Josie Shapiro
Novelist !!
My debut novel Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
2024 Sargeson Fellow
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@aliebenge.bsky.social
Writer from Wellington, living in London Author of Ithaca and editor of Otherhood Writing nonsense at: https://bit.ly/40e5Cuu
@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?
@literaryhub.bsky.social
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism. https://linktr.ee/lithub_
@steelydass.bsky.social
The Gradual Shipwreck Writer. Books & Music #MDANT 🏅 Programme Director: WORD Christchurch Views my own
@richardhills.bsky.social
Dad to Theo. Auckland Councillor - North Shore. Chair of the Planning, Environment and Parks Committee. Working to make our community & city better.
@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
@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
@murdochstephens.bsky.social
Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
@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
@donnachisholm.bsky.social
Journalist. Formerly NZ Listener, North&South, Metro, Sunday Star-Times.
@annarawhiticonnell.bsky.social
Writer, head of audience at The Spinoff (We don't run a Bluesky account FYI).
@becstetley.bsky.social
Nonfiction writer and editor in Wellington, New Zealand. 📝 Essays in The Spinoff, Roi Fainéant, Reckon Review, Vagabond City Lit, Headland Journal, and elsewhere. 📚 Reviews in Kete Books. 🎓 MA Creative Writing - AUT. 📷 Ebony Lamb
@sjyoungnz.bsky.social
Creative Writing PhD Candidate at Te Herenga Waka--Victoria University of Wellington. Writer. CW MA at UEA. Agent: Sara Langham @ David Higham Associates.
@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.
@charlottewood.bsky.social
2024 Booker shortlisted author ‘Stone Yard Devotional' & other books. Sydney. Here for goodwill & generosity; long smart reads; cooking & gardens; slow, careful attending. https://charlottewood.substack.com
@publishingwhiti.bsky.social
Home to Aotearoa New Zealand's Whitireia Publishing Programme https://www.whitireiaweltec.ac.nz/study-programmes/creativity/creative-writing-and-publishing/
@sonjayelich.bsky.social
booky, poppy, Talking Heads, Anne Carson, Annie Ernaux, Ocean Vuong, Bhanu Kapil, Joan, Maggie, Emily, Vivian, Robert Mapplethorpe, coffee
@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
@catherinewoulfe.bsky.social
Two kids. Big boggy garden. Tāmaki Makaurau. Editor at New Zealand Geographic.
@moatatamaira.bsky.social
Māori. Librarian. Feminist. So basically a triple threat. She/her. Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Reckons here: https://the-opinionist.ghost.io/
@lilobrien.bsky.social
Author of memoir Not That I’d Kiss A Girl, editor of 'OTHERHOOD essay anthology, copywriter as Lil Cameron, lush. http://linktr.ee/Lilobrien
@johnjcampbell.bsky.social
@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
@nytimes.com
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
@damienlevi.bsky.social
independent publisher, hōhā Māori and local menace “Just an emo boy in an email world” — Van Mei
@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.
@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.
@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
@jackremiel.bsky.social
Writes words, referees rugby, procrastinates like a pro. He/him
@louisewallace.bsky.social
Not the Real Housewife. Poet & editor of starlingmag.com My first novel ASH, coming April 2024 with THWUP Books
@whatelseanna.bsky.social
Writing Short fiction in Landfall, ReadingRoom, Flash Frontier, At The Bay | Te Kokuru, Turbine | Kapohau
@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. Aotearoa NZ. swapnahaddow.co.uk
@takahemagazine.bsky.social
Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
@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
@thebooksdesk.bsky.social
Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
@nzdodo.bsky.social
Freelance writer and editor, full-time silly sausage. Books, bikes, better places, beastly puns. She/ her/ the cats’ mother. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, aka New Auck City.
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
@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