Feby Idrus @febyidrus.bsky.social 
Sarah Gallagher @sarahlibrarina.bsky.social Libraries, heritage, dogs, design, crumble, cats, books, art, architecture in reverse alphabetical order.
Fia @fia-h.bsky.social 
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
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.
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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social Award winning author.
LIT out now, at all good bookstores.
www.annawoodsauthor.com
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.
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.
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)
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
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/
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 💖
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.
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
Ministry of Health NZ @health.govt.nz The Ministry of Health is the government’s lead advisor on health priorities and policy. We regulate and monitor the health system to deliver better health outcomes for all New Zealanders.
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. 🌳
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.
DairymanNZ @dairymannz.bsky.social Rainfall is measured in mm, not ml! Some posts are pure BS.
Dairy farmer, Ashburton, NZ.
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
Kārikiōrangi @sharonm.bsky.social Climate change and equality for all. Down to one cat.
Ōtautahi Aotearoa
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
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
https://linktr.ee/hollyvalakresch
em @skyuni123.bsky.social theatremaker. comms. writer. i also went to 16 mojos once. very into trains. eph__em__era elsewhere. wellington person. they/them
Feana Tu’akoi @feanatuakoi.bsky.social Writer
2025 Convenor of Judges NZCYA Book Awards
2024 University of Otago CoE Creative NZ Children’s Writer in Residence
https://www.feanatuakoi.com/
Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social Award winning writer; PhD student. Dog & book lover. 'Damn leftie'
Māori/Irish/Scottish/Proud Kiwi
Shakespeare/mātauranga passionate
www.tkroxborogh.com
🚫DMs (unless I know you) 🚫 $$$ or date requests
Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social Toiling in the word mines for decades. Publishing/comms lecturer at Unimelb. Opinions, I got plenty. Join your union/s!
Susan @susanpearce.bsky.social Whakangū ai au, I meditate, e ako ana au i te reo Māori, learn Māori, sing, garden, cook, and enjoy taku mahi ā te Pāremata.
Mary Sea @dreamysunday.bsky.social Coffee & dogs, mostly, if that's ok?
Also learning and literacy and language
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And
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And
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Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social Poet/editor • Monica Taylor Poetry Prize • NSW Poetry Prize • Dalkey Poetry Prize • What the Mirror Tells (5 Islands Press) • Anamnesis (Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist & Rubery Book Award shortlist) • denise-ohagan.com
AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social Cultural mercenary. Mostly harmless. 🇳🇿
https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/shadow-worlds/
Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social Socially awkward political cartoonist. She/her. Like reading and walking.
Ngāi Tahu/Scottish.
Live in Aotearoa New Zealand
Abigail Oswald @abigailoswald.bsky.social detective investigating life | Lost/Found editor at Split/Lip Press | abigailwashere.com/links
Kathryn van Beek @kathrynvanbeek.bsky.social Kathryn van Beek (she/her) is a Pākehā New Zealander of Dutch and English descent. A Robert Burns Fellow and a Winston Churchill McNeish Writers’ Fellow, Kathryn has a doctorate on the topic of using writing as a tool for positive change.
Jackie Lee Morrison @jaxies.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇭🇰 🇳🇿 Writes words, pets animals, eats noods 🍜 Rep.: Naomi Eisenbeiss @ InkWell Management
https://linktr.ee/jaxieslm
Ronnie Smart @ronniesmart.bsky.social Scottish-born Kiwi Writer of Dark Weird Horror, Poetry, and Flash Fiction. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Currently writing a dark fantasy novel.
🚫AI
Gregory Bennett @soundslikecin.bsky.social Lover of film and beer and birds and pinball. Also a writer. https://linktr.ee/gregorybennett
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
Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social Writes words, referees rugby, procrastinates like a pro. He/him
Emma Hislop @emmahislop.bsky.social 
Caoimhe @caoimhe-rose.bsky.social Publicist @THWUPbooks
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
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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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd game dev / comics editor / author
probably worked on that thing you like
lapsed hockey reporter / aotearoa based
represented by ed wilson @ J&A
these views represent my employers so hard that my boss is actually holding a gun to my head as I type this
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social Writer, ice skater, gin drinker. She/her 🏳️🌈. THE LAST BINDING trilogy, SWORDCROSSED, CINDER HOUSE out now. BODIES OF MAGIC out September 2026.
