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
Meet Valeriya Salt
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Here’s Belarus-born, Sheffield-based sci-fi writer Valeriya Salt, who finds inspiration for her Earth-bound SF in gardens and parks.
From Pen to Print: Dan Howarth on Lionhearts
With his latest novel unleashed tomorrow, 21 November, on his own Northern Republic Press, Dan Howarth walks us through the genesis of his “very nearly book”, Lionhearts.
Launching Wiz Duos 3: A Writer’s Perspective
With his name on one half of the latest Wizard’s Tower Books duo, Andrew Knighton talks about his experience working with an iconic small press on a dual-author release.
Latest reviews
The Haunted Vintage Marjorie Bowen
Unless a book or author is randomly selected to be part of a school or exam curriculum, once they die, knowledge of their work tends to fade into obscurity. They may live again if makers of historical films or TV series discover it and find…
Daughters of Nicnevin by Shona Kinsella
1745. War has come to the Scottish Highlands, and most of the men from Kilmartin, a small village, have left to fight, leaving the women and their homes unprotected from the raiders and the Black Watch. Constance and Mairead are powerful witches, hiding their true…
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
‘Oh, the horror!’ wails a student damned to the first circle of R. F. Kuang’s hell. ‘Oh, to not be clever!’ Katabasis (2025)traces a Cambridge postgraduate’s journey through hell, reckoning with what it means to be clever and ambitious at an institution full of cleverness…