JUNE EVENT: We're very excited to welcome award-winning writer @antonyjohnston.bsky.social as our guest on Fri 12th June. Come and join us at @inthewarehouse.bsky.social, B'ham Friends of the Earth, or online via Zoom. Tickets available on the door or via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990418163307

Happy Book Birthday to @theresaderwin.bsky.social. Her dystopian Novella, #GodsVengenace is published today (22nd May) from #CrystalLakePublishing. Best of luck and congratulations on making it to print🎉🥂📚

would you accept this if the words were about excluding a black or brown person? If not then you should be writing to your MP and the EHRC today.

Because I've largely lost my accent most people don't realise I'm a Brummie myself, so I'm especially looking forward to this 😁

Today, we’re delighted to publish A Truth Beyond Sense by Rosie Oliver. Sequel to A Truth Beyond Full, it can be read standalone. books2read.com/ATruthBeyond...

FREE EBOOK - TODAY ONLY (15th MAY) @theresaderwin.bsky.social - her YA Novella, GOD'S VENGEANCE is published on 22nd May. In celebration, for one day only her previous short fiction HEARTS & BONES is FREE from @Demain Publishing (ebook only) Order at www.demainpublishing.org

Fine, fun reading!

REMINDER: The interview with Hugo Award winning author Ray Nayler will be tomorrow (Friday 8th May at 7:45 pm).This event will be held over Zoom - free for members, £6 for non-members. Tickets and further info here: eventbrite.com/e/1987709792497 FAO @wnbooks.bsky.social

Well done on getting your first published novel, GOD’s VENGEANCE published. Despite many difficulties you persevered and achieved your goal. Hope it’s a bestseller 🥳🤗

To celebrate #EarthDay, you can snap up all of these spectacular Solaris titles with eco themes for just 0.99 each, exclusively from our website! Shop the sale now: https://geni.us/Solarissale Ft. @mkhardywrites.com @aptshadow.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social#EarthDay& more!

Lovely sunny day enjoying the bluebells in an English wood

Me and everyone else on the Novacon committee send many congratulations to @emilytesh.net on making the shortlist for this year's Locus, Nebula and the Hugos with her brilliant novel, THE INCANDESCENT. Congratulations and good luck 😍

Just been to seen Chinese wuxia film BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS with Wu Jing and Jet Li at the cinema. If you’re a fan of sword fights, acrobatics and gorgeous scenery it’s on a short run in some local cinemas. I thoroughly enjoyed it (NB with English and Mandarin subtitles)

COVER REVEAL - WE ARE FOR THE DARK by Gretchen McNeil On 1st September from @blackcrowbooks.bsky.social “A murder-mystery turned horror is perfect for fans of religious horror and cult-classic The Wicker Man

MAY EVENT: We are very excited to welcome Hugo Award winning author Ray Nayler as our next guest on Friday 8th May. This event will be held over Zoom - free for members, £6 for non-members. Tickets and further info here: eventbrite.com/e/1987709792497

REMINDER- Tomorrow night (10th April) at 7:45pm the @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social guest is Oliver Bettis talking about climate change scenarios and realistic strategies. Sure to be fascinating. Open to all. Details below

Guest of Honour @emmanewman.bsky.social being interviewed at @easterconuk.bsky.social by Kate Towner

Free Solar Science Events at The Exchange, Birmingham. (www.birmingham.ac.uk/the-exchange) Should we be afraid of space weather? Wednesday 1 April, 6pm – 7.30pm A journey to the centre of the Sun Wednesday 3 June, 6pm – 7.30pm Are we out of sync with the Sun? Wednesday 1 July, 6pm – 7.30pm

On 10 April @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social welcome Oliver Bettis, ESG actuary and co-author of Climate Scorpion and Parasol Lost. Come and discuss the real terraforming going on and its risks at @inthewarehouse.bsky.social or via Zoom. Tickets on the door or via eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985958692911

DON’T MISS a chance to meet @aychao.com tonight 13th March at 7:45 pm at @inthewarehouse.bsky.social She’ll be discussing SHANGHAI IMMORTAL and new book, PARIS CELESTIAL (fingers crossed may be a few advance copies available). Will be published on 26th March @hodderscape.bsky.social Details below

Looking forward to next Friday (13th March) and the chance to interview @aychao.com author of SHANGHAI IMMORTAL and PARIS CELESTIAL (published this month). Alice is this month’s guest at @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social

🚀🚀🚀 The BSFA Awards Shortlist is available to view now 👇 Congratulations to everyone shortlisted 🌟 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

BREAKING NEWS: We have just had it confirmed that Alastair Reynolds will be in Birmingham tonight and has very kindly volunteered to give a short talk before the Book Auction. Entry is still free. Usual place at the FoE Warehouse on Allison St, 7.45 for 8pm. Hope to see you there!

