Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social Beach walker, ocean dweller. Writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in English and Swedish.
Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social Poet! https://www.annajackson.nz/
she/her
When I translate Catullus writing as Sappho, as Ariadne, as Attis, as Procne, am I bird or birdsong? The journey, or the backwards glance?
Vanda Symon @vandasymon.bsky.social Kiwi crime writer, CWA Dagger finalist, Barry Award nominee, science gal, and dangerous woman with a sword. The Traitors New Zealand
rebecca k reilly hour @rkr.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/rkrei 
Alice Te Punga Somerville @alicetps.bsky.social Scholar Poet Irredentist Māmā | Māori on Musqueam whenua
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.
Oratia Books @oratiabooks.bsky.social 
Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social Teacher of Literacy based in Horowhenua, NZ. Life-long learner, and lover of reading. Currently working on a Doctor of Education
Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social Angry at Facebook. Poet. PhD. Creator / Founder / Director / Facilitator of Mana Moana - an indigenous knowledge / decol leadership programme for Pacific peoples. Activist. Artist. Māmā. Former academic. Currently writing three books.
Li Chen @exocomics.com I like cats.
My third graphic novel Detective Beans and the Map of Mystery is now available worldwide! https://detectivebeans.com
Becs Tetley @becstetley.bsky.social Nonfiction writer and editor in Wellington, New Zealand.
📝 Essays in Tahoma Literary Review, The Spinoff, Roi Fainéant, Reckon Review, Headland Journal, and elsewhere.
📚 Reviews in Kete Books.
🎓 MA Creative Writing - AUT.
📷 Ebony Lamb
Erica @ericastretton.bsky.social writer, reviewer, editor at Kete Books.
Nat Baker @natbaker.bsky.social writer of fictional words @NZListener @takahemagazine @HeadlandJournal @NewsroomNZ @millymagazine @Turbine | Kapohau...Occasional reviews @Kete Books...Here for writing and writers...Opinions all mine (She/her)
Murdoch Stephens @murdochstephens.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
Renee Liang @reneeliang.bsky.social Paediatrician, health researcher, writer, librettist and poet from Aotearoa. Child longitudinal studies, equity, intersectional youth health. Columnist on big-picture health issues, North and South. Staunch Cantonese aunty/mama.
Kirsten McKenzie @kirstenmckenzie.bsky.social Author, Mother, Wife, New Zealander
Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social writer ~ doing my PhD?! ~ wellington, nz ~ she/her
www.janearthur.co.nz
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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Nikky Lee - Author @nikkythewriter.com SFFH Author | Aurealis Award Winner, Ditmar Best New Talent, Sir Julius Vogel Award Winner | she/her
📘 THE RARKYN TRILOGY
📘 ONCE WE FLEW
📘 A NIGHT SO DARK AND FULL OF STARS
📍Aotearoa New Zealand
www.nikkythewriter.com
Claire Aramakutu @clairearamakutu.bsky.social Mumma storyteller 📚
Koro's Star - Winner of the Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award & Notable Book Award 24' (Junior Fiction) 🌟
Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social Author of ‘Hush’ from Ugly Hill Press out now.
Creative Writing PhD Candidate at @modernletters.bsky.social
Short fiction in Landfall, ReadingRoom, Flash Frontier, At The Bay | Te Kokuru, Turbine | Kapohau
Kyle Mewburn @kylemewburn.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Writer (70 titles and counting). Dabbler in semi-self-sufficiency on 5 acres in the rural depths of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Any mention of crypto, Jesus/God/MAGA or US flag in profile is immediate block.
www.kylemewburn.com
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
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
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
Rachael Craw @rachaelcraw.bsky.social Award-winning Author of Spark, Stray, Shield & The Rift. The Lost Saint 2025. Rep.d by Silvia Molteni, PFD Agents
📑 writer-YA, speculative fiction
📚reader-currently deep in my Stephen King era
🎓teacher-Drama & English
✨here for the tomfoolery🇳🇿
Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social Slow writer (he/him)
Author of I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue (A&U 2018). Opinions mine, professional account only.
