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 Beverley Lee
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’re hitting gothic mode with Beverley Lee, whose latest coming-of-age folk horror The Haunting of Wounded Birds came out this week.
From Pen to Print: Stewart Hotston on Project Hanuman
Celebrating the release of his latest SF opus, the space opera Project Hanuman – out now through Angry Robot – author (and BFS treasurer!) Stewart Hotston walks us through the genesis of the book.
From Pen to Print: Shona Kinsella on Daughters of Nicnevin
Celebrating the release of her latest historical fantasy witchlit novel, Daughters of Nicnevin – out today through Flame Tree Publishing – BFS Chair Shona Kinsella walks us through the genesis of the book.
Latest reviews
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
‘Oh, the horror!’ wails a student damned to the first circle of R. F. Kuang’s hell. ‘Oh, to not be clever!’ Katabasis (2025)traces a Cambridge postgraduate’s journey through hell, reckoning with what it means to be clever and ambitious at an institution full of cleverness…
Opposite World by Elizabeth Anne Martins
Her mother and father were both there when Piper Screed had that seizure. After that, when she was awake again, they left Seattle and city life behind, moving an hour away to the isolated woods of Snoqualmie Pass. Her mother was no longer there, and…
The Mad Butterfly’s Ball Ed by Preston Grassm & Chris Kelso
There are a number of creatures that provoke terror in more people than any others. At the top of that list are spiders and snakes, followed closely by dogs and insects. It is not surprising then that horror stories have been woven about such creatures…