FEBRUARY EVENT: We are very excited to welcome our first guest of 2026, award-winning SFF author @jainefenn.bsky.social on 13th Feb. Come and join us at The Warehouse, Birmingham Friends of the Earth, or online via Zoom. Tickets available on the door or via Eventbrite (link to be provided soon).

Help Helena gofund.me/3c76f16db If you're in the uk con scene you probably know Helena. She unexpected lost her husband right before Xmas and could use some help making ends meet for her and her two boys

BSFG MEETING - 9th January 2026 Many Apologies. In the interests of Member safety tonight’s in-person BSFG meeting is cancelled due to bad weather. The meeting will go ahead via Zoom at 7:30 pm. The book auction will be held at a later date. From The BSFG Committee

I had a lovely time giving a talk and Q & A to several generations of devoted SFF fans in Birmingham @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social, who turned out to be just as interested in Chinese #horror as they were in scifi. Thank you for having me there! 7/

IMPORTANT UPDATE RE 9/1/2026 SCHEDULED AGM. Given the current snow, we may have to cancel tomorrow’s in-person AGM. A final decison will be made by 11 am Friday and all paid-up members will be contacted via email. An announcement will also be posted on the Facebook Group and on Bluesky.

I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms March 10th, 2026! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...

Come see me in Birmingham on the 3rd (this Weds) from 5pm at Waterstones Birmingham. I'll be tired, I'll be wired and I'll be delighted to see anyone at all! :-)

Another chance to see @stewarthotston.com on 3rd December at 5pm at @waterstones.bsky.social Birmingham with lots of other authors. Free - no need to book Details at www.waterstones.com/events/save-...

Oh hey who would like a Gothic in space with a creepy spaceship that disappears children? It's this way 👇

The SF Collections at Liverpool host the Olaf Stapledon Archive. We're delighted that SFF trustee Una McCormack was able to discuss Stapledon's landmark debut novel with Matthew De Abaitua and Andy Miller. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...

In festive instalment of the series and tribute to classic Golden Age crime novels, the Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery! JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social is out now! ❄️ https://tinyurl.com/2jdvnut9

@annasmithwrites.bsky.social @garethlpowell.bsky.social and @mikebrooks668.bsky.social will all be appearing at Redditch Library on Saturday 22nd November at 12 noon - and it’s free! Book at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/worlds-of-...

John, Alison, and stunt Liz @emilytesh.net are live from Novacon 54! We discuss the convention, what it’s like to be a Guest of Honour, parenting at cons and also whether or not John should read the Silmarillion. Listen here! octothorpe.podbean.com/e/148-i-m-wi...

Congratulations to my friend, author @theresaderwin.bsky.social with the cover reveal for her forthcoming novel GOD’S VENGEANCE soon to be published with #CrystalLakePublishig

@stewarthotston.com braved Storm Claudia last night at @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social to take us through the Arcology of Project Hanuman, different interpretations of quantum mechanics, Watchdogs and some amazing LARPs! Great night

Having a fun-filled weekend at @novacon.bsky.social convention. Great panels talking #SFF books, a marvellous quiz hosted by @satellite9.bsky.social and where else would you get Morris dancing with a wasp🐝🤣

Novacon: @emilytesh.net interviewed by @neveahfs.bsky.social

Arrived safely at #Novacon in Buxton and looking forward to another great weekend talking all things #SFF and listening to @emilytesh.net

Please could you spread this?

Excited to share my new piece @clarkesworldmagazine.com 🚀 I discuss the future of human longevity and its depiction in science fiction. And how the eventual medical control of aging and lifespan will reshape both society and storytelling. clarkesworldmagazine.com/de_magalhaes...

Winner of inaugural @brianaldiss.bsky.social Award is Rogba Payne - Dance of Shadows

Finalists for the new @brianaldiss.bsky.social Aldiss Award

For those of you at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social then this is yet ANOTHER launch you should be thinking of going to. NewCon press, run by the legend Ian Whates will be launching a 3 new books at 6pm on Friday. Come meet @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social and Cécile Cristofari

Thank you to everyone at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social who cam to the launch for project Hanuman - it was so much fun :-) We did sell out so now you’ll have to wait until the 11th November. Which feels unreal.

On train on my way to Brighton and @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing old friends and to making new ones. 😍

Looking forward to this 📚🐒🚀