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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
- The British Fantasy Award Winners for 2024!
The British speculative fiction community gathered in Chester tonight, 12 October 2024, to celebrate the best of the last 12 months. Here’s the winners, plus all the nominees as well. - Meet Ricky Smith
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 hear how Ricky Smith’s journey into fantasy began with an airport paperback purchased two decades ago. - Literally Living Out A Fantasy: One Day To Go!
We’re entering the home straight: Fantasycon starts tomorrow! And it’s not just a UK thing, y’know: Silas A. Bischoff is flying over from Germany after finding his “tribe of lovable, excitable anglophone weirdos” at Glasgow’s Worldcon. Here, he tells us why it’s worth the hassle.
Latest reviews
A STROKE OF THE PEN The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett
Before Terry Pratchett became Terry Pratchett to his millions of adoring fans, he was a young journalist and columnist who wrote humorous short stories and sketches for local newspapers. This book is a painstakingly researched anthology by Pratchett detectives who have hunted down and captured these passages of prose that were roaming wild and unfettered. […]
Desert Creatures By Kay Chronister
Well, you couldn’t get a book with a more apt title, so expect a lot of desert and a lot of creatures in Kay Chronister’s first novel, which tells of Magdala and her father, Xavier, who are trying to reach the Holy City of Las Vegas so she can be cured of a disability – […]
The Bloodless Princes by Charlotte Bond
High Mage Saralene is struggling with nightmares in which her predecessor, whose body she has taken and made her own, steals his body back, and she is dead once more. Realising these dreams are coming true, Saralene and her champion, Sir Maddileh, search for answers, but when their research comes up with nothing helpful, they […]