Independent Kiwi Authors
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Terry & Hannah Brooks
Terry and Hannah Brooks are New Zealand authors who write from very different corners of the same idea. They moved to New Zealand from the UK about...
Tui Katene
Tui Katene is a writer, storyteller and motivational speaker who uses honest storytelling to explore resilience, leadership, and identity. Tui's...
Campbell Anderson
Campbell Anderson is the author of the contemporary romance novel The Chasm Between Us. In 2022, Campbell was a finalist in the Katherine Mansfield...
Rose Stanley
Rose Stanley lives on the Hibiscus Coast in Tāmaki Makaurau. She has previously written children’s picture books focusing on emotional literacy and...
Emma Hinton
Emma Hinton is a writer, celebrant, and creative facilitator and the founder of The Light Library—a living studio for storytelling, workshops and...
John Reynolds
John Reynolds is a New Zealand-born retired academic, and freelance writer of screenplays, novels, musicals and an autobiography. He has travelled...
Bonnie Shotbolt
Bonnie Shotbolt is from Dunedin, New Zealand, and is an English and Chinese teacher. She enjoys writing, and helping young people use language well....
Gillian Beath
Gillian Beath lives in New Zealand's Waikato, in the beautiful country town of Te Aroha. She runs a doggy daycare centre from home, after being a...
Gary Paul Stephenson
If you grew up reading Alistair MacLean, Hammond Innes, or Desmond Bagley, you already know the kind of story Gary Paul Stephenson writes....
Kate Gordon-Smith
Kate Gordon-Smith spent 90% of her childhood reading books about ponies. The other 10% she spent galloping around the garden with her family's pet...
Linda Liddicoat
Linda Liddicoat has worked in libraries and studied children's literature and more recently, writing for children. Honey is her first picture book....
Baggage Books
In 1996, Tony Hopkins and Moira Wairama founded the Baggage Co-op to share theatre and storytelling. When publishers closed, they launched Baggage...
Rosie Lee
Rosie Lee writes disaster romance in New Zealand settings. Dive into her work for opposites attract, forced proximity, found family and...
Elle Ashwell
Elle Ashwell has always been a hopeless romantic. Dedicated to the swoon and happily ever afters, it makes perfect sense to combine her love of all...
Jo Buer
Jo Buer is a Kiwi-Canadian gothic suspense and paranormal mystery author. She writes stories with gothic heart and ghostly mystery, with a dash of...
Bethany G. Rogers
B. G. Rogers is a writer running (and swimming) wild in Tāhuna Queenstown. Primarily an author of short stories and poetry, her work has been...
Christopher Candy
Author Christopher Candy works as a manager for Tranzit Coachlines. He has many years of bus-related experience that brings the characters of his...
Geoff Lawson
When Geoff Lawson was young he was fascinated with history and spent hours alone at the museum absorbing it all. Geoff's first foray into writing...
Maria Artho
Maria has spent a lifetime hanging out with kids—helping, supporting, and learning from them, including a stint as a teacher aide working alongside...
Elizabeth-Kirkby McLeod
If Elizabeth could travel in time she would go back to when Aotearoa New Zealand still had moa and giant eagles! Along with the Eugene’s Island book...
Moira Wairama
Moira Wairama is a storyteller and writer from Te Whanga-nui-ā –Tara. She has won a number of awards for her children’s picture books and also...
Rosalind Potter
I am an Author, Outdoor Lover and Mum. I live in Christchurch and have a background in Outdoor Education, I love combining this with writing. I aim...
Jodie Shelley
Jodie Shelley writes novels set in New Zealand, which are easy to read and fun, but which explore grittier themes such as problem gambling and...
Sue Carpenter
Sue Carpenter is an award- winning writer of speculative fiction, romance, young adult, and children's literature. She is the winner of the 2025 Te...
L P Hansen
L P Hansen is an award-winning author, storyteller and researcher, writing non-fiction and fiction for adults and children. Hidden Stories of...
Lynda Tomalin
Lynda Tomalin is an author of contemporary Young Adult novels with sweet romances, an emphasis on strong friendships and empowering mental health...
Jenna Brockett
Jenna lives in Auckland with her husband, three-year old daughter, and baby boy. Her signature style and quality craftsmanship made her a hit at...
Stephanie Ruth
An award-winning contemporary romance novelist and short story writer, Stephanie lives in Te Waipounamu, the South Island, and writes popular...
Jaimie Baird
Jaimie Baird was born in England in 1952 and brought up in New Zealand from 9 years of age. He attended Nelson College, as a boarder, completed a...
Dahlia Malaeulu
Dahlia Malaeulu has gone from searching for Pasifika children’s stories to creating them. As an award winning author, publisher and founder of...
Anne Ingram
Anne Ingram is the author of the Lucy Bee trilogy which follows Lucy through the adventures and challenges she faces from age 10 to 15. Anne has...
Donna Goodacre
Donna Goodacre, who is of Waikato Tainui descent, is a retired high school/correctional centre/vocational school English and Foreign Languages...
Nikky Lee
Nikky Lee is an award-winning author who grew up in Perth, Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar Country. She now lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland...
Rochelle Maroon
Former children’s book editor and journalist, Rochelle Maroon, has turned first-time novelist with her new urban adventure for middle readers The...
Denise Fitzpatrick
As a born and bred Kiwi growing up in the South Island, Denise developed a passion for reading mysteries. She devoured Enid Blyton’s Famous Five...
Tania Roberts
Tania plays with numbers by day and words by night to bring history alive with a blend of humour and love. Gifting a voice to her characters as they...
Jenny Harrison
Jenny Harrison lives in Te Aroha with her cat, Anzac. She rescues small creatures like crickets and praying mantises. She loves the colour turquoise...
Vicky Adin
As a Welsh-born, Cornish raised immigrant who married a fourth-generation Kiwi bloke with Irish, Scottish and English ancestors, Vicky developed a...
Helen Ellis
Helen Ellis, researcher and author, is a veteran of distance parenting and grandparenting. She is the founder of DistanceFamilies.com. In 2020,...
Jo Carson-Barr
Jo started her author journey 20 years ago after moving to the beach town of Waikouaiti, following an incredibly busy work life. Jo collaborates...
Pat Backley
Pat Backley is an author, born in England but now based in Auckland, New Zealand. Passionate about people and travelling the world, she has spent 70...
Tom O’Connor
Tom O'Connor was more than a writer – he was a voice for rural communities, commentator of politics and champion of learning our New Zealand...