Bizabizow / Ty @bizabizow.bsky.social | 25 | she/her 🏳️⚧️| lesbo!! |
Youboober (https://youtube.com/@bizabizow?si=fmDcFjUrIqGPjbqK)
www.patreon.com/bizabizow
throne.com/bizabizow
Rowan MacDonald @rowanthewriter.bsky.social Writer + Book Reviewer
Lutruwita / Tasmania
https://linktr.ee/rowmac
Diannely Antigua @diannelyantigua.bsky.social she. her.
little poet. big hair.
author of UGLY MUSIC and GOOD MONSTER.
host of Bread & Poetry Podcast.
https://linktr.ee/diannelyantigua
Anne Kennedy @annekennedy.bsky.social Writer, reader, piano teacher 
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
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
@hurtbooks.bsky.social @hurtbooks.bsky.social HuRT is a t4t publishing project
Ariel Chu / 朱詠慈 @ariel-chu.com 💫 she/they, aspiring corvid
📜 creative writing phd candidate at usc
🖊️ stories & more: https://ariel-chu.com
🍉 free palestine
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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
margo montes de oca @margomontes.bsky.social poet, librarian, waterbaby! my chapbook Intertidal is in AUP New Poets 11: https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/aup-new-poets-11/
Jon Lemay @jonlemay.bsky.social Jon "Jon Lemay" Lemay
https://linktr.ee/jonlemay
Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd game dev / comics editor / author
probably worked on that thing you like
lapsed hockey reporter / aotearoa based
represented by ed wilson @ J&A
these views represent my employers so hard that my boss is actually holding a gun to my head as I type this
Mary Karr @marykarr.bsky.social poet/memoirist/professor/nana
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social Writer • Syracuse MFA '24 • NYU PhD '29-'30.
BAD ANIMAL, Riot in Your Throat Press, 2023 • SMALL GEOMETRIES, Ethel, 2023
Caio Major @caiomajor.bsky.social trans latino writer. working on my MFA at Syracuse. you're going to love my dog.
Blog: https://caiomajor.substack.com/
Jake Arthur @jakearthur.bsky.social 
The Pantograph Punch @pantographpunch.bsky.social an arts and culture journal • theatre, books, art and everything in between 💕 ✨abject waste ✨ an arts and culture journal • theatre, books, art and everything in between 💕 ✨abject waste ✨ Est 2011.
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Kirsten McDougall @cursesmcd.bsky.social Reader, writer, professional parallel parker
Nick Ascroft @assscroft.bsky.social Haddock
Helen Rickerby @helenrickerby.bsky.social Poet and so forth.
Chris Tse @chrisjtse.bsky.social New Zealand Poet Laureate, 2022-25.
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
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.
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
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
Ben Fagan @benfagan.bsky.social 
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
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.
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?
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
Elliot Weir @elliotjweir.bsky.social Ecologist touching grass
Formerly ORC councillor, Critic Te Ārohi features editor
🏳️🌈🇳🇿💚🐢 they/them
Kirsten @kleharivel.bsky.social Writer, programme manager, mother. 
always @alwaysbecominging.bsky.social lucky girl
Pmax @pmax.bsky.social Teacher, TTRPG Designer and GM, General weirdo. He/Him. Employee at the Ministry of Romantic Relations @fumblecast.bsky.social
Éimhín @eimhin.bsky.social spontaneous and organic using any medium available
https://linktr.ee/eimhin.oshea?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=c612245a-54d5-45de-9f8e-57389248572e
Jenny Nimon @jennynimon.bsky.social 🍄🦌🧚🏻
Writer, insomniac, neighbourhood witch
(she/her)
Wellington, NZ
Murdoch Stephens @murdochstephens.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
Brannavan Gnanalingam @brannavan.bsky.social Novelist and occasional reviewer 
b dog @barbarikkizzle.bsky.social unionist, waste expert, lover, policy nerd, urban geographer, eternal film student
http://shrecsyonmain.substack.com
Claire @claireblack.bsky.social 
Francis Cooke @franciscooke.bsky.social 
Alice Tawhai @alicetawhai.bsky.social
Life is but a fever dream
www.alicetawhai.com
T-shirt in banner by @thanepullan.bsky.social
van @deathbypdf.bsky.social nonbinary princess pirate boy 💪🫶
professionally lying down
views my own
Sorry if u sense mental illness on the TL
loretta @ghostb1rd.bsky.social poet. they/them
Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social She/her, cis het, music enthusiast, door & merch lady extraordinaire, into science and technology, a raging lefty, anti-fascism, ally, crafty, somewhere on the rainbow (but like a weird corner).
🧷 https://pocomoto.co.nz/
People Selling Mirrors @sellingamirror.bsky.social Sometimes when people sell mirrors online, they can't figure out how to get out of the way.
If you've found a good pic @ me if you'd like the credit; or DM to remain anon. Happy hunting!
