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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...

by Fredrik Brounéus Most of the time when writing a book, it’s probably a good thing not knowing...

By Ripley Patton Writing is a lot like gardening. There are things that pop up that you want, and...

by Cassie Hart A novel is a big undertaking. In fact, the sheer size and word-count can seem...

by Ripley Patton So, you’ve finished that novel and polished it up and now it’s time to start...