Helping to shape and support future speculative fiction: Why you should apply to be a BFS mentor
Thinking about putting your hand up to be a BFS mentor, but just not sure what it’s all about? We
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Live Action Role Play and writing believable fantasy characters, conflict and combat scenes
How can fantasy writers get first-hand experience of worlds and periods either long gone—or
Meet Andy Hodges
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they
Subgenre deep dive: Evil Children
In this latest edition of her regular column, Tiffani Angus—co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies
The Bog of Eternal Stench, The Pit of Despair & The Nothing: How Man & Witch helped heal the lack of queer representation in my childhood
For this last day of Pride month 2024, Katie Bruce reflects on how a recent cinema experience
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Meet Rebecca Kaur
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Medea by Rosie Hewlett
Medea is a prisoner in her father’s house, Aeetes, King of Colchis. Where once he reviled her
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
The striking and seductive Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada is the secretive heroine of this beautifully
The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness by Matt Ottley
The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness follows a boy through a journey with mental illness.
The Dark Side of the Sky
THE DARK SIDE OF THE SKY by Francesco Dimitri. Titan Books. p/b. £9.99. Reviewed by Elloise
The Fireborne Blade
Once the King’s favourite, Maddileh is now a knight disgraced, searching for an opportunity to
Burn the Negative
Okay, I’m hooked before we even start, as I have to admit I’m a sucker for horror novels about