A merry Christmas from all of us at Cymera.

Did you know Cymera is a registered charity? Become a member today to enjoy a closer relationship with the UK’s biggest scifi, fantasy & horror writing festival. You'll receive exclusive benefits, including early booking and an invite to our next AGM. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/membership

Less than 1 week to go until our 2025 Writers' Conference! ⏰ Cymera's 2025 Writers' Conference will take place on Saturday, 22nd November both in Edinburgh and online. Grab your ticket: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...

Do you write genre fiction? Want the inside scoop on the UK's newest queer small press? Keen to ask us awkward questions? Come to the Cymera Writer's Conference, and hear two bona omi-palones cackle about zhushing books.

How do publishers cut through the noise of 100s of books being published every week? Amy Portsmouth, Senior Marketing Executive at Angry Robot, will share her experience of working in marketing & publicity. Join us for our Writers' Conference on Sat 22 Nov: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...

We'll be chatting with indie publisher Bona Books about their journey from reader/writer to setting up a publishing house. @bonabooks.bsky.social was founded by 3 book-obsessed friends to produce high-quality, subversive & unapologetically queer SFFH books. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...

Announcing GUEST AUTHORS for our 2026 Writing Retreat 🤩 Claire North and Hannah Kaner will each be running a 90-minute writing workshop and hosting an Ask Me Anything session, allowing retreat attendees to pick their brains on all things writing and SFFH. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/writing-retr...

What is an edit? You may hear words like Developmental, Structural, Copyediting, Line editing, Proofreading… are they all the same thing, with varying degrees of scary-sounding names? And do you need to work with an editor to do all, some or any of them? www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...

Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair is less than a month away! 4 Days of bookstalls from 50+ presses 20 events incl DragQueen Storytelling, Community Lunch & 2 Cabarets! Full program is live, hybrid & either £5 or free! 5-9Nov: Join us! tinyurl.com/RadicalBookF... lighthousebookshop.com/events/edinb...

Again? Again. Tabletop Scotland 2026 will take place from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th September 2026 More info to follow! #TTS2026 #BoardGames #RPG #TTRPG

Can we use a prescription as a base for a SFFH story? What about a receipt? A parking ticket? A nursery rhyme? How many 'other' forms of writing could we harness to enrich our writing practice? Join us for Cymera's Writers' Conference on Sat 22 Nov: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...

Writing is a lonely business?! Not for our panel, who have embraced co-creation with others. Come along to find out how it works. Join us for Cymera's Writers' Conference on Saturday, 22nd November: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...

How do writers & agents collaborate to bring a book to readers? On this panel, our Festival Director will be in conversation with agent Robbie Guillory and authors Katalina Watt and Heather Palmer to discover their journey from manuscript to published book. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...

As Cymera Festival continues to mature, we are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals to bring new ideas and knowledge to our board. Experience in running or programming a book festival is not needed: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/join-the-board

Our 2025 Writers' Conference Programme is LIVE 🎉 This year's programme delivers a variety of writing workshops, industry expert panels and agent one-to-ones – plus a full day of fantastic networking opportunities with other genre writers. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...

We're thrilled to announce Gemma Creffield as the Keynote Speaker for this year's Writers' Conference 🎉

📣 Early Bird Tickets are now available for Cymera's 2025 Writers' Conference! 📣 Join us in Edinburgh or online on Saturday 22nd November for a packed days of workshops, panels and networking with publishing industry professionals and other writers: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/book-confere...

Can you believe it's been two whole weeks since #Cymera25 ⁉️

This one goes out to anyone in my Games Writing 101 workshop at the glorious @cymerafestival.co.uk the other day - a link to a useful Games Writing and Narrative feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

It's alive! BFS Long Story Short, Episode 6, recorded live at Cymera! britishfantasysociety.org/blog/bfs-pod... featuring interviews with Gareth L Powell, Stark Holborn, Neil Williamson, Adam Oyebanji, Sam K Horton and many, many more. #cymerafestival #podcast #fantasybooks #sfbooks #sffbooks

We're joined by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social for a live recording from @cymerafestival.co.uk on today's episode of The Writing Worlds Podcast. Lyndsey talks about the Scottish folklore inspiration for her new @lunapress.bsky.social collection Dark Crescent. 🎧 pod.link/1812994751

Once again, my friends and I were running a pay-what-you-want sticker charity drive from my table with all proceeds being collected for scottishtrans.org. The generous participants and attendees of @cymerafestival.co.uk helped us raise £227 over the weekend!

