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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
Meet M.F. Alfrey
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week we meet a writer who met his hero in Tokyo. OK, so it was Godzilla. It makes sense when you…
Meet Dan Hanly
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week we’re off to South Wales to meet the creator of dark fantasy series the Children of Inauron, who counts Stephen…
The Most-Read Posts and Reviews From the BFS Blog in 2024
We’ve really stepped up the amount we published on the BFS blog – and it seems like you’re loving it. These were the 10 most read blogs and reviews of 2024.
Latest reviews
The Prince without Sorrow by Maithree Wijesekara
Prince Ashoka Maura is the second son of Emperor Adil and differs from his father in every way. He is diplomatic where his father is powerful, gentle where his father is harsh, and open-minded where his father is violently biased. Under the Emperor’s orders, magic…
The Book of Witching by C.J. Cooke
Though the title might suggest a narrative which leans heavily into low fantasy, the stories inside are more akin to magical realism. Stories, not story, feels right with The Book of Witching, for it is very much a book with two stories that are at…
The Gods Below by Andrea Stewart
Andrea Stewart’s debut, The Bone Shard Daughter, was one of the standout releases of 2020. Inventive and imaginative, balancing bleakness with cute sidekick monsters that chat back, it threw the reader into a fully formed world alongside the protagonist/narrator, and then proceeded to pull the…