GRASSROOTS MUSIC VENUE. Ōtautahi, Aotearoa; Christchurch, New Zealand.
Community clubhouse. Home to @PizzaTrapnz.bsky.social pizzeria, Doki Hair Salon & @03sessions.bsky.social 🍉
Critically acclaimed NZ Arts Laureates & Queer Indigenous, Interdisciplinary Arts Collective from the Moana. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau - SOUTH AKL
IG | @FAFSWAG
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Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Ōtautahi Christchurch. Aotearoa New Zealand. Editor-at-large. Librarian. Flâneuse. Tea Mum. She / her.
Mum, comms person, childrens book enthusiast and cofounder of The Sapling. Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti
Official account of Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi located in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/
Horses, dogs, wild places, history, ecology, ethology, horses.
I am a writer of creative nonfiction.
Writer @ simonsweetman.substack.com Organiser of “Say The Thing” monthly open mic for poets and prose writers at Underworld Tavern. Collector of movie soundtracks, novelisations, lover of made-for-TV movies. CD and Cassette Tape enthusiast.
Poet, writer, editor, too many hobbies-haver, etc. Shortlisted Ginkgo Prize, Heroines Prize. Writing a book (very slowly).
UK born, Aotearoa-based, holder of slightly too many English degrees. Enjoys a good walk.
https://linktr.ee/nh_l
Aotearoa’s tastiest queer arts and literature journal. Run completely on volunteer work.
mostly here for reading recs tbh. You can find my book "Tauhou" from Te Herenga Waka Press (AUS/NZ) and House of Anansi Press (US/CAN). (te ātiawa / ngāti tūwharetoa / W̱SÁNEĆ)
STUDIO ELGA music & visuals
ELSTUDIOS photography
Internal Landscapes External Scenes
📷https://www.ebonylambphotographer.co.nz/
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⟦ law + govt ⟧ ⟦ coffee + kai ⟧ ⟦ critic + conscience ⟧ ⟦ rugby + rugby ⟧ ⟦ rainbows + unicorns ⟧ — usual disclaimers apply
The official Bluesky page for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Writer from Wellington, living in London
Author of Ithaca and editor of Otherhood
Writing nonsense at: https://bit.ly/40e5Cuu
Writer, reader, piano teacher
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?
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.
People, places & Pacific wonder
Public programs curator
> The Veiqia Project > > >
Kai Lancashire, England + Vasu Nadroga, Fiji
Working on Baramadagal land
Suffering arts admin PTSD and fatigue from capitalist value extraction with our colonial overlords. I may have lost my smile, but the optimism is under there somewhere. 🇼🇸🇳🇿
Artist | Filmmaker | Creative Director at @fafswag.nz
Scholar Poet Irredentist Māmā | Māori on Musqueam whenua
Aotearoa published daily → thespinoff.co.nz • Unofficial Account
Journalist in Christchurch, New Zealand. Senior writer with The Press newspaper. Reviewer of the year (Voyager Media Awards 2022). Author of The Quiet Hero (2023), the story of a peaceful NZ volunteer's death in Ukraine.
Publisher of words. Realist. The main skill of an optimist is not noticing the work the realists do to ensure the optimists are sometimes right.
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington Branch of New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) @nzsa.bsky.social
#pukapuka
https://authors.org.nz/about/branches/wellington-branch/
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
Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library | JD Stout Fellow 2023, Victoria University of Wellington | Author of "Eyeliner's BUY NOW" (33 1/3 Oceania) | Personal account | https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners-buy-now-9781501394997/
independent publisher, hōhā Māori and local menace
“Just an emo boy in an email world” — Van Mei
Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
Two kids. Big boggy garden. Tāmaki Makaurau.
Editor at New Zealand Geographic.
