SpecficNZ member Helen Lowe‘s The Gathering of the Lost has made the longlist for the David Gemmell Legend...
Kindle Book Reviews Best Indie Book Awards
Congratulations to members Ripley Patton and Michael Reeves-McMillan for making the semi-finals in the 2013 Kindle Book Reviews...
Auckland Meet-up – July
The July gathering of SpecFicNZ Auckland members will be at the same venue as last month’s. It will...
Tips from a Literary Agent
by Liz Gatens First published in the SpecFicNZ newsletter, July 2013 In April, some of the Christchurch SpecFicNZ...
Pimp Your Profile competition results!
Profiles have been pimped. Votes have been cast. Winners have been selected. The Pimp Your Profile contest has...
SpecFicNZ AGM
The SpecFicNZ AGM will take place on Sunday, July 14th, 5pm NZ time. This will be a combined...
Legend longlist for Lost!
Helen Lowe’s The Gathering of the Lost has been nominated for the Gemmell Legend Award. Legend! The awards...
Wily Writers Winners!
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2013 Wily Writers Short Fiction Contest First place goes...
Write Off Line competition
Here’s one for our younger members – Write Off Line is a free writing competition, and is open...
Fundraiser round-up – update!
SpecFicNZ member Ripley Patton is excited to reveal the cover art for Ghost Hold, the sequel to Ghost...
Submissions open – call for novels
Brimstone Press, an Australian and New Zealand dark fiction publisher, is calling for submissions for three novel lines:...
Going Global contest winners!
Earlier this year you may remember the call went out for novels to be submitted to a pair...
Auckland Area Meet Up – Sunday
The fine specficcerly folk of Auckland will be meeting this Sunday (16 June) for coffee, chatting, and specficcerly...
Seven weeks of ‘Meet…’ comes to an end
Over the past seven weeks, some of the Christchurch members of SpecFicNZ were lucky enough to feature on...
Pimp My Profile Contest is now LIVE!
A brave band of our intrepid Specficcers have taken up the challenge of hammering down their profiles, melting...