A Community for those who love Magical Creatures, Monsters and the Fantastic!
What do we do here?
Community
We connect fantasy readers, writers, industry professionals. We offer many opportunities to gather, both in-person and online to share the love of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction writing!
Celebrate
Fantasycon and the British Fantasy Awards help our community enjoy, connect, network and get recognition. Join us for our annual events, or find out about past awards.
Support
Helping writers, publishers, agents, and fans (and anyone else interested in SFFH). Advice, moral support, ways to increase their reach and knowledge.
Promotion
We offer members fantastic opportunities and save on marketing campaigns. We also offer a publisher membership!
Publication
BFS Horizons magazine and BFS Journal are just two of the ways our members and others can find opportunities to get their writing out there!
Inform
Members receive exclusive news via our newsletter and Discord, and non-members get access to our blogs and social media too.
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Latest news on our blog
- The Fantasycon 2024 Programme
Fantasycon is just a month away and we’re so excited! We’ve been hard at work organising panels, launches, workshops and readings, and we’re glad to be able to share the programme with you. As we get closer to the event, there may still be some last minute changes, as life gets in the way, so… Read more: The Fantasycon 2024 Programme - Meet Vicky Brewster
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week, we head for the hallowed halls of academia to meet scifi and horror scholar Dr Vicky Brewster. - Telling The Right Story at the Right Time: A Surprise Hit Becomes a Series, Then an Omnibus
With the omnibus version of his critically-acclaimed hit dystopian series A Quiet Apocalypse officially out tomorrow, Dave Jeffery reflects on how the acclaimed stories that centre the Deaf community came to be.
Latest reviews
THE SPICE GATE by Prashanth Srivatsa
Amir was born with the spicemark on his neck, condemning him to a life as a bowler of Raluha, a Carrier of the eight kingdoms. Gatecaste he was born, and gatecaste he will remain. So will his young brother after him, just like his father before him. Amir’s father believed there was a way out […]
ROADS OF DESTINY and Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, ed by Alasdair Richmond
Ever since people told each other stories, there has been a fascination with imagined other worlds. The idea that making a different decision at any point in one’s life could have had a very different outcome is an ever-present one. This volume explores those alternative scenarios and the way that the protagonists enter them. […]
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. The town’s environment then begins to change – yellow sandstorms, seashells raining from the sky, roads that trap people on them forever – and the majority of its citizens begin acting violently. Only a few […]