#specficnzsummit #memberbenefits #workshops #professionaldevelopment #writingcommunity
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Te Pae Tawhiti Awards logo
Te Pae Tawhiti Distant Horizon AwardsβAotearoa New Zealand's first juried speculative fiction awardsβare currently open to entries!
Weβre very excited to see this award make its way into the world and are encouraging New Zealand and Pasifika authors to submit in the following categories:
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#congrats #specficnzmember #poetry #membersuccess
04.08.2025 05:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Judy Mohr's book is out today!
Get your copy from judylmohr.com
#bookrecs #bookstagram #specficnz #ilovescifi #nzwriter #writingcommunity
01.08.2025 05:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Introducing our next awesome SpecFicNZ member: Judy Mohr!
Read the full interview here: specfic.nz/2025/07/21/s...
Judy Mohr's book is out on the 1st of August, so get your hands on it here: judylmohr.com
#featuremember #specficnz #bookrecs #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #specficcommunity #nzwriter
30.07.2025 05:57 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations, Anne Wilkins!
Check out her continued short story success: winning the June Flash Fiction prompt, and being published in the Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter and Utopia magazine: www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...
#membersuccess #shortstory #specficnz #congrats
28.07.2025 05:57 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Need a writing community? Love speculative fiction?
Join us at SpecFicNZ specfic.nz
We have opportunities for all creatives, a newsletter crammed full of opportunities, a great supportive community, and heaps of shared expertise from all areas.
#signup #joinus #specficnz #writingcommunity #nzwriters
25.07.2025 05:57 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
#congrats #specficnz #shortstory #nzwriter #membersuccess #writingcommunity
21.07.2025 05:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Well done to the Queen of Short Stories, once again!
What another stellar month for Anne Wilkins!
#congrats #shortstories #writingsuccess #specficnz #membercongrats
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16.07.2025 05:57 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
SpecFicNZ member Nikky Lee's award winning book, The Rarkyn's Familiar, is now available in Audiobook!
Grab your copy today: books2read.com/rarkyn
#bookrecs #nzwriter #specficnz #nikkylee #audiobook
14.07.2025 05:57 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
For those in the wellington region - BookmarKΔpiti is now live! bookmarkapiti.nz
We have workshops, talks and performances for children, young people and
adults β from sunny Εtaki to wild PaekΔkΔriki.
#kΔpiti #writingworkshops #writingfestival #nzwriter #nzfestival #bookmark
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This diverse range of stories is jam-packed full of ideas and surprise endings that leave you joyously turning page after page and still thinking long after finishing.
Read the review: specfic.nz/2025/06/25/r...
Grab your copy here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0DPJKJLR5
#bookrecs #anthology #specficnz
07.07.2025 05:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Grab your copy here: issy-waldrom.itch.io/hearts-whisp...
#bookrecs #slowburn #specficnz #nzwriter #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks
04.07.2025 05:57 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member A. Zaykova! Read the post here: thenerddaily.com/a-zaykova-au...
#thenerddaily #specficnz #guestpost #scifi #ilovescifi #nerd
02.07.2025 05:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A whole day packed full of seminars, workshops, updates and more! You won't want to miss this!
#specficnz #nzwriting #nzpublishing #specficnzsummit #professionaldevelopment
30.06.2025 05:57 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Do you love speculative fiction? Then consider joining SpecFicNZ!
Come join the fun specfic.nz
#membership #signup #joinus #newsletter #nzwriter #nzauthors #nzpublishing #nzcommunity #specficnz #specficnzmembers #authorssupportingauthors #bookstagramnz #fantasynz #fantasyauthor #writers
27.06.2025 05:57 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Introducing our next featured member: Caye Marsh!
Read the full interview on the SpecFicNZ website: specfic.nz/2025/06/23/s...
Caye Marsh's book, Station in the Sky, is available on Books2Read and you can visit her site here: cayemarsh.com
#featuremember #ilovescifi #bookrecs #specficnz
25.06.2025 05:57 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Judy Mohr for being selected as one of the New Voices of Aotearoa!β
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Read all about it here: coalitionforbooks.nz/new-voices-o...
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#congrats #nzvoices #nzwriter #specficnz
23.06.2025 05:57 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Happy New Release, Janna Ruth!
If you like Buffyβs wit and snarky one-liners, the magic of Charmed, and the supernatural drama of the Vampire Diaries, youβll love this monster-hunter urban fantasy series.
Get your hands on it here: books2read.com/b/ashuanenvy1
#newrelease #booksbooksbooks #bookrecs
20.06.2025 05:57 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member, Anne Wilkins, for her continued success in the short story arena! You're on fire, Anne!
#congrats #nzwriter #shortstorysuccess #inspiring #whatastar #writewritewrite #specficnz
18.06.2025 05:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations to B. T. Keaton for this SJV Award win!
Head to www.brandonkeaton.com or find him on Instagram: "keatonisbatman".
#congrats #sjvawards #specficnz #nzauthor #awardwinner #shortstorysuccess
16.06.2025 05:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
SpecFicNZ members are getting funding to release Most Wanted: An Urban Fantasy Anthology.
