#BSFA

2026-02-14

RE: toot.wales/@thehubble101/11594

The 'Age of Men' is not going well ... last few days to read my essay 'Should Galadriel have taken the Ring?' for free at Speculative Insight. If you're in the BSFA, please remember the voting deadline is 23.59 GMT on 19 February.
#tolkien #lotr #galadriel #fairyqueen #faeriemagic #fantasy #sff #bookstodon #criticism #literarycriticism #essay #bsfa #bsfa2026awards #bsfaawards #elf #elves #fairyland #hobbits #aragorn #arwen #beren #Lúthien #thesilmarillion

Laura Blackwell (she/her)pronouncedlahra@wandering.shop
2026-01-26

My story "Breathing Night" is on the BSFA Longlist in the Short Fiction category! And thanks to its reading by @spacecowboybooks
for Simultaneous Times, in Audio Fiction, too! And it's in such great company in both categories. I'm swooning. Catch me. #sff #shortfiction #bsfa #audio #podcast bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist

2026-01-23

Delighted to report that my essay 'Should Galadriel have taken the Ring?' has been nominated for the BSFA Award for Best Short Non Fiction and Speculative Insight have made it free to read for the voting period. So, be my guest (and BSFA members please consider voting for it).
#galadriel #lotr #tolkien #bookstodon #fantasy #sff #fairyqueen #bsfaawards2026 #bsfa #bsfaawards #essay
speculativeinsight.com/extras/

2026-01-22

Wow, an exciting and unexpected honor seeing INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE on the #BSFA awards l long list for best nonfiction long-form. It does indeed relate to SFF reflecting on the myth of dark & golden ages in fiction. (And quoting Firefly & Babylon 5 😉🚀)

bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist

2026-01-22

We're so excited to see two Stelliform titles make the absolutely stacked BSFA Longlist! Rebecca Campbell’s “Wider Than the Sky, Deeper Than the Sea” (The Other Shore) is nominated in Best Short Fiction and Syr Hayati Beker’s What a Fish Looks Like in Best Shorter Fiction.

See the full list here: bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist

#BSFAAwards2026 #BSFA #bookawards #literaryawards #bestshortstory #bestshortfiction #bestnovella #shortfiction #shortstories #shortstorycollection

BSFA LONGLIST 2026 announcement: Rebecca Campbell’s “Wider Than the Sky, Deeper Than the Sea” (The Other Shore) in Best Short Fiction and Syr Hayati Beker’s What a Fish Looks Like in Best Shorter Fiction.
Stars and Sabers Publishingstarsandsabers@wandering.shop
2026-01-22

We are thrilled to announce several BSFA Award Longlist nominations for our writers and cover artists! Congratulations to Eugen Bacon, @voidcricket, Stephen Embleton, Niall C. Grant, and Raúl Cruz!
#BSFA #BSFAAwards #books #horror #scifi #fantasy #coverart

BSFA Awards Longlist!
Left to right book covers: OF SHADOWS, STARS, AND SABERS, edited by Jendia Gammon and Gareth L. Powell; ECHOES AND EMBERS: SPECULATIVE STORIES by Pedro Iniguez; THE NGA’PHANDILEH WHISPERER by Eugen Bacon; THE LEGEND LIMINAL by Ren Hutchings

Best Novella
The Nga'phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon
The Legend Liminal by Ren Hutchings

Best Short Fiction
"The Shadow Eater of Orino-Rin" by Eugen Bacon, in Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers

Best Artwork
Cover: Art by Niall C. Grant for Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers
Cover: Art by Raúl Cruz for Echoes and Embers by Pedro
Iniguez
Cover: Art by Stephen Embleton for The Nga'phandileh Whisper by Eugen Bacon
2025-11-19

The BSFA nominations for the longlist are open! I have four eligible works: 3 novels (one for younger readers specifically) and 1 collection. I greatly appreciate any nominations. Thank you!!
Here's everything: jendiagammon.com/2025/09/21/20
#BSFA #BSFAAwards

Ian RobinsonianRobinson
2025-04-21

The BSFA winners were announced in Belfast today. Official site hasn’t been updated yet. Assuming this is correct. sffworld.com/2025/04/news-bsfa

2025-03-27

Octothorpe 131 is here! We discuss @seattlein2025@Worldcon #Worldcon2025 upcoming Belfast Eastercon, the BSFA Awards, and then we talk about the fan funds and handwriting. Also, John actually had a pick in advance this episode. Listen here! octothorpe.podbean.com/e/131-w

#ScienceFiction #Podcast #Worldcon #Worldcon2025 #Eastercon #Eastercon2025 #BSFA #BSFAAwards

A birthday cake with six layers, from purple to a dark orange, and then a red 5 and five red candles on top, with fireworks overhead. The words “Octothorpe 131” are at the top.
ActusfActusf
2025-03-21

Adrian Tchaikovsky et Aliette de Bodard en lice pour les British Science Fiction Awards 2024 !

buff.ly/Ei88GvJ

Adrian Tchaikovsky et Aliette de Bodard en lice pour les British Science Fiction Awards 2024 !

https://buff.ly/Ei88GvJ 

#prix #sciencefiction #BSFA
Susan Maxwell @ BdRBiblioRefuses@mastodon.ie
2025-03-06

Dystopian but, unexpectedly, fundamentally cheerful: the short stories of Stewart C Baker's recent collection The Butterfly Disjunct. If you happen to be a member of the British Science Fiction Association, you can read my full review in BSFA Review No. 25.
#BSFA #IAmReviewing #ShortStories
interstellarflightpress.com/bu
bsfa.co.uk/the-bsfa-review

2025-02-27

Episode 129 is here, in which we discuss the Belfast Eastercon, Alison shakes her cane at John and Liz, and we talk a little about WSFS things before getting into picks. Listen here: octothorpe.podbean.com/e/129-d

#ScienceFiction #Podcast #Eastercon #Eastercon2025 #Eastercon2026 #BSFA #Worldcon #Seattle2025 #Worldcon2025

Words read “Octothorpe 129: Can you pin Thailand on the map?” above a black-and-white world map. The backs of John, Alison and Liz’s heads are shown. John is thinking “Yup!”, Liz is thinking “100%”, and Alison is holding Thailand and thinking “???”.
2025-02-26

Some awards nominations are about to close, and some are still open. Nebula Award nominations close on the 28th. I'm longlisted for four BSFA awards for short stories on this list. I appreciate the consideration. Thank you for your votes and nominations!
#Nebula #BSFA #SFWA #scifi #shortficiton #fantasy #magicalrealism #nominations #sciencefiction #SFF #shortstories

2024 AWARDS ELIGIBILITY POST FOR Jendia GAMMON IN FANTASY, HORROR, AND SCIENCE FICTION

"The Theseus Stone" - published in All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions That Disrupt from CyberSalon Press. 

"Splendid Though I Realize the Conception..." The title for this short story is actually a paragraph long, so I truncated it! It is part of the anthology Moving Across the Landscape in Search of an Idea, published by Air and Nothingness Press. 

"Upon the Gloaming Hour" - published in Seaside Gothic Issue 11.
This is a magical realism story with supernatural elements, about a woman in the coastal Carolinas missing 

"Protista" - published in Tales of Sley House 2024 from Sley House Press. This is a chilling, seaside horror story set on the California coast.

"The Dewdrop Bot and the Honey Fae" - published in 2024 in the Western North Carolina Charity Anthology From Appalachia with Love: Sci-Fi Anthology (as well as the fantasy anthology). This is a cozy science fiction and fantasy short story.
2025-02-23

Dystopian but, unexpectedly, fundamentally cheerful: the short stories of Stewart C Baker's 'The Butterfly Disjunct". If you happen to be a member of the British Science Fiction Association, you could read my full review...
#BSFA #IAmReviewing
interstellarflightpress.com/bu

2025-02-13

Episode 128 is here! We report on the BSFA’s policy on reviewing, with a comment from BSFA Chair, Allen Stroud. Then, we tell you all what John’s doing for Reconnect (the 2025 Eastercon), discuss Iridescence (a bid for the 2026 Eastercon), talk BSFA Awards (presented at Eastercon) and Liz reads a book (which you could read at Eastercon). Listen here: octothorpe.podbean.com/e/128-a

#ScienceFiction #Podcast #Eastercon #Eastercon2025 #Eastercon2026 #Reconnect2025 #Iridescence2026 #BSFA #BSFAAwards

A blue Sony MiniDisc Walkman shows, on its LCD screen, “Now playing: Octothorpe_128”.
2024-05-01

The first instalment of my new column, 'The Resistance', for Vector, the journal of the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA), has gone online just in time for May Day. #TheResistance #bsfa #vector #sf #sff #sciencefiction #scifi #modernism #mayday #may1st #bookstodon
vector-bsfa.com/2024/05/01/the

Paracyclopsoarditi
2024-04-08

I wrote a reflection on Eastercon 2024 for the @britishfantasysociety You can find it at this address: britishfantasysociety.org

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