SpecFicNZ review of the new supernatural mystery by writing team Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray A scientist with...
LexiCon: National SFF Con 2017
The weekend began early on Friday for some of us as we taught writing workshops for almost 100...
Sir Julius Vogel Award Winners
The Sir Julius Vogel Awards were presented this weekend at LexiCon in Taupo. Full List of Winners: Best...
SpecFicNZ Spotlights: Your Time to Shine
Greetings, writerly and creative folks! Here in the SpecFicNZ Committee, we’ve been hatching plans for how we can...
SpecFic Spotlight: A. J. Fitzwater
There are easy answers and there are hard answers. If you’re in the whimsical, 30-second-Oscar-speech mood, what fuels my...
The Dog with No Name
The Dog with No Name, by Grace Bridges: One eventful night in Belfast, a soulful dog makes a...
SpecFic Spotlight: A. J. Ponder
I knew I wanted to write from a very early age, and when you’re small, everything is speculative...
SpecFic Spotlight: Darian Smith
I was one of those kids who got really excited in primary school when the teacher asked us...
SpecFic Spotlight: V. L. Dreyer
After 2 long years of slaving over a hot keyboard, my latest release is the final book in...
SpecFic Spotlight: Rainer Süss
I loved creative writing in school and always tried to push the boundary with violence, horror and particularly...
SpecFic Spotlight: Mike Reeves-McMillan
I recently released Beastheads, a prequel novel in my Gryphon Clerks series of lightly steampunked secondary-world fantasy (with...
SpecFic Spotlight: Jan Goldie
Jan Goldie is the author of two YA speculative fiction books, A Mer-Tale (2014) and Brave’s Journey (to...
European Tax Changes – and how they affect Kiwi writers
Please be aware that I am not an accountant and the below information reflects my understanding of the...
Submission Opportunity: Eastern Iowa Review
This is a new literary journal seeking fiction and non-fiction (and art if anyone is so inclined). I...
Ray Bradbury’s Advice to Writers
The first piece of advice that Bradbury gave was to write a “hell of a lot” of short...