Kerry Ferrand @kferrand.bsky.social Yet another tedious GenXer on yet another social media app, yay..
Collects way too many books and reads too few of them..
Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
youtube.com/@kferrandCRB
mastodon.nz/@kferrand
pixelfed.social/@kferrand2
Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.social Festivals take place in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.
The festival has created 4 tiers to enhance your festival experience.
https://filmfreeway.com/ExperimentalFilmMusicVideoFestival
https://experimentalfilmfestival.com
Narich Violetfathom @frengible.bsky.social I contain multitudes, today I am a stoned yet odd bedeviled hero with a soothing disrespect for authority
Bradley Morgan @bradleymorgan.bsky.social Author of “Frank Zappa’s America” (LSU Press, ‘25); “U2: Until the End of the World” (Gemini, ‘25); & “U2’s The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America” (Backbeat, ‘21). Interviewer for the New Books Network. Music film fest director for CHIRP Radio
Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social He/him. Muso, soundie, general nerd. Based in Palmerston North NZ.
Day job is @mpr.nz
Find all my other things (music, writing, get me to make you sound good) at https://hugh.go.haume.nz
Arie Hoeflak @ariehoeflak.com Blogger of bons mots. Snapper of shots. Valet de chambre du chat. he/him/lovely/jubbly
Writing → https://bloggings.ariehoeflak.com
Photography → https://imagings.ariehoeflak.com
MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social 60s & 70s films + affiliates. Also Influences, origins, legacies, social-cultural context.
Books incl Hollywood's Last Golden Age; Novel: Urban Flight
70s Movie Podcast [NB: Antifascist]
Much more here: https://midcenturycinema.org/
Machine Records 🏳️⚧️✊🏿🏳️🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social Underground electronic music. NZ/Wales!
http://www.machine-records.com
https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com
versionz @versionz.bsky.social https://version.nz/
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Henkjan Olthuis @audiohenkjan.bsky.social Audio | Muziek | Ondergewaardeerde Liedjes| Volt | Natuur | Fietsen | Wetenschap | Mensenrechten
Dr Jon Sutton @jonsutton.bsky.social Editor, writer, interviewer, chartered psychologist, collector of music, oddities, puns.
https://about.me/jonsutton
Juan Lucho @juanluchopro.bsky.social Straight/alpha-identified creator, Juan Lucho exploring bi/gay sides with jerk-off sessions, collabs, and fun play.
🌶️ onlyfans.com/juan_lucho
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🍆 https://juan-lucho-shop.myshopify.com
❤️ pornhub.com/pornstar/juanluchoweb
Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social WordPress guy. Auckland, NZ - was in North Otago. Topics incl. music, film, cycling / biking -mtb, renewable energy, climate, tech, coffee, architecture. Quals in law, arts & marketing. Barista. https://dialogcrm.com
shambolika @shambolika.bsky.social Bookish. Tuneful. Humourous. Poetic. Erratic.
Pākehā, Rangitāne, Ngati Kahungunu: Euronesian. Aroreretini (it's not a deficit, but a partitioning, of attention)
S P Clark @spclarkwriter.bsky.social S P Clark is a writer of poetry, prose, plays, essays and articles. www.simonclarkwriter.com
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com a journal of ends and beginnings
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/
published by @psychopomp.com, tweets by @feliciafm.bsky.social and @seanmarkey.bsky.social
Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social writer ~ doing my PhD?! ~ wellington, nz ~ she/her
www.janearthur.co.nz
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Manawatū People's Radio @mpr.nz Te reo irirangi o ngā tangata o Manawatū!
Manawatu People's Radio is an Access Media Platform for Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand, supported by the Community Access Media Alliance.
Made with support of NZ On Air
👉🏼 linktr.ee/manawatupeoplesradio
beccadownes @beccadownes.bsky.social Nerdy management academic with a tech background (she/her/Dr).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3278-5749
Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social Storyteller | Wife | Veteran | Dyke
https://lisajophillipsauthor.com/
Mark Your Calendars! *CYPRESS DAUGHTER* is set for release April 30th, 2027!
Shanna's Treasure Trove! ~ @jami-jam.bsky.social I am Shanna Lee James, Author. Click on link to view my Author website. www.shannaleejamesauthor.com I am also an advocate for nature, wildlife, and animals; land, sea, and sky. Our world is hurting and we need all involved.
Dom Waghorn @domjw.bsky.social London via Aotearoa
Olajuwon stan
emily @emilysue.bsky.social the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you could stop tonguing it, but you can't.
discogs: esb5050
Hook & Quill Press @hookandquillpress.com An indie publishing company representing indie authors. Account run by @eliwoodsgheist.com and supported by all members of Hook & Quill Press.
Hook & Quill Press is an anti-AI organization.
https://linktr.ee/hookandquillpress
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social davidslack.net
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
DJ Mag @djmag.com Living and breathing dance music since 1991.
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
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
Martyn Pepperell @martynpepperell.bsky.social You can put anything in your bio these days.
Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social Writer, Greenie Granny worrying for my grandkids future
mandyhager.com
Kristin Hersh @kristinhersh.bsky.social musician, author
Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave
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.
@kateschol.bsky.social @kateschol.bsky.social 
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social Fan of weird microbes, Pākehā nō Pōneke, dilettante crafter, co-President @nzscientists.bsky.social. All opinions my own etcetera.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7352-3329
Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social I have too many dogs for a sensible person
One of the Aotearoa NZ Twitter exodus
Mother: Invercargill, father: Simmesport La. Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Cajun, Pākehā, feminist, parent
MA in history, PhD in dork
Terfs and right-wingers can get in the bin
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/
Slow Boat Records @slowboatmusic.bsky.social Slow Boat Records is Wellington, New Zealand’s longest running independent record store. Situated at 183 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington
www.slowboatrecords.co.nz
Emma Hislop @her-slop.bsky.social 
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.
Jonny @fastercamels.bsky.social loyle to my capo
50 Shades of Crimson - Pete Tomsett @50shadesofcrimson.bsky.social 2021 biog of Fripp/King Crimson. Incl. interviews with Bruford, Giles, Haskell & more. Described by veteran broadcaster, Martin Kelner, as 'a work of beauty' https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Fifty-Shades-of-Crimson-by-Pete-Tomsett/9781493051021
Stephenjohn Holgate @mistaholgate.bsky.social Writer type person. Professional immigrant. PEN/Dau Prize winner. MA from the IIML, Wellington. Contramestre of Capoeira Angola. #author 🇯🇲 ➡️ 🇳🇿 https://open.substack.com/pub/jackmandorastory
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 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
Talia Marshall @princesstehangi.bsky.social failed poet
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
Godless America @godless-america.com 📼 Cassette Connoisseur 📼
#diylabel #tapelabel #orlando #cassette #punk #eggpunk #weirdo
Orlando Cassette Label: https://godless-america.com
"Making and slinging tapes since 2008"
Mike Kilpatrick @marvingardensnz.bsky.social Scot in Aotearoa. Funny fucker, prone to cry at random videos. Good company, likes a quiz. Music and book lover too. Occasional poet and wannabe novelist. Anti-AI, LLMs. Neo-Luddite. No Nazis/TERFS/billionaires. Plant based. Far left. Toitū Te Tiriti.
@tarnsthepoet.bsky.social @tarnsthepoet.bsky.social 
Raphael Mann @raphaelmann.bsky.social Musician, recording artist, record producer - www.raphaelmann.com - debut solo album out on May 30th!
Founder of FrizzRecords.com - half of thesilverpanda.co.uk
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social Sarabande Books Director & EIC @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Founder at @zinemachine.bsky.social
Poet, translator, chaos virgo
linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint 
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.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social Editor, Publisher
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz
Kirsten McDougall @cursesmcd.bsky.social Reader, writer, professional parallel parker
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com- T Paris Review @theparisreivew.bsky.social We don't just review Paris
Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
ashleigh @ashleighyoung.bsky.social Writer and editor. SOME FLAILING
https://eyelashroaming.substack.com/
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.
Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
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
Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
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
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
Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social Journalist, rider of bikes, cooker of food, seeker of joy. Dad-DJ. Cosmopolitan.
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
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
Catherine Chidgey @catherinechidgey.bsky.social Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.
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
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
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
Craig Gamble @craiggamble66.bsky.social Writer, publisher. Tries to do good.
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.
Tara @taracomics.bsky.social Author of This is Not a Pipe. Posts comics at taracomics.substack.com (they/them: tangata Tiriti)
Archive of live drawings (2017-2024) available at the National Library: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/55900477
Liminal @liminalmag.bsky.social Founded in 2016, Liminal is an anti-racist literary journal publishing art + writing, criticism + conversations / AGAINST DISAPPEARANCE out now
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
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
Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social English Literatures and Creative Communication Programme, Te Herenga Waka; curious about c19 and nonhuman worlds; co-director of dickensnotes.org
Helen Rickerby @helenrickerby.bsky.social Poet and so forth.
Emma Hislop @emmahislop.bsky.social 
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social Investigative journalist | The Crewe Murders 📖 | Nellie’s Baby 🎧 | I tell stories about people | kirsty.johnston@rnz.co.nz ✉️
https://www.instagram.com/kirstyjohnston_nz?igsh=bWU4a2pqemthYm5q
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
Chris Tse @chrisjtse.bsky.social New Zealand Poet Laureate, 2022-25.
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
Elizabeth Kerr @elizabethxkerr.bsky.social Music writer, arts lover. I write about music, mostly the so-called classical kind, on my free website www.fivelines.nz and for NZ Listener. 🌈
The Letters of Samuel Beckett @beckettletters.bsky.social We collect/consult/transcribe all extant letters by Beckett; see our interactive index (chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu), and 4 volume selected edition.
@sueorr.bsky.social @sueorr.bsky.social 
Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY.
linktr.ee/sarabandebooks
Khadro 🇸🇴 @itsmekhadro.bsky.social 25. author. poet & that’s kinda it