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 Christian Bieck
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 in France with a German former futurist who tends to alpacas and chickens while writing about magical cats saving…
Free Reads From The Sauutiverse: Two flash fictions, a short story & a novella
With the Sauútiverse about to hit Glasgow for a very special event at Waterstones on 3 February, launching the new Flame Tree anthology Sauúti Terrors, Eugen Bacon whets our appetite with some links to free work from the Afrocentric speculative universe.
The TV That Made Us: The Box of Delights (1984)
In his semi-regular column on the classic TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits 1984’s The Box of Delights—the effects might be showing their age, but the original charm is preserved.
Latest reviews
Elemental Forces edited by Mark Morris
Once upon a time, anthologies might be restricted to genres, such as SF, fantasy or horror, but within them there was a wide range of material, similar to that found in magazines. The criteria were that the story should be of a high quality and…
Gifted and Talented by Olivie Blake
The Wren family are your typical dysfunctional wealthy dynasty: a distant, but brilliant father (Thayer Wren); an ambitious and equally brilliant older sister (Meredith Wren); the unambitious politician middle child (Arthur Wren); and the younger sister, an ex-ballet dancer injured in a car accident, who…
The Human Chord by Algernon Blackwood
Writers, particularly of science fiction, try to keep up with new ideas and research the areas that they intend to use in their work. The same applies to authors of the past as well. The problem with scientific developments is that they can be superseded…