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 J J Vason
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, the spotlight is on JJ Vason, whose writing journey started by reading Flowers of Algernon at 14. - What’s Behind the Rise in East & South-East Asian Speculative Fiction?
Ahead of Imaginarium: A Celebration of ESEA Speculative Fiction—happening virtually on 22 September, supported by the BFS—Eric Huang takes a look at the growing interest in SFFH from the region, and how the non-Western hero has become serious Hollywood business. - Meet Laurence Nix
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 to the North of England to meet Laurence Nix. In the shadow of shelves full of miniatures, he tells us of his love of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.
Latest reviews
Key Lime Sky by Al Hess
The premise of Key Lime Sky is fairly simple. One day, a UFO crashed near a small town in Wyoming. The town’s environment then begins to change – yellow sandstorms, seashells raining from the sky, roads that trap people on them forever – and the majority of its citizens begin acting violently. Only a few […]
Blackwater: The Flood By Michael McDowell
Perdido, Alabama 1919. A flood has all but destroyed the town of Perdido, and the residents are camping at the local church, waiting for the waters to recede before they begin rebuilding. While surveying the damage from the safety of a rowboat, Oscar Caskey, a wealthy mill owner, discovers a strange woman hiding on the […]
HEARTSEER: THE TALE OF ANISE STAR by Rowan Foxwood
Anise Star works from her home in the White Woods, following closely in her mother’s footsteps, though it is a tall order. Anise is a Heartseer – one of the few remaining who can see daemons and deities and solve their problems – and she is sorely needed. For people have forgotten how to see […]