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The British Fantasy Society
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.
Find out more by using our main menu’s About or Get in Touch options, or see it all at a glance with our sitemap
Latest news on our blog
My First Fantasycon: Why I’m So Glad I Went!
Scotland-based fantasy writer Carl Bayley let his curiosity get the better of him and grabbed a ticket to Fantasycon. Here’s how it went.
Announcing the BFS Book Club!
Yet another perk of joining the BFS: get to know some of the best new speculative fiction reads, and chat about them with the community.
Beasts of Moor and Mine: Folklore and Folk Horror in the Cornish wilds
Ahead of her appearance leading a panel of folkloric fantasy writers in a London book store, Alexandra Beaumont dives into the lore of Kernow and tells us why it’s so inspiring to her.
Latest reviews
Call of Cthulhu: The Order of the Stone
Vile creatures, frighteningly devoted cultists, eldritch horrors ready to be set loose upon the unsuspecting, and more await in this Lovecraftian campaign from Chaosium. After scientists in Ireland unearth a collection of corrupted urns, players will send their investigators on a trans-Atlantic mission in The Order…
A Rose By Any Other Name by Mary McMyne
Rose is a young lady with magical heritage living in the countryside. The sudden death of her father means she must move to the city and marry to secure a comfortable life for her mother and five-year-old brother. Unfortunately, Rose is much more interested in…
A Tide Of Black Steel by Anthony Ryan
In the Outer Isles, in the village of Buht Hardta, Ruhlin the Quiet sees a ship approaching. He recognises its sigil, yet the imagery points downwards, not up. Inverted, and nothing he has seen before. It will not be long before Ruhlin discovers that this…