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SpecFicNZ Spotlights: Your Time to Shine

Greetings, writerly and creative folks! Here in the SpecFicNZ Committee, we’ve been hatching plans for how we can...

There are easy answers and there are hard answers. If you’re in the whimsical, 30-second-Oscar-speech mood, what fuels my...

I knew I wanted to write from a very early age, and when you’re small, everything is speculative...

I was one of those kids who got really excited in primary school when the teacher asked us...

After 2 long years of slaving over a hot keyboard, my latest release is the final book in...

I loved creative writing in school and always tried to push the boundary with violence, horror and particularly...

I recently released Beastheads, a prequel novel in my Gryphon Clerks series of lightly steampunked secondary-world fantasy (with...

Jan Goldie is the author of two YA speculative fiction books, A Mer-Tale (2014) and Brave’s Journey (to...