This week, Cat Langford is the delightful guest on Helen Lowe’s blog series ‘Meet SpecFicNZ-Christchurch.’ Pop along to Helen’s blog to find out more about Cat, and read a teasing snippet from her first published short story “The Wrong Camera”, set in the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences world created by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris. [...]
This week on Helen Lowes blog series ‘Here’s SpecFicNZ-Christchurch’, member and author Amanda Fitzwater gives insight into what she writes, what inspires her writing, and how to eat water with a knife and fork. Visit Helen’s blog – ‘Helen Lowe…On anything, really’ – for full instructions! We’d also like to congratulate Amanda for her most [...]
Local publisher Random Static have recently released the TOC for their upcoming anthology of speculative fiction by New Zealand writers, titled Regeneration: New Zealand Speculative Fiction II. The book is due to be launched at Au Contraire in Wellington in July of this year, so mark your calendars and make it along to the convention [...]
The entries are all in and now the voting can begin! Head over to the voting site and read through our fantastic entries in this year’s Twitter Love microfiction contest. You can vote for one entry only, so make sure you fall in love with it. Remember, our entrants are now in the running to [...]
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Jean Gilbert for winning our recent Kindle Give-Away. Jean was randomly selected from all our current paid-up members (excluding current committee members) to receive a new Kindle Touch loaded with e-fiction by SpecFicNZ writers. Thank you all for supporting SpecFicNZ with your membership subscriptions, and be sure to enter our current [...]
The panel of readers prepares… Undeterred by the first rain in weeks, 22 hardy souls ventured to the Riccarton library in Christchurch to hear Words on the Wind. Diane Berry Amanda Fitzwater Cat Langford Beaulah Pragg, our organiser, MC and reading author, welcomed the audience before Diane [...]
A spaceship packed with zombified dragons is heading for the earth. Are you prepared? Have you watered the oven, fed the pot plant, and turned off the cat? Have you checked your email account – you know, the one you gave as your contact address when you joined SpecFicNZ and the only way we have [...]
Love may be fleeting, but your SpecFicNZ committee plan to make it last a little longer. We dug some worm holes out of the garden, blended them with a cute kitten calendar donated by Aunty Causality, and topped the goop off with a spoonful of she’ll-be-right. We can now proudly declare that February and March [...]
SpecFicNZ is excited to announce Going Global, a novel manuscript contest run by two indie presses, one in NZ and one in the USA. Prizes include critiques, books, cash, and a chance at getting published internationally! Both publishers use international distribution to get you selling on all available online channels in print and ebook. Meet [...]
“Write Spec Fic, Win Prizes, and Aid the Foremost North American Public Assemblage of Speculative, SF and Fantasy Fiction. “The Friends of the Merril Short Story Contest is open to all writers of all levels (published, unpublished, emerging, etc.), without restriction. While based in Toronto, Canada, the contest is international so writers of any [...]
(From Blueprints by member Anna Caro. Published in Fat Girl in a Strange Land.)
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