NZSA Wellington Branch
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington Branch of New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) @nzsa.bsky.social
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https://authors.org.nz/about/branches/wellington-branch/
@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.
@softmagnificence.bsky.social
Poetry and other important things. Writer of Root Leaf Flower Fruit and Memorandum of Understanding (THWUP)
@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.
@leemurraywriter.bsky.social
ONZM. USA Today bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award winner. Monster lover from Aotearoa. Represented by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary.
@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
@tashawrites.bsky.social
Dr of lit theory & creative writing. Post-pomo hybrid forms of textual art. Working in the spaces between…
@elccprogramme.bsky.social
Sharing news and events from the English Literatures & Creative Communication Programme at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
@docedgenz.bsky.social
DOC EDGE - Life Unscripted. New Zealand’s Oscar-qualifying International Documentary Film Festival, Doc Edge Industry Forum, & Doc Edge Schools. On Letterboxd as DocEdgeNZ. * Doc Edge is a non-profit charity #CC54892 *
@taracomics.bsky.social
Author of This is Not a Pipe. Posts comics at taracomics.substack.com (they/her: tangata Tiriti) Archive of live drawings (2017-2024) available at the National Library: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/55900477
@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.
@tainuitillidienui.bsky.social
Maaori / Irish rat Author of the novel "Poorhara" https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/poorhara/ NOT A WOMAN
@auchmill.bsky.social
Tumu Whakarae | Chief Executive Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She / her.
@forster81.bsky.social
Mum, comms person, childrens book enthusiast and cofounder of The Sapling. Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti
@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
@miknyman.bsky.social
Beach walker, ocean dweller. Writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in English and Swedish.
@timjonesbooks.bsky.social
Writer. Recipient of the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2022. Climate justice & environmental activist. Cricket fan. Unexpected metalhead. He/him. New climate fiction novel "Emergency Weather" now available. #ToituTeTiriti
@carenwilton.bsky.social
Editor, writer, oral historian. Pākehā living in Wairarapa, Aotearoa. She/her. Old lefty bisexual feminist. Cats, gardens, art, books, knitting, human rights. Kia kaha te reo Māori, toitū te Tiriti. Covid isn't over.
@cassiehart.bsky.social
Award winning Māori/Pakeha queer writer of speculative fiction, editor, and mentor from Aotearoa New Zealand. she/they/ia Kāi Tahu/Kāti Māmoe
@caoimhe-rose.bsky.social
Reader, writer, knitter, maker. Publicist @THWUPbooks. 📍Wellington, Aotearoa.
@janisfreegard.bsky.social
Author of 'Wild, Wild Women', 'Reading The Signs', 'The Year of Falling' et al 📚
@danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net
Gentleman of Silverstream. Writer, broadcaster and sometime CEO. Reviewer of films at substack.funeralsandsnakes.net and RNZ.
@taniaroxborogh.bsky.social
veteran educator and writer; PhD student. Dog and book lover. 'Damn leftie' Māori/Irish/Scottish/Proud Kiwi Shakespeare/mātauranga passionate God (however he/they/she is thought of) loves ALL people ahakoa ko wai koe
@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
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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
@murdochstephens.bsky.social
Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
@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
@cravenjaney.bsky.social
writer ~ doing my PhD?! ~ wellington, nz ~ she/her www.janearthur.co.nz
@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
@emmahislop.bsky.social
@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/
@takahemagazine.bsky.social
Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
@pipadam.bsky.social
@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.
@daniyourukova.bsky.social
🌙✨ poet, bookhag, moonwife. I’ve written a book (which you can find here): https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/transposium/