Octavia @octavia-cade.bsky.social New Zealand writer, PhD science communication! Seven time SJV winner. Author of The Stone Wētā, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, and You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories. Creative NZ's writer in residence in Berlin for 2026.
Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
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
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
Alice Tawhai @alicetawhai.bsky.social
Life is but a fever dream
www.alicetawhai.com
T-shirt in banner by @thanepullan.bsky.social
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
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
kī anthony @goblins.download they/他 — occasional poet, professional wordsmith, retired migrant sex worker, merch coordinator @papa.org.nz
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
Brannavan Gnanalingam @brannavan.bsky.social Novelist and occasional reviewer 
Murdoch Stephens @murdochstephens.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
Kirsten McDougall @cursesmcd.bsky.social Reader, writer, professional parallel parker
AJ Fitzwater ⬛🟪⬜️🟨 @ajfitzwater.bsky.social Feral cryptid from the void writing well bent SFF. they/them causing may/hem.
“The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper”: http://books2read.com/u/3kpE6L
"No Man's Land": currently unavailable.
Website: ajfitzwater.com
Repped by: @knifewitch.bsky.social- C Catherine Woulfe @catherinewoulfe.bsky.social Editor at New Zealand Geographic.
Talia Marshall @princesstehangi.bsky.social failed poet
Catherine Chidgey @catherinechidgey.bsky.social Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.
Douglas A. Van Belle @dougvanbelle.bsky.social New Zealand Science Fiction author and Senior Lecturer in Media and the Politics of Crisis, My Latest Novel, A World Adrift, is now available from Wordfire Press in the U.S.
https://wordfirepress.com/books/a-world-adrift/
Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social Scot in Aotearoa. Funny fucker, prone to cry at random videos. Good company, likes a quiz. Music and book lover too. Occasional poet and wannabe novelist. Anti-AI, LLMs. Neo-Luddite. No Nazis/TERFS/billionaires. Plant based. Far left. Toitū Te Tiriti.
Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social PhD Literary Translation Studies; freelance editor; reader; occasional writer; translator, A Tale of Love/ Conte de l'amour bifrons by Linda Lê (Mākaro Press); knitter, mad, mad knitter.
Rachel Smythe @rachelsmythe.bsky.social 1 NYT Bestselling Author |3 Eisners |3 Harveys.
Creator of Lore Olympus.
Current project - Eleanor's Deathbed.
Rep: Britt Siess Creative Management
(Some artistic nudity)
Tags
#eleanorsdeathbed
#loreolympus
Email:loreolympus@gmail.com
Andrew Frame @napierinframe.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Writer, Local Issues Commentator, Cricketer, Umpire, Bay Buzz magazine Columnist, Champion of all things Hawke's Bay. Napier, New Zealand.
George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
https://linktr.ee/Georgepenney
Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social Poet, parent, partner, grandparent.Multiple careers including advertising copywriter, award winning journalist, political reporter, campaign manager, speechwriter, strategic advisor.Now writing and on perpetual garden leave.
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.
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com Philosopher of conspiracy theory theory. Editor (but not the) of “Social Epistemology” & the “Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy”
they/them
Website: https://www.mrxdentith.com
Podcast: https://zencastr.com/The-Podcaster-s-Guide-to-the-Conspiracy
☽✮..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
Giselle @giselledraws.bsky.social Illustrator/Author/Cartoonist in Aotearoa NZ
Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
Rem Wigmore - Wolfpack out now! @remedy.bsky.social Award-winning author of queer SFF books including Foxhunt, Wolfpack, The Wind City and Riverwitch. They/he, Pākehā.