Thank you to everyone who came to see us at @cymerafestival.co.uk this weekend - and thank you for the excitement for our upcoming books! You can sign up at the link below if you want to be the first to hear when the Kickstarter goes live 🐉⬇️

I tried not to increase my book TBR pile at @cymerafestival.co.uk . So I bought #comics in the dealer's room instead! @lyndondraws.bsky.social & Nina Poulston from @bluefoxcomics.com & @mackjagee.bsky.social #BandeDessinee #Cymera2025

I loved Ry Herman's reading of the hilarious first chapter at @cymerafestival.co.uk and am excited to dive into the copy that I bought there!

Good to see a whole shelf of my books at the @blackwells.bsky.social pop-up shop at the @cymerafestival.co.uk this weekend #books

Don't forget to check out our creators outside the Theatre! It's the perfect pit-stop before or after a panel, with lots of amazing wares available 🤩

Day two @cymerafestival.co.uk whooop whoop!!

En route to @cymerafestival.co.uk to chair a panel with Beth Faulds, Stark Holborn and Gareth Powell www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-tickets... #Cymera2025 #books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

Today at 12 Noon I'll be at @cymerafestival.co.uk Panel talking about Folklores & Other Stories next to the amazing @vlatinalondon.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social with @clhellisen.bsky.social ! There will a book signing after the Panel as well. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera25-eve...

Once again I'll be at the games room at @cymerafestival.co.uk from 10 today, this time running my reverse horror game The Family! If a rules-light RPG where a group of us play the villains of a folk horror movie sounds up your street then find me up in the Highland Room. No festival 🎫 required!

Flora MacDonald & Zombies opened to a FULL HOUSE at @cymerafestival.co.uk yesterday! Thank you for being the best audience we could ask for in its very first outing. One more show this afternoon, then you'll have to catch her at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social or @edfringe.bsky.social

Heading through to @cymerafestival.co.uk in Edinburgh today and looking forward to seeing you all 😀

Good morning from Scotland. Our second day of @cymerafestival.co.uk and the sun has decided to show its face.

I've been leaving cards around #Cymera2025 with this amazing art of Aleks and Ilea I commissioned from @jennicoutts.bsky.social .... Grab if you see one. With exciting news on the flip side ;) @cymerafestival.co.uk

Had great time at Shoreline of Infinity's Event Horizon at @cymerafestival.co.uk tonight. Music, stories, poetry and more! Roll on tomorrow, the final day of cymera 2025

What a day at @cymerafestival.co.uk meeting some of my favourite authors of all time. Brilliantly supportive volunteers too helping with accessibility ♡ here are all the books I brought from home and was lucky enough to have signed today! 💙📚🌈

My haul for @cymerafestival.co.uk 2025 🤩📚 Thank you @vlatinalondon.bsky.social @eidyngray.scot @clclark.bsky.social @mhayinde.bsky.social for signing my books! ✍🏻❤️

Tomorrow at 11am, @roannelau.bsky.social (author of THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY) will be @cymerafestival.co.uk on a digital panel with ‪@gouravmohanty.bsky.social‬ & Maithree Wijesekara discussing epic legacies! www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera25-eve... Buy the book: geni.us/serpentmercy

OK just cos I've got Covid and I'm gutted to be missing @cymerafestival.co.uk doesn't mean I should have forgot my annual #BBLPleasance reminder! (although it's not a bad excuse given my current state of delirium!) #TopGrub #Local #Food #Cymera25

There are many great things about @cymerafestival.co.uk but Tabitha is definitely one of the major stars/attractions. She's currently taking a break in the Quiet Room.

Daughter and I went to @cymerafestival.co.uk to hear Adrian Tchaikovsky and Peter F. Hamilton talking about their new sci fi books! We got mightily rained on but it was worth it. Now in McDonald's, steaming slightly...

So great to see Dark Crescent out in the wild at @cymerafestival.co.uk, both at @lunapress.bsky.social and in the Blackwell's shop! And next to Limelight too @shortwavebooks.bsky.social! If you grabbed a copy, I'll be around to sign/stamp tonight, tomorrow - come find me! ✨️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚

Heading home after an utterly fab day @cymerafestival.co.uk! I believe there is one(!) copy of Some Body Like Me left in the bookshop (or at least there was two hours ago). Thank you to everyone who came to the panel and the signing, I had so much fun! 🩵🤖

I had an amazing time at @cymerafestival.co.uk , getting to do a panel and signing with the wonderful @poppytperry.bsky.social ! And now I need to go home and lie down for several hours. See you all again tomorrow!

Enjoying @cymerafestival.co.uk , some very interesting author panels so far, more to follow after brief hydration break (yes, I mean beer), and bumped into a bunch of people, some I haven't seen in ages. Good to be with my tribe... #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #Cymera2025

At @cymerafestival.co.uk and looking for a horror book fix? You can find Haunt’s books at the @blackwells.bsky.social popup shop!

Somehow against the odds of a very busy life I made it to @cymerafestival.co.uk today! With thanks to friends, bicycles and the universe.

All packed up for @cymerafestival.co.uk!