Booksellers NZ has published a very useful article on self-publishing in New Zealand in their weekly e-newsletter, The...
Links relating to the Hachette/Amazon situation
In case you missed it, there’s a significant battle going on between publisher Hachette and Amazon. The result...
First Graphic Novel Competition
The winner of the First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced. This is a biennial competition for a graphic...
Submission opportunity: Poetry competition
Submissions for the New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Poetry Competition close on 31 May 2014. There are separate...
Mayday: A Kaiju Thriller
Mayday: A Kaiju Thriller by Chris Strange We couldn’t destroy the monsters, so we enslaved their minds. But...
New book networking site
Penguin Random House are establishing a new book networking/recommendations site called My Independent Bookshop. From a Kiwi bookselling...
What if the X-Men published classic books?
Chad Miller has recreated – erm, I mean discovered – classic books as published by the X-Men under...
Best New Zealand poems
The International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University Wellington publishes the best New Zealand poems annually. The...
Comic book news
Publishers Weekly provides a useful round-up of comic book news, including a newsletter you can subscribe to. It’s...
Edible Book Awards
Did you know the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology holds annual Edible Book Awards? Here’s the round-up of...
The state of sci-fi in NZ
Great article from our very own VP Marie Hodgkinson in Booksellers NZ e-newsletter The Read about the state of...
SpecFicShorts Weekly Challenge
Challenge your creativity with SpecFicShorts – a weekly contest to write a 20-word story using 5 random prompt...
Applications Open: Speculative Literature Foundation Diversity Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is currently accepting applications for two diversity-oriented grants: Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds, both...
Tantamount
Tantamount by Thomas J. Radford The Free Lanes criss-cross a vast ocean in space, sailed by tall ships...
SpecFicNZ Members Sweep SJV Awards!
We are thrilled to announce that SpecFicNZ members took home all the fiction awards at the Sir Julius...