Lil O'Brien
Author of memoir Not That I’d Kiss A Girl, editor of 'OTHERHOOD essay anthology, copywriter as Lil Cameron, lush. http://linktr.ee/Lilobrien
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@papa.org.nz
A prison abolitionist organisation committed to building a fairer, safer, and more just Aotearoa.
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@malindalo.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author, National Book Award winner. 🏳️🌈 My brand is lesbians. https://www.malindalo.com/
@queerlyrec.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ film/book/tv/etc recs from krisbryant.bsky.social & taramdscott.bsky.social. New podcast episodes every other Tuesday. https://linktr.ee/queerlyrecommended
@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?
@humsentence.bsky.social
Writer. Wurundjeri country. Novelist thinking about poetry. LL Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel 2023 and 2024. 2024 KSP Writers' Centre Fellow Longlisted #cwprize 2025
@dansavage.bsky.social
Host of the Savage Lovecast, author of Savage Love. "A deviant of the highest order!" — The Daily Caller
@hannahmarsh.bsky.social
I write stuff. Pre-order It's a Bit More Complicated Than That now: https://www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/Hannah-Marshall-It's-a-Bit-More-Complicated-Than-That-9781991006943
@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
@steelydass.bsky.social
The Gradual Shipwreck Writer. Books & Music #MDANT 🏅 Programme Director: WORD Christchurch Views my own
@dauntbookspub.bsky.social
a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*)
@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.
@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.
@francescook.bsky.social
Caffeine-powered independent financial journalist. Like cats a bit much.
@alisonmau.bsky.social
@kategevans.bsky.social
Nature writer & science journalist New Zealand Geographic Www.Kateevans.org Words also in Scientific American, the New York Times, bioGraphic, among others. Author of FEIJOA: A STORY OF OBSESSION AND BELONGING
@aliebenge.bsky.social
Writer from Wellington, living in London Author of Ithaca and editor of Otherhood Writing nonsense at: https://bit.ly/40e5Cuu
@melanienewfield.bsky.social
Science and environment writer and communicator. Loves to talk about risk. Obsessed with plants and hopes to one day see every species of eucalypt. I make the science behind important issues accessible here: https://theturnstone.substack.com
@louisewallace.bsky.social
Not the Real Housewife. Poet & editor of starlingmag.com My first novel ASH, coming April 2024 with THWUP Books
@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
@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.
@marthawells.com
SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
@carlylane.bsky.social
Senior TV editor @ Collider. Romance nerd @ Vulture, Paste. TCA member. Author of A REGENCY GUIDE TO MODERN LIFE (out now!). She/her.
@autostraddle.bsky.social
The internet's most popular website for LGBTQ+ women, nonbinary people, and trans people of all genders. www.Autostraddle.com
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
@murdochstephens.bsky.social
Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
@thwupbooks.bsky.social
Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
@yourjokesarebad.bsky.social
writer/other I like bikes and music 6 ft 5 if it matters eamonnmarra.com
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@pjkmorris.bsky.social
Writer, traveller, Cass Beer spokesmodel, former Miss Venezuela, www.koreaseen.com
@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
@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.
@maramadavidson.bsky.social
She/her/ia @NZGreens Co-leader based in Manurewa. Indigenous to Aotearoa/NZ. Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5, 108 The Terrace, Wellington.