• Announcement:

    The shortlisted works across all 13 categories of the British Fantasy Awards have been announced! Find out who’s in the mix over on our blog. Winners announced at Fantasycon in October.

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Dan Hanly

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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Key Lime Sky by Al Hess

The premise of Key Lime Sky is fairly simple. One day, a UFO crashed near a small town in Wyoming.

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Blackwater: The Flood By Michael McDowell

Perdido, Alabama 1919. A flood has all but destroyed the town of Perdido, and the residents are

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HEARTSEER: THE TALE OF ANISE STAR by Rowan Foxwood

Anise Star works from her home in the White Woods, following closely in her mother’s

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SCHRADER’S CHORD By Scott Leeds

Charlie Remick is known by his colleagues as ‘the man with the golden ear’. An A&R

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Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi

While his friends play, Davico di Regulai works in the scrittorium, copying his

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Cults of RuneQuest: The Lunar Way By Chaosium

Glorantha is the infamous setting for the long-lasting role-playing game RuneQuest, created by

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