victorbillot.bsky.social @victorbillot.bsky.social Leader and Dunedin candidate for 2026, Alliance Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Member of the Maritime Union of New Zealand. Democratic socialist. Writer.
Bridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social Bridget Williams Books is an independent publisher focusing on history, Māori experience, contemporary issues and women's studies. Publisher of BWB Texts.
www.bwb.co.nz
Journal of New Zealand Literature @jnzl.bsky.social We have been publishing scholarly & critical studies in the literatures of, in, from & for Aotearoa NZ since 1983. https://www.jstor.org/journal/jnewzeallite
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards @ockhamnzbookawards.bsky.social Celebrating excellence in, and providing recognition for, the best NZ books published annually.
Maria Samuela @rarodonuts.bsky.social Books and stuff.
Space Academy (Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/NZ) @spaceacademy.bsky.social GRASSROOTS MUSIC VENUE. Ōtautahi, Aotearoa; Christchurch, New Zealand.
Community clubhouse. Home to @PizzaTrapnz.bsky.social pizzeria, Doki Hair Salon & @03sessions.bsky.social 🍉
FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz Critically acclaimed NZ Arts Laureates & Queer Indigenous, Interdisciplinary Arts Collective from the Moana. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau - SOUTH AKL
IG | @FAFSWAG
PRINTS | https://www.fafswag.nz/mketi/illustrations
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Donna 🌅👗🚶🏽♀️🎒☕📧✍⌨🎧🤓📚🤔🥀🌹🚶🏽♀️❤📻🍲🚿🛌🏽 @kebabette.bsky.social Ōtautahi Christchurch. Aotearoa New Zealand. Editor-at-large. Librarian. Flâneuse. Tea Mum. She / her.
Sarah - Toitū te Tiriti @forster81.bsky.social Mum, comms person, childrens book enthusiast and cofounder of The Sapling. Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti
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/
Abby Letteri @abbyletteri.bsky.social Horses, dogs, wild places, history, ecology, ethology.
I am a writer of creative nonfiction.
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
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
bad apple @badappledotgay.bsky.social Aotearoa’s tastiest queer arts and literature journal. Run completely on volunteer work.
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)
@johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social 
@staceyteague.bsky.social @staceyteague.bsky.social 
rebecca k reilly hour @rkr.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/rkrei 
EBONY LAMB @ebonylamb.bsky.social STUDIO ELGA music & visuals
ELSTUDIOS photography
Internal Landscapes External Scenes
📷https://www.ebonylambphotographer.co.nz/
🎤 https://ebonylamb.com/
Helen Rickerby @helenrickerby.bsky.social Poet and so forth.
Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social ⟦ law + govt ⟧ ⟦ coffee + kai ⟧ ⟦ critic + conscience ⟧ ⟦ rugby + rugby ⟧ ⟦ rainbows + unicorns ⟧ — usual disclaimers apply
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social The official Bluesky page for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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 
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?
Zoë Meager @zoemeager.bsky.social 
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.- L Linda Burgess @linda67.bsky.social
@diwichtel.bsky.social @diwichtel.bsky.social 
Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social People, places & Pacific wonder
Public programs curator
> The Veiqia Project > > >
Kai Lancashire, England + Vasu Nadroga, Fiji
Working on Baramadagal land
BUGANZ83 @tanugago.bsky.social Suffering arts admin PTSD and fatigue from capitalist value extraction with our colonial overlords. I may have lost my smile, but the optimism is under there somewhere. 🇼🇸🇳🇿
Artist | Filmmaker | Creative Director at @fafswag.nz
Alice Te Punga Somerville @alicetps.bsky.social Scholar Poet Irredentist Māmā | Māori on Musqueam whenua
The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social Aotearoa published daily → thespinoff.co.nz • Unofficial Account
Kyleigh @k-m-c.bsky.social 
Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social Journalist in Christchurch, New Zealand. Senior writer with The Press newspaper. Reviewer of the year (Voyager Media Awards 2022). Author of The Quiet Hero (2023), the story of a peaceful NZ volunteer's death in Ukraine.
Trey C @chartreusy.bsky.social 
always @alwaysbecominging.bsky.social lucky girl
chris m @ctrlyctrly.bsky.social Publisher of words. Realist. The main skill of an optimist is not noticing the work the realists do to ensure the optimists are sometimes right.
