You’ve heard the old saying, “A picture’s worth a thousand words”, but SpecFicNZ is about to change that...
Ticonderoga Press Visits Wellington
Ticonderoga Publishing is one of the most respected Aussie small presses. Russell & Liz, the brains behind Ticonderoga,...
Mansfield with Monsters Launch a Roaring Success
Mansfield with Monsters, the second release from local publisher Steam Press, was launched into the world on Saturday...
Horror Call for Submissions
eFICTION HORROR wants your tales of horror (poems are fine too). Please, terrify us. Make us run home to mommy....
Derek Landy 2012 Down-Under Tour
Derek Landy is author of the Skulduggery Pleasant series – which includes Skulduggery Pleasant (known as Sceptre of...
Drugging a Unicorn
Can a unicorn be drugged? Odd question? Yes. But the kind of question that bats around Ripley Patton’s...
Novel Manuscript Contest Now Open
Start your engines and send in your manuscripts. The SpecFicNZ/Steam Press Novel Manuscript Contest is now open for...
Stonethread Short Story Contest
Stonethread Publishing is seeking fantasy and sociological science fiction short stories to create an anthology in Ray Bradbury’s honor....
Tales of the Archives Winner Live!
This last January, SpecFicNZ ran a fiction contest with Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris for their Tales from...
New Christchurch Writers’ Guild
Are you a writer local to Christchurch and looking for some support, writerly companionship and networking? Then be...
Fire Season Available Now!
“Fire Season” by Samuel Mae, our Wily/SpecFicNZ short story second place winner, is now live and available to...
The Janus Affair Trailer
Children’s Book Award Winner
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Jane Higgins who recently won the YA Children’s Choice Award for her YA dystopian...
The SpecFicNZ Voice
The new, revamped, SpecFicNZ e-newsletter, The SpecFicNZ Voice, launched yesterday (Monday, May 14th, 2012) and we hope you...
World’s First Pavlova Western
What happens when you take an iconic American Spaghetti Western and set it in New Zealand? The World’s...