This year SpecFicNZ will hold our annual general meeting at 8pm on Wednesday 30 September. You can read...

CoNZealand: We need you!
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SpecFicNewZ February 2018
SpecFicNewZ for Feburary, 2018. Members, if you have news you’d like to share, we’d love to celebrate it...

All the Goss – Members’ News for September, 2017
Member’s News SpecFicNZ August September, 2017 SpecFicNZ welcomes news from our members. Please send us your update via...
On Blogging & The Interrelationship With Writing
by Helen Lowe So here’s the thing: I don’t believe blogging is a marketing tool for writing—and certainly...
The Question of Whether to Blog
by Beaulah Pragg The question of whether to blog, as an author, is a big one and I’ll...
Articles on ‘Blogging’ sought for SpecFicNZ Voice
Are you a blogger and writer? What sets your soul on fire? SpecFicNZ is seeking non-fiction articles about...
Submissions, Kiwi Style
By A.J. Fitzwater While the general mechanics of submitting specfic short stories is mostly universal and easily Google-able...
Submitting Your Work
By Stephen Minchin So your novel or short story collection is finished. You’ve written, rewritten, hidden it in...
Articles on “the submissions experience” sought for SpecFicNZ Voice
Do you have experience submitting novels or short stories to professional or semi-pro markets? Do you have any...
Watch Your Language: How to Prepare Your Manuscript for Publication
by Mike Reeves-McMillan Back in the mid-90s, I was an editor for what was then Hodder Moa Beckett...
Making Friends with Revision
by Darian Smith Of all the inhabitants of the literary schoolyard, Revision is the writer’s best frenemy. When...
The Beauty of Writing
by Fredrik Brounéus Most of the time when writing a book, it’s probably a good thing not knowing...
Ten Things to Weed from Your Writing
By Ripley Patton Writing is a lot like gardening. There are things that pop up that you want, and...
5 Ways Short Stories Can Improve Your Novel Writing
by Cassie Hart A novel is a big undertaking. In fact, the sheer size and word-count can seem...