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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A Community for those who love Magical Creatures, Monsters and the Fantastic!
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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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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.
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We offer members fantastic opportunities and save on marketing campaigns. We also offer a publisher membership!
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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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The TV That Made Us: Children of the Stones (1977)
In his semi-regular column on the classic TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits a well-loved Folk Horror classic from the seventies.
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Meet M.E. Moirin
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Here, we chat with M.E. Moirin, a research economist by day and fantasy writer by choice – one who loves to subvert…
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Asian Pirate Musical: Climate-Ravaged Queer Time Travellers Live In London!
With the show in the midst of a London run, Asian Pirate Musical director and co-author Zhui Ning Chang answered Andrew Knighton’s questions about their creation.
Latest reviews
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Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
It is easy to imagine that spirits exist in unexpected places like forests and deserts where the mark of mankind has barely touched. Even in these places, modern folk would probably dismiss the idea. Selena is a city woman suddenly plunged into a place where…
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This Machine Kills Billionaires by T.R. Napper
T.R. Napper has done it again. Lying behind this incendiary title is a novella (THE HIDDEN GOD) crackling with invention and insight. Do not think based on the blurb that this is a purely intellectual exercise; there is action and suspense, physical violence and psychological…
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PHANTOMS OF KERNOW: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall Edited by Joan Passey
To most people, the term phantom relates to a ghost or a ghostly apparition. In this collection of stories from past masters of the genre, it often means weird. Not all these stories have a definite ghostly presence, but all have some supernatural element and…