Newsletter – SpecFicNZ

Call for submissions: Announcing the 2021 SpecFicNZ Anthology

Do you have a story or poem inside you bursting to get out (or already published)? Great! Is it...

Teenagers are all too familiar with being strangers in their own bodies; change is never easy. It is...

DELICIOUS BITES OF DARKNESS This collection portrays family dynamics in its many forms. Sisters feature in each story,...

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

Wellington is the place to be next year if you write fantasy, science fiction or horror, thanks to...

SpecFicNewZ for Feburary, 2018. Members, if you have news you’d like to share, we’d love to celebrate it...

Member’s News SpecFicNZ August September, 2017 SpecFicNZ welcomes news from our members. Please send us your update via...

by Helen Lowe So here’s the thing: I don’t believe blogging is a marketing tool for writing—and certainly...

by Beaulah Pragg The question of whether to blog, as an author, is a big one and I’ll...

Are you a blogger and writer? What sets your soul on fire? SpecFicNZ is seeking non-fiction articles about...

By A.J. Fitzwater While the general mechanics of submitting specfic short stories is mostly universal and easily Google-able...

By Stephen Minchin So your novel or short story collection is finished. You’ve written, rewritten, hidden it in...

Do you have experience submitting novels or short stories to professional or semi-pro markets? Do you have any...

by Mike Reeves-McMillan Back in the mid-90s, I was an editor for what was then Hodder Moa Beckett...

by Darian Smith Of all the inhabitants of the literary schoolyard, Revision is the writer’s best frenemy. When...