Giselle @giselledraws.bsky.social Illustrator/Author/Cartoonist in Aotearoa NZ
Talia Marshall @princesstehangi.bsky.social failed poet
Kirsten McDougall @cursesmcd.bsky.social Reader, writer, professional parallel parker
Murdoch Stephens @murdochstephens.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
Brannavan Gnanalingam @brannavan.bsky.social Novelist and occasional reviewer 
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
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
Alice Tawhai @alicetawhai.bsky.social
Life is but a fever dream
www.alicetawhai.com
T-shirt in banner by @thanepullan.bsky.social
E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social An online magazine committed to independent Māori and Pacific journalism that challenges and cultivates understanding. Subscribe and donate here: https://e-tangata.co.nz/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=subscribe
Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
melissa broder @melissabroder.bsky.social i wrote Death Valley, Milk Fed, The Pisces, So Sad Today, Superdoom, and Last Sext
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
https://www.chenchenwrites.com
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
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/
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
🔞
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
Devon @devonsmith.bsky.social Pottery - Painting - illustration - tattoos
Http://www.devonsmith.co.nz
I.S. Belle @isbelleauthor.bsky.social Bookshop employee & author of dark LGBT YA books with happy endings ❤️
isbelleauthor.com
Francis Cooke @franciscooke.bsky.social 
Mia Moore @miamoore.bsky.social Filmmaker 🔸️ Again Again 🔸 NSFW 🔞 (minors DNI)
https://linktr.ee/miamooretree
rebecca k reilly hour @rkr.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/rkrei 
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
🐈🏋🏻♀️🔮☕️🎮🎤🍑✨😚👌🏼🍉📚🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Joy Holley @joyholley.bsky.social 
Khadro 🇸🇴 @itsmekhadro.bsky.social 25. author. poet & that’s kinda it 
Dani Yourukova @daniyourukova.bsky.social 🌙✨ poet, bookhag, moonwife. I’ve written a book (which you can find here): https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/transposium/
Jackie Lee Morrison @jaxies.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇭🇰 🇳🇿 Writes words, pets animals, eats noods 🍜 Rep.: Naomi Eisenbeiss @ InkWell Management
https://linktr.ee/jaxieslm
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
Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
@cocosolid.bsky.social @cocosolid.bsky.social 
Tayi @paniaofthekeef.bsky.social Te Whanau a Apanui & Ngati Porou. Books with Knopf, Penguin UK & THWUP Books.
The Pantograph Punch @pantographpunch.bsky.social an arts and culture journal • theatre, books, art and everything in between 💕 ✨abject waste ✨ an arts and culture journal • theatre, books, art and everything in between 💕 ✨abject waste ✨ Est 2011.
Lily Holloway @milfs4minecraft.bsky.social trapped in a little fish tank
syracuse mfa '25
co-editor-in-chief Salt Hill
lilyholloway.co.nz
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.
Sam Orchard @samorchard.bsky.social Queer, Trans and Nerdy. Making comics, reading comics, researching comics. http://patreon.com/roostertails
He/They
Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social Big Honking Dyke
morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social good evening 
loretta @ghostb1rd.bsky.social poet. they/them
Lo @lozerapam.bsky.social 
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.
Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social writer ~ doing my PhD?! ~ wellington, nz ~ she/her
www.janearthur.co.nz
Emmy Rākete @cannibality.bsky.social communist, prison abolitionist, criminologist, cool mum 🌱 university lecturer, unless you're one of my students, in which case you didn't see me on here
Sascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Crawford Award finalist. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social
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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
van @deathbypdf.bsky.social nonbinary princess pirate boy 💪🫶
professionally lying down
views my own
Sorry if u sense mental illness on the TL
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal