The winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2026 were announced at Fantasycon. Find out all the details on our blog.
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Announcement:
The British Fantasy Society
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.
Find out more by using our main menu’s About or Get in Touch options, or see it all at a glance with our sitemap
Latest news on our blog
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Meet Damien Kelly
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). For Halloween we’re off to Ireland to meet Damien Kelly, who writes mostly horror – SFF only if he can shoehorn some…
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Ask an Expert: October 2026
In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative fiction and the wider ‘industry’. For Spooktober, we’re dipping into the world of tarot with tarot for creativity coach Chelsey Pippin Mizzi.
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The BFS Writing Retreat 2027
The 2027 BFS Retreat is now open for expressions of interest—make sure to fill in the linked forms rather than comment on this post to be in with a chance!
Latest reviews
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The Tarot Trials by Katee Robert
Kestrel lives in the shadows of a walled city in an area known as the Dregs, where she and her family live in poverty, like all of its residents. Meanwhile, farther in from the wall that keeps the dangers of the wild out, the Cups,…
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Spiderlight by Adrian Tchiakovsky
Fantasy novels often contain a number of over-familiar tropes. There is the battle between Light and Dark, with, often, a band of heroes battling against an evil wizard who wants to enslave the world. A prophecy that the heroes have to fulfil in order to…
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The Deep and the Drowned by Ian Green
Lieutenant of the Cil-Marie, Marion, is not a sailor, so she can only cling on as the ship threatens to sink. Too many miles from land, she can only trust that the captain is good enough to keep his ship seaworthy, and that the child…