A Community for those who love Magical Creatures, Monsters and the Fantastic!
What do we do here?
Community
We connect fantasy readers, writers, industry professionals. We offer many opportunities to gather, both in-person and online to share the love of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction writing!
Celebrate
Fantasycon and the British Fantasy Awards help our community enjoy, connect, network and get recognition. Join us for our annual events, or find out about past awards.
Support
Helping writers, publishers, agents, and fans (and anyone else interested in SFFH). Advice, moral support, ways to increase their reach and knowledge.
Promotion
We offer members fantastic opportunities and save on marketing campaigns. We also offer a publisher membership!
Publication
BFS Horizons magazine and BFS Journal are just two of the ways our members and others can find opportunities to get their writing out there!
Inform
Members receive exclusive news via our newsletter and Discord, and non-members get access to our blogs and social media too.
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Latest news on our blog
Meet Heather Ivatt
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Today we meet a former academic who’s done so much research into magic systems in fantasy fiction she could… well, write several…
What Exactly is “Cosy” Speculative Fiction?
What exactly do readers mean when they talk about “cosy” fiction? We asked our members, and they had A LOT of opinions on this one…
From Pen to Print: Paul S Edwards on The Triton Run
Celebrating this week’s release of his novel The Triton Run – out on Thursday through Northodox Press! – Paul S. Edwards walks us through the genesis of the book.
Latest reviews
Dragonfire Issue 2
Serialized magazines aren’t dead! One of the best aspects of tabletop gaming is the fans, the gamers themselves. People have been creating content for their favourite TTRPGs for decades, and there is no sign of this changing. Dragonfire Magazine from Lunitar Productions is back with a second…
The Resort
The beauty industry is always ripe for satire. There’s something particularly satisfying about skewering people’s misplaced vanity, especially if those people are affluent and arrogant. Australian author Kat Clay wrote The Resort one-shot for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu. From the product’s synopsis comes the question: A party of rich…
The Well of All Fear
Victorian England is synonymous with prudish people hiding their vices in whatever closet they could. While most people associate this behaviour with sexual activities, writer Kat Clay explores darker secrets in the module The Well of All Fear for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. There is murder afoot,…