
Cymera Festival /Shoreline of Infinity Competition 2026 – the Winners!
The 2026 Cymera Festival/ Shoreline of Infinity Short story competition for Scottish writers.

The 2026 Cymera Festival/ Shoreline of Infinity Short story competition for Scottish writers.

Event Horizon returns to the Cymera Festival with a stunning line-up. You will be amazed!

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb
There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’”

Cymera, Scotland’s Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing and Shoreline of Infinity, Scotland’s award-winning science fiction magazine are teaming up again to host our short story competition in our quest to discover the best of Scottish Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror writing.

We are delighted to be nominated to the longlist for the BSFA Awards for SF Caledonia Anthology One. This is in the category of Best Collections published in 2025, and gosh we’re in such fine company.

The 2025 Cymera Festival/ Shoreline of Infinity Short story competition for Scottish writers

A stunning night of glorious science fictional words and music.

As announced on the Cymera Festival website: The jury has read, met and here is the longlist going forward to the next stage. Bibi’s Sisters

We’ve teamed up with the superlative Edinburgh Bookshop to launch SF Caledonia Anthology One.
20th March 2025.