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/
Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social Podcaster and newsletter writer about housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa. Free and paid versions here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka?r=akd4&utm_medium=ios
Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library | JD Stout Fellow 2023, Victoria University of Wellington | Author of "Eyeliner's BUY NOW" (33 1/3 Oceania) | Personal account | https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners-buy-now-9781501394997/
Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
Talia Marshall @princesstehangi.bsky.social failed poet- C Catherine Woulfe @catherinewoulfe.bsky.social Editor at New Zealand Geographic.
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
Sam Brooks @sbrookbrooks.bsky.social Playwright/journalist/stutterer. he/him. Staff Feature Writer/Kaituhi pūrongo at The Spinoff.
Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social NZ film academic, arts critic & frock enthusiast. Cultural omnivore, bad at sports. Feminist horror deep dive WOMEN, MONSTROSITY AND HORROR FILM @routledge. Ōtautahi arts writing at flatcityfieldnotes.com. She/her/Dr. My views. 
Caoimhe @caoimhe-rose.bsky.social Publicist @THWUPbooks
Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social The Gradual Shipwreck
Writer. Books & Music
#MDANT 🏅
Programme Director: WORD Christchurch
Views my own
Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social Beach walker, ocean dweller. Writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in English and Swedish.
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/
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
Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
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
Su Ballard @suballard.bsky.social Professor of Art History and Environmental Humanities, Te Herenga Waka. Art, nature, geology, trees, more-than-human worlds, ways of seeing.
https://www.routledge.com/Art-and-Nature-in-the-Anthropocene-Planetary-Aesthetics/Ballard/p/book/9780367710941?utm_
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
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.
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
midden rahurahu @tainuitillidienui.bsky.social Maaori / Irish rat
worstselling author of the novel "Poorhara"
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/poorhara/
NOT A WOMAN OR A MAN
Joy Holley @joyholley.bsky.social 
Jake Arthur @jakearthur.bsky.social 
Eamonn @yourjokesarebad.bsky.social writer/other
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 
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
Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social Author of The Royal Free. Also: A Mistake, Anti Lebanon, Three Novellas for a Novel, The Lazy Boys, and The Method Actors.
Official Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure.
Nafanua PK @nuapk.bsky.social moana | poet | writer | aunty vibes | she/her/ia
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
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.
Bill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social Poetry and other important things. Writer of Root Leaf Flower Fruit and Memorandum of Understanding (THWUP)
Nick Ascroft @assscroft.bsky.social Haddock
Todd Atticus @toddatticus.com Artist and book cover designer
Current show: Alas Alas, July 16-25, Tasman Building, 16-22 Anzac Ave, Auckland
http://www.toddatticus.com
https://www.instagram.com/toddatticus
Te Pūnaha Matatini @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social The Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems. From complexity to possibility.
Skye @tweetandtwig.bsky.social I went to the woods
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
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.
Anna @friesha.bsky.social Reader, writer, editor. 
Rebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social Science writer & professor in Aotearoa New Zealand: Antarctica, climate, nukes. Tangata tiriti. Latest book, End Times, by @thwupbooks.bsky.social ❄🇦🇶🐧 🌈.
Now writing book about the (melting) Antarctic Ice Sheet & sea level rise
She/her or they/them/ia
Tayi @paniaofthekeef.bsky.social Te Whanau a Apanui & Ngati Porou. Books with Knopf, Penguin UK & THWUP Books.
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
Bonnie Etherington @bjetherington.bsky.social The Earth Cries Out ('17). PhD Northwestern. Lecturer in literary & creative communication at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. Pākehā (settler) born in Whakatū, raised in West Papua.
www.bonnieetherington.com
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.
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
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social Writer, editor, Aro Valleyan
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!
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
Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social Socially awkward political cartoonist. She/her. Like reading and walking.
Ngāi Tahu/Scottish.
Live in Aotearoa New Zealand
Jackie Lee Morrison @jaxies.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇭🇰 🇳🇿 Writes words, pets animals, eats noods 🍜 Rep.: Naomi Eisenbeiss @ InkWell Management
https://linktr.ee/jaxieslm
Theresa Crewdson @theresacrewdson.bsky.social Approximately 80% books, 5% tea and 15% chocolate.
Freelance editor. Tutor at Whitireia Publishing.
Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
Tama Magpie @tamamagpie.bsky.social Aussie magpie in NZ. He/him. Can talk. In love with Marnie (human). Star of The Axeman's Carnival by @CathChidgey http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/the-axemans-carnival
Catherine Chidgey @catherinechidgey.bsky.social Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.