A very special event in Christchurch will be held on June 13th to celebrate winners and finalists of...
Congratulations to our SJV winners!
Huge congratulations to our SpecFicNZ members whose works were winners of this year’s Sir Julius Vogel Awards! The...
Sir Julius Vogel Award Shortlist Announced
Congratulations to all the nominees! From SFFANZ (more details at the link): Best Novel Dreamer’s Pool, Juliet Marillier –...
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...
Sir Julius Vogel Award Nominations Open
From SFFANZ: Nominations for the 2015 Sir Julius Vogel awards are now being accepted. The nomination period will...
Judges needed for NZ Children’s & YA Book Awards
Booksellers NZ is now accepting expressions of interest to judge the 2015 New Zealand Book Awards for Children...
Hugo Awards winners
The full list of this year’s Hugo Award winners is out now. BEST NOVEL Ancillary Justice, by Ann...
SpecFicNZ sweeps the Shadows away
SpecFicNZ was well represented at the recent Australian Shadows Awards, which recognise excellence in the Horror writing field...
Submission opportunity: BNZ literary awards
BNZ is putting out the call for New Zealand’s best published, novice, student and short story writers, as the...
First Graphic Novel Competition
The winner of the First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced. This is a biennial competition for a graphic...
Children’s & YA Book Awards Festival
The New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Festival will take place across Aotearoa from 17 to...
Edible Book Awards
Did you know the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology holds annual Edible Book Awards? Here’s the round-up of...
SpecFicNZ Members Sweep SJV Awards!
We are thrilled to announce that SpecFicNZ members took home all the fiction awards at the Sir Julius...
Awards! Free books! Awards!
‘Tis the season for spec fic book awards around the world. Here’s our round-up of this year’s shortlists:...
Congratulations to our SJV finalists
Our friends at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand have announced the finalists of the Sir...