In addition to our suite of digital events, the BFS also organises in-person events in certain regions of the UK. We’d be honoured to have you attend.
Please be aware many of our events are run with external partners. Please see event websites for specific details on accessibility and support needs. If you’d like to run an event with the BFS, please get in touch.
If you’d like to be involved in one of our in-person events, you can submit your interest via the form (click your area). Please note, we currently cover the following the areas:
A.P. Beswick – Building Levanthria
Date/Time: Saturday 17th January 2026, 1pm GMT
Location: Redditch Library, 15 Market Place, Redditch, B98 8AR
Cost: Free (booking essential)
A.P. Beswick is the author of the best-selling and hugely acclaimed Levanthria series, beginning with A Forest of Vanity & Valour, a dark fantasy retelling of the Robin Hood myth. Each novel in the Levanthria series draws upon British mythology to create dark, twisted stories in a new richly imagined world, all building to an epic 2-book climax where the heroes unite to defeat a world-ending threat.
‘If you like fast-paced action, evil-to-good transformations, and classic stories with a twist, then you’ll love A.P Beswick.’
The author is a huge success story in indie publishing, so this is a fantastic rare opportunity for aspiring authors to speak to an authority on how to self-published and control your own writing career.
There will be a Q & A and books will be on sale on the day.
Find out more about the author here.
Sauuti Terrors
Date/Time: Tuesday 3rd February 2026, 7pm GMT
Location: Waterstones, Argyle Street, Glasgow
Cost: £20 HB / £5 General admission
Waterstones and the British Fantasy Society are delighted to present Sauúti Terrors Short Stories! We are joined by co-editors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy in a discussion chaired by BFS Chair Shona Kinsella.
Sauúti Terrors Short Stories brings together a powerful and haunting collection of short stories from the groundbreaking Sauútiverse. Sauúti Terrors tells of the doomed, the damned, the shunned, the cunning, the destroyers, the noxious, and more, in the worlds of the living, the in-between and the dead, written by African and African diaspora writers. The editors will be discussing the process of working on a collection in a shared world, the process of selecting stories and authors to include, and the joys of bringing this shared world into a new genre, before signing copies of the book.
There will be a Q&A after the panel.
Alternate Earths
Date/Time: Postponed. Please check back for rescheduled date.
Location: Waterstones, Trafford Centre, Manchester
Cost: General Admission £5
The BFS is excited to announce our first event at the Trafford Centre. Come join authors Thomas D. Lee (Perilous Times), Stephen Aryan (series such as Age of Darkness and Nightingale and the Falcon), and Dan Hanks (Swashbucklers and Way Up is Death) as they discuss their novels set on Earths not quite like this one.
Author Q&A plus book signings after the panel.
AK Faulkner’s ‘Sword of Avalon’ Book Launch
Date/Time: Postponed
Location: The Portal Bookshop, York
Cost: Free (tickets are required to guarantee entry)
Sword of Avalon is the latest in Faulkner’s Inheritance series – urban fantasy full of magic, Celtic gods and incredible gifts! Come join the fun with AK Faulkner, Portal Bookshop and the British Fantasy Society. There will be a reading, conversation and a signing! All the books will be available to buy on the night & tickets are free but make sure to book your spot!