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
Ask an Expert: February 2026
In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative fiction and the wider ‘industry’. Given February is the month of love, we asked our resident romancer P.S. Livingstone to field questions about “spice” in speculative fiction.
How Indie Publishing Is A Community Effort
With a Kickstarter currently running to fund an audiobook, indie creator Tristan Gray shares how everything he does is not a solo project—it’s always a team effort, from supplementary support to building a network.
Promo without the Ick
Heide Goody and Iain Grant know, as a writer, you don’t really want to do the marketing stuff—but they also know you kinda have to. Given they’ve got promo down to a fine art, the author duo share some tips on they’ve done it without…
Latest reviews
Five Mini-Adventures – PDF (Shadowdark RPG)
The OSR movement trudges ever onward, and mixed in the fray is the game, Shadowdark, from The Arcane Library. So many great TTRPGs are at their core, centred around adventuring, and more specifically, exploring unknown places. More specifically, no role-playing game is complete without a dungeon or…
Cursed Scroll Zine, Vol. 1: Diablerie! RPG Zine
One of the great aspects of tabletop role-playing games is how open-ended they are. This freeformness isn’t just for people at the gaming table, but for anyone seeking to create content. One such evolution has been the dearth of zines developed for TTRPGs. The Arcane…
Empire of the Dawn by Jay Kristoff
The remaining heads of the vampire clans are descending upon the Empress Margot, demanding the death of the last Silversaint, Gabriel de Leon. Time is running out for Jean Francois, the Empress’s historian, to gather Gabriel’s final confession and understand why Fabien Voss, the now…