By A.J. Fitzwater While the general mechanics of submitting specfic short stories is mostly universal and easily Google-able...
Call for submissions
Random Static Ltd and Au Contraire 2013 – the 34th National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention – are...
Scared Twitless: The Twitter Horror Fiction Contest
Here’s a contest that you can really sink your teeth into. Get your 140-character freak on, and join...
SpecFicNZ member sales!
Two SpecFicNZ members have recently made sales noteworthy – Anna Caro’s story “Millie” will appear in Outlaw Bodies,...
Submitting Your Work
By Stephen Minchin So your novel or short story collection is finished. You’ve written, rewritten, hidden it in...
Cover Contest Winner Announced!
Congratulations to Ripley Patton, whose competition entry for a book entitled “Over The Rim” took a whopping 63%...
Are you Awesome?
Let Penduline Press know if you have some amazing writing or artwork you would like featured in our...
Blogging Week Winners Announced!
And the results are in! The winners of our three categories for SpecFicNZ Blogging Week are: Best Blog...
A reminder about the Muscular Dystrophy Association Short Story Competition
The deadline for entries in the Muscular Dystrophy Short Story Competition is October 31, 2012. Why not send your...
Critiquing Workshop – Christchurch
Have you got writing you’d like feedback on? Do you want to join a critique group, but aren’t...
The Ghost Hand YA Short Story Contest
To celebrate the November release of her YA paranormal thriller Ghost Hand, Ripley Patton is currently running a...
Helen Lowe Interviews Jane Higgins on SF Signal
SpecFicNZ’s Helen Lowe continues her “Fun with (Aus/NZ) Friends” interview series on SF Signal, interviewing NZ debut author...
Readers’ Choice Poll – NZ SpecFic Blogging Week 2012
We really hope you enjoyed NZ SpecFic Blogging Week, whether you were pounding the keys or just following...
Monthly Horror Short Story Competition
‘Darker Times Fiction’ is a monthly short story competition for stories of 3,000 words and less in the...
Voting open for the “A Cover’s Worth a Thousand Words” Competition
The SpecFicNZ Core has read through the wonderful entries for August’s “A Cover’s Worth a Thousand Words” competition,...