Wanted: 6 action-packed novellas from your favourite urban fantasy authors. Wayward witches, magical jail breaks, snarky PIs & more.
Head to www.kickstarter.com/projects/gcl...
#anthology #urbanfantasy
13.06.2025 05:57 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Anne Wilkins! Her short story 'Washing Instructions For Delicate Fabric' has been chosen as one of 15 shortlisted out of about 1800 stories for the Bristol Short Story Prize.
bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/15/b...
#congrats #shortstorysuccess #specficnz
11.06.2025 05:57 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations to A. Zaykova on the release of Galaxy Grifter!
Get your copy from Amazon: www.amazon.com.au/Galaxy-Grift...
#newrelease #scifi #spaceopera #nzwriter #specficnz #bookrecs #readreadread #bookstagram #ilovescifi
09.06.2025 05:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Introducing our featured member this month: Christopher McKinstry!
One writing tip that's helped Christopher is: "Theme is critical".
Head over to the SpecFicNZ page to read the full interview: specfic.nz/2025/05/26/s...
#memberfeature #nzwriter #medievalfantasy #specficnz #memberinterview
30.05.2025 05:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Happy New Release, Kura Jane Carpenter!
Curse of the Scottish play or Charmingtonβs first serial killer?
As the Charmington mayoral race begins, several candidates drop like flies.
Get yours today on Amazon or head to kuracarpenter.com
#bookrecs #specficnz #kuracarpenter #nzwriter #cosymystery
28.05.2025 05:57 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations, Nikky Lee!
#congrats #nzwriter #winner #sjvawards #specficnz #bestnovella
27.05.2025 05:57 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Aaron Dick for the release of omens: A Collection!
Grab your copy today from Amazon and find out about his writing at fb.me/aarondicknz
#newrelease #collectedworks #nzpoetry #specficnz #bookrecs #bookstagram #congrats #nzwriter
26.05.2025 05:57 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Get involved with our awesome writing community!
Our fantastic monthly newsletter is crammed full of great opportunities and news to keep you in the know and you'll get access to our private facebook membership page and discord.
Come join the fun at SpecFicNZ!
#membership #joinus #newsletter
23.05.2025 05:57 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Writes words, referees rugby, procrastinates like a pro. He/him
Writer. Recipient of the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2022. Climate justice & environmental activist. Cricket fan. Unexpected metalhead. He/him. New climate fiction novel "Emergency Weather" now available. #ToituTeTiriti
Cozy fantasy & speculative fiction/cli-fi author
Writer, dreamwalker. Blessed with narcolepsy and CFS/ME. ACE. non-binary, she/her π³οΈβπ. I firmly believe books have the best moving pictures.
Member SpecFicNZ
Author of queer SFF living & writing in Aotearoa (she/her). STATION IN THE SKY out now! Enthusiastic about books and bugs. Posting positive to offset the horrors.
Cayemarsh.com
#ToitΕ«TeTiriti
π«AI, crypto, billionaires, gunsπ«
Enthusiastic storyteller, incurable dreamer, patiently impatient mum, autistic, proud kiwi βοΈππ¨βπ©βπ§βπ¦ βΎοΈπ³πΏ #amquerying
I live in New Zealand crafting stories in my spare time (what's that?). I'm new to this whole Bluesky thing, so go easy on me, I'm technically "old folk" status.
Dedicated to democratising data, sometime scribbler, fulltime feminist and urban farmer.
Author, educator, entomologist, gardener. I write speculative fiction full of environmental themes, strange creatures, and cake.
Author of The Mana Influx - a post Apocalyptic LitRPG adventure!
New Zealand writer, PhD science communication! Seven time SJV winner. Author of The Stone WΔtΔ, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, and You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories. Robert Burns Fellow for 2025 at Otago University.
SFF writer, disability comms person. Likes: knittingπ§Ά board gamesπ² sea creaturesπ readingπ. Lives: Te Awakairangi ki Tai | Lower Hutt. Pronouns: they/them. π³βππ©ΌβΎοΈ
https://linktr.ee/andiwrites
MΔori, Mum, 'Decent writer'
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I write books and tv. Should get a proper job but I like working in my pj's.
she/her/ia
My YA novel 'Migration' is out now! It's a Storylines Notable book, NZ Booklovers winner, and NZCYA finalistππ
Fantasy and cosy mystery author | Words in @BestSmfictions @takahemagazine @flashfrontier | SJV Finalist | Chronic illness | Aotearoa NZ
linktr.ee/kmjackways
Christchurch-based Chicago-born writer and voice actor. 2022 NZ Society of Authors Mentee. Zachary Stiles on Chronicle, Ken Kato on Henglaar MD. Gay. He / him.
Author, indie writer, enjoy walking, family history and talking with other authors.
Teacher, Writer and Man about town. All this is personal opinion.
Check out my writing through https://linktr.ee/AaronDickAuthor
You can see my bsky video updates at @author-aarondick.bsky.social
PΔkehΔ. He/him.
Aotearoaβs longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
