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
Cover Reveal: The Dreamwalker, by Alethea Lyons
Join us as we celebrate the cover reveal of the latest in Alethea Lyons’ Seer of York series—here’s book three, The Dreamwalker!
The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing – Author Interview
Shona Kinsella and international bestselling author Philip Reeve chat about writing, illustrating and musical comedy.
Classic Genre Films: Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
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 analysing Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451.
Latest reviews
The Human Chord by Algernon Blackwood
Writers, particularly of science fiction, try to keep up with new ideas and research the areas that they intend to use in their work. The same applies to authors of the past as well. The problem with scientific developments is that they can be superseded…
The Fog by James Herbert
An earthquake in a sleepy village in southern England’s countryside unleashes a strange, poisonous fog that turns everyone caught in it into a rabid murderer without inhibitions. It moves around the country without the help of the wind, and instead of dissipating under sunlight, it…
A Palace Near The Wind by Ai Jiang
This novella by Ai Jiang is half adventure story, half morality tale. It begins by introducing us to the people of Feng, the people of the Forest, whose biology is related to that of the trees they live amongst. Key among them is Liu Lufeng,…