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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
Writing From Arthurian Legends
Andrew Knighton takes his mind back to Fantasycon 2024, consults his notes, and brings us this debrief from the panel on working with Arthurian legends.
The BFS Book Club is Reading: The Outcast Mage
Yet another perk of joining the BFS: get to know some of the best new speculative fiction reads, and chat about them with the community.
Meet Luna Profir
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). On this day of lurve, we meet one of our youngest members – and one of our most active in Discord! -…
Latest reviews
Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
Water Moon is an unusual, beautiful and imaginative book. It’s filled with extraordinary imagery and its primary world follows surreal dream logic. For example, the characters travel by jumping through puddles, riding origami birds and even by being folded up and posted like paper. It’s…
Grave Empire by Richard Swan
Grave Empire treads familiar fantasy territory. Right away, you know what you’re getting. The setting is second world, but very much akin to Napoleonic-era Europe. Musket and gunpowder level of technology. Two warring empires, Sova and Casimir, divided by a religious schism. Into this world…
The Soul Thief by S L Howe
Manchester 1888. Photography is a new leisure activity and a mark of wealth. However, people who have attended Toby’s photography shop undergo personality changes. They become less inhibited and more violent. Mitchell Bishop is a young private investigator reeling from his engagement to Laura being…