LexiCon, the 38th New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, are pleased to announce details of two competitions...

LexiCon, the 38th New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, are pleased to announce details of two competitions...
Steam Press Short SF Story Competition Steam Press, renowned for titles such as Mansfield with Monsters, The Prince...
Sir Julius Vogel Awards At the recent National Science Fiction Convention (Au Contraire 3) held in Wellington over...
Given the short submission window, Dan and I were delighted with the response to this speculative writing competition,...
Au Contraire 3 in association with SpecFicNZ present: The 2016 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Award as...
Winners of Spooky Bookshops Challenge Announced! We are thrilled to announce the winners SpecFicNZ’s Spooky Bookshops Challenge: First...
The first New Zealand Book Week (26 October-1 November) and New Zealand Bookshop Day (31 October) are coming...
This year, Halloween falls on NZ Bookshop Day. To celebrate this fortuitous collision, we’re challenging our members to...
The international Interstellar Award for Speculative Flash Fiction will open for entries on 1 July 2015, of stories up...
Huge congratulations to our SpecFicNZ members whose works were winners of this year’s Sir Julius Vogel Awards! The...
SpecFicNZ would like to extend our congratulations to member Deryn Pittar, whose short story “The Carbonite’s Daughter” has won...
SpecFicNZ is thrilled to announce the winners of the National Poetry Day Competition. Thank you to everyone who...
Send us your sci-fi sonnets, your fantasy free verse, your horror heptameters – it’s time for a poetry...
The SpecFicNZ SHORTCUTS competition in partnership with Paper Road Press opens today. See the SHORTCUTS competition page for more information...
Submissions for the New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Poetry Competition close on 31 May 2014. There are separate...