Authors

Tate Fountain is a writer, director, theatremaker, and editor based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her poetry collection, Short Films, was published in October 2022 with We Are Babies Press. She has had work in Sweet Mammalian, bad apple, eel mag, and […]

Ray Shipley is a Ōtautahi-based comedian, poet, and professional book-pusher. In 2019, Ray was nominated for the Billy T Award, the biggest award for the rising stars of comedy in Aotearoa. Ray has won the Christchurch Poetry Slam four times, […]

Josiah Morgan is a queer multimedia artist living and working in Ōtautahi. He is the author of one book and three chapbooks. His most recent book is Road: A Postlapsarian Comedy (Feral Dove Books), which also won the Macmillan Brown […]

Paul Diamond (Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is Curator, Māori at the Alexander Turnbull Library. He is the author of A Fire in Your Belly: Māori leaders speak (Huia, 2003), Makereti: Taking Māori to the world (Random House, 2007) and […]

Anthony Lapwood (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Pākehā) writes short fiction and has featured in numerous publications and been anthologised in Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand and Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and […]

Emily Writes is a mum of two, a columnist, an activist, a volunteer, a writer and a friend. She is the best-selling author of Rants in the Dark – From One Tired Mama to Another, Is it Bedtime Yet? and […]

Cadence Chung (she/they) is a poet, student, and musician from Wellington, currently studying at the New Zealand School of Music. Her poems started being published in her junior years of high school, and her debut chapbook anomalia was published by […]

Oscar Upperton lives in Wellington. His first collection of poetry, New Transgender Blockbusters, was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2020. His second collection, The Surgeon’s Brain, follows the life of 19th century surgeon Dr James Barry. It […]

Keagan Carr Fransch is an actor, director, writer and dramaturg. She is a graduate of the University of Waikato, Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, she most […]

From a place of perpetual autumn, where a lavender garden grows, Of Crafts & Curios is a part-time pagan, full-time creative based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Inspired by nature, Wicca, and her garden, Of Crafts & Curios utilises a range of […]

R.W.R. McDonald (Rob) is an award-winning author, a Kiwi living in Melbourne with his two daughters and one HarryCat. His debut novel, The Nancys, won Best First Novel in the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards, was a finalist in the Best […]

Pelenakeke Brown (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and writer. She has presented her work internationally and had her work featured in The New York Times and Art in America. She was recognised with a Pacific Toa award at the […]