by Darusha Wehm Based on an article originally posted on my website Here are some technical tips on creating your own...
Online literary festival reaches international crowds
Sarah Shaffi at The Bookseller reports: “Gollancz’s one-day physical and digital festival reached nearly three million people on...
Creative New Zealand Review
Want your say on how literature is supported and developed in New Zealand? Take some time to submit...
Twisty Christmas Tales needs your support
At least a dozen of our members have stories appearing in this Christmas anthology for children to be released on...
All hail Kiwi Young Adult fiction
Great piece from Sarah Forster on the Booksellers NZ blog about Kiwi YA fiction: “The wonderful thing about...
NZ book TV show looking for authors to interview
Face Television NZ has launched a new TV programme: The Book Show. Now they’re putting out a call...
Free talks around the country on authors’ rights
Jane C. Ginsburg, of the Columbia University School of Law, will be visiting NZ soon and giving a...
Litcoin: a new kind of Kickstarter
Interesting development on the crowdfunding front: novelist Julian Gough has launched ‘Litcoin’, as reported by Alison Flood in...
Changes in NZ book review media
For all you self-pubbers out there doing DIY book promotion – an update. All book reviews for Fairfax...
October events in Christchurch
We have a couple of workshop events going on in Christchurch which may be of interest. Brought to...
News from Steam Press
News from Steam Press on Beattie’s Book Blog – Paul Gilbert’s fantasy novel The Sovereign Hand is being well...
Spooky Stories Competition
This Halloween, send us your spookiest specfic flash fiction of 300-500 words and be in to win. It’s...
Superman comic sells for $3.2 million
Got any old comics in your attic? Dig them out and dust them off, they might be worth...
AJ Fitzwater’s report from Clarion Writers Workshop
I feel like this write up about my time at Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop in San...
Space Opera is the new black
Great piece from Damien Walter in The Guardian: “Science fiction is not a genre … Today space opera...