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 Justin Lee Anderson
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Let’s head for grimmest, darkest Scotland for grimdark (and humour!) writer Justin Lee Anderson, who grew up on Narnia before discovering the…
BFS Online: Language in SFFH – Readings
We have six readings from a range of authors – fantasy, science fiction and horror – to help you find your next book (or add to that beautiful TBR pile). Bring your favourite tipple and enjoy some first-rate readings from the SFFH community.
BFS Online: Language in SFFH – Building Believability
Some say every story has been told; what makes it new is how you tell it. The right language immerses the reader, builds the lore, and makes the writer’s world authentic. The wrong language does the opposite, yanking the reader from the scene.
Latest reviews
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
There is a long tradition of novels based around a ‘found’ manuscript. Often it is framed within an explanation of how the document was found along with some scepticism about its authenticity, as it often contains an account of some hard to believe supernatural event.…
The Dream Traveller: Dark Rising by John Nassari
I really enjoyed this fantasy novel, combining almost futuristic-leaning magic with intriguing and intricate politics, and a broad range of convincing characters. I worried at the start that there were so many factions and nations and players introduced I would forget many of them, but…
The Memory Shades by David Watkins
Part creature feature, part sci-fi horror, part psychological terror, the latest from David Watkins is a ripsnorting ride through mental health, ethics, science and morality with little nods to Dune And Alien thrown in for good measure. Watkins’ work usually wanders around England; this time…