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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
- Meet Marve Michael Anson
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, Marve Michael Anson is in the spotlight: a self-described “epic fantasy girlie” whose Yoruba upbringing inspired her love of the fantastical and mythical. - A Woman’s World (Not)
Folk horror writer and poet Stephanie Ellis asks where all the older women are in fiction—especially in horror, where the evil crone stereotype dominates, and especially in folk horror, which centres so much on fertility. - Subgenre deep dive: Possessed, Haunted, and Cursed Objects
In this latest edition of her regular column, Tiffani Angus—co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies volumes 1 & 2—gets us ready for Halloween by diving into cursed objects.
Latest reviews
Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel
This lyrical novel by Vaishnavi Patel begins with a fall from grace. The Goddess Ganga is outcast by Shiva and condemned to life as the River Goddess with only her Vasus, her Godlings, for immortal company. Unfortunately, they, too, are soon cursed by a human Holy man, and the River Goddess Ganga takes mortal form […]
The Origin of the Wolf by Danny Beeson
The Origin of the Wolf starts in solid fantasy territory: an injured man is washed ashore on a remote beach. He has no memory of his past, how he came to be in the sea or how he gained his wounds. The fishing community who find him takes him in, and he starts a new […]
Conditions Are Different After Dark By Owen W. Knight
You won’t be far wrong if you take a look at the cover of Conditions Are Different After Dark. The words “folk horror” pulse in your brain, and the striking cover depicts a “hanged” corn doll. Owen W. Knight’s novel starts with a prologue set back in 1662 as a wrongly accused man – accused […]