Featured Challenges

10000 words
01/09/2010
11/09/2010

Write a fantasy. It can be urban, high fantasy or parody, whichever fantasy area you like.

5000 words
19/09/2010
26/09/2010

You’ve all heard the story about when grandma’s poodle got wet, so she popped it in the microwave and cooked it from the inside out … It can be mysterious, horrific or humorous and it really happened to a friend of a friend, he lived to tell the tale, but will you? 

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Kiwi Writers Challenge Collection 2009

Fly the skies in a dirigible, explore a strange new planet, and feel magic in your veins in this, the first short story collection from the members of Kiwi Writers.

Within these pages you will be given a chance to sample life through the eyes of those in love, loss, lust and confusion, spanning the genres of fantasy, science fiction, steam-punk and adult fiction.

Take a break from reality, and join us on seven journeys, each more exotic than the last.

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Hello Kiwi Writer,

The New Zealand publishing industry is all about Speculative Fiction right now. There are conventions, anthologies featuring Kiwi Writers, organisation being launched, blogfests and we are joining in the fun with a whole month dedicated to Speculative Fiction. September at Kiwi Writers will hereby be Speculative Fiction month with Fantasy Madness, Chapter One Rewrite and Urban Legend challenges.

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Lots of people ask, what exactly is Speculative Fiction?  Here is a definition provided by SpecFicNZ.org

So you wrote a wonderful story, a blockbuster that is going to wow the world during SoCNoC.  You dutifully put it to one side and now, since it is August and the End is Nigh, you decide to get it out and polish it up...

Wahoo – how many others out there have finished their novels?  Are you still going?  Keep up the good work.