Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social @craicer Writer Teacher Geek. I write a weekly roundup of publishing news writing craft tips and book marketing links. (17 years and counting...) www.maureencrisp.com
My kids books are at www.maureencrispbooks.com
Wendy Waring @wendywaring.bsky.social writer, editor, prof, traductrice
Queer ecofiction novel forthcoming @Stelliform.press: The Hunger of Those Who Built It
🌹 grew up in the Hammer, raising rabble world-wide 🌹
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Queen's | UofT | ISTI | Clarion
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Cate Pearce - Author @cate-pearce.bsky.social Sci-fi and fantasy author; faithfully LGBTQ; NM, USA
Alexandra @wolfe.bsky.social Hi, I’m Alexandra, a tea drinking, robot-obsessed, humanoid, with an over active imagination.
wrywriter.ca
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Paula Burgess @paulaburgess.bsky.social Children's author Rep: Joanna Moult - Skylark Literary
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Karl Duke @karlduke8.bsky.social HT of a gorgeous reading-inspired primary school. Love children’s books, pic books, graphic novels/comic books and the book community. Passion for sharing creativity through the subjects I teach (Art, DT, RE, PSHE) #CurriculumBooks #PictureBooks4Values
Ella Noir @ellanoirofficial.bsky.social Model. Actress. Poet. Dancer
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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social Author of the Varjak Paw books, Phoenix and TYGER! I also write about children's books & all things connected - libraries, literacy & reading for pleasure.
http://www.sfsaid.com/
Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social Welly illustrator and garret dweller on Cuba Street. Lending a hand in The Wellington Writer’s Studio. #MyAuntHonor illustrator. Aotearoa New Zealand Ngāti Tūkorehe/Tangata Tiriti 🌱
Katara Kamen @katarakamen.bsky.social Best-selling #author passionate about #fairytale retellings! Check out the Twisted Fairytales Collection! B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/KuroKoneko%20Kamen Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/KataraKamen DMs r off
@revneilx.bsky.social @revneilx.bsky.social Punk Rocker/Screenwriter/Novelist. Science Fiction/Horror/Movie Lover. 🛸
PURCHASE NEVER GROW UP AT AMAZON
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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com * I write books and cleave to the minority opinion that they’re great.
* I read and review 19th & 20th century fiction.
* Sometimes I spout gibberish.
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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
Billie Rooney @billierooney.bsky.social Children’s writer, reader and hopeful human 📚🌈 Writing PB and MG. #SCBWI member
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
Lesley Parr @lesleyparr.bsky.social Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke
Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW
Made of Port Talbot steel
Chopsy
lesleyparr.com
BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social 🏆 Award-winning children’s booklisting website 📕 Recommended children’s books sorted by age or topic - visit us at http://www.booksfortopics.com
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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
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Mr Tom Slattery @slatterymr.bsky.social 👨🏫 Primary Deputy Head Teacher in Burton
📚 Children’s book blogger.
🏡 Live in Birmingham (proud Brummie)
Check out my blog at tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
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📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
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.
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Alicia White @alicialwhite.bsky.social Optimistic New Yorker
Award-winning social entrepreneur, innovator, storyteller & activist.
https://linktr.ee/AliciaLWhite
Making things better-creating change🌎🏙️
Founder of Project Petals
Founder of BlueSKYie
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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
Stephanie Lisa Tara @stephanielisatara.bsky.social 🌟Stephanie Lisa Tara Children's Books®
🌟PRESERVE, CONSERVE, INSPIRE, TEACH.
🌟Founded by a mom who cares,❤️
Amazon.com/dp/0989433404
San Francisco
http://www.stephanielisatara.com
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
Gill James @gillj.bsky.social Writer, publisher, book and story lover. Love how I'm allowed to spend my working day. Surprise fact: I sing tenor in a choir. 
Erica @ericastretton.bsky.social writer, reviewer, editor at Kete Books.
Stuart Wilson @stuwilsonwrites.bsky.social Author of THE 113th ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN and the PROMETHEUS HIGH books • Represented by Melanie Ostell Literary • He/him • Naarm/Melbourne • https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-113th-assistant-librarian-3-forbidden-pages-9781761356612
All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social Literary magazine exploring character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. Submissions CLOSED. #litmag
Read stories at www.allworldswayfarer.com
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.
