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Tag Archive: BFS
Mar
21
Two new anthos from Newcon Press - ‘Celebration’ and ‘Myth-Understandings’
Posted in: Press Room on 21st March 2008 by UKSFBN admin
Ian Whates, publisher and editor-in-chief of UK independent Newcon Press has been in touch to tell us about two titles that he'll be launching at this weekend's Eastercon at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel at London Heathrow.
Mar
2
UKSFBN Quick Links Listing for 02.03.08
Posted in: Press Room on 2nd March 2008 by UKSFBN admin
A bumper round-up of links to items of potential interest elsewhere on the WWW...
Feb
12
‘Basil Copper: A Life in Books’ launch, BFS Open Night, London, Feb 23rd
Posted in: What's On on 12th February 2008 by UKSFBN admin
Hosted by the British Fantasy Society and PS Publishing, the bio/bibliography Basil Copper: A Life in Books, compiled and edited by Stephen Jones, will be launched on Saturday, February 23rd at The Upstairs Bar, Ye Olde Cock Tavern, 22 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1AA from 6.00 p.m. onwards.
Among those signing copies will be: Basil Copper, editor/co-designer Stephen Jones, artists Randy Broecker and Les Edwards, co-designer Michael Marshall Smith and publisher Peter Crowther. Special Guests (subject to commitment) will include legendary anthology editors Hugh Lamb, Michel Parry and David A. Sutton.
Feb
7
UKSFBN Quick Links Listing for 07.02.08
Posted in: Press Room on 7th February 2008 by UKSFBN admin
More links of genre-fiction related interest scoured from the Internet for your convenience and reading pleasure...
Jan
23
BFS announces two new Guests of Honour for Fantasycon ‘08
Posted in: What's On on 23rd January 2008 by UKSFBN admin
Artist Dave McKean and fantasy author James Barclay will be joining already-announced US guest of honour Christopher Golden and Master of Ceremonies Christopher Fowler for the weekend of author interviews, readings, quizzes, panel sessions, the British Fantasy Awards, and drinking. (Lots of drinking...)
More info: www.fantasycon.org.uk
Source: British Fantasy Society
Dec
18
Out Now: new BFS chapbook ‘H.P. Lovecraft in Britain’ by Stephen Jones
Posted in: Press Room on 18th December 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Members of the BFS will receive a copy as part of their annual subscription and the remaining copies have been made available at the price of £12.99 / $25.99 each, from the BFS store. Cover artwork is by Les Edwards, who has also provided interior illustrations for Gollancz's forthcoming Necronomicon: The Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft [Amazon], which is due out on January 1st.
More Info: British Fantasy Society
Source: BFS news feed
Dec
14
BFS Open Night, York Brewery, January 26th 2008
Posted in: What's On on 14th December 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Lee Harris of Hub Magazine fame, in his capacity as de-facto British Fantasy Society events organiser (Northern region), has announced the date of the next York Open Night: Saturday January 26th, 2008.
Lee says: "As with the October '07 Open Night, the next one is to be held at York Brewery.
Dec
13
British Fantasy Society announces Fantasycon 2008
Posted in: What's On on 13th December 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Detail: The British Fantasy Society, the UK's fantasy and horror writers and readers association and organisers of the British Fantasy Awards have confirmed preliminary details of the next annual Fantasycon convention, which will take place in Nottingham from September 19th - 21st next year.
The event will be held at the Nottingham Britannia Hotel - for the third year running - and the first confirmed Guest of Honour is prolific, US-based, dark fantasy, horror, teen thriller, comics and tie-in writer Christopher Golden. The Master of Ceremonies for the weekend (who'll have a hard act to follow after recent performances by the likes of Graham Joyce and Peter Crowther) and further Guests (of Honour or otherwise) will be announced in due course.
More Info: www.fantasycon.org.uk
Source: British Fantasy Society news feed
Nov
26
British Fantasy Society Open Night, London, December 7th
Posted in: What's On on 26th November 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Horror and dark fantasy editor, anthologist, biographer, historian and pundit extraordinaire Stephen Jones would like to extande the following invitation on behalf of the British Fantasy Society:
"You are invited to come along to: The Annual British Fantasy Society Christmas Open Night on Friday, December 7th (early evening onwards until late), upstairs at Ye Olde Cock Tavern, Fleet Street, London.
"Chris Teague [of Pendragon Press] is launching Tony Richards' new collection (No-Man and Other Stories), and editor Trudi Topham will be promoting her eZine Pantechnicon. Plus writers, artists, editors, publishers and beer. What more can you ask for?"
More information over at the events page of the British Fantasy Society website.
Source: Stephen Jones, on behalf of the BFS
Sep
26
British Fantasy Society open night, York, October 13th
Posted in: What's On on 26th September 2007 by UKSFBN admin
The British Fantasy Society has begun to organise and run regional open nights, in what it hopes will become a regular fixture on the UK genre event calendar. The first of these took place in Birmingham on September 15th and a second evening event has been organised for October 13th in York.
The regional events are organised and run by local volunteers. The York event has been masterminded by Lee Harris, editor of weekly online fiction 'zine Hub and newly-appointed editor of the BFS's own Prism newsletter / magazine. We dropped Lee a line to ask him what the York event is all about.
Sep
23
British Fantasy Awards 2007 - Winners Announced
Posted in: Press Room on 23rd September 2007 by UKSFBN admin
The Winners of the 2007 British Fantasy Awards were announced during the award ceremony at the culmination of this year's Fantasycon, earlier this afternoon, in Nottingham, UK.
