British Fantasy Society Competition

[Montero]

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

 

[Aleph]

A writer who is a friend of a friend won this back in 2012. Her career really took off afterwards, but her stuff is fantastic...

 

[Montero]

Megan Kerr won the short stories in 2012 BFS Short Story Competition 2012 - out of curiosity went looking on Amazon for books by her and there wasn't anything.
Do you perhaps mean Jo Walton, whose novel published by Tor won the best fantasy book prize in 2012?

 

[Aleph]

Whoops, I was talking about this: British Fantasy Award - Wikipedia

Its the award for an already published story, not a competition entry. (FWIW the 2012 short story winner was Angela Slatter, whose work is terrific and well worth checking out).

 

[Montero]

And Angela Slatter for the already published short story, not the short story competition.

 

[The Big Peat]

I am replying to this simply so I get subscriptions when people reply, so I don't forget about it. Thanks PB!

 

[Lumens]

I am replying to this simply so I get subscriptions when people reply, so I don't forget about it. Thanks PB!

You can also click on Watch Thread, it's on top of every page of the thread.

 

[Phyrebrat]

You can also click on Watch Thread, it's on top of every page of the thread.

Stop enabling his laziness! I don't care if he is out of the country on - ahem - 'business'.

pH

 

[Kylara]

I have a short that might do for this. Just needs some faffing and 5,000 words may allow it to bulk out a bit. No doubt it will die a firey death but worth a shot. My nice passive melancholy never does too well!

 

[Cory Swanson]

This seems pretty open ended, which I like, but I'm concerned that this being the 'fantasy society' that I'll need to stick some goblins and swords in there. Is this true, or should I go for it because it sounds like they want any sort of speculative fiction? It sounds like we have some here that have done pretty well. Should I go elsewhere with my non-traditional fantasy ideas?

 

[Luiglin]

This seems pretty open ended, which I like, but I'm concerned that this being the 'fantasy society' that I'll need to stick some goblins and swords in there. Is this true, or should I go for it because it sounds like they want any sort of speculative fiction? It sounds like we have some here that have done pretty well. Should I go elsewhere with my non-traditional fantasy ideas?

Fantasy is not all goblins and swords. Far from it. Some of my most fave fantasy works don't have traditional fantasy creatures/weapons ie Weaveworld by Clive Barker or The Saga of the Exiles series by Julian May. Even The Dark Tower series by Stephen King could be classed as fantasy in my opinion.

Write your own fantasy. The difference could be what they're looking for.

 

[Amelia Faulkner]

Is it worth it? Any members around?

Haven't been for about ten years, alas. Their current board says they're doing a lot to re-invigorate it this year though (on Facebook). Step one for me would be to wipe away that old, derelict forum and start over. I'd also see if Lee's up for designing a new logo, since the poor dragon's a bit dated these days and they're doing odd things with it (gradient overlays, for instance) which were never on his style guide.

out of curiosity went looking on Amazon for books by her and there wasn't anything.

Megan seems to write short stories, according to her website, so there aren't any novels to look for alas.

Is this true, or should I go for it because it sounds like they want any sort of speculative fiction?

They specifically state they want any sort of speculative fiction, so go for it!

 

[Biskit]

I'm concerned that this being the 'fantasy society' that I'll need to stick some goblins and swords in there. Is this true, or should I go for it because it sounds like they want any sort of speculative fiction?

I used to be a BFS member and they cover Fantasy, SciFi & Horror. My 2013 entry hit the spot with no elves or goblins.