Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Jo Tomlinson, who has won The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss! Many thanks...
Volunteer to help the WorldCon bid before 5 December
New Zealand is putting together a bid to host the World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) here in Aotearoa...
Congratulations to our Spooky Stories winners!
This Halloween, we asked for your spookiest stories, and you delivered. Judged by author Alan Baxter, the calibre...
Win a copy of The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Thanks to our friends at The Realm (Hachette NZ), we have a copy of Patrick Rothfuss‘ The Slow Regard of...
Networking: a guide for self-publishers
And now in our series of guides for self-publishers: networking! From your friendly SpecFicNZ publicist. Networking can be...
Congratulations to yet another winner!
This week we seem to be having ALL the winners, huzzah! Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Jonathan (Billy) Todd,...
Congratulations to our First Sentence Draw winners!
Earlier this month we asked you to post the first sentence of your work in progress. We picked...
Congratulations to our winner!
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Kura Carpenter, who has won a copy of Frozen!
Share your recommendations for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards
Now that nominations are open for the 2014 Sir Julius Vogel Awards, we thought it would be great...
Elizabeth Knox on writing literary & genre fiction
Earlier this year, I attended WORD, the Christchurch Writers Festival, where I saw Elizabeth Knox deliver the inaugural...
Win a copy of Frozen! (no, not that one)
With thanks to our friends at The Realm, we have a copy of Frozen to give away, book one in the...
Reconnaissance – Short Story Competition 2015.
Here is the information about the Short Story Competition to be held in conjunction with this year’s national science fiction and...
Sir Julius Vogel Award Nominations Open
From SFFANZ: Nominations for the 2015 Sir Julius Vogel awards are now being accepted. The nomination period will...
First Sentence Prize Draw
With the start of November, we know many of you are kicking off your frantic plans to write...