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 will debut in 2008 and will focus on new writers within the f/h/sf genres. It will be published twice a year, and contain 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 newhorizons@britishfantasysociety.org. 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.