KidOf60sTeens; The right wing is not your ally. @kidof60steens.bsky.social Scouse-born tangata tiriti wife of Ngai Tahu takatāpui @claratig ❤ 🏳️🌈 👭 CPTSD survivor. Anti-fascist/anti-racist/anti-neoliberal/anti-Nazi. Abuse is blocked. Unapologetically sweary. She/her
#FightFascism #ToitūTeTiriti #VoteGreen
#PeopleAndPlanetOverProfit
John Farrell @mcfreddo.bsky.social Lover of old film cameras
Melanie Lynskey @melanielynskey.bsky.social 
Robyn Hunt @accease.bsky.social Co-founder #CriptheLit. #Writer, #essays #writing #HumanRights, #disability, #access, #digitalaccess, #artsaccess, #disabilityarts, disability activist, feminist. Leftish. Views my own. https://tahahotu.org.nz/Meet-the-artists/robyn-hunt
ClausGV 🇩🇰🇳🇿 @clausgv.bsky.social Keen handyman, born in Denmark 🇩🇰 grew up in New Zealand 🇳🇿 Retired, just bought a camper so off to see the wonder that is New Zealand.
Live in Tauranga NZ.
Ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Elizabeth Goodwin @bettyg.bsky.social Like to keep an eye on things. Keen on grassroots social change. 
Janine @janoodlenz.bsky.social 
Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social many things.....
@lukewigram.bsky.social @lukewigram.bsky.social Kapiti coast poet, now South Island based. PRIME Nurse and long time health advocate, stuck in bed since July '25 awaiting heart surgery
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.
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
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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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.
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social Art in words | Journal | Publisher (Gorse Editions) | New issues: gorse 12: Language; gorse 13: Taboo | Forthcoming: gorse 14: Form | Gorse Editions 3: New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham | Funded by Arts Council Ireland | http://gorse.ie
Swapna Haddow @swapnahaddow.bsky.social Children’s author working with Scholastic, Farshore, Magic Cat, Faber&Faber, Macmillan. Writes for Oxford University Press as Swapna Reddy. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency. She/her. Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.
swapnahaddow.com
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
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
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
Orchid Tierney @orchidtierney.bsky.social Ph.D. | poet | NZ in Ohio | no person is illegal | Essay Press and Calamari Archive author | William P. Rice Associate Professor of English at Kenyon College | Senior Editor Kenyon Review | She/her | BEI Fellow | www.orchidtierney.com
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
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.
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
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/
Brannavan Gnanalingam @brannavan.bsky.social Novelist and occasional reviewer 
Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
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
Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com Poet behind beloved classics like 'Sick Power Trip' (2025) and 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022), @thwupbooks.bsky.social. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids.
📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch
http://www.erikkennedy.com
Jordan Hamel @jordanhamel.bsky.social I miss Twitter.
Alice Te Punga Somerville @alicetps.bsky.social Scholar Poet Irredentist Māmā | Māori on Musqueam whenua
Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Aotearoa. Likes the sea & other stuff. Latest book Where We Swim. Fiction debut, All Her Lives: Nine Stories, on its way from THWUP & UQP. www.ingridhorrocks.com
Wendy Parkins @wendmyway.bsky.social Former professor of Victorian literature but I'm much happier now as a novelist and memoirist based in Dunedin, NZ. Tangata tiriti.
Devoted to Dickens, Woolf, and Radiohead. Don't make me choose.
Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social Author & editor. Billy Bird (Penguin Random, 2016). To the Occupant (OUP, 2019). The Pink Jumpsuit (QWP, 2021). Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (OUP, 2024).Author pic by Caroline Davies. Cover photo art work by Sharon Singer.
Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
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 forthcoming in 2026. Views my own.
www.anthonylapwood.com
Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
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 
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?
Francis Cooke @franciscooke.bsky.social 
NZSA.bsky.social @nzsa.bsky.social The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) represents Aotearoa New Zealand writers. Protecting basic rights to freedom of expression, working to improve income and conditions, promoting writing and literary culture.
