These are the Nominees Running for Regular Member Seats of the SpecFicNZ Committee to be voted on August...
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...
Free Shipping on Ghost Hand
Thanks to the amazing generosity of my New Zealand Backer base and the offer of free formatting for...
Growing Disenchantments
SpecFicNZ members KD Berry (winners of the 2012 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best New Talent) have just...
Get Your Novel Manuscripts In
Only a few more days to get your speculative fiction manuscripts entered in the SpecFicNZ/Steam Press Novel Manuscript...
Officed and Specific Position Committee Nominees
It is that time of year again. Time to elect your new committee to build and run SpecFicNZ...
In Honour of Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy, ONZ 12 March 1936 – 23 July 2012 Margaret Mahy, one of New Zealand’s best-loved authors,...
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...
Next Christchurch Meet-Up: August 4th.
The next meet-up of Christchurch SpecFiccers is on Saturday August 4th at the Black Betty cafe, from 12:30pm....
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...
Ripley’s Ghost Hand on Kickstarter
Be sure to check out Ripley Patton’s new Kickstarter Project to fund her YA novel Ghost Hand. It...
On The Premises Short Story Contest
On The Premises Magazine is having its regular short story contest on the theme of TIME. TIME Time...
Multiple Horror Anthos: Call for Submissions
Over at May December Publications there are a bunch of cool horror anthologies in the works that they...
Last Day for Nominations
It is the last day to e-mail in your nominations for the 2013 SpecFicNZ committee. If you have...