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 Karina Andrusiak
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’re in London with Karina Andrusiak, a Ukrainian writer who says: “You’re not writing to prove anything; you’re writing to…
Summer Reads Recommendations From Our Community
Given the sun’s been out, our minds have been turning to summer reads. So we asked the BFS members for their favourite or recommended book for those long days in the sun: Do we prefer a bit of poolside portals? Some sci-fi horror headed for…
The TV That Made Us: Escape Into Night (1972)
In his semi-regular column on the TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits Escape Into Night—a children’s serial adapted from Catherine Storr’s novel Marianne Dreams, and later remade as the film Paperhouse.
Latest reviews
A Crow Named Torment by Silas A. Bischoff
Torment was once a regular crow, carrying messages from the Baroness around The One City; secrets, orders, threats. Her desires lay no further than the treat she is given once she has delivered her messages and shiny things. But all that changes when she is…
The Raven Scholar by Antonina Hodgson
Yana Valit, descendant of Yasthala the Great, the last Raven Empress, has just turned sixteen, along with her twin brother Ruko. Summoned to the Imperial Island, they must face the emperor for the first time as adults. Just what does Emperor Bersun have in store…
Smothermoss by Alisa Alering
Sometimes it is difficult to know where the boundaries between genres lie. While the intelligent reader is looking for well-crafted prose, good characters and an interesting plot, publishers seem to want to put books into categories. Smothermoss is one of those books that crosses genres.…