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/
English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social Sharing news and events from the English Literatures & Creative Communication Programme at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
Lily Holloway @milfs4minecraft.bsky.social trapped in a little fish tank
syracuse mfa '25
co-editor-in-chief Salt Hill
lilyholloway.co.nz
Emma Hislop @emmahislop.bsky.social 
Chris Tse @chrisjtse.bsky.social New Zealand Poet Laureate, 2022-25.
Zoë Meager @zoemeager.bsky.social 
@majellacullinane.bsky.social @majellacullinane.bsky.social 
Moderately Salty @melszymanik.bsky.social Writer of fiction for children, puzzler, poet, imposter, spy, fan of hot chips, champagne and chocolate
Paula Morris @pjkmorris.bsky.social Writer, traveller, Cass Beer spokesmodel, former Miss Venezuela, www.koreaseen.com
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)
Hinemoana Baker @hinemoana.bsky.social Poet, sound enthusiast, occasionally hilarious!
Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social Beach walker, ocean dweller. Writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in English and Swedish.
Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social Writer in residence at my house | Climate change mahi at University of Otago | Dad life Ōtepoti
Khadro 🇸🇴 @itsmekhadro.bsky.social 25. author. poet & that’s kinda it 
Amy Marguerite @amymarguerite.bsky.social poet and peer support worker. author of over under fed. https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/over-under-fed/
liz breslin @lizbreslin.bsky.social 
Nick Ascroft @assscroft.bsky.social Haddock
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
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
Richard Littauer @richlitt.bsky.social PhD in CS at Te Herenga Waka, focusing on birds. Open source. Linguist and conlanger. eBird and iNat. SustainOSS and CURIOSS. He/him.
See https://burntfen.com for a list of things I did when I should have been doing other things.
Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social Hush from Ugly Hill Press out soon.
Creative Writing PhD Candidate at @modernletters.bsky.social
Short fiction in Landfall, ReadingRoom, Flash Frontier, At The Bay | Te Kokuru, Turbine | Kapohau
Erica @ericastretton.bsky.social writer, reviewer, editor at Kete Books.
Caroline @writercaroline.bsky.social B.A His, FRHistS. Thomas Cromwell author & historian. Lover of Spain, heart transplants, trans rights & F1. Would put up a facade if I had the ability to maintain one.
ApocalypseElf @apocalypseelf.bsky.social Not so quiet subversive. 'Quirky'. Theremin player. Pigeon fancier. Pocket friends. "Obstinate, headstrong girl!" I contain multitudes. Aotearoa.
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
👤: sethabramson.net/bio
⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com
🕹: retrostack.substack.com
🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social Bookish boomer, leftie, no cats or dogs but I love them. Kiwi, Ōtautahi.
Feed-ops.com @feed-ops.bsky.social Providing global, updated news feeds.
Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social Textile artist. Nature lover.
Saving the planet, one stitch at a time.
She/her. Aotearoa New Zealand
#art #textile #fabric #recycle #reuse #quilt #sew #stitch #craft #thread #climate #MTB #travel #adventure
Lover, mother, friend.
ruthmcmonagle.net
Suzi and Rose @suzirose.bsky.social fka @smslyons #pwME US born, now a citizen of Aotearoa. Believer in rational thought, the scientific process and the beauty of nature. She/her 🐾😷💉🌻
kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social Critical view from the imperial periphery
Co-founder and Executive Producer for https://www.1of200.nz/podcast
Described as "NZ's Early Edition"
Support us here: https://www.patreon.com/1of200
ςђгเร 💙 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕗𝕗.𝕊𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕖 👕 @w3ctk.com w3ctk.com 👕 Protest/Pride Gear bluestuff.store
Chris Kelleher dad of 3 (1 🏳️⚧️) in Villanova PA PHL
Ally: LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 Dem 💙
Dev: OpenEdge, QAD, SQL, Infor Syteline
Amateur Radio Emergency Service ARES
Red Cross Disaster Services Technology
🦋 dems.social 🦋
Fiona Fish 🐟 @teacherfish.bsky.social Teacher in Aotearoa. Mathematician, karateka, singer, and musician. Lover of Taskmaster, Horrible Histories, Ghosts, Star Wars, cryptic crosswords, and the Oxford comma.
