Thanks to our friends at The Realm, we have review copies of two new spec fic books to...
Christchurch Writers Festival 27-31 August
The Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival, WORD, is back! This year it’s taking place from 27 to 31...
Congratulations to our winner!
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Piper Ball-de-Mejia who has won the special signed copy of Dawn’s Early Light, written by SpecFicNZ...
Use Only As Directed
Use Only As Directed, edited by Simon Petrie and Edwina Harvey A varied mix of 14 speculative fiction...
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...
Win a signed copy of Dawn’s Early Light!
Fresh from the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, we have a signed copy of Dawn’s Early Light to give...
Announcing the 2014-15 SpecFicNZ Committee
Following today’s AGM, SpecFicNZ is pleased to announce that the new Core Committee comprises: Marie Hodgkinson, President Grace...
AGM Agenda and Login Details
Annual General Meeting to be held at 2 pm 27 July 2014. The meeting is open to all...
Humans developing bi-literate brains
Interesting piece in the Washington Post about how our brains are changing in response to the different ways...
Book Review: The Factory World by Joseph Edward Ryan
The Factory World is a novel published by Steam Press and written by New Zealand author Joseph Edward Ryan and follows (literally)...
High school story vending machine
Entrepreneurial high-school students in Canada have created a vending machine that dispenses stories. What a brilliant idea! How...
Submission Opportunities: “Our World of Horror” and “The Lost Worlds”
Horror publisher Eldritch Press has two open calls for upcoming anthologies: “Our World of Horror” Payment: .05 cents...
Interview: Kiwi cartoonist Adrian Kinnaird
Interesting interview with Kiwi cartoonist Adrian Kinnaird about cartooning in New Zealand and his book about the history of...
Annual General Meeting – 27 July 2014
The SpecFicNZ Annual General Meeting is scheduled for 2 pm on 27 July, 2014. The meeting is open...
SF Signal Series: Special Needs In Strange Worlds
There’s a great series of articles on SF Signal dealing with Special Needs In Strange Worlds. Pretty much...