@nakedvix.bsky.social
Journalist (Voices Editor and 'Dear Vix' agony aunt @theindependent.bsky.social). Writer, poet, feminist kill-joy 🏳️⚧️. Pitches by email only please (let’s keep DMs fun, this time)
@fionajanemack.bsky.social
Scottish-American writer. Author of The Yet Unknowing World from Ad Hoc Press. Best Small Fictions 2019 and 2023. www.fionajmackintosh.com #writer #flashfiction
@weirdfictionquarterly.com
A community writing project from authors publishing weird flash fiction 4 times a year. Check out our Starter Packs to follow WFQ authors and artists.
@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
@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.
@philippaw.bsky.social
Reader, writer. Latest title Iris and me (Cuba Press, 2023) https://philippawerry.co.nz/
@ashleighyoung.bsky.social
Writer and editor. SOME FLAILING https://eyelashroaming.substack.com/
@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 [email protected] | clairemabey.com
@ronniesmart.bsky.social
Scottish-born Kiwi Writer of Dark Weird Horror, Poetry, and Flash Fiction. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Currently writing a fantasy novel.
@thesaplingnz.bsky.social
Website dedicated to celebrating Aotearoa-New Zealand literature for children and young adults. With editors Harriet, Faith & Nida. Pitches welcome!
@understatesmen.bsky.social
Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social Sign up for my newsletter at: https://the-trying-times.ghost.io/
@thwupbooks.bsky.social
Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
@mandyh.bsky.social
Writer, Greenie Granny worrying for my grandkids future mandyhager.com
@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.
@at-the-bay.bsky.social
Novelist and Poet (also writes essays, short stories and loves Friday #rāmereshorts) Favourite title 'Grams/Halmoni/Nana I blog at acurioushalfhour.com
@rachaelking70.bsky.social
Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out now in Aus, NZ & the UK, coming to the US Oct 2025. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out 9 March NZ & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
@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!
@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.
@takahemagazine.bsky.social
Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
@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
@linedealer.bsky.social
Reading and writing. Short story collections Hailman and Fox pub by The Emma Press 📚 leanneradojkovich.com
@pipadam.bsky.social
@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.
@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.
@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
@helenrye.bsky.social
Writer, editor. UEA Prose MA and fledgling PhD researcher. Won some writing things. Published some writing things. @smokelong.bsky.social senior ed. She/her.
@downith.bsky.social
Writer of short and long prose. Namesplainer. Debut novel New Girl in Little Cove (Harper Collins) won the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize (Romance) Agent: Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists www.damhnaitmonaghan.com
@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
@jackremiel.bsky.social
Writes words, referees rugby, procrastinates like a pro. He/him
@tinamakereti.bsky.social
Looking for joy Writer: www.tinamakereti.com Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
@catherinechidgey.bsky.social
Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.
@elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social
Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
@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
@murdochstephens.bsky.social
Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
@janusliterary.bsky.social
Online lit mag. CURRENTLY ON HIATUS. **We do not accept unsolicited submissions.** Visit our site for more info: janusliterary.com EIC: Janice Leagra (@janiceleagra.bsky.social) Support us: http://ko-fi.com/janusliterary.
@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. Robert Burns Fellow for 2025 at Otago University.
@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.
@ironbrewer.bsky.social
📝Writer in Booth, Pithead Chapel, Salt Hill, XRAY, and elsewhere. www.CoreyMillerWrites.com
@sawers.bsky.social
Mixed (gender)queer Thai American writer. Author of THE ANCHORED WORLD, finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bingham Award for Debut Short Story Collection. Senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Kundiman and Lambda fellow. Fiction editor at Blanket Gravity. They/them
@whatelseanna.bsky.social
Writing Short fiction in Landfall, ReadingRoom, Flash Frontier, At The Bay | Te Kokuru, Turbine | Kapohau