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
Ask an Expert: September 2025
In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative fiction and the wider ‘industry’. This month, Kayleigh Dobbs, founder of Happy Goat Horror, answers questions about working with book bloggers and BookTubers, as asked by BFS members…
Classic Genre Films: Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1961)
Allen Ashley is training his eye on classic genre films, looking at not just the film but the context in which they were released. For the latest instalment in his new blog series, he’s travelling to Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island.
BFS Writing Retreat 2026
We are now ready to open expressions of interest for the 2026 BFS Writing Retreat! This year we’re holding it from February 27th – March 2nd at The Queen at Chester hotel in Chester, which many of you will remember as the venue for Fantasycon…
Latest reviews
I was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
When most people think of the kind of horror novel or film (slasher horror) the tend to think of a group of innocents, often teenagers, stumbling into a situation and the group gradually being massacred in the bloodiest of ways by an unknown assailant until…
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
A Witch’s Guide To Magical Innkeeping follows in the wake of TikTok hit The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Although it is a different story, it shares much in common with its predecessor. Anyone looking for more of the same charm and whimsy certainly…
Migraine by Samuel Fisher
In a post-Ice Age UK, the majority of the population suffers from debilitating migraines, which come as preludes to the violent storms that rage across the country. People are bed-bound for a day with headaches and nausea until they finally sleep, and the next day,…