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Our Team

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    Emily Makere Broadmore

    Founder, Editor-in-Chief

    editor@follyjournal.com

    Emily founded Folly in 2022 to create a place for beautiful short form books. She curates each issue to encapsulate the Folly ethos of fearless provocation and art - profiling and platforming writers and work that may not otherwise be published. She is a former political advisor to government ministers, and formally owned a boutique public relations agency. Alongside Folly, she founded the Wellington Writers’ Studio in 2023 as an affordable members only community for creatives.

    She is widely published as a social commentator and author of provocative short fiction. Her debut novel will be published in 2027 with Penguin Random House.

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    Dana Taylforth

    Art Direction and Stakeholder Engagement

    dana@follyjournal.com

    Dana expertly manages the art selection for each issue of Folly, working alongside leading New Zealand and international art galleries to find emerging and collectable artists around the world.

    In 2026 she is open to artists both represented and self-represented, whose work aligns with Folly.

  • Ari Prakash

    Assistant Editor

    editorial@follyjournal.com

    Ari runs the poetry reading team and short lists the poetry submissions, as well as working contributor side on social marketing and liaison.

    Her writing has seen her win Best Humour/Satire Writer, 3rd place: Best Creative Writing/Poetry and 1st place tie: Best Headline at the Aotearoa Student Press Awards.

  • Caroline Huckeba

    Guest Editor

    Caroline Huckeba is a writer and master’s student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling whose work explores the inner lives of women, relationships, mental health, and the stories we tell ourselves. Her work has appeared in Roe Magazine, Blood+Honey, Minetta Review, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere. She is the founder of Stories on the Side, an independent publication featuring conversations with creatives about their work, lives, and the spaces in between. She lives in Texas, USA.

  • George Parker

    Guest Editor

    George is a London-based writer and founder of eff-able, a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry, gathered from poets around the world.

    George is a Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Space Crone Prize-nominated queer disabled writer, performer, and facilitator. Publications include collaborative pamphlet Not Your Orlando (Punk Dust), Twisted Roots (Reconnecting Rainbows), and my debut collection Gynandromorph (Written Off).

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    Emily Goldthorpe

    Guest Editor: Folly Journal

    emilyg@follyjournal.com

    Emily keeps the team to schedule and leads the editing for all selected submissions, alongside ensuring Folly meets its print deadlines each year - working with our team of typesetters, designers and proofers.

    Emily has previously worked at an award-winning independent publishing house in New Zealand.

  • Becca Lauryssen

    Social Alchemy

    Becca supports the curation of the concepts behind Folly’s social media presence and can usually be found both behind — and occasionally in front of — the camera, shaping how our art and story is told, seen, and shared.

    Becca balances her love of reading, writing and content creation with her work as a corporate business consultant.

  • Brooklyn-Grace Folesi

    Art Intern

    Brooklyn recently completed her honours degree in art history at Te Herenga Waka. Now located in Melbourne, she spends most of her time in galleries and writing about the work she sees around the city.


  • Katy Knight-Maclean

    Art Partnerships & Curation Intern

    Katy is a writer and critic currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. The last few years have seen her working in galleries across Aotearoa, keeping a finger on the pulse of NZ's art scene. In 2026 she is on the hunt for art with that distinctive Folly flavour -- a cocktail of beauty, humour, grit and wit.

Want to join Folly?

Folly is run with an enthusiastic and passionate team of founder-volunteers, stipended editors, a contracted production crew and volunteer readers and interns. We don’t receive government grants or funding, but reinvest into our team and our writers to support the continual creation of beautiful print publications.

Each year Folly seeks readers from around the world to join us to curate our journal and anthologies.

  • READERS: Previous reading experience optional, ability to spot good writing (especially when it requires some polishing to get there) is essential. From as little as two hours per week.

  • DIGITAL MARKETING INTERN: We support final year students looking for real experience to create chaos on our socials. Must be fluent in both Instagram, Canva and irony. Minimum 5 hours per week, from anywhere in the world.