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
Best of 2025, According To The BFS’s Volunteers
We asked our committee, events organisers, reviewers, and other volunteers who help us keep the lights on around the BFS for those SFFH things that made an impression this year.
Meet Charlotte Langtree
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’re off to have a cup of Yorkshire tea with Charlotte Langtree, who’s always looking for magic in this world.…
The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing – Mirror Worlds
Fiction has always held up a mirror to reality, but how do you build a secondary world that accurately reflects what you want it to? When you create a new world, you decide what’s normal.
Latest reviews
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,…
Extremity by Nicholas Binge
Extremity clocks in at around 160 pages, so you could call it a novella, or you could call it a novel, or you could simply call it a fast and punchy read. Billed as a time-travelling, end of the world police procedural (and with a…
Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake
‘Girl Dinner’ is internet shorthand for a simple meal thrown together quickly. ‘Girl’ has been prefixed to a few other words as well, usually meaning making something so easy it’s almost stupid. I know it’s meant to be funny, but it makes my inner feminist…