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Katie Bruce

Fantasycon is Education, Entertainment – and Trinkets from the Dealers

We’re entering the home straight: Fantasycon looms in the near-future! To get us ready, we

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Liam Hogan

Shrewsbury Gets Nerdy for SFF

Liam Hogan attended the first Fantasy & Sci-Fi Spotlight at Shrewsbury’s Nerdy Cafe and lived to

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Elaine Chiew

Imaginarium: Celebrating British and International ESEA Speculative Fiction

Elaine Chiew, founder of Lian Connect and Imaginarium – the debut festival, supported by the BFS,

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Shown is a graphic that has a background of blue mountains over a calm lake with a low sun shining. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a shimmering dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. At the bottom left and right is a silhouette of a person with balled up pieces of paper rising up from the head. Photos: Eleanor Pender (top left); Beth Barany (top right); Villimey Mist (bottom left); Phil Williams (bottom right).

BFS Online: Writing and Mental Health – Writer’s Block

At one time or another, almost every writer stumbles over writer’s block. Is it caused by

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Shown is a graphic that has a background of blue mountains over a calm lake with a low sun shining. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a shimmering dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. At the bottom left and right is a silhouette of a person with balled up pieces of paper rising up from the head. Photos: E.M. Faulds (top left); V. Castro (top right); Kirby Ezekiel (bottom left); Lucy A. McLaren (bottom right).

BFS Online: Writing and Mental Health – Mental Health and a Writing Career

Being a creator can be stressful, especially if it’s not your only job. How do you keep your

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Siân O'Hara

Come & Meet Your Con Family

We’re entering the home straight: Fantasycon looms in the near-future! To get us ready, we

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BFS Reviews

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

1995: Camp Resolution. Seven queer children are snatched from their lives and deposited at a

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The Singularity by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anne Milano Appel

Professor Ermanno Ismani is offered a two-year contract with the Ministry of Defense. What is the

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Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Robot stories are one of the pillars of science fiction, and with the recent developments in

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A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock

A Botanical Daughter takes cues from classic botanic horror stories such asThe Flowering of the

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Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

Paris in the 1860’s is the setting for Spitting Gold, a story of two sisters, Sylvie and

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THE DRAGONS OF DEEPWOOD FEN by Bradley P. Beaulieu

All indications were that a sinkhole would soon appear, and Master Korvus, the alchymist, was

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