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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
- Going Dark: Why I’m Excited to Move From YA Fantasy to the Dark Side
After trying her hand at Barkeresque dark fantasy in her youth, Fi Phillips ended up creating a magical YA world that’s resulted in a four-book series. But now, older and perhaps wiser, she’s finding the call to the dark side growing stronger once more… - Is Horror a Genre or a Mood?
Is horror a genre or a mood? Our membership debated this question in Discord; here’s the results, presented for you children of the dark in this spookiest of seasons. - Meet E.D.E. Bell
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 head across the pond to the Great Lakes Region of the US to meet E.D.E. Bell – leader of indie publisher Atthis Arts, and leading proponent of kindness and empathy in speculative fiction.
Latest reviews
Until We Shatter by Kate Dylan
Until We Shatter is described as an ‘epic, addictive and romantic heist fantasy’. The marketing description also compares it to A Darker Shades of Magic and Six of Crows. As a massive fan of both titles, I expected great things. Unfortunately, the book was underdelivered for me. Although it has heists like Six of Crows […]
Ghost of the Neon God by T.R. Napper
T.R. Napper is the award-winning author of the debut novel 36 Streets (2022), a fast-paced Cyberpunk thriller, the protagonist of which, Lin Vu, is as complex and conflicted an individual as you could wish to encounter in such a story. In ‘Ghost of the Neon God’, the author returns us to the nightmarish Eastern Hemisphere future he […]
A STROKE OF THE PEN The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett
Before Terry Pratchett became Terry Pratchett to his millions of adoring fans, he was a young journalist and columnist who wrote humorous short stories and sketches for local newspapers. This book is a painstakingly researched anthology by Pratchett detectives who have hunted down and captured these passages of prose that were roaming wild and unfettered. […]