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Lena @lfransham.bsky.social 
Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social Writer; PhD student. Dog & book lover. 'Damn leftie'
Māori/Irish/Scottish/Proud Kiwi
Shakespeare/mātauranga passionate
www.tkroxborogh.com
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Feana Tu’akoi @feanatuakoi.bsky.social Writer
2025 Convenor of Judges NZCYA Book Awards
2024 University of Otago CoE Creative NZ Children’s Writer in Residence
https://www.feanatuakoi.com/
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?
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
Anne Kennedy @annekennedy.bsky.social Writer, reader, piano teacher 
Jillian Robinson @jillianrobinson.bsky.social Pocket reckons about books and life
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She/her
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
VivA @vivanz.bsky.social Lives in Aotearoa New Zealand. Retired after 25 years as educator. Proud mum & granny. Donkey and Whippet companion. Enthusiasms include knitting and reading (preferably at same time), growing native trees and veggies. A little obsessed with linoprinting.
B L I T Z / / B E R L I N @blitzberlinmusic.com Three composers making music for film, tv, and video games. Blade Runner 2036, The Void, Psycho Goreman, Frankie Freako, Far Cry 6
blitzberlinmusic.com
XianPitt @xianpitt.bsky.social Open like an octopus 
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
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.
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
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Caoimhe @caoimhe-rose.bsky.social Publicist @THWUPbooks
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
Dave Rose @dave-rose.bsky.social Musical Director, Conductor and Arranger. Aladdin, The Prince of Egypt, Wicked, Shrek http://www.daverosemd.com
🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com Somewhat Known Conservation Artist | Merch Designer | Hacker Companion | Latinx Queer | She/They | NZ•Aotearoa Based/Ship Worldwide | NO AI #Art
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Coyote / J. Stryker | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social Psychology nerd. Victim advocate. Domestic abuse & cyberstalking survivor. Neuroscience, wildlife, trees, night, canids, corvids, coffee, cats. They/them.
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.
Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint 
The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social Aotearoa based. Mostly bonsai with my coffee is all I seek.
Started Bonsai 2020 = new to it. Also into aviation/space/science/geopolitics/wildlife/helpful tech stuff.
Bonsai feed
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The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
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.
Donna 🌅👗🚶🏽♀️🎒☕📧✍⌨🎧🤓📚🤔🥀🌹🚶🏽♀️❤📻🍲🚿🛌🏽 @kebabette.bsky.social Ōtautahi Christchurch. Aotearoa New Zealand. Editor-at-large. Librarian. Flâneuse. Tea Mum. She / her.
The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
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This account is mostly automated.
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
CNN @cnn.com Asking the hard questions and bringing unique perspectives from across the globe. This is CNN.
New Zealand Earthquake Feed - Unofficial @geonet.bsky.social Nearly all NZ earthquakes, matching those reported on GeoNet twitter feed before it was rate limited. For only large NZ earthquakes follow @nzquake.bsky.social. For a more inclusive selection of significant earthquakes, follow #significant #EqNZ hashtag
Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social Te Kāhui Mātai Manu o Aotearoa | The Ornithological Society of New Zealand - for all things birds in Aotearoa New Zealand. www.birdsnz.org.nz
Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
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!
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.
Laura Jean McKay @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social Writer. THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY winner of The Arthur C Clarke Award and The Victorian Prize for Literature. Latest collection GUNFLOWER. She/her. Views mostly other people's.
laurajeanmckay.com.au
On Meeanjin - Turrbal and Jagera Country.
Anti gen AI
Environment Network Manawatū @enviromanawatu.bsky.social Environment Network Manawatū is a network of over 60 member organisations that fosters and encourages environmental initiatives in the Manawatū river catchment. https://www.enm.org.nz/- F Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social Environment editor at the Guardian newspaper, full-time environment writer since 2004
Nalini Singh @authornalinisingh.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of paranormal & contemporary romance. Also writes murdery books set in New Zealand.
https://www.nalinisingh.com
Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social Physicist & science storyteller. 📚#1: SCIENCE AND THE CITY 📚#2: STICKY. Words in other places. Irish in Aotearoa New Zealand. Massive science nerd, biz owner, enthusiastic, outspoken, equity-minded, multi-crafter. She/her. #ToitūTeTiriti #FreePalestine
Saige England @saigeengland.bsky.social Author The Seasonwife, a novel. An Irish girl is kidnapped by a rogue whaler in Sydney and dragged into his nefarious activities in New Zealand. Poetry published in national and international journals, award-winning human rights journalist. 
Octavia @octavia-cade.bsky.social New Zealand writer, PhD science communication! Seven time SJV winner. Author of The Stone Wētā, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, and You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories. Creative NZ's writer in residence in Berlin for 2026.
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
te kootahekore ranapiri @ired0mi.bsky.social essa may ranapiri / they/ia / Ngaati Wehi Wehi / Ngaati Puukeko / Ngaati Rangiwewehi / Torere / Clan Gunn / kootuku maa / author of ransack & ECHIDNA
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
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
Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
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.- E Emily Perkins @emilyp.bsky.social writer
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
Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
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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
Whitireia Publishing @publishingwhiti.bsky.social Home to Aotearoa New Zealand's Whitireia Publishing Programme
https://www.whitireiaweltec.ac.nz/study-programmes/creativity/creative-writing-and-publishing/
NZSA.bsky.social @nzsa.bsky.social The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) represents Aotearoa New Zealand writers. Protecting basic rights to freedom of expression, working to improve income and conditions, promoting writing and literary culture.
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
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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