The winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2026 were announced at Fantasycon. Find out all the details on our blog.
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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.
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Latest news on our blog
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Ready For Submission: BSFA’s Fission
The latest issue of Fission, the fiction journal of the British Science Fiction Association, came out in June. BFS member Karin J. Robinson sat down with the journal’s Editor, Rick Danforth, to find out more about the stories in this issue, to understand what he’s looking for in…
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Classic Genre Films: Dark Star (1974)
Allen Ashley is training his eye on classic genre films, looking at not just the film but the context in which they were released. For the latest instalment in his series, he’s in 1974 for John Carpenter’s stoner space bomb.
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Meet Helen Grant
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 the wilds of Scotland with Helen Grant, who reaches back to MR James and Sheridan Le Fanu to…
Latest reviews
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Spiderlight by Adrian Tchiakovsky
Fantasy novels often contain a number of over-familiar tropes. There is the battle between Light and Dark, with, often, a band of heroes battling against an evil wizard who wants to enslave the world. A prophecy that the heroes have to fulfil in order to…
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The Deep and the Drowned by Ian Green
Lieutenant of the Cil-Marie, Marion, is not a sailor, so she can only cling on as the ship threatens to sink. Too many miles from land, she can only trust that the captain is good enough to keep his ship seaworthy, and that the child…
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Fitcher’s Bird by A.G. Slatter
Chloe does not like the dark, so it is definitely time to leave the school library behind and head home. From the gates she can see her cottage and the lights that will welcome her home. Tonight there is a bunch of flowers awaiting her…