MetService NZ @metservice.com New Zealand's weather service. Helping Kiwis be ready, whatever the weather.
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
Laurie Foon @lauriefoon.bsky.social Councillor for Paekawakawa Southern Ward Pōneke Wellington!
Christy Menzies @christymenzies.bsky.social Not a farmer | works words | somewhere
Profile photo by Ebony Lamb
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
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr- B berlin lit @berlinlit.bsky.social Online journal for new poetry
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/
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.
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-🧵
tasmin 🔸 @tasmin.bsky.social overall normal guy / they:them
Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl Your favorite poster's favorite poster. I curate memes so you don't have to. Parkinson's and Long Covid, always tired. paypal.me/StandplaatsKRK linktr.ee/standplaatskrk ¡No Pasaran! old enough to be your dad, he/him
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
🔗: antonhur.com
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.
Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social She/Her 🇮🇪
Trans ADHD
🏴refugees welcome✊sex work is work☂️Traveller rights🔴join a union🏳️⚧️protect trans kids🏳️🌈no cops at pride
https://linktr.ee/lilithcarroll
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Sara Barnard @saramegan.bsky.social (It rhymes with Cara.)
Writes books. Likes sunflowers. Thinks too much.
sarabarnardofficial.com 
The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social Aotearoa published daily → thespinoff.co.nz • Unofficial Account
JJW @jjw.wtf dislikes typewriters
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
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
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
Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social Senior reporter @theintercept.com
Words: @nytimes.com @harpers.bsky.social @latimes.com @rollingstone.com @yahoonews.com @teenvogue.com @vicenews.bsky.social
Leak documents to me at: nick.turse@theintercept.com
Or on Signal: nickturse.01
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".
Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social Former Mayor. Global Greenie. Political reckons etc etc
Peach Sometimes @ehjc.bsky.social Aro Valley. Powerlifting. Feelings. Pākehā. Fatty. Queer + non-binary + femme. They/them. Non-monogamous. C-PTSD. Knows one good joke. Wedding celebrant. Muscle Pisces. https://famous-knots-of-history.ghost.io
🐈🏋🏻♀️🔮☕️🎮🎤🍑✨😚👌🏼🍉📚🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Tam (she/her) @tamarinsauce.bsky.social Profile schmofile. You might know me from the bad place. Aotearoa you know it 
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social Human Rights Defender / Founder of Rights Aotearoa @rightsaotearoa.bsky.social || he/him || Proud alumnus of London Business School || ❤️Food & Wine || Trans rights are human rights || paul@rightsaotearoa.nz
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
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
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
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. 🌳
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
April Kelquist @aprilkelquist.bsky.social Fun-loving gal. Book lover. Part-time goof. Occasional snarkypants.
No, my sisters aren't May and June.
Jennifer @jennifilm.nz Queer & trans writer, photographer, and advocate from Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Gender villain, woke ideological feral, extremist lefty loser, party witch, etc.
I ako tonu au i te reo Māori - mehemea ka hē au, kia pai mai!
jenniferkshields.nz
Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social Feminist, leftie, māmā. Tangata Tiriti, she/her. Opinions stated are entirely my own and do not reflect any other person or organisation.
Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social Beach walker, ocean dweller. Writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in English and Swedish.
Annelies Judson @babybookdel.bsky.social Children’s writer and poet. TURKEY HURLY-BURLY due August 2025. Reviewer of children's books from a feminist perspective. Lover of science, words, and the em dash.
Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social Ask not for whom the point is missed. It is missed for thee.
Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀
Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies
https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
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
Tax Wealth not Wages @progallthethings.bsky.social Norwegian prog metal devotee. Ally, climate action, social justice, tangata tiriti and Lion Brown.
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
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
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social Writer, editor, Aro Valleyan
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social The official Bluesky page for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Geordie Rogers @geordierogers.co.nz Councillor for the Pukehīnau/Lambton Ward
Auth: M Ross, 5/108 The Terrace, WGN
🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social Chaotic soft bear residing in Pōneke. She/her. 
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 Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Hayley @writagal.bsky.social Forever learning, opinions mine. Generally annoyed about something.
Aotearoa.
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)
GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social Toitū Te Tiriti
Toitū Te Taiao
Down with the Atlas Network-driven, clown car coalition!
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.
Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
amylilwall.co.uk
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.
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
Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social She/Her 🍉
Bsky is my spam acct basically
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social Socially awkward political cartoonist. She/her. Like reading and walking.
