Simon Sweetman
Writer @ simonsweetman.substack.com
“The Richard Poems” (Cuba Press) out now, one of the pieces is in BEST NZ POEMS 2024, WHAT?!!?
@roguestrands.bsky.social
Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
@50shadesofcrimson.bsky.social
2021 biog of Fripp/King Crimson. Incl. interviews with Bruford, Giles, Haskell & more. Described by veteran broadcaster, Martin Kelner, as 'a work of beauty' https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Fifty-Shades-of-Crimson-by-Pete-Tomsett/9781493051021
@mistaholgate.bsky.social
Writer type person. Professional immigrant. PEN/Dau Prize winner. MA candidate at the IIML, Wellington. Contramestre of Capoeira Angola. #author 🇯🇲 ➡️ 🇳🇿 https://open.substack.com/pub/jackmandorastory
@kevin-gallant.bsky.social
Canadian Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️ https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9 Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤 https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
@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
@godless-america.com
📼 Cassette Connoisseur 📼 #diylabel #tapelabel #orlando #cassette #punk #eggpunk #weirdo Orlando Cassette Label: https://godless-america.com "Making and slinging tapes since 2008"
@marvingardens.nz
Scot in Aotearoa, ex-scientist and journalist. Writing poetry and fiction, making pottery and willing to smash neo-liberalism. Anti-AI, LLMs. No Nazis/TERFS/billionaires. Plant based. Far left. He/him. Toitū Te Tiriti. https://marvingardens.nz
@raphaelmann.bsky.social
Musician, recording artist, record producer - www.raphaelmann.com - debut solo album out on May 30th! Founder of FrizzRecords.com - half of thesilverpanda.co.uk
@rbreich.bsky.social
Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social. Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com Preorder my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
@kristenmiller.bsky.social
Sarabande Books Director & EIC Poet, translator, chaos virgo linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
@sarahceross.bsky.social
Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint
@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!
@tinamakereti.bsky.social
Looking for joy Writer: www.tinamakereti.com Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
@ashleighyoung.bsky.social
Writer and editor. SOME FLAILING https://eyelashroaming.substack.com/
@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.
@thwupbooks.bsky.social
Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
@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.
@elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social
Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
@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
@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
@publicaddress.bsky.social
Journalist, rider of bikes, cooker of food, seeker of joy. Dad-DJ. Cosmopolitan.
@nikkihessell.bsky.social
Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀 Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
@elccprogramme.bsky.social
Sharing news and events from the English Literatures & Creative Communication Programme at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
@catherinechidgey.bsky.social
Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.
@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
@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
@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
@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.
@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
@liminalmag.bsky.social
Founded in 2016, Liminal is an anti-racist literary journal publishing art + writing, criticism + conversations / AGAINST DISAPPEARANCE out now
@takahemagazine.bsky.social
Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
@tashmahal.bsky.social
My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men :: Te Whakatōhea, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi :: Mai i te awa ki te moana 🇵🇸 Free Palestine
@adamgrener.bsky.social
English Literatures and Creative Communication Programme, Te Herenga Waka; curious about c19 and nonhuman worlds; co-director of dickensnotes.com
@emmahislop.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@kirstyjohnston.bsky.social
Journalist. https://www.instagram.com/kirstyjohnston_nz?igsh=bWU4a2pqemthYm5q
@harikunzru.bsky.social
Writer. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. No kings | No slop | Never again for anyone