Christy Menzies @christymenzies.bsky.social Not a farmer | works words | somewhere
Profile photo by Ebony Lamb
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
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
Dr Rebecca Howard @drrebeccahoward.bsky.social https://buttondown.com/DrRebeccaHoward
Steve Barr @barrsteve.bsky.social Writer / producer / procrasturbator
https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm2003750
briar @rawlibrary.bsky.social tangata tiriti in aotearoa new zealand.
english & undefinable language/culture stuff teacher. writer. lapsed bookseller & editor.
compulsive language explorer.
big coffee drinker.
trekkie and otherwise non-denominational nerd.
crohnie. adhd.
@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
Picture Book Pause @picturebookpause.bsky.social Inserting moments of joy in your doomscroll via the mighty artform of the picture book, using examples on our bookshelf in Aotearoa New Zealand. (Profile pic is a Brian Wildsmith owl.) Always check the alt-text.
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-🧵
The Saturday Morning Podcast 🎙️ @satmornpod.bsky.social Welcome to #SaturdayMorning & Syndicated #Cartoons! Indie #podcast hosted by preservationist Christopher Jay. Travel back to the #80s every other Saturday! (Ally 🏳️🌈 - He/Him)
Find the show here: Linktr.ee/SatMornPod (Apple/Spotify links)
tasmin 🔸 @tasmin.bsky.social overall normal guy / they:them
Sue Tyler @styler.bsky.social https://felt.co.nz/shop/supervery
Pākehā nō Pōneke, Te Whanganui-a-Tara
She/Her.
Craft is the new pink, is the new black.
Mlb Kiwi 🫵✋😛🤚 @mlbkiwi.bsky.social Left leaning Kiwi in Australia watching the world. If being woke means caring about people then I’ll wear that as a badge of honour #BHN #auspol #nzpol #NZpolitics #USPolitics #ukpol #Naarm #Melbourne #MelbourneWeather☀️🌧️⛈️💨🥝🦜🐼🐴🐶😻🇳🇿🇦🇺🦘
ボビー @robertvinson.bsky.social § “Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.”
https://prayerandpolitiks.org/articles-essays-sermons/early-church-fathers-on-refusal-of-the-sword/
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Jason Croot @jasoncroot.bsky.social Bradfordian, actor and author of the Bradford Back in the Day Memories Series: Bradford, Eh? & Bradford, Ye What? and the nostalgic football book Bradford or Leeds, Eh?
https://www.jasoncroot.com
Lorna Suzuki @authorlsuzuki.bsky.social 🇨🇦Builder of worlds,a destroyer of nations; been called a liar & mass murderer but mostly a YA & epic fantasy novelist.Working to develop my series for TV! Real & word ninja,martial arts instructor all while battling cancer! https://www.imagochronicles.com
JJW @jjw.wtf dislikes typewriters
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social Lotographia on various other social networks.
Person of Pōneke, Aotearoa. They/He (in that order). Green Party supporter & volunteer. Lego collector. Trying to build a website and write a book and failing at both.
"David Thomsen".
Spencer Keynes @spencerkeynes.bsky.social Writer (of unpublished manuscripts), daydreamer, casual fan of trying too hard.
Lilly Catkin @lilycatkin.bsky.social Hi! I’m Lilly Catkin, a romance writer working on my debut novel—full of flirty banter, heart flutters, and a bit of chaos. I believe every love story deserves a little spark… and maybe a few plot twists. Stay tuned! 💕
LWRt @lwrt.bsky.social Artist. Writer. Figuring it out.
New: https://lwrt.fws.store/ for art and tarot and stories.
https://artofloganriley.etsy.com for original art and tarot cards. (Phasing out)
Tam (she/her) @tamarinsauce.bsky.social Profile schmofile. You might know me from the bad place. Aotearoa you know it 
@cr101.bsky.social @cr101.bsky.social 
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
Clickworlddaily · by Jon @clickworlddaily.bsky.social ✍️Writing for those who feel deeply, but quietly.
Moments that linger, questions that stay. Nurse grad, postgrad in HR & Soc. Serv. Manag, working in HR.
Collector of silences, seeker of meaning.
🌐 clickworlddaily.com 📘my book amzn.to/4opWiz9 (affiliate)
Blueskryb @handle.invalid A place for books on Bluesky.
Pretty bookshop.org links to post: https://www.blueskryb.cloud/link
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
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. 🌳
Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
amylilwall.co.uk
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
Johanna Knox @johannaknox.bsky.social Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Ranginui, Pākehā. Māmā. She/her. Random interests. I WILL finish the PhD.
