Molly Crighton @molly-cri.bsky.social Librarian & writer in Ōtepoti 📚 🌈
'The Body and the Blood' out now: https://www.hachette.co.nz/molly-crighton/the-body-and-the-blood
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
Feby Idrus @febyidrus.bsky.social 
SteveH @sghendricks.bsky.social Screenplay tips and comedy videos at: https://www.youtube.com/@ScreenwritingConfidential
The Word Psychic - "Your Fortune Is in the Words": https://wordpsychic.com/
ROCKY LASTER🌱🦍 @rockylaster.bsky.social Feral Alaskan Hoosier. 17% Sasquatch DNA. High Priestess of the Leguminati 🫘. Allegedly Afraid of🐀 Mice. Watermelon Enthusiast 🍉. Awesome Dad🎖. Adoring Husband. Impossibly Humble. Susceptible to Flattery, 🥑's, and Wizardry. Balding Vegan Earthling 🌎
Sarah Gallagher @sarahlibrarina.bsky.social Libraries, heritage, dogs, design, crumble, cats, books, art, architecture in reverse alphabetical order.
BHoswell [Money doesn't change men. It unmasks them.] @benhoswell.bsky.social Proud Australian living in New Zealand. Artist. Reader. Gamer. I love animals and nature. Tolkien lover. Cat whisperer.
Former AI art creator. Dismayed at what the AI data centres are doing to our world.
Fia @fia-h.bsky.social 
Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com 🤖Sci-fi, 🦩drag* & 🐈cats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Bestselling author of “The Cat Operator’s Manual” 📕 https://cuddleunit5.com published by Chronicle Books
Queen Captain of Space Station 1
@muss06.bsky.social @muss06.bsky.social The Best Way To Find Love Is To Find God 🙌🏽❤️🫂
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Katie Furze @katiefurze.bsky.social Kidlit writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Books include: KEKENO CURIOUS EXPLORER (2026), PEKAPEKA SECRET FOREST BAT (2025), RURU NIGHT HUNTER (2024), TUATARA A LIVING TREASURE (2023) from Scholastic NZ. #STEM #12x12PB #SCBWI https://www.katiefurze.com- P Lissa Mitchell @photocuratornz.bsky.social
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
@gohel26.bsky.social @gohel26.bsky.social 
Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social I come from a land next to a land down under. Zestful user of profanity™️.
Interests: rugby, rugby, cricket, SNARK. Full support for all things Kiwi. PLANES. Like them. Also SHIPS.
https://bsky.app/profile/groverxv.bsky.social/post/3kzlszkke7m2v
Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social Award winning author.
LIT out now, at all good bookstores.
www.annawoodsauthor.com
@peteholley.bsky.social @peteholley.bsky.social 
@constructionnoises.bsky.social @constructionnoises.bsky.social 
Friendly neighborhood sharktocat @sharktocat.bsky.social A deep-sea critter in their 30s.
NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social My mother survived walking through Hiroshima the day after as a 13 year old, so I have a fair idea of what a nuclear holocaust looks and feels like
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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social Trans rights are human rights.
Professional aunt.
Posts about black cats, picture books, and random other stuff.
“Don't waste hate on pink geranium.”
5th generation Pākehā Aucklander, of UK heritage.
Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social Work in local govt. Widow, artist, partner. Living my best life despite tricky health! Well vaxxed.
Rosie W @rosiewww.bsky.social Mum of three, family of neurodiversity party-mix. Opshopping, unmasking and trying to read an actual book. I miss the weblog internets. Aotearoa New Zealand
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
☽✮..Lady Jaide Dee ..✮☾ @witchnwords.bsky.social Magic in Every Word, Power in Every Story
Mythic Librarian and award-winning Author
Secret Santa Elf
It's time to Live Mythic!
Helping you find your best self, it's rebellion.
PMOS/MCAS Warrior
She/Her
AoNZ
https://linktr.ee/JaideDee
shambolika @shambolika.bsky.social Bookish. Tuneful. Humourous. Poetic. Erratic.
