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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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Supporting Cast
You know who your protagonist and antagonist are, but what about the rest? How do you create
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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Animals & Environments as Characters
How do you build a character that isn’t human – or humanoid? What if they
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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Readings
We have six readings from a range of authors – fantasy, science fiction and horror –
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Why I Love Buffy – Even Though She’s Not Black!
Connection. Disconnection. Reconnection. These are themes that run through all of us. Yes,
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Planning a Series: Notes from a Fantasycon Panel
Andrew Knighton was furiously scribbling notes during Fantasycon sessions; here, he shares insights
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Meet Dominic Miles
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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Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
1995: Camp Resolution. Seven queer children are snatched from their lives and deposited at a
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
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Robot stories are one of the pillars of science fiction, and with the recent developments in
A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
A Botanical Daughter takes cues from classic botanic horror stories such asThe Flowering of the
Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis
Paris in the 1860’s is the setting for Spitting Gold, a story of two sisters, Sylvie and
THE DRAGONS OF DEEPWOOD FEN by Bradley P. Beaulieu
All indications were that a sinkhole would soon appear, and Master Korvus, the alchymist, was