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About Me

The British Fantasy Society exists to promote and enjoy the genres of fantasy, science fiction and horror in all its forms.

The British Weird Fantasy Society began in 1971 as an off-shoot of the British Science Fiction Association. The ‘Weird’ was soon dropped and the BFS was born. Dedicated to the promotion of all that is best in the Fantasy and Horror genres, the BFS is both influential and well respected among genre publishers in the UK and America and have many well known authors as members, not least our president Ramsey Campbell.

We celebrated our 30th anniversary in 2001 and in 2000 won the Special Award: Non-Professional at the World Fantasy Awards.

The BFS has enjoyed the patronage of many established authors, artists, critics and journalists. The BFS' own publications are regularly looked to by editors when selecting material for ‘Best Of’ anthologies and numerous members have gone on to become published authors in their own right.

   
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FantasyCon is our annual convention, FantasyCon 2009 will take place in Nottingham UK from September 18th - 20th. Full details of Guests of Honour, Events and Accomodation can be found at the convention website www.fantasycon.org.uk

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The Society includes writers, artists, publishers, members of the film industry and fans alike, with interests from the dark and macabre to the heroic and fantastic. All are welcome.

My Blog

Re-Open for Business - the BFS Store

That's right, the BFS Store has relaunched today following a little downtime due to technical difficulties.We've a whole host of goodies on sale, so why not pay us a visit today!Why not pick up 6 exce...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:22:00 GMT

Powers: Secret Histories

Start Time: 04/17/2009 at 07:30 PMWhere: The George,Fleet Street,London,United KingdomContact Email: [email protected] British Fantasy Society is proud to host the launch of the "bibliograp...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:30:00 GMT

FantasyCon 2009

The British Fantasy Society is holding its annual convention, Fantasycon 2009, in Nottingham, UK, over the weekend 18-20 September. Fantasycon was first staged in the mid-1970's in Birmingham and has...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:21:00 GMT

Website changes & FantasyCon'09

'...the paint is still a little wet and the furnishings a little sparse but it is our aim to make this site a full-blooded extension to the society with regular news, features, reviews, fiction and th...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:59:00 GMT

Dark Horizons 53

Every member of the British Fantasy Society receives Dark Horizons twice a year as part of their membership. Launched in 1971, it's one of the longest-running small press magazines in Britain. The ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:41:00 GMT

The British Fantasy Society Awards 2007 - The Winners

The British Fantasy Society is delighted to announce the winners of the British Fantasy Awards for 2007. The presentations were made at Fantasycon 2007 in Nottingham on 23rd September. The Sydney J. B...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:11:00 GMT

BFS Awards 2007

The British Fantasy Society is pleased to announce the nominees for the British Fantasy Award 2007 The nominations and the overall winner in each category will be announced at the Sunday banquet ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:53:00 GMT

BFS York Open Night Update

George Mann, Consultant Editor of Solaris Books (and editor of The Solaris Book of New Fantasy and The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction) and Marc Gascoigne (publisher of The Black Library impri...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:22:00 GMT

BFS Open Night in York

On Saturday October 13th, Hub will be hosting a York-based BFS Open Night - a chance to catch upwith all your buddies oop north. Trains to York are regular, and take a little over 2 hours fromKings Cr...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:17:00 GMT

BFS Awards Showcase 2007

This will take place on Saturday 7th July, from 6.30pm, at Ye Olde Cock Tavern, 22 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1AA.  There is a section of the forum set up with directions and hopefully comme...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:48:00 GMT