Call for submissions to our 2024 SpecFicNZ anthology! Submissions close May 31, 2024. Kia ora and thanks for...
Review: You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories by Octavia Cade
Review by Robinne Weiss This collection of short stories by Octavia Cade is a pull-no-punches imagination of a...
Book Review: Kaleidoscopes in the Dark
These tasty bite-sized stories drop you into worlds that seem familiar — until they’re not.
Knock On
“Knock On,” by Mark English in Stupefying Stories Showcase, Sep 2016 I am swimming against the current of...
Te Kōrero Ahi Kā – Aaron Compton
By Aaron Compton It was an honour to help edit this collection. As mentee-editor it was an...
Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror now open to submissions
Talie Helene and Liz Gryzb are now reading for their ongoing Year’s Best series, and we encourage our...
Submissions Open for Breach Ezine
Breach is an online magazine for SF, horror and dark fantasy short fiction, and is currently open for submissions....
LexiCon Announces Short Story & Drabble Competitions
LexiCon, the 38th New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, are pleased to announce details of two competitions...
Three Anthologies Seeking Submissions
The SUBMERGED, ALL HAIL OUR ROBOT CONQUERORS!, and THE DEATH OF ALL THINGS anthologies from Zombies Need Brains...
12-36 to be made into a short film
Canterbury author E.G Wilson’s short story 12-36, which appeared in the At The Edge anthology (Paper Road Press,...
Subs Open: Humans Wanted
When going somewhere dangerous, take a human. Humans are tough. Humans can last days without food. Humans heal...
Everything is Fine
Everything is Fine by Grant Stone A house at the edge of a prehistoric valley. A suitcase that...
The Dog with No Name
The Dog with No Name, by Grace Bridges: One eventful night in Belfast, a soulful dog makes a...
A Mer-Tale
A Mer-Tale by Jan M. Goldie “We Mer are real. There’s nothing mythological about us. We’ve inhabited Earth’s...
Silver, Sharp as Silk
Silver Sharp as Silk, by Dan Rabarts in Dreaming of Djinn “It is sharp, and beautiful, and awful...