Tui Katene is a writer, storyteller and motivational speaker who uses honest storytelling to explore resilience, leadership, and identity. Tui's...
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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...

















