The SpecFicNZ Grand Gather at UnCONventional
Are you attending UnCONventional this coming weekend? Are you a member of SpecFicNZ or are you someone who...
Help a Woman Win a Gemmell
Just a few more days until the voting for the Gemmell Morningstar Awards closes and SpecFicNZ member Helen...
Congratulations Alicia!
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Alicia Ponder for placing runner up in the Arc 1.1 Short Story Competition with...
Meet a Book Cover Designer
Writers write books. And in this age of indie and self-publishing sometimes we design covers for them. Good...
Call for Submissions Extended
Menial: Skilled Labor in SF anthology being put out by Crossed Genres has extended it’s deadline until June...
Free Promotion for Your Novel
Have a sci-fi, fantasy,or horror novel that released recently, or is coming out in the near future? Well,...
Novella Call for Submissions
Winter Well: Speculative Novellas of Older Women – open submissions Crossed Genres is looking for speculative stories featuring...
UnCONventional registration close-off date
UnCONventional has announced that the close-off date for registering at the NZ National SF Convention is Wednesday 30th May...
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...
Children’s Book Award Winner
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Jane Higgins who recently won the YA Children’s Choice Award for her YA dystopian...
SpecFicNZ Grand Gathering at unCONventional 2012
SpecFicNZ will be holding a Grand Gathering at unCONventional, the 33rd New Zealand national Science Fiction and Fantasy...
The Querying Quest
by Ripley Patton So, you’ve finished that novel and polished it up and now it’s time to start...
The SpecFicNZ Voice
The new, revamped, SpecFicNZ e-newsletter, The SpecFicNZ Voice, launched yesterday (Monday, May 14th, 2012) and we hope you...
Novel Writing Software: A Review of Scrivener
by Catherine Ford In the writing community, Scrivener is a big deal. Although there are plenty of people...