Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
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Cymera Loves Romantasy will be a 2-day festival at The Pleasance on 17th & 18th October 2026, dedicated to exploring the full breadth of romantasy, dark romance & paranormal romance. Headline authors will include Chloe C. Peñaranda, author of New York Times bestselling series The Nytefall Trilogy.
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We are thrilled to announce the winner, runners-up and highly commended stories for this year's Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction!
Coming along to the festival this weekend? You can hear the winning story read aloud at Shoreline of Infinity's Event Horizon at 8:30pm on Saturday 6 June.
ICYMI, I’m offering a 1-on-1 consult on engaging with archaeological themes in SFFH to help raise funds for @cymerafestival.co.uk
I’ve been an archaeologist for the last 18 years & recently curated a repatriation in Mexico. I’ve also done authenticity reads for upcoming SFF novels!
THIS FRIDAY! Come see our first live Actual Play - a specially written Edinburgh-set scenario of Call of Cthulhu (the brilliant rpg from @chaosium.bsky.social) at @cymerafestival.co.uk featuring a fantastic cast of some of your favourite authors!
Free to attend - 5pm at The Pleasance, Edinburgh!
Friday, June 5th, 7pm. I'm looking forward to chatting to David Quantick and Zebib K. Abraham about weird and also wonderful fiction at @cymerafestival.co.uk.
This is an online event, but I'll be at Cymera all day Saturday and Sunday if you want to say hi.
Looking for feedback on a short story? I'm happy to be offering this for the @cymerafestival.co.uk auction!
About me: I've published 100+ short stories, guest-edited a number of projects, and currently Fiction Editor at @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social! ✨✍️
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We're thrilled to be working with Book Lovers Bookshop, a queer and disabled-owned bookshop that celebrates romance fiction, to run Cymera Loves Romantasy's festival bookshop.
Today is the day! But before we dive into Cymera Festival 2026 this weekend, we have something to tell you...
Announcing Cymera Loves Romantasy, the first romantasy-dedicated book festival in Edinburgh! đź’ž
Save the date & fill out our expression of interest form: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/romantasy
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Auction item 'Short story critique (up to 5,000 words)' hosted online at 32auctions.
Expect the unexpected—where the uncanny lurks in the everyday. In David Quantick’s And Other Stories , thirty-three tales revel in the strange, the surreal, and the darkly comic. From small-town ho...
