Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Tim Jones, whose poem Kraken won second place in the Interstellar Award for Speculative Poetry 2015!...
SJV Awards Celebration in Christchurch
On Saturday afternoon, the Christchurch writing and reading community gathered for an event, jointly hosted by SpecFicNZ and Fendalton...
Congratulations to our lucky winners!
Congratulations to Jane Percival and Fiona Mackie, who have won books kindly donated by our friends at The...
Invitation to Sir Julius Vogel Event, Saturday 13 June
A very special event in Christchurch will be held on June 13th to celebrate winners and finalists of...
Liquid City
Liquid City by A.C. Buchanan Abandoned as a teenager on a strange planet, Casp Alkin earns a living...
Congratulations to our winners!
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ members Marie Hodgkinson and Nathan Rogers, who have won books from The Realm!
Congratulations to our SJV winners!
Huge congratulations to our SpecFicNZ members whose works were winners of this year’s Sir Julius Vogel Awards! The...
SpecFicNZ Publishing Grant Open for Applications
The 2015 SpecFicNZ Publishing Grant is open for applications. Complete information about the grant is here and the...
SpecFicNZ Publishing Grant Scheme Opens for Applications 16 March 2015
SpecFicNZ is thrilled to announce that our first annual Publishing Grant will open for applications on 16 March...
Call for submissions: Flash Frontier
Flash Frontier, a New Zealand flash fiction challenge and competition site, is calling for submissions to its April issue,...
Pawns of Heaven
Pawns of Heaven by Rainer Süss When the Premier of Zanix is murdered by Pantoja’andese mercenaries, Zanixese Agent Surat is...
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...
Sir Julius Vogel Award Shortlist Announced
Congratulations to all the nominees! From SFFANZ (more details at the link): Best Novel Dreamer’s Pool, Juliet Marillier –...
Stalker’s Luck
Stalker’s Luck by Chris Strange EVEN AT THE END, JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED. The Eleda system is dying....
The Uncanny Power of Weird Fiction
Interesting piece by Jeff Vandermeer in The Atlantic about speculative fiction: “This is the realm of the uncanny,...