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BFS Retreat 2025: Creativity in Companionship Gets the Job Done

About a dozen brave souls gathered at Gladstone’s Library over the first weekend in March to bask

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Get Into The Minds of Our Competition Judges…

To help us get the year started right, we’re highlighting some of the amazing work done by

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Meet Geoff Holder

Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they

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Shown is a graphic that has a background of a mountainous landscape, seen through clouds. In the middle is an old book with the pages open and a river spilling out. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a black dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos: Susan Maxwell (top left); Reitha Pattison (top right); Stephen Oram (middle left); Amal Singh (middle right); Elizabeth Broadbent (bottom left); M V Melcer (bottom right).

BFS Online: Worldbuilding – Readings

We have six readings from a range of authors – fantasy, science fiction and horror –

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Shown is a graphic that has a background of a mountainous landscape, seen through clouds. In the middle is an old book with the pages open and a river spilling out. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a black dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos: Sarah Rees Brennan (left); David Green (right).

BFS Online: Worldbuilding – Interview with Sarah Rees Brennan

BFS Secretary David Green interviews Sarah Rees

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Allen Ashley

Afternoon into Evelyn

Allen Ashley reviews “Painted Dreams; The Art of Evelyn De Morgan”, an in-person

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A Rose By Any Other Name by Mary McMyne

Rose is a young lady with magical heritage living in the countryside. The sudden death of her

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A Tide Of Black Steel by Anthony Ryan

In the Outer Isles, in the village of Buht Hardta, Ruhlin the Quiet sees a ship approaching. He

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The Blood Dimmed Tide by Stephen Aryan

Genghis Khan’s legacy of a united land is threatened by infighting among his sons, and if

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The Trials Of Empire by Richard Swan

Helena Sedanka continues to learn under Justice Sir Konrad Vonvalt’s tutelage, although he

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Bringer of Dust by J. M. Miro

Bringer of Dust is the second installment of J. M. Miro’s The Talents trilogy and picks up

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Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

The Caldonnae tribe has long been dwindling. Now, Thomil and the few survivors have no choice but

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