SELECTIONS
Our 2026 line-up
All the podcasts, shorts and web series selected for #NZWF26
PODCASTS
The Fumbled Anthology:
The Burning Stars
Australia
The Fumbled Anthology:
The Burning Stars
Australia
Lamplight Investigations
USA
THIAD:
Know Gods, No Afters
USA
THIAD:
The Way of the Hollow Star
USA
Minds Never Matter
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Tales Yet Told:
Our Lives in the Wood
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Dastardly Dungeoneers
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Kitten Marlowe:
Shadows in the Smoke
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a place as beautiful as this
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Hubris
USA
Mend
USA
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Someone Dies in This Elevator:
Mergers & Mergerers
USA
The Chronicles of Wild Hollow
UK
Partial Veil
USA
Hearthbound
USA
Carmilla
USA
Haunted: The Van Buren Manor
USA
Sidequesting
USA
Someone Dies in This Elevator
USA
The Chronicles of Wild Hollow
UK
From Within
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SHORT FILMS
Ed’s Sun
NZ
Something That Feels Real
NZ
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Titles marked * are eligible for consideration for our Student Short Fiction award
Miss You in Dancing
Cross-Stitch
Taiwan
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Among The Smoke
NZ
Faster Than Fear
NZ
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Pākehā
NZ
Cookies & Cream
NZ
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Dance the Light Away
NZ
The Enshittification
NZ
The Creature’s Coda
NZ
Big Johnny
Australia
When The Music Stops
NZ
Big Boys
NZ
Madre
Australia
Pākehā
NZ
The Red Book
Cyprus
Do This For Me
NZ
Do This For Me
NZ
T for Taupou
NZ
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WEBSERIES
Naughty Simon
Australia
Naughty Simon
Australia
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NZ
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Takahoa
NZ
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Saturniids
Canada
Takahoa
NZ
Exile
Brazil
Anachroniks
France
Illuminagents
Canada
This Bites
NZ
