Thank You

A festival like Cymera would not be possible without the support from our funders, sponsors, individual donors and volunteers.

Whether you have donated your time or your money, we’d like to thank you from the bottom of our genre loving hearts - you have made it all possible!

Our 2023 Supporters

Ad Astra, a Head of Zeus imprint

Ad Astra is the SFF imprint of publisher Head of Zeus, now part of Bloomsbury Publishing.

Authors on the Ad Astra list include Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cory Doctorow, Ian Green, Kate Elliot, Ken Liu, Cixin Liu, Lavie Tidhar, Shauna Lawless and A.G. Riddle.

Ancient Robot Games

Ancient Robot Games is a new independent board game shop and board game café in Edinburgh, at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.

They have an extensive board games library, tabletop RPGs, and miniatures.

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Angry Robot

Angry Robot Books is an independent publisher of the very best in science fiction, fantasy, and WTF?! Since 2009, they have consistently sought to find and give a platform to new voices and new stories that push the boundaries of genre fiction, mess them about, and put them back together again in all kinds of awesome ways – we like to think of ourselves as ‘genrefluid’.

Their brilliant authors and books have been nominated for or won most of the biggest prizes in world SFF, from the Hugos to the Philip K. Dick Award, the Arthur C. Clarke to the Kitchies (Jeannette Ng even won an award for her acceptance speech of her previous award!).

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Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA)

Aka our venue hosts.

EUSA have supported us from day one, and we love working with them. If you’re ever on the hunt for a venue, give them a shout.

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Flame Tree Publishing

Flame Tree Publishing have been on the go for over thirty years, making illustrated books since 1992, art calendars since 1998, notebooks since 2006, illustrated ebooks since 2009 and short-story fiction since 2015, and the launch of our genre fiction list in 2018. They aim, always, to make objects and books which are both beautiful and practical, that enrich the lives of the people who work with them and partner with them, who read and enjoy what they make.

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Illumicrate

llumicrate is the subscription box for book lovers.

They are dedicated to bringing you beautiful, unique editions of books and quality merchandise!

With Evernight, Illumicrate will be bringing you new horror releases with exclusive features, such as exclusive covers, sprayed or stencilled edges, artwork customisations and more. Don’t miss out!

Polaris Publishing

Polaris is a publishing and digital media company that celebrates writers, stories and ideas that excite, inspire and entertain. We are immensely proud to publish a range of award-winning works by world-class authors and are committed to publishing important, thoughtful and gripping stories with passion, skill and dedication..

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Write Gear and PageOne Podcast

Page One is more than just another notebook. It’s a place to put down all your ideas for your latest project, with 192 pages divided into 7 easy-to-use sections that will really let you focus on what’s important. When you use it, it’ll help you to get to the main event: writing your story!

On Page One - The Writer’s Podcast, hosts Marco and Tariq talk to writers of all kinds (authors, screenwriters, comic writers and so on) to learn about how they go about creating their stories.

Each new episode is a deep dive into that guest’s writing history, including how they broke into the industry and what their writing process is. We also explore their work, and try and eke out any exciting forthcoming tales!

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