Kiwi Authors
This is an Aotearoa New Zealand author starter pack 🇳🇿 A work in progress, so please let me know about other Kiwi authors on Bluesky who I've missed. Also if you want to be added yourself (or removed!)
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@gbralph.com
@amyhartbooks.bsky.social
She/her. I write books about anxious vampires, witches, and werewolves. 🇳🇿🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/amyhartbooks
@passtheamyl.bsky.social
Garth's next project is BLACK PILLS, which features the Ronald Hugh Morrieson literary award winning short 'Hugo Garrett's Exemplary Mowing Technique'. OUT NOW https://linktr.ee/passtheamyl
@iveymarsh.bsky.social
BA in pol-sci. writer in progress. here to advocate, maybe self-deprecate, and pull you back from the writer’s existential ledge. 📚 i am only on here and instagram.
@brekekekiwi.bsky.social
Teacher, Writer and Man about town. All this is personal opinion. Check out my writing through https://linktr.ee/AaronDickAuthor You can see my bsky video updates at @author-aarondick.bsky.social Pākehā. He/him.
@cayemarsh.bsky.social
Author of queer SFF living & writing in Aotearoa (she/her). STATION IN THE SKY out now! Enthusiastic about books and bugs. Posting positive to offset the horrors. Cayemarsh.com #ToitūTeTiriti 🚫AI, crypto, billionaires, guns🚫
@kelliehailes.bsky.social
Writer of romances. Wrote horror. Am doing my best to write stories for the littlelies. Swim instructor. Still not sure what I’m going to be when I grow up.
@emmahislop.bsky.social
@jrackhamauthor.bsky.social
She/Her 📘 Author of: 🔮 A Dash of Belladonna ✨SJV Best YA novel Finalist ✒️WIP: A Dash of Belladonna, and a pinch of Gladiolus🌠 ✨POC Fantasy author 📚, comic artist 🎨 illustrator, Taiko player, gamer in New Zealand 🇳🇿 - Likes to meow at cats 🐈
@rachaelcraw.bsky.social
Award-winning Author of Spark, Stray, Shield & The Rift. The Lost Saint coming April 2025. Rep.d by Silvia Molteni, PFD Agents 📑 writer-YA, speculative fiction 📚reader-currently deep in my Stephen King era 🎓teacher-Drama & English ✨here for the tomfoolery🇳🇿
@aldreaalien.bsky.social
Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling #queerindie NZ author of #queerfantasy romance. Mother. Animal lover. Vampire. Fangirl. she/they 🏳️🌈 🚫AI🚫 linktr.ee/aldreaalien
@eloquentsonia.bsky.social
Writer, ghost writer, & editor who also does PR & comms. Confirmed do-gooder. Ao NZ Secret Santa Elf. Shopping Ninja. Tāmaki Makaurau.
@tabithaday.bsky.social
Creator, Destroyer. Writer from New Zealand. Dark and dangerous romantic fantasy 💞🐉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDHZPB3X
@kjackways.bsky.social
Fantasy and cosy mystery author | Words in @BestSmfictions @takahemagazine @flashfrontier | SJV Finalist | Chronic illness | Aotearoa NZ linktr.ee/kmjackways
@catherinechidgey.bsky.social
Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.
@bimbo.phd
game dev / comics editor / author probably worked on that thing you like lapsed hockey reporter / aotearoa based represented by ed wilson @ J&A these views represent my employers so hard that my boss is actually holding a gun to my head as I type this
@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.
@natbaker.bsky.social
writer of fictional words @takahemagazine @HeadlandJournal @NewsroomNZ @millymagazine @Turbine | Kapohau...Occasional reviews @Kete Books...Here for writing and writers...Opinions all mine (She/her)
@vandasymon.bsky.social
Kiwi crime writer, CWA Dagger finalist, Barry Award nominee, science gal, and dangerous woman with a sword. The Traitors New Zealand
@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
@kehealey.bsky.social
Author, teacher, nerd. I write the Olympus Inc. series - Greek myth meets The Devil Wears Prada. Penelope Pops the Question (https://BookHip.com/PQSRZXZ) is free!
@rachaelherron.bsky.social
Unstuck, out now! (memoir about leaving the US for good) ✨ The 7 Miracles of Beatrix Holland, Hachette, 2025 ✨ Tangata Tiriti ✨ Aotearoa/New Zealand 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/rachaelherron
@elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social
Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
@feanatuakoi.bsky.social
Writer 2025 Convenor of Judges NZCYA Book Awards 2024 University of Otago CoE Creative NZ Children’s Writer in Residence https://www.feanatuakoi.com/
@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/
@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.
@darusha.ca
they/them Award-winning Nebula-nominated SFF author A fifth of @darklylem.com Member of @manyworldsforum.bsky.social Rep: @chelseabigbang.bsky.social Aotearoa New Zealand Latest: Transmentation | Transience All: https://darusha.ca Pic: Erica Poole
@janna-ruth.com
39 • NZ • 🇬🇧/🇩🇪 🏳️🌈 Author 📚 • Translator 🧾 • Illustrator 🎨 Urban, Dark & Epic Fantasy 🐉 • Coming of Age 👩🎓 • Classics 📗 She/Her https://www.janna-ruth.com 🚫 No DMs
@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
@jackremiel.bsky.social
Writes words, referees rugby, procrastinates like a pro. He/him
@mariecardno.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/mariecardno Writer of cozy fantasy. Winner of the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella: How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster). she/her
@ponderbooks.com
Author at https://ponderbooks.com Poet. Builder of worlds. Player of games. He, she, they.
@jaxies.bsky.social
🇬🇧 🇭🇰 🇳🇿 London escapee. Writes words, eats noods 🍜 Rep.: Naomi Eisenbeiss @ InkWell Management https://linktr.ee/jaxies
@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
@pipadam.bsky.social
@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
@remedy.bsky.social
idle & disorderly on Grub Street Award-winning author of queer SFF books including Foxhunt, Wolfpack, The Wind City and Riverwitch. They/he, Pākehā. Foxhunt back out now!: https://books2read.com/vengefulwild1 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/remwigmore
@dvbishop.com
Writes Cesare Aldo historical thrillers, set in Renaissance Italy • CARNIVAL OF LIES out 26.05.25 • Buy my books: https://linktr.ee/D.V.Bishop • Free newsletter: https://dvbishop.substack.com • Rep: @jennybrownagency.bsky.social • Ex-Tharg
@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
@andiwrites.bsky.social
SFF writer, disability comms person. Likes: knitting🧶 board games🎲 sea creatures🐙 reading📚. Lives: Te Awakairangi ki Tai | Lower Hutt. Pronouns: they/them. 🏳🌈🩼♾️ https://linktr.ee/andiwrites
@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.
@gbralph.com
📚 Author 🕵️♂️ Cosy mysteries 👬 Romcoms 👨🏫 Gay librarian approved 🏳️🌈 (he/him) 📍 Aotearoa NZ 🇳🇿 🔗 gbralph.com/links