LexiCon, the 38th New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, are pleased to announce details of two competitions...
Steam Press Writing Contest
Steam Press Short SF Story Competition Steam Press, renowned for titles such as Mansfield with Monsters, The Prince...
SpecFicNZ Writers Well-Represented at Recent Sir Julius Vogel Awards
Sir Julius Vogel Awards At the recent National Science Fiction Convention (Au Contraire 3) held in Wellington over...
Au Contraire III Short Story Award Results
Given the short submission window, Dan and I were delighted with the response to this speculative writing competition,...
2016 Au Contraire SFF Short Story Award
Au Contraire 3 in association with SpecFicNZ present: The 2016 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Award as...
Three spooky SpecFicNZ stories for NZ Bookshop Day
Winners of Spooky Bookshops Challenge Announced! We are thrilled to announce the winners SpecFicNZ’s Spooky Bookshops Challenge: First...
NZ Book Week and NZ Bookshop Day coming up!
The first New Zealand Book Week (26 October-1 November) and New Zealand Bookshop Day (31 October) are coming...
SpecFicNZ’s Spooky Bookshops Challenge
This year, Halloween falls on NZ Bookshop Day. To celebrate this fortuitous collision, we’re challenging our members to...
Interstellar Award for Speculative Flash Fiction
The international Interstellar Award for Speculative Flash Fiction will open for entries on 1 July 2015, of stories up...
Congratulations to our SJV winners!
Huge congratulations to our SpecFicNZ members whose works were winners of this year’s Sir Julius Vogel Awards! The...
Deryn Pittar wins the 2014 Story Quest writing contest
SpecFicNZ would like to extend our congratulations to member Deryn Pittar, whose short story “The Carbonite’s Daughter” has won...
Announcing the National Poetry Day Competition 2014 Winners!
SpecFicNZ is thrilled to announce the winners of the National Poetry Day Competition. Thank you to everyone who...
Celebrating NZ Poetry Day with a Competition
Send us your sci-fi sonnets, your fantasy free verse, your horror heptameters – it’s time for a poetry...
SHORTCUTS competition open for submissions
The SpecFicNZ SHORTCUTS competition in partnership with Paper Road Press opens today. See the SHORTCUTS competition page for more information...
Submission opportunity: Poetry competition
Submissions for the New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Poetry Competition close on 31 May 2014. There are separate...