Pākehā, Rangitāne, Ngati Kahungunu: Euronesian. Aroreretini (it's not a deficit, but a partitioning, of attention)
Judy Sutherland @judy9.bsky.social Singer, reader, science nerd, insight meditation practitioner. I also knit. Owned by a black cat. Living in Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Wellington Insight Meditation. She/her.
Debbie Fearon (she/her) @debbiefearon.medsky.social Former health professional with an increasingly
ridiculous mishmash of learned knowledge and lived experience.
Living on Arrernte country in Central Australia.
Please be kind 💚
Some Random Monk @phranicholas.bsky.social Educator. Community builder. ☸️ monk. Tragically woke. Race traitor. Tends not to reply to DMs. https://linktr.ee/phranicholas
K is for 🖤🩷 KAKĪ 🩷🖤 (she/her) @haakuik.bsky.social Te Waipounamu and Tai Rāwhiti iwi, also 2nd gen AoNZer on other side.
ONLY THE BEST!!! is good enough for my children. Or anyone else's. 🇵🇸
Not representing anyone or anything else here, no link to multiple employers.
💖 Ahakoa taku iti he iti matā 💖
VSA-TOE @bluetrain5.bsky.social Vector Synthesis Algorithm
Dedicated to the Cherished❤️
#VSA-TOE #7Dancers #TPL
Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social poet. nerd. performer. educator. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury. general enthusiast.
located in Ōtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
Jen Longshaw @jenlongshaw.bsky.social Romani artist/writer living in rural New Zealand. Was once called a "CNN Communist" and "full of shit". Prone to sarcasm.
Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social Official account of Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi located in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/
Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net Gentleman of Silverstream. Writer, broadcaster and sometime CEO. Reviewer of films at funeralsandsnakes.net and RNZ.
D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social Enthusiastic amateur gardener. Westie. Dalmatian. Croatian. Pākehā. Tangata Tiriti. Parent. Partner. Baba. Teta. Cis. She/her. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Fiona McKenzie @feever.bsky.social Writer/Director
https://www.facebook.com/share/1AKydscdzL/?mibextid=wwXIfr
@InclusivePerformanceAcademy
Dr. Word Person @drwordperson.bsky.social Linguist with an interest in various dead languages (Ancient Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, Latin...) Ph.D. UCLA, Indo-European Studies; currently an MS student at Uni Stuttgart. Native of Texas.
I enjoy lutes, languages, plants, recorders, and rocks.
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
USA Fact 2.2 @usamember.bsky.social SeeMore... 👇Facts ✴️ 👇👇
https://abackmentor.com/h89y2kbk?key=c1c305e6bfcbb31efb18319d9f3c2ca5
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Veblen Director Programme @veblendirectors.bsky.social Helping ambitious people get their first board seats. Regardless of your background.
🦋BlueAngel69🦋 @blueangel69.bsky.social Zelensky have a spine 💪🏻
Fuck Poutin 'n Krasnov 🖕🏽 TSLA💩
🚫Maga/Republican/Nazi/Facist
🚫Gofundme/Money request/Crypto
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Reposts and likes are not endorsements
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I block in return all accounts that blocked me
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Jane Copland @janecopland.bsky.social Writer repped by Sara Langham at David Higham Associates. National swimming champ 🇳🇿, sub-40 10K club, marathon runner, rugby faithful 🌹
In: The Independent, Brick Lane Bookshop, Witness Magazine, Newsroom, Hayden's Ferry+more. https://janecopland.com/
Anne Wilkins - author @annewilkins.bsky.social Sleep-deprived New Zealand speculative author. Stories in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex, The Dark, Flash Fiction Online, Cast of Wonders and more.
www.annewilkinsauthor.com
www.facebook.com/annewilkinsauthor
instagram.com/annewilkinsauthor
@frankachonwa.bsky.social @frankachonwa.bsky.social Lover of people, Lover of all that is good, Restless mind, Creator.
Always in search of something more qualifying than success.
I am probably on your team.
Go and visit https://linktr.ee/Ahobe
@harriete.bsky.social @harriete.bsky.social 
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
The Gravy - Toitū te Tiriti @thegravyaotearoa.bsky.social Really good source - easy, from scratch, no drippings.