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
An online magazine committed to independent Māori and Pacific journalism that challenges and cultivates understanding. Subscribe and donate here: https://e-tangata.co.nz/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=subscribe
Playwright/journalist/stutterer. he/him. Staff Feature Writer/Kaituhi pūrongo at The Spinoff.
NZ film academic, arts critic & frock enthusiast. Cultural omnivore, bad at sports. Feminist horror deep dive WOMEN, MONSTROSITY AND HORROR FILM @routledge. Ōtautahi arts writing at flatcityfieldnotes.com. She/her/Dr. My views.
Reader, writer, knitter, maker. Publicist @THWUPbooks. 📍Wellington, Aotearoa.
The Gradual Shipwreck
Writer. Books & Music
#MDANT 🏅
Programme Director: WORD Christchurch
Views my own
Beach walker, ocean dweller. Writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in English and Swedish.
Home to Aotearoa New Zealand's Whitireia Publishing Programme
https://www.whitireiaweltec.ac.nz/study-programmes/creativity/creative-writing-and-publishing/
Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
Poet behind beloved classics like 'Sick Power Trip' (2025) and 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022), @thwupbooks.bsky.social. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids.
📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch
http://www.erikkennedy.com
Professor of Art History and Environmental Humanities, Te Herenga Waka. Art, nature, geology, trees, more-than-human worlds, ways of seeing.
https://www.routledge.com/Art-and-Nature-in-the-Anthropocene-Planetary-Aesthetics/Ballard/p/book/9780367710941?utm_
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
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.
Fiction writer. He / him. Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Pākehā. Winner of the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction for my story collection Home Theatre. My novel The Carnivore Diaries is forthcoming in 2026. Views my own.
www.anthonylapwood.com
Maaori / Irish rat
worstselling author of the novel "Poorhara"
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/poorhara/
NOT A WOMAN
Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
Novelist and occasional reviewer
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
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.
moana | poet | writer | aunty vibes | she/her/ia
Spills ink, rolls dice.
hicksvillecomics.com
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.
Poetry and other important things. Writer of Root Leaf Flower Fruit and Memorandum of Understanding (THWUP)
Artist and book cover designer
Current show: Low, Feb 16-May 15 at Supergood, 1/115 Taranaki St, Wellington
http://www.toddatticus.com
https://www.instagram.com/toddatticus
The Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems. From complexity to possibility.
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
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.
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
Te Whanau a Apanui & Ngati Porou. Books with Knopf, Penguin UK & THWUP Books.
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.
Author of This is Not a Pipe. Posts comics at taracomics.substack.com (they/them: tangata Tiriti)
Archive of live drawings (2017-2024) available at the National Library: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/55900477
The Earth Cries Out ('17). PhD Northwestern. Lecturer in literary & creative communication at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. Pākehā (settler) born in Whakatū, raised in West Papua.
www.bonnieetherington.com
www.goodbookshop.nz
GOOD BOOKS is a small independent bookshop on Jessie Street in Te Aro, Pōneke Wellington.
We’re proud to be Aotearoa New Zealand’s first (and only) Living Wage bookshop, with a select and inclusive range of books for all.
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
Writer, editor, Aro Valleyan
Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
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
Socially awkward political cartoonist. She/her. Like reading and walking.
Ngāi Tahu/Scottish.
Live in Aotearoa New Zealand
🇬🇧 🇭🇰 🇳🇿 Writes words, pets animals, eats noods 🍜 Rep.: Naomi Eisenbeiss @ InkWell Management
https://linktr.ee/jaxieslm
Approximately 80% books, 5% tea and 15% chocolate.
Freelance editor. Tutor at Whitireia Publishing.
poet, blogger, children's author
Aussie magpie in NZ. He/him. Can talk. In love with Marnie (human). Star of The Axeman's Carnival by @CathChidgey http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/the-axemans-carnival
Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.
Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Writer, publisher. Tries to do good.
Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
writer ~ doing my PhD?! ~ wellington, nz ~ she/her
www.janearthur.co.nz