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social A vibrant, innovative and multiple award-winning publisher in Aotearoa. NZ home of Faber & Faber, Swift, Profile, Canongate, Atlantic, Granta. https://linktr.ee/allenandunwinnz
Chance Durant @chancedurant.bsky.social Author, Game Designer, TTRPG player, Nerd, Father, Husband, Christian, lover of all things Shenanigan, Co-Creator of Carbyne Jungle & LokDown TTRPGs, Author of Sci-Fi Novel Construct, Believer in Nazi Punching, Guillotined my Twitter account for blue skies
Ryuma Sakamoto 🍉 @ryuma21.bsky.social Survivor ✝️
Independent Journalist & Human Rights Activist
Survived numerous assassination attempts since Feb 2014 (Still ongoing)
Zero formal education, but 100% built on real-world experience
كونوا بخير يا إخوتي
🇯🇵 https://linktr.ee/Ryuma2112 exonerated
gilbert ostini @gostini.bsky.social just a nice young lad in a terrible black oubliette. overwrought queenslandiana, earnest anglicanism, academic whimsy. he/him.
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.
April Kelquist @aprilkelquist.bsky.social Fun-loving gal. Book lover. Part-time goof. Occasional snarkypants.
No, my sisters aren't May and June.
mary @roughrider994.bsky.social One Hell of an Angel, This is not medical advice, and I am not telling you what you should do. Every person is or should be in control of their own health in spite of what the current medical establishment would like you to believe.
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
🫚🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🫚 @catespice.bsky.social Semper Femina. From Aotearoa. C.M. Scandreth on the NoSleep Podcast.
Berni Johnson @bernij.bsky.social Writer of things, administrator of systems, devourer of entertainment, and haver of ADHD. 💙 voter in a 🔴 state.
Spy Trivia book:
https://www.stablebookgroup.com/products/the-big-book-of-spy-trivia
Other book and website links:
https://linktr.ee/Bernij
S!mon McAtamney @maccaisims.bsky.social Old Gen X | Activist Education |Socialist | Te Whanganui a Tara | Fuelled by sarcasm and Yorkshire Tea | Dartologist🎯| C’mon Aatarga!| Kom igen Sverige! | BMLBPLLH
lucy @lucyamorris.bsky.social lead ui/ux designer (prev. among us, stray gods etc). currently doing platform ux & edtech.
small game maker, technologist. ◆ illustrator, musician. ◆ ffxiv enjoyer. ◆ pōneke, aotearoa.
www.lucyamorris.com / www.instagram.com/knitebrite
Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social Mind of Sid James in Jenny Agutter's body. Descended from Frenchified Vikings. Gen X. Former Record Shop Snoot. Former Egyptian Archaeologist. Olympic Snarkaeologist. English. Tangata Tiriti. She/they. 🏳️🌈
Anne Goulding @annegoulding.bsky.social Library and Information Studies academic from Cardiff, now living and working in Aotearoa 🇳🇿 🏴
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
@audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social 
Simon Sweetman @simonsweetman.bsky.social Writer @ simonsweetman.substack.com Organiser of “Say The Thing” monthly open mic for poets and prose writers at MEOW. Collector of movie soundtracks, novelisations, lover of made-for-TV movies. CD and Cassette Tape enthusiast. EVERYDAY BLOGGER
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social Writer, editor, Aro Valleyan
Melanie Newfield @melanienewfield.bsky.social Science and environment writer and communicator. Loves to talk about risk. Obsessed with plants and hopes to one day see every species of eucalypt.
I make the science behind important issues accessible here: https://theturnstone.substack.com
The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
Andrew Fox Ⓥ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Karen Janowsky @authorkarenj.bsky.social I don't have Wonder Woman's lasso of truth, but I've got a good "mom stare."
#Romanceauthor #romancelandia, 💕 #romancereader #booksky 📖📚 #catlady, #superhero fan
Jess @automatonowl.bsky.social Autistic, bipolar, agender. They/them. 🏴
Aotearoa
Formerly bigflamingjess on twitter.
@pebbleiscool.bsky.social @pebbleiscool.bsky.social 
🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social Chaotic soft bear residing in Pōneke. She/her. 
EBONY LAMB @ebonylamb.bsky.social STUDIO ELGA music & visuals
ELSTUDIOS photography
Internal Landscapes External Scenes
📷https://www.ebonylambphotographer.co.nz/
🎤 https://ebonylamb.com/
Carolina Gonzalez @yourspiritmaster.bsky.social Spiritual Worker and Educator on Manifestation and Wellness.
I teach you how to live in Divine Alignment!
https://linktr.ee/carolinayourspiritmaster
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
KoBettyAhau ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kobettyahau.bsky.social Chic cat lady - ngai Aotearoa ahau. Social Justice is my bag she/her #NZ/Aotearoa 🇳🇿
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
Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social She/Her. Pākehā Mum, poet, teacher, tangata Tiriti, Planet Earth lover-protector. Adorer of dogs, birds & wormfarms. Chloe, Marama & Hana for PMs. Born @
323ppm carbon dioxide. Mostly hopeful. Might be 5-7 minutes late.
https://gannetink.home.blog
DrewTopp @drewtopp.bsky.social Cats
IIML @modernletters.bsky.social The home of creative writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Undergraduate courses, MA and PhD. Also: harbour views and baking.
Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com Novel development & editing services. Our editors are industry experts and award-winning writers. Take your manuscript to the next level.
DarlingAxe.com
Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
https://linktr.ee/wasafiri
Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social writer ~ doing my PhD?! ~ wellington, nz ~ she/her
www.janearthur.co.nz
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🇳🇿
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