 If you're not already a member of the Society, I'm afraid you've almost certainly left it too late to get your hands on either of these: a last minute upswing in membership left the print orders looking a bit pessimistic!
Prism features the editor's report on the World Horror Convention, along with dozens of reviews, an interview with Shaun Jeffrey, columns by John L. Probert, Ramsey Campbell and Mark Morris, and without a doubt the finest, most lovingly crafted Chairman's Chat the British Fantasy Society has ever seen. Prism is edited by David A. Riley. Cover art by Howard Molloy.
New Horizons issue five, edited by former Elastic Press supremo Andrew Hook, features stories by Craig Hallam, Frank Roger, Terry Grimwood, Mark Finnemore, Allen Ashley and Douglas Thompson, and a series of bite-sized interviews by Andrew with literary luminaries at the World Horror Convention 2010, including Neil Gaiman, Ian Watson and Paul Cornell. The fantastic cover art is by George Cotronis.
Dark Horizons #56 was sent out last month to members of the British Fantasy Society.
This 128pp bumper issue featured stories by Val Gryphin, Ian Hunter, Jim Steel, Niall Boyce, Philip Meckley, Rafe McGregor, Ralph Robert Moore, Patrick Whitaker and Andrew Knighton, interviews with Brian Stableford and Simon Bestwick, and poetry by Charles Christian, Jan Edwards and Peter Coleborn, Diana Lewis, Allen Ashley and Ian Hunter, and illustrations by Inna Hansen, Mark Pexton and Howard Watts, who was responsible for the lovely cover.
The guest editorial, on gender bias in fantasy and the BFS in particular, came from Jenny Barber, while Mike Barrett provided sundry observations on Arkham House.
Dark Horizons, the journal of the British Fantasy Society, will now accept submissions by wave, at least for a little while to see how it goes. (Click here for more information about Google Wave.) See our submission guidelines for more information.
Monday, 21 September 2009 08:10
Guy Adams, Chair and Special Publications Editor
BFS Books
Our new book, In Conversation: A Writer's Perspective, Volume 1: Horror, edited by James Cooper, has come under justifiable flak for its all-male line up of interviewees. When James brought the manuscript to me with a view to our publishing it I know he intended no sexism in his selection of the authors but I feel deeply sorry that I didn't flag the omission at the time. It is disgustingly simple for a man not to notice these things, a blindness to the importance of correct gender representation that I feel embarrassed to have fallen into. The next two volumes in the series are considerably more balanced in their table of contents but that doesn't change the fact that I dropped the ball on this initial volume. I can only apologize and hope that the discussion has made other editors and publishers realize that this kind of lazy sexism is unacceptable and to watch their own lists in future!
 Twelve short stories, from blood-soaked battlefields to drowning futures! Three articles, on the most beloved of writers and the utterly unknown! Twelve poems! Seven contributing artists! One hundred and sixty exciting pages! Seventy thousand thrilling words! Yes, the editor got a bit carried away when putting together Dark Horizons 55… but it looks like it’s turned out all right in the end. His wife is still speaking to him (just) and the issue has gone to the printers, wrapped in its marvellous cover by Arthur Wang, to be despatched with our September mailing.
If you can't wait that long, this is the first issue of Dark Horizons which we’re making available to members as an ebook (less a couple of items which we couldn’t clear) – just email
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and say which format you would like (epub/mobi; enquire for other formats).
Fiction: - Dead Gods, Richard Ford
- The Sunflower at Dusk, Naoko Awa (tr. Toshiya Kamei)
- Despoina’s Sorrow, Alex Davis
- Escape from the Shadow Moon, Mike Phillips
- Sarkless Kitty, Alison J. Littlewood
- The Beating Heart, Jim Steel
- The Circle, Ian Hunter
- Sailors of the Skies, Mike Chinn
- In the Tunnels of the Agogs, Ralph Robert Moore
- The Skeleton in the Cupboard, Astrid Klemz
- Bugs, Shaun Jeffrey
- Vivienne’s Garden, Douglas Thompson
Articles: - Two Forgotten Disciples: C. Hall Thompson and Clifford Ball, Mike Barrett
- A Loud Whisper: in Appreciation of Charles L. Grant, Paul Campbell
- Dumarest: the Coming Event? Craig Herbertson
Poetry: - Ten Poems, Michael Fantina
- Dreams in the Nebula of Ghosts, Wade German
- After the End of the World, Victor D. Infante
BFSQ&A: - Lev Grossman and the Magicians
With artwork from Arthur Wang, David Bezzina, Jackie Burns, Mark Pexton, Dominic Harman, John Shanks and Ally Thompson.
