Some interesting ideas here in this piece by Michael Blanding for Publishing Perspectives: keeping the longer term in...
Go vote in the general election!
Here at SpecFicNZ we have no affiliations to any political parties, but we are very much in favour...
Did Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi predict the present?
Interesting piece from Sarah Jane Abbott about how Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi short stories relate to our present reality.
Hugo Awards winners
The full list of this year’s Hugo Award winners is out now. BEST NOVEL Ancillary Justice, by Ann...
Funding your novel through the crowd
Asking people to part with their hard earned cash is never easy. Asking them to do it on...
The Brainery Online Writing Workshop
From the website: Have you always wanted to apply to the Clarion Workshop, but then realize that no...
Congratulations to our winners!
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ members Rowena McCoy, Woelf Dietrich, David Catt, Dan Rabarts and Stephanie Gardner who have won...
Game writing job opportunity
Outsmart Games is looking for a dark fantasy writer to create the story behind their newest mobile game....
Win books for Fathers Day!
To celebrate Fathers Day, we are giving away a bunch of books from the SpecFicNZ swag bag: A...
Ray Bradbury’s Advice to Writers
The first piece of advice that Bradbury gave was to write a “hell of a lot” of short...
Baby Teeth – Bite-sized Tales of Terror
Baby Teeth – Bite-sized Tales of Terror, Edited by Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray Kids can say the...
Congratulations to our winners!
Congratulations to the lucky winners of our latest round of giveaways, SpecFicNZ members Immi Paterson-Harkness and Jane Percival....
Announcing the National Poetry Day Competition 2014 Winners!
SpecFicNZ is thrilled to announce the winners of the National Poetry Day Competition. Thank you to everyone who...
Win advance copies of two new spec fic titles!
Thanks to our friends at The Realm, you could be one of the first people in New Zealand...
Congratulations to our lucky winners!
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ members Carolyn Smith Masefield and Dan Rabarts, who have won review copies of Midnight Crossroad and The Oversight...