Wolfpack back out now! https://books2read.com/vengefulwild2
Itch: https://remwigmore.itch.io/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/remwigmore
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
Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social Awarded author, journalist: cybersecurity, privacy, Covid. WIRED, PopSci, Spinoff, Engadget, FT, IFJ. Visiting Scholar at Stout Research Centre, NZ. Black Hat keynote. S/her.
Bio: about.me/violetblue
More: linktr.ee/viblue
News: patreon.com/violetblue
Tim Jones @timjonesbooks.bsky.social Writer. Climate justice & environmental activist. Cricket fan. Unexpected metalhead. He/him. My 2023 climate fiction novel "Emergency Weather", set in Wellington, is looking all too relevant right now. #ToituTeTiriti
Caren Wilton @carenwilton.bsky.social Editor, writer, oral historian. Pākehā living in Wairarapa, Aotearoa. She/her. Old lefty bisexual feminist. Cats, gardens, art, books, knitting, human rights. Kia kaha te reo Māori, toitū te Tiriti. Covid isn't over. AI is a scam.
Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz Write, illustrate, play music, create. Faiako before - working in broader education now. PsA, 3 tabby cats, duckposter. she/her.
I look after the garment sewing feed + lots of Aotearoa feeds.
faiako- 🐦🐘 faiako1-🧵
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
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!
grill la grill @wanderlustin.bsky.social yes it's me hello hello. aspiring scientist. somewhat-author. mix-and-match award-nominated and winning writer, narrative designer & editor. edited amarantus 🗡️ narrative designed shape sender deluxe ⭐ chakas lover
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
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 my story collection Home Theatre. My novel Mincemeat is out in November 2026. Views my own.
www.anthonylapwood.com
Cassie/Nova @cassiehart.bsky.social Award winning Māori/Pakeha queer writer of speculative fiction, editor, and mentor from Aotearoa New Zealand.
she/they/ia
Kāi Tahu/Kāti Māmoe
Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space The Wellington Skellington (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Pākehā). He/him/ia. Biscuit Tin Enthusiast. Aotearoa New Zealand.
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social 🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com
Opinions only my own, you can't have them
Auckland, City of Fails
Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social Freelance writer & blogger • Science, environment, travel, books, family, islands • Green, socialist, feminist • Trans rights are human rights • Free Palestine • She/her • Lutruwita/Tasmania via Scotland • #MDANT • dorkymum.com • ruthdawkins.net
Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social General-purpose activist + writer. Pākehā in Aotearoa. Disabled. Brilliant + Amazing. Human rights, politics, feminism, community building, books, parenting, Jesus. 
Denise - High Calibre Māori @highcalibremaori.bsky.social Cybersecurity Professional™️ and energy drink aficionado. Infosec witch.
Māori (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Ngāpuhi & Ngāti Hine) & Kanaka 'Ōiwi. Ultra runner. Published author. Autistic + ADHD.
Stanley Cup Liberal. Views my own.
Dr Chris "Difficult" Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social Book out Feb 2027!
Available everywhere for pre-order.
Bereaved mother. Feminist. Artist. Horticulturist. Disabled. Atheist. Covid aware & cautious. Living in unceded lutruwita .- J Jac Jack Jax @jackminchin.bsky.social Deaf/Disabled, writer & artist, parent, pet person, pro peace, accessibility nerd, book lover, pro hot sauce, anti fejoas. Listen more than I post.
Any pronouns. Aotearoa NZ.
LGMD, C1ROD
Susan Edmunds @susanedmunds.bsky.social 
@kilkenny.bsky.social @kilkenny.bsky.social Reader & writer. Art & design, nature & gardening, theatre, public health, living wage, urban design, sustainable clothing (with pockets!)
Deb E. Howell @deb.deberelene.com Writer, mum, general dog's body at work & around home. 🇳🇿📚🐴🎶
https://linktr.ee/DebEHowell
Leftie. Hopeless idealist. Boring AF Middle-aged Cis-Het White Woman (BUFFER).
Also on: https://mastoart.social/@debehowell
Not looking for random DMs.
Sian Noir @siananigan.bsky.social Writer, artist, knitter, cosplayer, parent, and player of Ice Hockey. She/Her
Sians Dark Arts
Recipes from Buck