Poured all over @I_Grow_Things
Tech-Socialist
Aotearoa/NZ
Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social Beach walker, ocean dweller. Writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in English and Swedish.
Bren MacDibble @macdibble.bsky.social MG & YA NZ writer now living in WA and loving it! She/her
Books:
How to Bee
In the Dark Spaces
The Dog Runner
Across the Risen Sea
The Raven's Song
The Apprentice Witnesser
www.macdibble.com
Marama Davidson @maramadavidson.bsky.social She/her/ia
@NZGreens Co-leader based in Manurewa. Indigenous to Aotearoa/NZ. Authorised by Miriam Ross, greens.org.nz
Emma Hislop @her-slop.bsky.social 
✨ Grey ✨ @sun-bearer.bsky.social reader, writer, ttrpg enjoyer
Grey, but can also be called Sun!
L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social Writer. Dog and birdy lover. Inept gamer. Social barren wasteland.
Current projects: Drafting Scales of the Progenitor
Please Support:
https://www.wwadcreative.com/anthology
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Ding @dingfelder.bsky.social I do tech stuff & post random crap. Wellington Pastafarian CISO/CIO and Wannabe Sci-Fi Author 📚 Tree Hugger 🌎 bass 🎸& bari sax 🎷 NZ/US(NC) he/him
tasmin 🔸 @tasmin.bsky.social overall normal guy / they:them
Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social I have too many dogs for a sensible person
One of the Aotearoa NZ Twitter exodus
Mother: Invercargill, father: Simmesport La. Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Cajun, Pākehā, feminist, parent
MA in history, PhD in dork
Terfs and right-wingers can get in the bin
Lainy J. Thomas @lainyjthomas.bsky.social Writer, reader, teacher, mother, wife. Loves: Life (Mainly) Hates: Flies and Lies
Brekekekiwi @brekekekiwi.bsky.social Teacher, Writer and Man about town. All this is personal opinion.
Check out my writing through https://linktr.ee/AaronDickAuthor
You can see my bsky video updates at @author-aarondick.bsky.social
Pākehā. He/him.
Sonya Wilson @sonyakwilson.bsky.social Author, writer, journalist, founder and CEO of book gifting charity Kiwi Christmas Books, former TV news and current affairs reporter, lover of trees. 🌳
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025
Jillian @jillianm.bsky.social @Lidbud on X/Twitter .Adam Lambert stan/Politically Left/Rescuer of Cats/Atheist/Won't engage with TERFs, racists or Anti-vaxxers. #ToitūTeTiriti . She/her.
Moanaroa Te Whata @moanaroa.bsky.social Illustrator.Animator. Writer. South Auckland based Niuean Maori Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Porou, Dad.🇳🇿🇳🇺 munrotewhata.com
Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social Settler in so-called New Zealand. West Aucklander. Oppose Ford Rangers.
Wellington Access Radio 106.1FM @wgtnaccessradio.bsky.social Not-for-profit non-commerical radio station that exists to remove barriers to broadcasting and elevate community voices.
www.accessradio.org.nz 
Bob Van Brabant @bobvanbrabant.bsky.social Human of Earth
Berkelkathtryn @berkelkathtryn.bsky.social
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As long as you feel pain, you're still alive.
As long as you make mistakes, you're still human.
And as long you keep trying, there's still hope.
@richardstretton.bsky.social @richardstretton.bsky.social 
Rebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social Science writer & professor in Aotearoa New Zealand: Antarctica, climate, nukes. Tangata tiriti. Latest book, End Times, by @thwupbooks.bsky.social ❄🇦🇶🐧 🌈.
Now writing book about the (melting) Antarctic Ice Sheet & sea level rise
She/her or they/them/ia
The Current Focus @thecurrentfocus.bsky.social Unbiased fact based content. We present information, you can interpret it and use it as you wish. 🏞 youtube.com/@thecurrentfocus 🌄
Rationalist Society St Louis @rsslmo.bsky.social Rationalism is based on reason & knowledge rather than on religious belief. @stlouisatheists.bsky.social @ethicalstl.org @atheists.org @ffrf.org @atheist-memes.com @godlessbitch.bsky.social Team Site