@gorsejournal.bsky.social
Art in words | Journal | Publisher (Gorse Editions) | Next issue: gorse 12: Language (April 25); in preparation: gorse 13 (Taboo)| Next Gorse Editions: New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham | Funded by Arts Council Ireland | http://gorse.ie
@swapnahaddow.bsky.social
Children’s author working with Scholastic, HarperCollins, Magic Cat, Faber&Faber, Macmillan, Hachette. Writes for Oxford University Press as Swapna Reddy. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency. She/her. swapnahaddow.co.uk
@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 She/her or they/them/ia
@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 in the UK. Toitū Te Tiriti!
@ajfitzwater.bsky.social
SFF Word Unicorn from the void. they/them causing may/hem. “No Man's Land”: http://books2read.com/u/38ngRV “The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper”: http://books2read.com/u/3kpE6L Website: ajfitzwater.com Aotearoa New Zealand
@elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social
Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
@ired0mi.bsky.social
essa may ranapiri / they/ia / Ngaati Wehi Wehi / Ngaati Puukeko / Ngaati Rangiwewehe / Clan Gunn / kōtuku mā / author of ransack & ECHIDNA / currently working on a verse novel lolol
@orchidtierney.bsky.social
Ph.D. award-losing poet | NZ in Ohio | no person is illegal | Essay Press and Calamari Archive author | Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College | Senior Editor Kenyon Review | She/her | BEI Fellow | www.orchidtierney.com
@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 a Storylines Notable book, and a NZ Booklovers award winner! At your library and local bookstore
@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
@pipadam.bsky.social
@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 Profile photo by Tabitha Arthur
@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
@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.
@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/
@tinamakereti.bsky.social
Looking for joy Writer: www.tinamakereti.com Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
@dougalmcneill.bsky.social
Literary critic/historian, education trade unionist. Study (& try to write about) poetry, modernism, literatures in & of Aotearoa/NZ, Australia, Canada, SF, Marxism, & psychoanalysis. Author: FORMS OF FREEDOM (Otago UP, 2024).
@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
@catherinechidgey.bsky.social
Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.
@erikkennedy.com
Poet behind beloved classics like 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022, @thwupbooks.bsky.social). 'Sick Power Trip', July 2025. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids. 📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch http://www.erikkennedy.com
@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.
@alicetps.bsky.social
Scholar Poet Irredentist Māmā | Māori on Musqueam whenua
@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
@wendmyway.bsky.social
Former professor of Victorian literature but I'm much happier now as a novelist and memoirist based in Dunedin, NZ. Tangata tiriti. Devoted to Dickens, Woolf, and Radiohead. Don't make me choose.
@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.
@louisewallace.bsky.social
Not the Real Housewife. Poet & editor of starlingmag.com My first novel ASH, coming April 2024 with THWUP Books
@antzlapwood.bsky.social
Fiction writer. He / him. Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Pākehā. Winner of the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction, for my book Home Theatre. Views my own. www.anthonylapwood.com
@thwupbooks.bsky.social
Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
@vandasymon.bsky.social
Kiwi crime writer, CWA Dagger finalist, Barry Award nominee, science gal, and dangerous woman with a sword. The Traitors New Zealand
@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?
@franciscooke.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.
@publishingwhiti.bsky.social
Home to Aotearoa New Zealand's Whitireia Publishing Programme https://www.whitireiaweltec.ac.nz/study-programmes/creativity/creative-writing-and-publishing/
@elccprogramme.bsky.social
Sharing news and events from the English Literatures & Creative Communication Programme at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
@milfs4minecraft.bsky.social
trapped in a little fish tank syracuse mfa '25 co-editor-in-chief Salt Hill lilyholloway.co.nz
@emmahislop.bsky.social
@melszymanik.bsky.social
Writer of fiction for children, puzzler, poet, imposter, spy, fan of hot chips, champagne and chocolate
@pjkmorris.bsky.social
Writer, traveller, Cass Beer spokesmodel, former Miss Venezuela, www.koreaseen.com
@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)