About

SpecFicNZ is the association for creators, writers and editors of speculative fiction in or from New Zealand.

It was founded in March 2009 by Ripley Patton and eleven other humans passionate about promoting and encouraging the speculative fiction genre in their own country.

SpecFicNZ officially launched in August 2010 at Au Contraire, New Zealand’s 31st National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention in Wellington, New Zealand.