Brave New Words
Cymera: Scotland’s Festival of Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror wants to offer a platform for emerging and newly published writers to read their work in front of our audience. Our readers will appear on your screen just before some of our main events.
Katalina Watt
Supporting Ramsey Campbell & Lisa Tuttle
Katalina Watt is a Filipinx-British author published in Haunted Voices, Ceremony, Unspeakable, Malefaction Magazine: Femme Fatale, and Extra Teeth: Issue Two. She is currently working on her debut short story collection based on folklore of the Philippines exploring colonialism, femininity, and queerness.
She can be found at katalinawatt.com and on Twitter at @katalinawatt.
Katalina is reading an extract from 'Lure', a short story forthcoming in Extra Teeth Issue Two.
Watch the recording of the panel on YouTube here
Ru Pringle
Supporting Adrian Tchaikovsky and Anne Charnock
Ru Pringle is a Scottish author who contributed to non-fiction publications about the outdoors, travel and science for two and a half decades since his first magazine feature at the age of 18, with published fiction including SF short stories in Interzone. He released three full-length novels in 2018: the critically acclaimed dark future thriller October Song, and A Time of Ashes and Hunting Gods - the first volumes of the fantasy-tinged epic Fate and the Wheel.
City of Dreams and Dust, due to be released in July 2020, is a gritty and ambitious space opera. A Haven in the Stars, the second of the two-part series, is to be released at the same time.
He can be found at www.rupringle.com and on Twitter at @RuPringle.
Ru is reading an extract from City of Dreams and Dust.
Watch the recording of the panel on YouTube here
M.E. Rodman
Supporting Trudi Canavan and Maria Lewis
M.E Rodman writes LGBT+ fantasy with a dark edge and occasional stories of horror and the uncanny. Their short fiction has appeared in Anthologies; Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion, The Dark Half of the Year, Goddesses of the Sea and A Picture’s Worth and online at Expanded Horizons and Zetetic, a Record of Unusual Inquiry. A short story The Selkie; A Tale of Love, Obsession and the Sea, was adapted and performed as a live radio play for the Sanctum Project in 2015.
Their debut novel Blood and Thorn, published by Kristell Ink, is available from the publisher.
They can be found on facebook and on twitter @thecantingbones
Watch the recording of the panel on YouTube here
Callum McSorley
Supporting MR Carey, Kit Power & Tim Lebbon
Callum McSorley is an author based in Aberdeenshire. His short stories have appeared in Gutter Magazine, The Glasgow Review of Books, Monstrous Regiment, and Shoreline of Infinity, among others. His fantasy noir novel, Burying the Dragon, will be published on 1st August by Mobius Books.
He can be found on www.callummcsorley.com/ and on twitter @CallumMcSorley
Watch the recording of the panel on YouTube here
Daniel Allison
Supporting Kat Dunn & Kiran Millwood Hargraves
Daniel Allison is a Scottish author and oral storyteller. He is the author of The Bone Flute, Scottish Myths & Legends and Finn & The Fianna. Daniel has travelled and performed throughout the world, from Peru to Uganda to Nepal, and recently spent six months living at a Muay Thai gym in Thailand. He hosts the House of Legends Podcast and coaches writers and oral storytellers.
He can be found on www.houseoflegends.me, on facebook and on instagram @houseoflegendspodcast.
Daniel will be reading an extract from The Bone Flute. Set in Iron Age Orkney, the story draws on Orcadian prehistory and folklore to create a tale that is fantastical yet deeply rooted in Orkney’s landscape and ancient past. It is the first volume in an epic fantasy series ranging across Iron Age Scotland and Northern Europe.
Watch the recording of the panel on YouTube here