{"id":22905,"date":"2013-10-24T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22905"},"modified":"2013-10-23T22:06:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T09:06:53","slug":"heres-specficnz-wellington-introducing-more-comrades-in-speculative-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/24\/heres-specficnz-wellington-introducing-more-comrades-in-speculative-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s SpecFicNZ Wellington &#8212; Introducing More Comrades in Speculative Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/its-aotearoa-new-zealand-speculative-fiction-blogging-week\/specficnzlogo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16066\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16066\" title=\"SpecFicNZlogo\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SpecFicNZlogo-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SpecFicNZlogo-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SpecFicNZlogo-150x66.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SpecFicNZlogo.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Earlier in the year I ran a series titled &#8220;Here&#8217;s SpecFicNZ-Christchurch&#8221;, in which I featured fellow Christchurch members of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specficnz.org\/\">SpecFicNZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SpecFicNZ, you may recall, is the <em>&#8220;national association for creators, writers and editors of speculative fiction in or from New Zealand\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 &#8212; in other words, there are\u00a0 a lot more fun and interesting folk to meet from around the country.\u00a0 Accordingly, I thought it was time to pop over to the North Island and meet a few of the SpecFicNZ-ers from the capital. \ud83d\ude42 (Wellington, for those who may not know.)<\/p>\n<p>So from next Thursday I&#8217;ll be bringing you &#8220;Here&#8217;s SpecFicNZ-Wellington&#8221;, a post series in which Wellington members will have the opportunity to introduce themselves using a series of headings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Here\u2019s Who:<\/strong> a short, first person introduction to the member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Here\u2019s Why:<\/strong> the member writes or publishes speculative fiction, as opposed to any other genre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Here\u2019s What:<\/strong> an example of the member\u2019s work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Here\u2019s Where:<\/strong> <em>you<\/em> can find out more about the member and their work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am really looking forward to it and hope you will enjoy it as much as I will.<\/p>\n<p>I would also like to thank Darusha Wehm of the SpecFicNZ committee for making the series happen.<\/p>\n<p>Until next Thursday then&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the year I ran a series titled &#8220;Here&#8217;s SpecFicNZ-Christchurch&#8221;, in which I featured fellow Christchurch members of SpecFicNZ. SpecFicNZ, you may recall, is the &#8220;national association for creators, writers and editors of speculative fiction in or from New Zealand\u201d\u00a0 &#8212; in other words, there are\u00a0 a lot more fun and interesting folk to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22905"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22927,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22905\/revisions\/22927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}