Mia Farlane’s novel Footnotes to Sex (Viking/Penguin Books UK) was described by Bidisha as ‘Seinfeld meets Dorothy Parker’ and by Sarah Waters as ‘subtle, smart and very funny’. A translator/contributor in No, Love Is Not Dead (Chambers 2021), she posts bilingual […]
Chanelle (they/them) is the author of bestseller I Am Autistic and the recently released This is ADHD. As a late-diagnosed autistic ADHDer, with other related conditions and forms of neurodivergence, they are particularly passionate about bringing awareness to different ways […]
Sam is a theatre practitioner based in Tāmaki Makaurau. As a director, Sam’s work includes Like Sex by Nathan Joe (Young and Hungry, at BATS Theatre), The Comedy of Errors (Wellington Summer Shakespeare), and Punk Rock by Simon Stephens (Whitireia Drama School). As an assistant […]
Danny is a government lawyer by day, harp student by evening, and a third secret thing at night (asleep). He was born in Hong Kong, and has cultural connections to Shanghai. Danny loves languages has previously acted in ATC’s Here […]
Andrew is a Unitec acting graduate whose theatre credits include The Pickle King (Indian Ink), Le Sud & The Ladykillers (Court Theatre), Stag Weekend (Centrepoint Theatre), and Jeeves & Wooster (Fortune Theatre). His screen credits include Ablaze and Westside(Season 5). Having previously worked on Losing Face for theProudly Asian Theatre Re:Fresh season in 2022, he is delighted to […]
Shervonne Grierson (she/her) has been in the performing arts since she was 12 years old, and has fallen in love with all types of creative expression. As a recent graduate of Te Kura Toi Whakaari o Aotearoa, she has directed […]
Sam is an artist and poet from Wellington. His art is represented by Bowen Galleries and his poems are published by THWUP. Today he lives on the West Coast where he works on his queer church art project Gloria of […]
Freya Daly Sadgrove is a Pākehā writer and performer born in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, currently living on Gadigal Country in Sydney, Australia. She is the engine behind live poetry event Show Ponies, and her first poetry collection, Head Girl, was published […]
Aroha Edward Awarau is a Māori (Ngati Maru/Ngati Porou), Niuean and Samoan writer and storyteller with an acclaimed career as a journalist, playwright and film writer. Aroha has worked as an award-winning journalist, editor and producer for Women’s Day, New […]
Renée (Ngāti Kahungunu) is a writer, reader and teacher. Renée has published a collection of short stories, eight novels and eighteen plays. She also writes poetry and a weekly blog. Her memoir, These Two Hands, was published in 2017, and […]
Grace Shelley (she/her) is a writer, teacher, and editor from Tāmaki Makaurau. In 2019, she founded Overcom (formerly Overcommunicate), a biannual literary journal which publishes work by queer writers and artists. She is passionate about queer Aotearoa literature, and a […]
Laura Vincent (Ngāti Māhanga) is a writer from Waiuku, currently working on her first and second novels. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Spinoff, Peach, Turbine | Kapohau, Resurrection, Shirley Magazine, No Other Place To Stand, and Queer […]