Ngāi Tahu/Scottish.
Live in Aotearoa New Zealand
Ceinwen Langley @ceinwenlangley.bsky.social Reads, writes, makes stuff.
Boorloo/Perth.
🫚🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🫚 @catespice.bsky.social Semper Femina. From Aotearoa. C.M. Scandreth on the NoSleep Podcast.
Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
Winnie2609 🥝🇳🇿🫘 @winnie2609.bsky.social Left and woke, NZer interested in NZ politics and because it matters, USA politics. Legumiati, Books, Art and Food. I Follow Back. Totally Against 🍊💨 DONT ask for money or show me your ass. YOU WILL BE BLOCKED 🚫.
Chris Tse @chrisjtse.bsky.social New Zealand Poet Laureate, 2022-25.
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?
Sarah Young @sjyoungnz.bsky.social Creative Writing PhD Candidate at Te Herenga Waka--Victoria University of Wellington. Writer. CW MA at UEA. Agent: Sara Langham @ David Higham Associates.
NZSA Wellington Branch @nzsauthorswgtn.bsky.social Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington Branch of New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) @nzsa.bsky.social
#pukapuka
https://authors.org.nz/about/branches/wellington-branch/
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
Anne Kennedy @annekennedy.bsky.social Writer, reader, piano teacher 
Johanna Knox @johannaknox.bsky.social Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Ranginui, Pākehā. Māmā. She/her. Random interests. I WILL finish the PhD.
Emma Shi | 石艾玛 @emmlexx.bsky.social poet, writer, editor
Michelle Duff @michelleduff.bsky.social Social issues journalist and fiction writer, Te-Whanganui-a-Tara.
Surplus Women out April 11!
www.michelleduff.com
Words in The Guardian, New Zealand Geographic, Landfall, among others.
Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (Observer, LRB, Guardian etc)
@audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social 
Glass Half @glasshalf.bsky.social Sometimes the glass is half full and sometimes it’s half empty.
Tangata Tiriti (she/her/ia) in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Worrying about climate change, social injustice, erosion of democracy.
KoBettyAhau ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kobettyahau.bsky.social Chic cat lady - ngai Aotearoa ahau. Social Justice is my bag she/her #NZ/Aotearoa 🇳🇿
Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social General-purpose activist + writer. Pākehā in Aotearoa. Disabled. Brilliant + Amazing. Human rights, politics, feminism, community building, books, parenting, Jesus. 
Gemma Finlay @gemma-finlay.bsky.social Bookish publicist 
Hinemoana Baker @hinemoana.bsky.social Poet, sound enthusiast, occasionally hilarious!
Lisa M @lisam74.bsky.social Arts producer, researcher, poet, artist, Wikipedian. I'm a white New Zealander living in Aotearoa gratefully because of Te Tiriti o Aotearoa.
He Tangata Tiriti ahau
He Pākehā ahau
Toi Tū Te Tiriti
Toi Tū Te Taiao
Toi Tū Te Reo
Mauri ora
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
Alie Benge @aliebenge.bsky.social Writer from Wellington, living in London
Author of Ithaca and editor of Otherhood
Writing nonsense at: https://bit.ly/40e5Cuu
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
EBONY LAMB @ebonylamb.bsky.social STUDIO ELGA music & visuals
ELSTUDIOS photography
Internal Landscapes External Scenes
📷https://www.ebonylambphotographer.co.nz/
🎤 https://ebonylamb.com/
Alice Shearman @aliceshearman.bsky.social Creative Leader, lover of screenwriters, defender of the Arts. Still.
Fiona McKenzie @feever.bsky.social Writer/Director
https://www.facebook.com/share/1AKydscdzL/?mibextid=wwXIfr
@InclusivePerformanceAcademy
Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social Personal account so expect eclecticism. Law, politics, SFF books, anime, gaming, music. Queer stuff.
Day job = Administrative law and public law theory.
DrewTopp @drewtopp.bsky.social Cats
The Sartorial Librarians Podcast @sartoriallibrary.bsky.social Join @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social and @paulvinelli.bsky.social for celebrations of picture books & librarian fashion.
Apple: https://apple.co/4e4mM3h
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ANgYge
Instagram: https://bit.ly/4dCh09b
Iris Beaglehole @irisbeaglehole.bsky.social Writer, witch, druid
www.irisbeaglehole.com
Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social Most recent books: IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf, PAPER CROWN: Poems
https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle