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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Meet Eric Huang
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Ask an Expert: November 2025
In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative
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Meet Valeriya Salt
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From Pen to Print: Dan Howarth on Lionhearts
With his latest novel unleashed tomorrow, 21 November, on his own Northern Republic Press, Dan
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Launching Wiz Duos 3: A Writer’s Perspective
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Recognising Audio Excellence with The Speakies
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The Dagon Collection ed by Nate Pedersen
There is always a place for experimental writing or new approaches to literature, and genre fiction
Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil is a character-driven sapphic vampire epic spanning from the
Requiem by John Palisano
Eden is a moon-sized cemetery in space where Earth sends its dead. It is more than just a place to
Fight Like A Girl: Volume 2 Edited by Roz Clarke & Joanne Hall
Funny things, anthologies. Were they ever as popular as they are right now? Arguably, the form has
Living Space and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
There are stories that stay with us, floating around our subconscious, half-remembered from
Conan: Cult of the Obsidian Moon by James Lovegrove
Still grieving for Bêlit, his pirate queen lover, Conan drinks to numbness. On one such occasion,