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We're pleased to announce that Ian Hunter has taken over as poetry editor of our journal, Dark Horizons. Dark Horizons publishes about ten poems in each issue. The previous poetry editor was Joel Lane, who stepped down after issue fifty-two. Ian has been a frequent contributor of poetry and fiction to Dark Horizons, including "A Little Piece of Your Life" in Dark Horizons 53 and "The Circle" in Dark Horizons 55. He is a member of the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle and a founding member of the Scottish writing collective, Read Raw. Email:
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Ian's website: http://www.ian-hunter.co.uk Submission guidelines: here
New Horizons
A British fantasy society magazine
85 Gertrude Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 4SG, UK
New Horizons is one of two journals published by the British Fantasy Society, the second journal being Dark Horizons. Whereas Dark Horizons has been running for over 50 issues, New Horizons debuted in 2008 and focuses on new writers within the f/h/sf genres. It is published twice a year, and contains a mix of fiction, articles and interviews. The editor is Andrew Hook.
Fiction: New Horizons is looking for contemporary fiction in the f/h/sf genres, and aims for a mixture of such genres within each issue. The emphasis is less on action and more on character, preferably without the genre tropes such as sword and sorcery, vampires, and spaceships (although not excluding those if the story is good enough). Generally, we're looking for the fantastic within the everyday rather than overt fantasy. Submissions are open, although some may be commissioned. Quality will be the common denominator. We prefer stories in the 3000-5000 word range, but will take shorter or longer tales; stories over 10,000 words will only be accepted occasionally.
Poetry: Please note that no poetry will be published within New Horizons.
Articles: We will consider anything (interviews, overviews, critiques, biographies, histories, opinions, etc) that may interest BFS members. Again, the emphasis is on the "new", and we particularly want interviews with writers with first book deals and overviews on the state of the genre as it stands today. New Horizons will not publish reviews of current books or films; these will be included in Prism. We suggest that you contact us before you write your article (either by letter or email).
Artwork: We are looking for artists in all mediums (including photography) prepared to illustrate stories - and the front cover. Please contact us by email in the first instance, preferably with a link to your work.
Submitting your work: All initial submissions must be sent in electronic form (disk or email). Hard-copy postal submissions will be only accepted if the author has no email facility, however an electronic copy will be expected should the submission be accepted. Manuscripts must be in standard MS format (double spaced etc), preferably as either RTF or Word files.
A bit of a downer: The British Fantasy Society is a non-profit organisation and therefore New Horizons is unable to pay for submissions (other than in copies). However, the magazine is distributed free to all members and therefore what we can?t pay in money we can pay in exposure.
Send submissions and queries electronically to
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. The postal address is 85 Gertrude Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 4SG, UK for disk or occasional hard-copy submissions.In order to help distinguish your submission from the dozens of spam that swarm into Outlook's inbox, please make the subject line of your email "NH submission query". Thank you.
Andrew Hook
 The British Fantasy Society is proud to present the first in its series of exclusive, annual anthologies. Twenty writers -- from seasoned award-winners to rising stars -- offer twenty never before published tales. Offering a broad sample of stories with imagination the only limit. Nearly three hundred, hard-bound pages, 100,000 words of the best in speculative fiction from: JAMES BARCLAY, ALLYSON BIRD, ANDREW CARTMEL, MARK CHADBOURN, CHRISTOPHER FOWLER, GARY FRY, GARRY KILWORTH, TIM LEBBON, STEVE LOCKLEY, JULIET E. MCKENNA, GARY MCMAHON, MARK MORRIS, ADAM L. G. NEVILL, DANIEL O'MAHONY, SARAH PINBOROUGH, NICHOLAS ROYLE, ROBERT SHEARMAN, STEVE VOLK, KAARON WARREN and CONRAD WILLIAMS. With an introductory essay from Gail Z. Martin The only way to own a copy is by being a member of the British Fantasy Society, it is given away exclusively to members and will never appear for sale. Sign up now at only £30.00 a year for UK residents, where you can pay by cheque or online via PayPal. Your membership also includes a £10 discount on the attendance rate for Fantasycon, our legendary, annual convention weekend as well as quarterly mailings of the society magazines Prism, Dark Horizons and New Horizons. We hope to launch this exciting new anthology at FantasyCon 2009 - with many of the contributing authors gathered under one roof and available to sign copies of the book - how can you afford to miss the opportunity to own such a unique publication?
Lots of changes and decisions from the last BFS committee meeting are starting to filter through - the lower ad rates, for example. Here's another: we'd like to make future issues of Dark Horizons available to current members in various ebook formats (or at least as much of it as the contributors agree to). Email the editor –
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– to indicate your interest.
 Dark Horizons 54, about to be sent out to members in our March 2009 mailing, is filled to the brim with goodies… Our stories and poems range from the fantastical medieval past to the astonishing worlds of the future, while our articles take us from the artist's studio to the forests of London, stopping off at Mythago Wood and Twombly Town along the way, not to mention a fleeting visit with the Drenai.
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If you're not already a member of the Society, I'm afraid you've almost certainly left it too late to get your hands on either of these: a last minute upswing in membership left the print orders looking a bit pessimistic!
