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 Zoe Cunningham
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 going all Hollywood: we meet film and TV actor Zoe Cunningham, whose last feature, Breaking Infinity, is available now…
Fantasycon 2026 Guest of Honour – V Castro
V. Castro is a two time Bram Stoker award nominated writer born in San Antonio, Texas, to Mexican American parents. She’s been writing horror stories since she was a child, always fascinated by Mexican folklore and the urban legends of Texas. Castro now lives in…
Ask an Expert: January 2026
In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative fiction and the wider ‘industry’. This month, we asked the multi-talented Alasdair Stuart to field your questions about tabletop gaming and working with existing intellectual properties. This one…
Latest reviews
Solodark RPG
Solo play is a natural evolution of tabletop role-playing games. Sometimes people can’t get together, and that’s OK. Solo rules exist for this, and Solodark from the Arcane Library is a free download for fans of the OSR game, Shadowdark. The whole product, including all necessary rules, is…
Shadowdark RPG
There might be monsters, there might be unknown hazards, dying or serious injuries could be almost certain, but there’s plunder to be had, so it’s worth it. In the world of fantasy adventure games, nothing motivates an adventurer quite like the promise of riches. Shadowdark, a…
Dancer’s Lament by Ian C. Esselmont
Prequels are always an interesting proposition. There’s a line to walk between what readers of the original work expect from the characters and writing an original story that is worth reading for a new audience, and those already invested. I was a big fan of…