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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
Presenting The BFS Community’s 2024 Faves
As you get ready to ring in the new calendar year, enjoy this look back at the best of 2024. Our members share what they’ve enjoyed most this year – those books, TV shows, films, games, music and more that have made their mark on…
Meet Liam Hogan
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). For our final profile of 2024, we head to Shropshire to meet short story writer Liam Hogan, who says his “stories are…
Into The Woods: Why Are We So Drawn To Trees?
Inspired by Ellie Tilley’s piece on fairytale forests, Stephen Frame considers the importance of trees to us – not just as writers, but as humans first and foremost.
Latest reviews
The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell
In Amoria, the great glass city, Naila is a prospective mage of the Academy of Amoria. She passed the testing, but even after eight years at the academy, she still remains a mita, the lowest rank of all the mages. Her peers mock Naila and…
Warlords of Wyrdwood by RJ Barker
Cahan du Nahere was Cowl-Rai, chosen as a god’s saviour, though he shunned that future and chose to live as a hermit on the edges of the Wyrdwood. Now Cahan finds himself as the last chance for the people of Harn. With their village destroyed,…
Solarpunk: Short Stories from Many Futures (Beyond and Within) Editied By Francesco Verso
Fourteen short stories examining possible near and distant futures set in the aftermath of our fossil fuelled age. What will life look like if we fully embrace renewable energy? What catastrophes will we face even if we do? Most of these stories were published in…