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
jenny o @jennyo.bsky.social Editor and publications specialist for nonprofit and social impact. 🇳🇿 pākehā / 🇨🇦 white settler posting from Treaty 3 3/4. She/her.
GOOD BOOKS @goodbookshopnz.bsky.social www.goodbookshop.nz
GOOD BOOKS is a small independent bookshop on Jessie Street in Te Aro, Pōneke Wellington.
We’re proud to be Aotearoa New Zealand’s first (and only) Living Wage bookshop, with a select and inclusive range of books for all.
Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Raven’s Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) 🍃Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com- P Philippa Werry @philippaw.bsky.social Reader, writer. Latest title Iris and me (Cuba Press, 2023)
https://philippawerry.co.nz/
Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men :: Te Whakatōhea, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi :: Mai i te awa ki te moana 🇵🇸 :: Ka ora tonu mātou ake ake ake
Jordan Hamel @jordanhamel.bsky.social I miss Twitter.
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.
Tracy Farr @hissingswan.bsky.social she/her pākehā writer
in Aotearoa NZ; of Australia
novels THE HOPE FAULT (family/anxiety/geology), THE LIFE+LOVES OF LENA GAUNT (love/loss/theremin)
May 2025: 3rd novel, WONDERLAND
Bad Diaries Salon + Podcast
tracyfarrauthor.com
baddiariessalon.com
ashleigh @ashleighyoung.bsky.social Writer and editor. SOME FLAILING
https://eyelashroaming.substack.com/- C Catherine Woulfe @catherinewoulfe.bsky.social Editor at New Zealand Geographic.
Catherine Chidgey @catherinechidgey.bsky.social Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.- J JohnJCampbell @johnjcampbell.bsky.social
morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social good evening - E Emily Perkins @emilyp.bsky.social writer
Craig Gamble @craiggamble66.bsky.social Writer, publisher. Tries to do good.
NZ Earthquake Bot @nzquake.bsky.social New Zealand earthquake feed (unofficial). Posts whenever GeoNet reports a decent sized quake (a few times per week). Maintained by @slyall.bsky.social
Emma Hislop @emmahislop.bsky.social 
FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social pākehā, she/her, very successful and famous.
wrote a book it's called HEAD GIRL. there's poems in it.
freyadalysad.com
rebecca k reilly hour @rkr.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/rkrei 
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social Editor, Publisher
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz
Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
kī anthony @goblins.download they/他 — occasional poet, professional wordsmith, retired migrant sex worker, merch coordinator @papa.org.nz
Catherine Robertson @cjrauthor.bsky.social Author of Flora Valley, Miss Lovelock and Imperfect Lives series romcoms (catherinejrobertson.com) she/her, trans rights, vote Green, owner of cats, dogs and chickens. Banner pic is Bernie judging you
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
Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social PhD Literary Translation Studies; freelance editor; reader; occasional writer; translator, A Tale of Love/ Conte de l'amour bifrons by Linda Lê (Mākaro Press); knitter, mad, mad knitter.
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
Jackie Lee Morrison @jaxies.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇭🇰 🇳🇿 Writes words, pets animals, eats noods 🍜 Rep.: Naomi Eisenbeiss @ InkWell Management
https://linktr.ee/jaxieslm
Makyla @makyla.bsky.social Literature, Language & Letterpress.
Poet, artist, printer. Scots Pākehā, she/her, bisexual, T1 Diabetic.
MA English & MVA. PGDip Museum Studies
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ
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 out in November 2026. Views my own.
www.anthonylapwood.com
Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social Horror gameslinger @ PikPok Games. Actor @ Gail Cowan Management & BigMouth Voices. Freelance writer at various. Aotearoa New Zealand 💗🌵
https://linktr.ee/harrietprebble
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
cal is fine @callumknight.bsky.social I have approximate knowledge of many things.
he/him | Te Hika o Pāpāuma | ADHD | bi | writer – IIML MA ’21, Te Papa Tupu ’22 | freelance audiobook editor | amateur photographer.
opinions mine. fuck terfs.
callumknight.carrd.co
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
Dani Yourukova @daniyourukova.bsky.social 🌙✨ poet, bookhag, moonwife. I’ve written a book (which you can find here): https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/transposium/
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.
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
Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social writer ~ doing my PhD?! ~ wellington, nz ~ she/her
www.janearthur.co.nz
Kathryn van Beek @kathrynvanbeek.bsky.social Kathryn van Beek (she/her) is a Pākehā New Zealander of Dutch and English descent. A Robert Burns Fellow and a Winston Churchill McNeish Writers’ Fellow, Kathryn has a doctorate on the topic of using writing as a tool for positive change.
Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com I make TV and film. I write stuff. I was on #TheTraitorsNZ. Wrote FAKE BELIEVE (http://bit.ly/fakebelieve). Made TICKLED documentary. He/Him. dylanreeve@protonmail.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
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
Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
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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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
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