Tree lover Anna @spannalou.bsky.social Inclusive feminist, wife, Māmā - Loves all things goofball & chats with good friends. She/her/ia #GiveNothingToRacism #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ToituTeTiriti
Te Whanganui-a-tara
Damion @damionmatthews.bsky.social Publisher of The Notable (coming soon.)
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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social She/her, cis het, music enthusiast, door & merch lady extraordinaire, into science and technology, Green, anti-fascism, ally, crafty, somewhere on the rainbow (but like a weird corner). 🧷
https://pocomoto.co.nz/
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Karen Ginnane @karenginnane.bsky.social Author • Hist fic fantasy TIME CATCHERS series • WHEN DAYS TILT & WHEN SOULS TEAR • living on Wurundjeri land (Naarm/Melbourne), born on Noongar boodja •
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DK Mok @dkmok.bsky.social Aurealis Award-winning fantasy and science fiction author. The Heart of the Labyrinth, Squid's Grief, and Hunt for Valamon. Loves libraries, starships, and cephalopods. Fantastical stories with heart.
www.dkmok.com
Gadigal Country, Sydney, Australia
Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social SFFH writer, reader, tea drinker. Aurealis award winner. AHWA. Codex. Words in: Nightmare, Andromeda Spaceways, Factor Four etc.
Naarm/Melbourne
KieraLesley.com
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
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MJ Beauchamp @mjnicefield.bsky.social Montréal, QC
📖☕️🪶
https://linktr.ee/mjnicefield
Aurealis Awards @aurealisawards.bsky.social Australia’s premier speculative fiction literature awards.
https://aurealisawards.org
coeur de lion publishing @coeurdelion.com.au Publisher of Australian sci-fi, fantasy and horror -
https://coeurdelion.com.au/
We also create beautiful ebook and print book files for indie authors -
https://coeurdelion.com.au/print-and-ebook-formatting/
Partner member Alliance of Independent Authors
Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com Scottish/ Australian SF author. The End Times of Markusz Zielinski. The Lenticular Series. Horizon. Here for a chat but no DMs please. No thieving GenAI
💙💛
www.keithstevenson.com
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TrundlelinB @trundlelinb.eurosky.social I'm @trundlelinb.eurosky.social@bsky.brid.gy 🌉 to https://mastodon.social/@TrundlelinB
#NoPlanetB #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateActionNOW #AnimalWelfare #Biodiversity #RegenerationFarming #StopDeforestation #Boycott4Wildlife #GreenRevolution
Carmen Wiigwaas Craig @carmunist.bsky.social Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they
SZ Estavillo @szestavilloauthor.com Crime Thriller Author | The Serpent Series |@OliverHeberBooks | MA: TV, Radio & Film | Multi-Genre Reader
The Serpent’s Bridge (📚1)
The Serpent Woman (📚2)
Twilight of the Serpent (📚3)
The Serpent’s Order (📚4)
amazon.com/dp/B0CW6KP433
Harper Dent @harperdent.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction. Loves nature, dogs and chocolate. She/them
Gareth Southwell @garethsouthwell.bsky.social Self-employed writer, illustrator, philosopher. All views are those of my employer. 🏴
Runs woodpigpress.com, woodpigpress.bsky.social
Sci-fi, philosophy and illustration: garethsouthwell.com
Diary of a Micro-Press: https://woodpigpress.substack.com/
Mónica Mancillas Author @monicamancillas.bsky.social Mexican-American kidlit author living in the UK. 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧
Books 📚:
Mariana and Her Familia
The Worry Balloon
How to Speak in Spanglish
Sing it Like Celia
Taco Tuesdays
Leyendas/Legends
My Barrio Sings in Spanglish ('27)
Rep: Melissa Edwards, Stonesong
Tania McCartney @taniamccartney.bsky.social Author, Illustrator, Editor, Designer
Founder Kids’ Book Review
The Happy Book podcast
www.taniamccartney.com
Emma Perry @emmaperry.bsky.social ▪️ Children's author writing stories & poems filled with giggles & warmth.
▪️Teacher
▪️Shortlisted for Sheffield Children's Book Award 2023
▪️www.emmaperryauthor.com she/her
WUTF-TV @wutf.bsky.social WUTF-TV • Public Access
Channel 69 • Cable 8
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Ali Kayn (Nightstorm) @nightstorm.bsky.social Editor of Festivale Online Magazine, writer of tech, reviews, travel based in Melbourne, Australia.
Maree Kimberley @reekimberley.bsky.social Writer. Weird person currently obsessed by both wrestling & Urban Search & Rescue.
Julianne Negri @juliannenegri.bsky.social Library worker, writer, reader, puffed sleeve wearer - living on unceded Wurundjeri land. 
Dee White @deewhiteauthor.bsky.social Author, animal lover, environmentalist award-winning childrens and YA author of Beyond Belief, Eddy Popcorn Books, Reena's Rainbow
she/her
Austrian/Australian
www.deescribe.com.au
marlee jane ward @marleejaneward.bsky.social Author & visual artist. Middle-aged goth aunt. My novella The Forgetting Navigations is available May, 2026 through Interstellar Flight Press.
linktr.ee/marleejaneward
Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social Novelist ‘Lyrebird’ ‘The Mother’, author, columnist, social commentator, feminist, atheist, activist, emcee, public speaker.
Sara Guenthner @sguenthnerauthor.bsky.social Scientist by day moonlighting as a Science Fantasy writer by night.
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I expressly prohibit the submission of my writing or art into any AI/machine learning algorithms.
Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social Retired bookseller, librarian, teacher. Writes sometimes. Owner of an Australian Shepherd. Living proof we don’t become more conservative as we age. Rural living, Queensland, Australia. Yuggera-Ugarapul country
Harmsan @harmsan.bsky.social Bowie, Monty Python
@pollysoundsgood.bsky.social @pollysoundsgood.bsky.social Below-the-line film industry grunt.
Tangata Tiriti by birth, American by circumstance.
Annoying loudmouth (so I'm told).
Woke as fuck.
She/her
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Julia Smith @juliavegan.bsky.social school librarian, vegan, greeny, feminist, te Tiriti o Waitangi, decolonisation, SLANZA National Executive - School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa
Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social
Libraries, UBI, infrastructure, civics, and citizens' assemblies.
Sarah - Toitū te Tiriti @forster81.bsky.social Mum, comms person, childrens book enthusiast and cofounder of The Sapling. Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 76/100
📚 Rust Head
📺 Skeleton Knight In Another World: Season 2
📺 An Adventurer's Daily Grind at Age 29
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
http://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
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.
Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social Writer, Greenie Granny worrying for my grandkids future
mandyhager.com
Sue Copsey / Olivia Hayfield @suecopsey.bsky.social Editor, history nerd, nature lover.
Author of modern retellings of historical tales & spooky stories for kids.
Writer for Royals Monthly.
New novel QUEEN, KING, ACE out now.
Rep’d by High Spot Literary
Giselle @giselledraws.bsky.social Illustrator/Author/Cartoonist in Aotearoa NZ
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
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!
Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, An Academic Affair, is out now.
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
Catherine Chidgey @catherinechidgey.bsky.social Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.
Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social ONZM. USA Today bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award winner. Monster lover from Aotearoa. Represented by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary.
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🇳🇿
Sherryl writes and reads @sherrylwriter.bsky.social Writer of crime fiction and books for young readers of all ages. Most recent crime novel is "Woman, Missing" (HQ). Love reading. Edit part-time. Owner (servant) of a cat.
Moderately Salty @melszymanik.bsky.social Writer of fiction for children, puzzler, poet, imposter, spy, fan of hot chips, champagne and chocolate
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
Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social Author, teacher, nerd.
I write the Olympus Inc. series - Greek myth meets The Devil Wears Prada. Penelope Pops the Question (https://BookHip.com/PQSRZXZ) is free!
Tim Sinclair @timsinclair.org YA author | Gadigal land/Sydney | he/him | infrequently here
https://timsinclair.org
Kelly Gardiner @kmjgardiner.bsky.social I write, teach writing, and lead writing retreats. My latest novel, Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective, co- written with Sharmini Kumar, is out now (HarperCollins).
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/
SpecFicNZ @specficnz.bsky.social The association for creators, writers and editors of fantasy, science fiction and horror in or from New Zealand. Learn more at www.specfic.nz
Admined by @nikkythewriter.com and @izzyallaire.bsky.social
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
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Steph Matuku @stephm1.bsky.social Māori, Mum, 'Decent writer'
🇳🇿
I write books and tv. Should get a proper job but I like working in my pj's.
she/her/ia
My YA novel 'Migration' is out now! It's a Storylines Notable book, NZ Booklovers winner, and NZCYA finalist🏆💕
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