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Ask an Expert: September 2025
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BFS Writing Retreat 2026
We are now ready to open expressions of interest for the 2026 BFS Writing Retreat! This year
Classic Genre Films: Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1961)
Allen Ashley is training his eye on classic genre films, looking at not just the film but the
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Out of the Window, Into the Dark by Marian Womack
‘Out of the Window, Into the Dark’ is Marian Womack’s denouement for 2024 at
Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
Konstantin Duhovny, Kostya to his family, Bones to his best friend, and Stan, to a girl he is yet
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
With the TV series of the Wheel of Time completing its third season, I thought now would be a good
Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
Luce Léon is the daughter of an eighteenth-century Breton ship-owner who one day rescues a
A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames
A Harvest of Hearts is set in a fantastical kingdom where magic is fuelled by people’s
Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race
Six Wild Crowns transposes infamous Tudor king Henry VIII and his six wives into a fantasy world