The shortlisted works across all 13 categories of the British Fantasy Awards have been announced! Find out who’s in the mix over on our blog. Winners announced at Fantasycon in October.
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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!
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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!
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Latest news on our blog
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Ask an Expert: June 2026
In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative fiction and the wider ‘industry’. This month we pose your questions about writing asexual characters to author Lexy Hudson.
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How To Create A Movie In Novel Form
With his debut novel, Movieville, out now through Troubador, author Kimothy Hudson shares his journey from designing museums and hotels to designing stories.
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Meet Han Noss
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 in Hampshire with dark fantasy author and authenticity reader Han Noss, who started their journey being obsessed with Warrior…
Latest reviews
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Sea of Charms by Sarah Beth Durst
Sea of Charms follows The Spellshop and The Enchanted Greenhouse in Sarah Beth Durst’s series of cosy romantasies. Sea of Charms can be read as a standalone, although there are appearances by characters from the other books, which will be a treat for fans. There…
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The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver by Rafael Torrubia
Shipwright knows magic is being used somewhere ashore as they sail their dead ship closer to old friends and allies. A new day brings new corpses. Shroudweaver tells her they are from the Volante – one of the last remaining ships. If they do not…
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ASSASSIN’S APPRENTICE VOLUME 3 by Robin Hobb, Jody Houser
Well into the Red Ship War, King Shrewd and his son, Prince Verity, are in desperate need of magic users. Their ancestors foolishly allowed the Skill coteries to fall into disuse, and now they are reliant on Skillmaster Galen to find and train those open…