Voting is now open for the British Fantasy Awards. Voting period runs from 16 April to 3 May; members and Fantasycon ticket holders can vote. Full details in 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.
Find out more by using our main menu’s About or Get in Touch options, or see it all at a glance with our sitemap
Latest news on our blog
How Authenticity Reading Can Benefit Fantasy Writers
Even a totally imagined secondary-world fantasy can end up with insensitive portrayals. Neurodivergent and non-binary authenticity reader—and fantasy writer!—Han Noss has created this guide to working with an authenticity reader for your fantasy book.
Strange SFFH Music: The Space Lady
In this first of a new series looking at the weird and wonderful of speculative-leaning music, Geoff Holder puts The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits (2013) on the stereo.
Searching For People Like Me
A question at Eastercon had David Green pondering why the neurodivergent creatives seek out other neurodivergent creatives: It’s all about acceptance.
Latest reviews
Damned by Genevieve Cogman
Everyone has memories of the books they read when they were younger and retain impressions of what they have read. Those are the books that follow the reader through life. It is why the novels of Jane Austen are still popular. Sometimes it is the…
Listen To Your Sister by Neena Viel
I wanted to read this one because it had an intriguing title. People should listen to their sisters! I also haven’t read many books focused on sibling relationships and thought the premise sounded interesting. Calla has become the legal guardian of Jamie and it’s driving…
When the Moon Hits your Eye by John Scalzi
Imagine the challenge – a group of students in the pub or a gang of fans in the bar – who can come up with the craziest idea for a novel. Then the next challenge is how to change that idea into a novel. The…