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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!
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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
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BFS Horizons To Increase Contributor Pay
BFS Horizons, the twice-yearly fiction magazine from the British Fantasy Society, is increasing its contributor pay rate.
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Classic Halloween Monsters: The Ghost
Halloween is here! For those still looking for a costume, we bring you the final of Corinne Pollard’s reviews of classic Halloween monsters to help you make your final call.
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Meet Damien Kelly
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). For Halloween we’re off to Ireland to meet Damien Kelly, who writes mostly horror – SFF only if he can shoehorn some…
Latest reviews
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Goblin Market by AJ Hackwith
Goblin Market is a cosy take on the famous Rosetti poem. Goblin protagonist Toast grew up in the human world as a changeling, but was eventually ripped from her family and taken to the market to live her goblin life. There she guides tourists through…
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All Hallows Eve; Stories of Halloween and Other Festivals of the Dead ed by Ellen Datlow
The nights are getting longer, and now is the time for horror and all things spooky. This is the second collection of short stories recently released from Titan Books and is based around Halloween and other festivals of the dead from all around the world…
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The Tarot Trials by Katee Robert
Kestrel lives in the shadows of a walled city in an area known as the Dregs, where she and her family live in poverty, like all of its residents. Meanwhile, farther in from the wall that keeps the dangers of the wild out, the Cups,…