Rep'd by @daniellebinks.bsky.social
Email: eliasgreig@gmail.com (E-I-G)
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | https://urbanbadgercollective.com/links/
Hannah Marshall @hannahmarsh.bsky.social I don't use social media. Buy my book instead! https://www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/Hannah-Marshall-It's-a-Bit-More-Complicated-Than-That-9781991006943
The Kiwi Kids' Bookstore @kiwikidsbookstore.bsky.social The Kiwi Kids’ Bookstore is an online bookstore, based in Wānaka, that showcases great books by New Zealand authors for children and teens.
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
Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social Author of Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors. Horror Writer, regular type dude, Lecturer at University of North Texas.
Terri Harrington @terriharrington.bsky.social Author of The Dravenridge Covenant, Writer of dark fiction😱Happily married😁Fur-baby mom🐶 Lover of anything horror👻
Website: terriharrington.com
Hannah Greer @hannahgreer.bsky.social SFF writer with works in PseudoPod, MetaStellar, Radon Journal, and more. First reader for Fusion Fragment
Beth Goder @bethgoder.bsky.social SFF author with stories in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod and more. Archivist. Member of Codex Writers Group. Submissions Reader for Fusion Fragment. https://bethgoder.com/
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Helena Fairfax @helenafairfax.bsky.social Freelance editor, reading books in the day. Writer of romantic fiction at night. Tea drinker any time. Yorkshire lass.
Website: https://helenafairfax.com/
Nafanua PK @nuapk.bsky.social moana | poet | writer | aunty vibes | she/her/ia
Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social Writer; Editor; Teacher @ Stanford's Novel Writing Certificate Program; Latest novel: BRENDA BARKER'S NEXT CHAPTER; MFA from USF; Member in good standing at too many wine clubs.
WendyTokunaga.com
Samantha Moran (Author) @samanthamoran.bsky.social Samantha Moran (she/her) is a multi-genre author primarily focused on supernatural horror, thriller, and fantasy. She is fascinated by all manner of things that go bump in the night and a firm believer in the idea that "happily ever after is overrated.”
Mara Lynn Johnstone @marlynnofmany.bsky.social Author of science fiction and fantasy. Exploring the multiverse, with pens, pencils and enthusiasm! She/her. Further shenanigans all over the internet and at MaraLynnJohnstone.com
DW Davis @dwdavisrsl.bsky.social Author of The River Dream Trilogy and the Buzby Beach Books.
You can find my latest web novel on Substack. substack.com/@dwdavisrsl
Believer in the Oxford Comma.
Generation Jones (Between Boomers and X)
Kathy Steinemann, Writer, Author, Poet @kathyswriter.bsky.social
KathySteinemann.com
Kathy Steinemann is a #writer who loves #words, especially when they're frightening or futuristic or funny.
https://gander.social/profile/kathyswriter.gander.social
https://www.facebook.com/KathySWriter
Shannon Weston @sea-author.bsky.social Name's Shannon Elayne Ann Weston; SEA for short. Pirate at heart, writer by trade. Join me as I delve into magic's core, embark on voyages, and reveal beings that only trained eyes can see. 🖤🤍💜
linktr.ee/sea_author | http://rb.gy/uhyt5 | no ai
Louise Jensen Duffy @louiseweebe.bsky.social Writing earnestly. It's important to be Ernest.
I follow writers! (No DMs) TwitX same@
Rising Action Publishing Author
Winner 2023 Cheshire Novel Prize (OMG!)
JP Rindfleisch IX 🌈📚| CheshirePope @jprindfleisch.bsky.social Author of Cozy Queer Fantasy Books
📝 Writing Twitch Streamer
Repped by Elaine Spencer at The Knight Agency
He/They 💛🤍💜🖤
FREE Short Story Here:
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Nicole Gannett @nicolegannett.bsky.social Writer of historical fiction; Currently querying
Bibliophile; Lover of coffee and tortoises; Find me in the garden
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
Brannavan Gnanalingam @brannavan.bsky.social Novelist and occasional reviewer 
Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social Children’s poet, picture book author and micropoetry fiend. I write for children, adults and everyone in between.
📕 🦘My picture book, Out Now: The Klangaroo https://t.ly/TdXh-
My Website & Blog: dreambeastpoems.com/blog- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Sasha Eastwood @sashaeastwood.bsky.social Mum. School Librarian. Reader. Listener of loud 70-80's music. Wannabe gardener. Hurricanes for life. Proud to be SLANZA Immediate Past President.
Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.
she/her
https://www.jennygaitskell.com/
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jennygaitskell
Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social NEA Poetry| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books. Work in Paris Review, Witness, APR, Laurel Review and Nimrod. #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders #Yaddo https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
Cathie Dunn – Historical Fiction & History 🥰📚 @cathiedunn.bsky.social Writer. Medievalist. Blogger. 🇩🇪🏴🇫🇷
Author of #historicalfiction, mystery & romance at https://linktr.ee/cathiedunnwrites
Organiser of #BookPromotion at the #CoffeePotBookClub 🥰📚
https://linktr.ee/thecoffeepotbookclub
Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author from Pembrokeshire, Wales 🏴 www.tonyriches.com Visit my #Writing #Blog The Writing Desk https://tonyriches.blogspot.com/ #Podcast https://tonyriches.podbean.com/ #Tudors #Elizabethan #HistoricalFiction
R.N. Morris @rnmorris.bsky.social Writer of historical crime fiction and other things. Podcast scriptwriter on The Curious History of Your Home for Noiser. “Mesmerizing, repellent, bizarre, intelligent, dark, provocative… utterly fascinating…”
Booklist
Pauline Rowson @paulinerowson.bsky.social Top 100 Amazon Best Seller of DI Andy Solent Murder Mystery series; Art Marvik mystery thrillers, 1950s set Inspector Ryga mysteries. More at https://www.rowmark.co.uk/ Trainee artist, avid knitter, always looking for a good place to put a body
Sarah J Williams @sarahjwilliams.com Author and writer of the children's books Sophia & the Dragon: Who Came for Dinner, and Sophia & Mr Rocket. Mum, LGBTQIA+ friendly, anti-racist, book lover. #BookSky 💙📚 #kidlit
www.sarahjwilliams.com
Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira. Indigenous sociologist at large. Doing stuff on political violence. ND. Posting in personal capacity
Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social FRHistS FRSNZ PhD Historian and author of 'The New Zealand Wars', 'The Great War for New Zealand' and other works.
https://www.meetingplace.nz/
https://buttondown.com/unsettling
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
Obverseer @obverseer.bsky.social The other side of the coin
Francesca Leader @mooninabucket.bsky.social Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, 2025 BSF.Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Happily coupled w. someone not on Bsky. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc.
https://mooninabucket.com
Jim Almo @jimalmo.bsky.social he/him, writer, musician, reader @ Reckon Review
More coffee, please
https://emergeliteraryjournal.com/broken-things/
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes/your-father
https://silverdrone.bandcamp.com
Kim Steutermann Rogers @kimsrogers.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Journalist. Covering science, nature, Hawaii, life. Bylines in NatGeo, SmithsonianMag, AudubonMag; prose (CNF and fiction) in Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Fictive Dream, and elsewhere.
Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social Micro, flash, shorts, poetry
Managing fiction editor - Strange Horizons
SFF editor - Uncharted
SFWA, SFPA
MicroVerse Recommended Reading
Electric Sheep
https://mynachang.com
Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD
Ally to 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️
Free 🇵🇸 and slava 🇺🇦
Jay 💜 Bump, Set, Sparks is out! @jmoffattwrites.bsky.social Warm & fuzzy queer romcom author repped by Jordy Albert at Booker Albert Agency 🌸 FLIRTY DANCING and the Falling Hard trilogy are out 🕺🌈 I love food, summer, emojis, and being kind ☀️ She/her. No AI. https://jmoffattwrites.com
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
Edward L. Canavan @edwardlcanavan.bsky.social Poet. Overthinker. Ex-drinker. Lone Wolf.
https://linktr.ee/EdwardLC71
finnian sawyer @finstergrrrl.bsky.social colorado. poet. tech writer. Shimmer badger. gamer. SKYWARN wx spotter. paleoanthropology nerd. MeU, Stay, Atiny, ARMY, EVOL.