Chris Neilson @mancminstrel.bsky.social Mancunian (Manchester, UK) - Trump is a slurring, sociopathic war criminal. MAGA (US) & Reform (UK) voters are empty-headed zombies. I'm Gen X - born 3 days after Kurt Cobain. 2nd Gen Irish. Poet.
Cat enthusiast
Politically centre left.
Space Academy (Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/NZ) @spaceacademy.bsky.social GRASSROOTS MUSIC VENUE. Ōtautahi, Aotearoa; Christchurch, New Zealand.
Community clubhouse. Home to @PizzaTrapnz.bsky.social pizzeria, Doki Hair Salon & @03sessions.bsky.social 🍉
Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social Find me on mountaintui.substack.com and www.youtube.com/@MountainTui
bella kircher @bellakircher.bsky.social certifiably dramatic
@jjaassppeerr.bsky.social @jjaassppeerr.bsky.social 
Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social ngai Aotearoa ahau | Ōtautahi resident | Retired | Was once an overland driver | Looking forward to voting them out in November.
Born at 315 ppm.
I'm on the Puffball server!
Matty Angel @mattyangel.com Author, Poet, Matty Angel
Will block if I feel like it
From NEW ZEALAND
Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social Father, friend, believe love conquers hate, and truth wins over prevarication. 
Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social Writer in residence, at my house. To look upon my works, ye mighty, visit my website:
https://www.thewritertype.com
Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Media Studies/Digital Media, and author.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1709-8932
https://wheretofind.me/@krveale
"He/Him."
Tangata Tiriti.
All views expressed here are my own.
John Manyjars @manyjars.bsky.social Late of Planet 10. Stranded on earth since 30 October 1938. Returning real soon.
Simon McArthur @simonmcarthur.bsky.social I like making things, including mistakes. Tangata Tiriti.
KazM @kazm.bsky.social Left leaning. Tangata Tiriti. Love dogs, photography, knitting and my family
Annie @beingaboutnz.bsky.social Tangata Tiriti; ally; recovering DONM; likes coffee; PapersPast; yellow (and apricot) pōhutukawa; woke like Jesus
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Relapsing lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Welsh Corgi
150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social Let's celebrate the sesquicentennial anniversary (snrk.de/150th-snark-anniversaries/) of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" in 2026.
For Xwitter refugees: x[.]com/Snark150 ➜ @snarkhunt.bsky.social
2025-01-20
Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social Ginger singer/songwriter/artist/composer. I've conducted more orchestras than you can shake a stick at
Amy Bowie @amybowie.bsky.social Singer, Songwriter, Voiceover, Arts Admin/Creative Support. Views are my own, not clients'/employers'& shouldn't be taken seriously. RT's are not endorsements. www.amybowie.com
Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social Pom. Kiwi. Leftie, Union activist.
Linguistics, biblical studies, politics. And silliness, if at all possible. Posts mostly in English; little bit of Japanese or Norwegian because why not.
Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social Am a Dr. Not the useful kind. Teach Evidence Law, International Human Rights, Gender & the Law at UC.
Researching online abuse, human rights, law. ASD-Dyspraxia 🌈
Instagram: @legally.feminist
Views are my own.
Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social Stand-up special, Hit Me With Your Autistic, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BppE9bM74E Follow me on Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/cIGKR Any/All Pronouns
Gavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social Lover of potatoes, electric cars and freshly harvested memes.
Pippy Granny-pants 🍉 @mspippy.bsky.social “This too shall pass”
MetService NZ @metservice.com New Zealand's weather service. Helping Kiwis be ready, whatever the weather.
WaimeaMom @waimeamom.bsky.social Changed my profile picture from the ex🐦 but still the same greeny leftie lady from Aotearoa New Zealand and Hawaii. #woolfer
Cheers, aloha, kia ora, talofa.
*Unlikely to reply to a DM*
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