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The Irresistible Allure of the Disaster Mage
Ahead of the release of her debut novel The Outcast Mage – coming on 28 January from…
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The Most-Read Posts and Reviews From the BFS Blog in 2024
We’ve really stepped up the amount we published on the BFS blog – and it seems like…
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Into The Woods: Why Are We So Drawn To Trees?
Inspired by Ellie Tilley’s piece on fairytale forests, Stephen Frame considers the importance of trees to us…
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How Dungeons and Dragons Taught Me to Embrace the Unexpected
With the 50th anniversary of D&D upon us, Matthew Palmer contemplates the impact that 35 years of…
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Announcing the BFS Book Club!
Yet another perk of joining the BFS: get to know some of the best new speculative fiction…
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Beasts of Moor and Mine: Folklore and Folk Horror in the Cornish wilds
Ahead of her appearance leading a panel of folkloric fantasy writers in a London book store, Alexandra…
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D&D, Writing and My Favourite Word: Verisimilitude
Will McCloughlin has a whole lotta love for Dungeons & Dragons – and he’ll be leading four…
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10 Fearsome Foes from Scottish Folklore
Lyndsey Croal loves delving into Scottish myths and folklore to find the dark stuff. Here, she introduces…
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Mentorships, bursaries and more
Today we announced the beginning of a few new initiatives that we’re very excited about, here at…
Here’s One For The Folkloric Fantasy Fans!
Attention folklore and fantasy lovers! There’s a wonderful Kickstarter campaign underway featuring a lot of BFS members,…
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