toastie. LLama. STWSB. they/them. 🏳️🌈😷🍉
A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social Author and reviewer. Stoker and Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social Horror/fantasy writer. Author of GRIEF EATER. Aurealis and Aust Shadows finalist. In Uncanny, Nightmare, PodCastle, Hometown Haunts, Wastelands 3 etc. Clarion West. SFWA. Queer. They/them. No AI 🏳️🌈👻
Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social That murder lady. Fantasy & horror books at https://authordiannagunn.com Creator of @WeeknightWriters.bsky.social Buy a murder or support my work at https://ko-fi.com/diannagunn She/her
A.Z. Louise | T.O. Tate @azlouise.bsky.social Writer and stuff. They/them
https://azlouise.com/#books
Hector Acosta Rojas. @hexican.bsky.social Edgar and Anthony nominated. Contributor in 2022 BAMS and listed as distinguished story in 2023. Featured in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Wrote HARDWAY a wrestling inspired novella.
I also made that funny post once.
Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com A human going | Best of the Net Nom | Pushcart Nom | Stories in Augur Magazine, khōréō magazine, Baffling Magazine and more | Bi | She/her 🐩
cindyphanauthor.com
Author photo by Rosena Fung
Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Reviewer for LOCUS. Editor @ Ruadán Books & Many Worlds. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, The Deadlands & more. she/her 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social Writer | UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (2025) | Hugo, Nebula, Locus Winner | Philip K. Dick Special Citation, Finalist for other things | Best American SFF, Brave New Weird | Korean/Irish Dad o' 3. Rep: Michael Curry. thomashawrites.com
Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social Writes SFF as Gareth L. Powell and horror and mystery as G.L. Powell. Occasional award winner. Repped by Lucienne Diver at The Knight Agency.
🔗 Mystery and Horror - https://www.glpowell.com
🔗 Science Fiction - https://www.garethlpowell.com
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
Butcher's Dog Publishing @butchersdog.bsky.social Canny. Inclusive printed bi-annual magazine and anthologies for emerging and established poets in UK/ROI. Best Magazine 2022 + 2023, Saboteur Awards. Editor @joclement.co.uk
Dr M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig @whatisaletter.bsky.social poet, human, dog lover
academic & literary editing/translation, and writing (ENG/GER)
MSt & DPhil (University of Oxford)
Instagram: schicketanz_books
http://patreon.com/whatisaletter
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social One-woman press based in Berlin. EIC @missyerem.bsky.social
https://sidhe-press.eu Trans rights are human rights.
Free Palestine!
underscore_magazine @underscoremag.bsky.social biannual literary magazine about all things underscoring city life _ skeets by eic Erica Leslie (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/underscore_mag
Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
Instagram: @north_sea_navigator
campsite.bio/northseanavigator
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-🧵
Emma @chocmilk03.bsky.social Kiwi, love books & cats, policy advisor & ex-lawyer. Wikipedia username Chocmilk03. Pākehā, she/her/ia 🇳🇿🇬🇧
Laura Giddey @lauragiddey.bsky.social Celebrant, bookworm, dinosaur lover, dog fan, homebody. I work sporadically at The Green Dolphin Second Hand Bookshop on Pitt Street, Auckland city. 
Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social Slips between medieval York & the Pacific NW without warning. Writer. Owen Archer & Kate Clifford mysteries. Rep'd by @JVNLA Owned by The Maggie. Talks to trees. Reveres crows & owls. Matriarchy now. Seattle Insight she/her www.candacerobbbooks.com
The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social Website dedicated to celebrating Aotearoa-New Zealand literature for children and young adults. With editors Harriet, Faith & Nida. Pitches welcome!
Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social www.troystory.ca
Author of 10 trad pub picture books.
(And 10 million unpubbed ones.)
Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social Writer, Edinburgh.
Editor: @frazzledlitmag
BOTN nominated 2024. On all socials same name.
Writing for children: @lozzakidwriting
Website: https://lauracooneywriting.wixsite.com/website
Editing: www.kofi.com/lozzawriting
Grant Shimmin @shimmo.bsky.social Poet, writer, reader, journalist, quiz lover. Kindness matters. Trans rights are human rights
Nina Cullen @ninakcullen.bsky.social Australian writer & reader. She/her. Words in ABR, Island, Big Issue Fiction Edition, Meniscus, Sleeper’s Almanac, SMH, the Guardian. 2022 Elizabeth Jolley Prize Finalist.
Monthly 'Bedside Bookstack' at ninacullen.com.
Writing on Awabakal land (Newcastle