Vulture interviews Max Brooks: Max Brooks is best known for writing World War Z, a fictional oral history of a...
Submission opportunity: Flash Fiction
The 2014 Flash Fiction competition is now open! Entries close on 23 May 2014. See here for full...
Auckland Writers Festival 14-18 May
The Auckland Writers Festival is coming up soon! Browse the programme online here or as an ebook here. Events...
Help get Dan Rabarts to Continuum X
SpecFicNZ member Dan Rabarts, this year’s winner of two Sir Julius Vogel Awards, one for Best New Talent and...
World War I Centenary Competition Concluded
The World War I Centenary competition drew in a number of great entries. Many Thanks to all those...
Submission opportunity: International Proverse Prize
Proverse Publishing in Hong Kong run an annual, international competition for original book-length works; the prize is ten...
The state of sci-fi in NZ
Great article from our very own VP Marie Hodgkinson in Booksellers NZ e-newsletter The Read about the state of...
SpecFicShorts Weekly Challenge
Challenge your creativity with SpecFicShorts – a weekly contest to write a 20-word story using 5 random prompt...
Congratulations to our lucky winner!
Congratulations to our lucky winner, SpecFicNZ member Deb E Howell, who has won all three books in Laini...
Dunedin Writers Festival 6-11 May
The Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival 2014 is now on! You can find the full programme here. Events...
Applications Open: Speculative Literature Foundation Diversity Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is currently accepting applications for two diversity-oriented grants: Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds, both...
Writers’ workshops at the Children’s Bookshop (Wellington)
The Children’s Bookshop has announced its Sunday Seminar calendar for 2014. Spaces are limited, so if you are...
Tantamount
Tantamount by Thomas J. Radford The Free Lanes criss-cross a vast ocean in space, sailed by tall ships...
Mothers Day lucky dip giveaways
Mothers like novels. It is known. In celebration of this fact, and of Mothers Day (Sunday 11 May),...
Win the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy!
To celebrate the publication of the final installment of Laini Taylor‘s Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy, we...