Master of Ceremonies Peter Crowther, of PS Publishing fame, provided the banter and sight-gags as he invited a string of guest presenters (including Chaz Brenchley masquerading as Chris Fowler, Chaz Brenchley as Chaz Brenchley, Mark Morris, Tim Lebbon, Sarah Pinborough, John Grant, Simon Clark, Steven Volk, Stephen Jones, Simon R. Green, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Marshall Smith and Jo Fletcher of Gollancz Books), onto the stage at the Britannia Hotel to announce the winners of the awards to a packed and eager roomful of fantasy and horror fiction fans.
And the award winners are:
Sep
19
BFS announces programme for Fantasycon 2007
Posted in: What's On on 19th September 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Highlights include an in-conversation session between Guests of Honour Michael Marshall Smith and Stephen Jones, plus fellow GoH Terry Brooks interviewed by Mark Yon of SFFWorld.com fame. There's also the usual mix of readings, launch events, late-night ghost stories, the famous Fantasycon Saturday Night raffle, and on the Sunday afternoon, the fantasycon banquet and the announcement of the British Fantasy Awards for 2007.
More info: www.fantasycon.org.uk
Source: Fantasycon Blog
Sep
12
The Write Fantastic author events in September / October
Posted in: UKSFBN Talks To, What's On on 12th September 2007 by UKSFBN admin
A few dates for fantasy fans' diaries coming up; Juliet E. McKenna of fantasy writers' collective The Write Fantastic (along with Sarah Ash, Chaz Brenchley, Mark Chadbourn, Deborah J. Miller, Stan Nicholls and Jessica Rydill) has been in touch to let us know about a series of events that various members of the group will be attending in the next couple of months.
Aug
7
2007 British Fantasy Society Awards shortlist announced
Posted in: Press Room on 7th August 2007 by UKSFBN admin
The British Fantasy Society has announced the short-listed nominees for this year's BFS Awards, for work published or created during 2006.
The overall winner in each category will be announced at the Sunday banquet of this year's British Fantasy Convention, Fantasycon 2007 on September 23rd, 2007, at the Britannia Hotel, Nottingham, UK.
Aug
6
Write Fantastic authors visiting Birmingham SF Group, September 15th
Posted in: What's On on 6th August 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Vicky Cook of the Birmingham SF Group writes: "The Write Fantastic is an initiative by a group of fantasy authors to introduce fantasy fiction to readers who have never tried the genre, and to show those who have drifted away the breadth and depth in current fantasy writing. We look forward to welcoming five members of the group on Friday 14th September."
Jul
19
British Fantasy Society meet-up in York, October 13th
Posted in: What's On on 19th July 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Following numerous expressions of interest from British Fantasy Society members, a meet-up has been organised that will take place on Saturday October 13th at York Brewery; only a 5 minute walk from the central train station.
Jun
30
British Fantasy Awards Showcase, London, July 7th
Posted in: What's On on 30th June 2007 by UKSFBN admin
From a recent BFS e-bulletin: "The British Fantasy Society is proud to announce its annual BFS Awards Showcase 2007.
"This 'meet the nominees' event will take place on Saturday 7th July, from 6.30 p.m. at Ye Olde Cock Tavern, 22 Fleet Street, London.
Jun
21
Convention round-up: Fantasycon, Novacon, P-Con V
Posted in: What's On on 21st June 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Here's the latest on three forthcoming gatherings of assorted genre glitterati that you might want to add to your diaries: Fantasycon (Nottingham, September), Novacon 37 (Walsall, November) and Phoenix Con V (Dublin, March 2008).
Apr
30
BFS extends 2007 Awards recommendations deadline
Posted in: Press Room on 30th April 2007 by UKSFBN admin
Just had a note from the British Fantasy Society, the organisers of the 2007 British Fantasy Awards to say that they've extended the deadline for recommendations for this year's awards and all members of the BFS are invited to get their last-minute recommendations in as soon as they can.
Our latest round-up of shorter news items, including news of the Guy Gavriel Kay charity auction, the BFS's 2007 open nights, and a addition to the GoH list for World Horror Con.
Nov
30
Newsbites round-up Nov 30th 2006
Posted in: UKSFBN Talks To, What's On on 30th November 2006 by UKSFBN admin
Our latest selection of shorter news items, with the usual links out to sources of further information.
Oct
10
BFS announces Fantasycon 2007 Guests of Honour
Posted in: What's On on 10th October 2006 by UKSFBN admin
The British Fantasy Society, organisers of Fantasycon, the annual British Fantasy Convention, have announced two Guests of Honour and a Master of Ceremonies for next year's event: Michael Marshall (Smith), Stephen Jones and Peter Crowther, respectively.
Aug
21
David Gemmell Memorial Award mooted
Posted in: Press Room on 21st August 2006 by UKSFBN admin
Stan Nicholls, writing on the Write Fantastic group LiveJournal, mentions that fellow author David Lee Stone has put forward the suggestion that a memorial award named for the late, much lamented David Gemmell, be incorporated into future British Fantasy Awards.
Aug
21
BFS Awards 2006 - Shortlists Announced
Posted in: Press Room on 21st August 2006 by UKSFBN admin
The Shortlists for the 2006 British Fantasy Awards, for work published in 2005, have been annouced, and are as follows: