23 21st century New Zealand male writers

John Renata Broughton is a New Zealand academic. He is Māori, of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Kahungunu descent, and since 2012 has been a full professor at the University of Otago.

Marcus Campbell is a writer, painter and sculptor.

Paul Cleave is an author from New Zealand.

Nigel Cox was a New Zealand author and museum director, with five novels published as of early 2006.

William (Bill) Direen is a New Zealand writer and performer. He graduated from Canterbury University (Christchurch) after gaining the John Tinline Prize (1980) and M.A. Hons.. He directed Blue Ladder Theatre at 87 Cashel Street, Christchurch, moving later to produce a series of experimental musicals in Wellington. Later writing (1994–present) ranges from criticism and speculative fiction to phonaesthetic poetry. From 2006 to 2017 he edited the trans-cultural literary magazine Percutio, "dedicated to aspects of the creative process and to works that bridge cultures". His music activities throughout the decades include groups The Bilders and the trio Ferocious. He has toured USA, Europe, Serbia and Australia, has strong ties with France, and now lives in Otago, New Zealand. He is the subject of a documentary, Bill Direen, A Memory of Others, directed by Simon Ogston (2017) (Official trailer).

David Eggleton is a New Zealand poet and writer. In 2019 he was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he holds until 2021.

Chris Else is the New Zealand author of novels, collections of short stories, and poems.

Maurice Gough Gee is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards, including multiple top prizes at the New Zealand Book Awards. In 1993, Andro Linklater, writing in British newspaper The Sunday Times, said that "Gee deserves to be regarded as one of the finest writers at work, not only in New Zealand ... but in the English speaking world".

Rowley Habib, also known as Rore Hapipi, was a New Zealand poet, playwright, and writer of short stories and television scripts.

Sir Roger Leighton Hall is one of New Zealand's most successful playwrights, arguably best known for comedies that carry a vein of social criticism and feelings of pathos.

Ralph McCubbin Howell is a Wellington-based New Zealand playwright and actor. He was the recipient of the 2014 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. His work The Devil's Half Acre was commissioned and produced by the 2016 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.

Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, generally known as Witi Ihimaera, is a New Zealand author. He was the first published Māori novelist.

Lloyd David Jones is a New Zealand author. His novel Mister Pip (2006) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

David Jubermann is a New Zealand writer and the author of Shiftlight, Drift Race., Just Us and Hypercar.

Oscar Vai To'elau Kightley is a Samoan-born New Zealand actor, television presenter, writer, journalist, director, and comedian. He acted in and co-wrote the successful 2006 film Sione's Wedding.

Russell Kirkpatrick is a geography lecturer and a novelist. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Canterbury, and lectured at the University of Waikato in Hamilton until 2014. He is currently living and writing in Australia. He has worked on seven atlas projects, including the New Zealand Historical Atlas (1998) and authored the Contemporary Atlas of New Zealand (1999/2004). He also wrote and was photographer for a book about New Zealand Waterfalls - Walk to Waterfalls (2011).

William Manhire is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, professor, and New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.

Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand novelist, playwright, journalist, television writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing the biopics The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and The Two Popes (2019). He received Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for The Theory of Everything and The Two Popes.

Christodoulos Evangeli Georgiou Moisa is a New Zealand poet, artist, photographer, writer, essayist and art teacher.

Peter Olds is a New Zealand poet. He was born in Christchurch. Freed the poetry magazine 1969–72 published him, and he was a central figure to the younger poets of the 1970s. He held the University of Otago Robert Burns Fellowship in 1978. Influences on his poetry include American rock'n'roll, the 1950s beat poetry of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and his own experiences in psychiatric institutions. Olds currently lives in Dunedin.

Peter David Broughton, generally known as Rawiri Paratene, is a New Zealand stage and screen actor, director and writer. He is known for his acting roles in Whale Rider (2002) and The Insatiable Moon (2010).

Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and internationally celebrated writers.

Richard Webster is an award winning multi-million selling author, ghostwriter, mentalist, hypnotist and magician.