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
The TV That Made Us: The Owl Service (1969-70)
In his semi-regular column on the TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits The Owl Service, a formative book and series for many of today’s folk horror writers.
Meet John Nassari
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 with John Nassari, who recently released the first instalment in his Dream Traveller series – a book that, he…
From Pen to Print: Amy De La Force on A Kiss of Hammer and Flame
With the release of the first instalment in her new romantasy series looming large, Amy de la Force looks back at the genesis of A Kiss of Hammer and Flame and the Fated For Hael world.
Latest reviews
Requiem by John Palisano
Eden is a moon-sized cemetery in space where Earth sends its dead. It is more than just a place to house the dead; it is a place to collect their memories, for loved ones to visit and celebrate the lives of their lost loved ones.…
Fight Like A Girl: Volume 2 Edited by Roz Clarke & Joanne Hall
Funny things, anthologies. Were they ever as popular as they are right now? Arguably, the form has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, and rightly so. This format is the ideal vehicle to explore ideas around a highly nuanced theme, and undoubtedly there are many…
Living Space and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
There are stories that stay with us, floating around our subconscious, half-remembered from childhood. And there are also stories that make us. Asimov is like that for me. If I am honest, of all the writers I have read, he is the one who has…