We're incredibly excited to reveal TWO more authors attending Cymera Loves Romantasy 💞 Announcing Jean Kwok & Roxy Taylor, both joining us this October in Edinburgh 🤩 Remember, you can still grab a Weekend Pass at early bird prices: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/weekend-pass...

Join us for some friendly genre book chats this summer! July's book selection is The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, and we'll be meeting online on Wed, 29th July at 7pm to discuss. Sign up for any of our 3 summer sessions on our website: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/book-group

Early Bird Weekend Passes are now available to buy for Cymera Loves Romantasy! 💞 www.cymerafestival.co.uk/weekend-pass...

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! 💞 Save the date & fill out our expression of interest form: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/romantasy

📢 FINAL CALL! 📢 Our Charity Auction closes in less than 24 hours – don't forget to get your bids in! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Cymera Festival@cymerafestival.co.uk · 2mo ago

Have you checked out Cymera's Charity Auction yet? All funds raised will go toward supporting Cymera: www.32auctions.com/organization...

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!

Cymera Festival@cymerafestival.co.uk · 2mo ago

Don't forget to check out this year's charity auction! ⬇️ The auction will close at 12pm on Friday 5th June. www.32auctions.com/organization...

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.

Weird and Wonderful with David Quantick and Neil Williamson — CYMERA

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...

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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! ✨✍️ www.32auctions.com/organization...

Short story critique (up to 5,000 words)

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This is where I'll be at @cymerafestival.co.uk this weekend, as well as just generally loitering. I am EXTREMELY EXCITED, as always, for this welcoming, warm-hearted, brilliant festival. Do come join us & say hi if you see me

Bidh Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social aig Fèis Cymera Dihaoine seo tighinn leis an leabhar ùr aige An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire! Tim Armstrong will be at Cymera Festival this Friday, with his new book An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire! Book here: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

Cymera Festival@cymerafestival.co.uk · 3mo ago

Scroll for a full list of science fiction panels at Cymera Festival 2026 ⬇️

Reminder: There's still some tickets left for my city building workshop this Saturday at @cymerafestival.co.uk The big focus is organically building sandbox cities that cant help but spew narrative hooks all over your fiction/games. Note: If your city actually vomits, it's possibly a kaiju?

Workshop: Building Memorable Cities with Elaine Lithgow — CYMERA

Kings Landing, Baldur’s Gate, Ankh-Morpork, Camorr, what makes these imagined cities leap from the page when others fade into the backdrop? How do you grow a city from a name on a map to a complex cha...

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it's official --- my brand new, scorching hot off the press #poetry chapbook #VibeChecksAndStaticNoise (gorgeously printed by my good pals at @typewronger.bsky.social) will be available this weekend at ✨️🚀 @cymerafestival.co.uk 👽✨️! >

This weekend I will be back to sell at one of my favourite events: CYMERA FESTIVAL in Edinburgh 💜 An excellent few days of joyous celebrating Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror, Romantasy and more!! @cymerafestival.co.uk #cymerafestival #bookevent #booksky (1/3)

I’m @cymerafestival.co.uk this weekend in Edinburgh. Come check out all the books I’ve made, including a new book about cycling to Rome, a new mini comic about death and my reference zine, plus all the rest!!! It’s free to enter 🔥

SFF and horror pals! There are loads of really cool items available in the @cymerafestival.co.uk auction - closes tomorrow & supports Scotland's only SFFH book festival! There are books aplenty, mentoring, critiques, a stay at the Cymera retreat, and more! 👇 ✨ 🚀 www.32auctions.com/organization...

Cymera Auction 2026

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Here's my schedule for @cymerafestival.co.uk this coming Saturday 6 June. I'll be giving the first reading of HOME SICK at 1pm, chatting on the horror show panel at 6:30pm, giving out cottagegore stickers, and signing early copies of HOME SICK in the festival bookshop 👀 COME 🪓

This weekend I'll be at @cymerafestival.co.uk - looking forward to a truckload of events and catching up with writer pals. I'll be chairing this Saturday panel with @alexpheby.bsky.social @rtorrubia.com and @annasmithspark.bsky.social www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

From the Ruins with Alex Pheby, Anna Smith Spark and Rafael Torrubia — CYMERA

In the aftermath of ruin, some rebuild. Others burn what’s left. In Alex Pheby’s Waterblack , Nathan Treeves has returned as Master of the City of the Dead, while Sharli—once a sacrifice, now a tra...

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My first panel of this year's @cymerafestival.co.uk is at 1.45 on Saturday, talking about ruins and rebuilding and A Sword of Gold and Ruin with @clhellisen.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social and Rafael Torrubia.

Don't forget – the Cymera 2026 Charity Auction is still live! 🤩 Bids will close on Friday 5th June at 12pm BST. All funds raised will go towards supporting Cymera: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Have you checked out Cymera's Charity Auction yet? All funds raised will go toward supporting Cymera: www.32auctions.com/organization...

This is coming fast! Join me and the amazing @paultremblay.bsky.social during @cymerafestival.co.uk. Out of your mind with Paul Tremblay and Sylvain Neuvel, a digital panel, June 7th at 3:30 BST.

Cymera is proud to offer a platform for emerging and newly published writers to read their work in front of our audience. Scroll to see this year's full Brave New Words line-up ⬇️ Find out more: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/brave-new-wo...

Don't forget to check out this year's charity auction! ⬇️ The auction will close at 12pm on Friday 5th June. www.32auctions.com/organization...

Forget everything you know about Arrakis and get ready for Dune! The Musical, returning for Cymera 2026 🤩 Sing along with little Paul Atreides on his journey to Sietch Tabr; can he tame the worm, save the world AND get the girl? www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

The @cymerafestival.co.uk auction is live. I'm offering signed and annotated hardback copies of A SWORD OF BRONZE AND ASHES and A SWORD OF GOLD AND RUIN. All the references, Easter Eggs, stupid personal jokes and absurd literary pretension marked up for your edification.

MK Hardy@mkhardywrites.com · 2mo ago

The @cymerafestival.co.uk auction is now live! It will be open until noon on Friday the 5th of June, but don't wait, get your opening bids in soon! All funds raised will go towards more amazing SFFH events and offerings in Scotland! www.32auctions.com/cymera2026?r...

This has some splendid stuff on offer, go treat yourselves & help Cymera continue to do fabulous work! 🤩🖤🤩 I've a books & art package on offer here: www.32auctions.com/organization... And a query package critique here: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Signed hardback copies from Lorraine Wilson

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Cymera Festival@cymerafestival.co.uk · 2mo ago

The Cymera 2026 Charity Auction is now live! Bid on book bundles, signed copies and special editions; 1-2-1 zoom calls, critiques and beta reads with published authors; query critiques and more! All funds raised will go towards supporting Cymera: www.32auctions.com/cymera2026

The @cymerafestival.co.uk auction is live. I'm offering signed and annotated hardback copies of A SWORD OF BRONZE AND ASHES and A SWORD OF GOLD AND RUIN. All the references, Easter Eggs, stupid personal jokes and absurd literary pretension marked up for your edification.

The Cymera 2026 Charity Auction is now live! Bid on book bundles, signed copies and special editions; 1-2-1 zoom calls, critiques and beta reads with published authors; query critiques and more! All funds raised will go towards supporting Cymera: www.32auctions.com/cymera2026