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 Gary Couzens
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 chat with a familiar face to those who’ve spent time in the SFFH community round these parts: it’s writer,…
Ask an Expert: April 2025
In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative fiction. This month, author Adrian Tchaikovsky tackles questions about being a traditionally-published author, as asked by BFS members in our dedicated Discord channel.
Writing for LARP: The Sandbox Approach
You enjoy the experience, the dressing up, the improvisation—but what exactly goes into making it all happen? Vicky Brewster gives us a peek into the story preparation for a Live Action Role Play (LARP) game.
Latest reviews
Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
Luce Léon is the daughter of an eighteenth-century Breton ship-owner who one day rescues a drowning man from shipwreck. A love triangle ensues between Luce, the rescued man Morgan, who is the son of another wealthy ship-owning family, and Samuel, an English smuggler and friend…
A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames
A Harvest of Hearts is set in a fantastical kingdom where magic is fuelled by people’s hearts. These are stolen from helpless citizens who fall head over heels in lust with an ethereal group of women called ‘the Sorceresses’, ‘magic-workers’ or ‘the king’s daughters’. Anyone…
Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race
Six Wild Crowns transposes infamous Tudor king Henry VIII and his six wives into a fantasy world filled with dragons, crones, lost magic and a deposed goddess. I am not very familiar with this part of history, though I of course know the phrase “divorced,…