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
How Indie Publishing Is A Community Effort
With a Kickstarter currently running to fund an audiobook, indie creator Tristan Gray shares how everything he does is not a solo project—it’s always a team effort, from supplementary support to building a network.
Promo without the Ick
Heide Goody and Iain Grant know, as a writer, you don’t really want to do the marketing stuff—but they also know you kinda have to. Given they’ve got promo down to a fine art, the author duo share some tips on they’ve done it without…
Meet J.M. Hofer
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 off to Utah to meet J.M. Hofer, who says: “The stories we choose to tell generation after generation are…
Latest reviews
Empire of the Dawn by Jay Kristoff
The remaining heads of the vampire clans are descending upon the Empress Margot, demanding the death of the last Silversaint, Gabriel de Leon. Time is running out for Jean Francois, the Empress’s historian, to gather Gabriel’s final confession and understand why Fabien Voss, the now…
The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim
This excellent novel is set in contemporary Korea, but with a twist. It’s a world that is populated by gods and other magical creatures, many of which operate outside of the sight and knowledge of mere mortals. The titular characters are the fallen god Seogka,…
Citadel of the Moon by Mike Chinn
After ‘Hail the New Age’ at the end of last year, Mike Chinn returns us to the cold-hearted Ramini Republic in ‘Citadel of the Moon’. It’s a novel just as no-holds-barred as its predecessor and if anything cheer is almost compulsively leeched out of it.…