About dead bird books

Dead Bird Books is a boutique publishing house based in New Zealand.

We want to offer a voice to local writers working in the margins, who for a myriad of reasons don’t often fit the common mould of the publishing world. This includes writers without a higher education, people with learning disabilities and mental illness, people from working class communities and those whose subject matter doesn’t fit into the current paradigm.

The unifying factor amongst all these writers is both talent and their unique and important voices as artists. Our objective is to work collaboratively with writers and help legitimise their practice so they not only get their books published at a professional level but raise their profiles and learn how to promote and showcase their work.

We want to help enable and upskill the writers we work with so they feel empowered and confident to further develop their talent.