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: December 2025
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 writing and confidence coach Dr Rachel Knightley to help our members get ready for a new year of creativity.
The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing – Solarpunk & the Counter-Narrative
Solarpunk is the space where the speculative meets real-world activism from a hopeful perspective, and its utopian tones imagine a better world. But how do you imagine a fairer society when our seems so prejudiced? Are the solutions to our global challenges in the pages…
Meet Laura Langrish
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). As Christmas looms we’re going spooky and heading to the New Forest to meet Laura Langrish. She’s a Shirley Jackson fan and…
Latest reviews
Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake
‘Girl Dinner’ is internet shorthand for a simple meal thrown together quickly. ‘Girl’ has been prefixed to a few other words as well, usually meaning making something so easy it’s almost stupid. I know it’s meant to be funny, but it makes my inner feminist…
The Swan’s Daughter by Roshani Chokshi
From the moment she hatched, it was clear that Demelza was different from her sisters. She didn’t have wings, and her singing voice, although powerful as a truth spell, sounded absolutely terrible. One by one, her sisters are sent out into the world to seduce…
Out of the Past, Tales of Haunting History edited by Aaron Worth
We have a fascination with the past. Life has the appearance of being simpler without the intrusions of modern technology, and we tend to forget the privations that life held for the majority of people. For writers of horror and ghost stories, there is scope…