The shortlisted works across all 13 categories of the British Fantasy Awards have been announced! Find out who’s in the mix over on our blog. Winners announced at Fantasycon in October.
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Latest news on our blog
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Ask an Expert: September 2026
In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative fiction and the wider ‘industry’. This month you wanted to know more about running a stall at conventions, so we asked con stalwarts David and Claire Cartwright to…
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From Pen to Print: CL Hellisen on The Shape of Monsters
The Shape of Monsters is a different beast: already released on Audible, and up for best audio (fiction) work at this year’s British Fantasy Awards, it’s finally getting released in print via Tor in the UK. Its author, Cat Hellisen, shares its journey from “wet…
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Meet Adrian Fletcher
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). The BFS’s erstwhile reviews editor is in the hot seat this week: In case you haven’t yet met him at the bar…
Latest reviews
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Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
The beginning of a novel is both the most important part of the book and the most difficult. It has to hook the reader so that they buy/carry on reading. It also has to set the tone and the scene for whatever comes afterwards. It…
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Tales From The Territory by Travis Baldree
Legends and Lattes is beloved by cosy fantasy fans and one of the books signposted to anyone interested in the genre. This follow up contains five short stories set in the same universe with largely the same cast. There are three prequels and a sequel…
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God’s Vengeance by Theresa Derwin
One of the dilemmas any author faces is how long a work should be. Some mentors will tell them to write the story to the length naturally wants to be. While this can be sound advice, there can be any number of other factors that…