Rebecca Hawkes (she/her) is a poet, painter,and editor. Her debut collection Meat Lovers (AUP 2022) was awarded Best International First Collection 2022 in the UK Poet Laureate’s eco-poetry Laurel Prize. She edits the poetry journal Sweet Mammalian, and has co-edited […]
Jack Remiel Cottrell (he/him, Ngāti Rangi) was born in Wellington, and moved around a lot before settling in Auckland. He specialises in writing stories which reflect the weirdness of the times we live in. Jack’s debut collection of flash fiction, […]
Tommy Hamilton (they/he) is a Pākehā, genderqueer masc, endosex, able-bodied and neuro-typical person. Tommy is a narrative therapist working across rainbow and mainstream services and SOGIESC community development and sustainability in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Vanessa 梅 Crofskey is a writer and artist based in their hometown of Te Whanganui-a-Tara. They are currently exhibiting gurlboss behaviour through their role as the Kaitohu / Director of arts and culture platform The Pantograph Punch. Prior to this […]
Dan Goodwin (they/them) is a Scottish-Pākeha performance poet, actor and writer. In 2016, they completed their Masters of Text and Performance at RADA and Birkbeck. A proud JAFA slam poet, they are the 2021 Auckland and National Slam champion, and […]
Shane Bosher is an award-winning theatre director, playwright and producer, currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. He creates work which galvanises audiences, telling stories which interrogate the human confusion, with a particular focus on the culture of sexuality, the faultlines of […]
Emma Barnes (Pākehā, they/them) lives in Aro Valley in Pōneke/Wellington. Their poetry has been published in journals including Landfall, Turbine/Kapohau, Cordite and Best New Zealand Poems. They are the author of the poetry collection I Am in Bed with You […]
Peter Wells is an award-winning author and film-maker. In 2018 Unity Books gave Peter Wells a $20,000 award for his ‘body of work but also his long-span social justice activism … His strong sense of social justice combined with his literary […]
Brendaniel Weir was born in Auckland and took part in Homosexual Law Reform marches as a schoolboy. He has written educational television, worked in the film industry and is a lecturer in English language. In 2013, he graduated with a Masters of Creative Writing, […]
Robert Tennent During his childhood Robert called many different countries home: Cambodia, St Lucia, Papua New Guinea and a few other short-term locations. He went to boarding school in New Zealand when he was thirteen. A year before graduating, he was […]
Nicholas Sheppard grew up in the rural South Island, then moved to Auckland. He has worked as a freelance journalist for local newspapers such as The Herald and The Dominion Post, and magazines such as Remix; and has written for prominent American news and cultural websites, […]
Ruby Porter is a prose writer, poet and artist. She tutors creative writing at the University of Auckland, and also in high schools. Ruby has been published in Geometry Journal, Argos, Aotearotica, The Spinoff and The Wireless, and a selection of her poetry is […]
