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Meet the BFS committee: Lauren McMenemy, PR & Marketing Officer

We love to shine a light on the volunteers who help keep the British Fantasy Society

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Lauren McMenemy

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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Alexandra Beaumont

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

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Meet Andy Hodges

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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Tiffani Angus

Subgenre deep dive: Evil Children

In this latest edition of her regular column, Tiffani Angus—co-author of Spec Fic for

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Katie Bruce

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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BFS Reviews

The front cover for Red River Seven by A. J. Ryan. The cover is red. There is a trail of black smoke weaving down the middle of the page, thin at the top and thick at the bottom. The title works are in white running down the middle of the page.

Red River Seven

RED RIVER SEVEN by A.J. Ryan RED RIVER SEVEN by A.J. Ryan. Orbit Books. p/b. £9.99. Reviewed by

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