Do you have a story or poem inside you bursting to get out (or already published)? Great! Is it...
2021 Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative Fiction Writers in NZ
2021 Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative Fiction Writers in New Zealand Call for Applications The Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative...
LexiCon Announces Short Story & Drabble Competitions
LexiCon, the 38th New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, are pleased to announce details of two competitions...
Winners – Clawsome Dragon Limericks Contest
Clawsome Dragon Limericks Winners Phantom Feather Press received a hoard of dragon limericks from all around the world....
SpecFicNZ Flash Fiction / Poetry competition
SpecFicNZ Flash Fiction / Poetry competition Closes midnight 24th October 2016 Entry is free to members of...
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...
2016 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Award: Call for Submission
From Au Contraire 3, this year’s National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention: 2016 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Award, in...
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...
SpecFicNZ’s Spooky Bookshops Challenge
This year, Halloween falls on NZ Bookshop Day. To celebrate this fortuitous collision, we’re challenging our members to...
Congratulations to our Ebook Cover Competition Winner!
We’re pleased to announce Mary Brock Jones as the winner of our Ebook Cover competition. Mary will be...
Ebook Cover Competition
We’re back with another competition, and this time we’re thrilled to once again be working with Dunedin-based cover...
Summer Review Competition: Congratulations to our winner!
Congratulations to Mike Reeves-McMillan, who has been judged the winner of our Summer Review Competition. Mike reviewed Sir...
Summer Review Competition
Our next competition is all about crafting a review. Choose a work of speculative fiction – preferably with...
Congratulations to our Spooky Stories winners!
This Halloween, we asked for your spookiest stories, and you delivered. Judged by author Alan Baxter, the calibre...