Live science fiction events, online and in real-life.
8pm Thursday 11th February 2021
Join Jane Yolen and the Shoreline team as we proudly publish and launch her short collection, The Last Robot.
Poems, will be read,
chat will be had,
jokes may be made.
Hosted by Russell Jones.
8pm, Thursday 12th November 2020
Launch of ‘Uncanny Bodies’ anthology – readings of stories, poems and essays celebrating the uncanny.
Featuring readings of stories and poems from contributors
Pippa Goldschmidt (MC)
Christine De Luca
Neil Williamson
Alice Tarbuck
Sara Wasson
Eris Young
Naomi Salman
nicky melville
Thursday 19th November 2020 (8-8:30pm UK time)
Join editors Claire Askew and Russell Jones at the launch of a new edition of Umbrellas of Edinburgh, where they explore Scotland’s capital city through contemporary poetry and prose.
Live readings by:
Alice Tarbuck
Finola Scott
Ricky Brown
Lady Red Ego
Marjorie Lotfi Gill
8pm Thursday 26th November 2020
Music: Texture
Poetry: F.J. Bergmann
Prose: Chris Beckett, Tony Ballantyne
Art: Jackie Duckworth and Mark Toner
Flash Fiction Awards: presented by Napier Uni students – winning story read by Danielle Farrow
Zoom Drama: The Infinitesimals – Reptilian Flux continues
Hosted by: Russell Jones
8pm Wednesday 4th November 2020
New visions of city living through the laser-sharp lenses of biological research.
Readings and chat from
Clare Duffy
Pippa Goldschmidt
Gavin Inglis
Neil Williamson
Andrew J. Wilson
Kirsti Wishart
Vivek Senthivel
Editors: Larissa Pschetz, Jane McKie, Elise Cachat
8pm, Thursday 22nd October 2020
Join Ruth EJ Booth and Russell Jones as they explore sci-fi in video gaming, with live videogame-inspired poetry, prose, music and talks from videogames researchers and industry professionals.
Music: Theremin Hero
Poetry: Stephen Sexton
Prose: Corey Brotherson
Academic chat: Gabriel Elvery (University of Glasgow) and Charly Harbord (Abertay University)
Games design talk: Graeme McKellan, No Code (Observation, Stories Untold)
Hosted by Ruth EJ Booth and Russell Jones
Discussing Parallel Universes and Parallel Lives.
8pm, Thursday 15th October 2020
Surveillancing the Future
A chat about sci-fi technologies, surveillance, the bias and discrimination of technologies with Nailah King and Chimedum Ohaegbu
This event is now in the past, but you can watch it at: In conversation: Nailah King and Chimedum Ohaegbu
If you enjoy it, please think about buying a ‘retro’ ticket here!
Explore the newly-exploding genre of Literary RPGs
Find out about LitRPGs, a newly-exploding genre of fiction set in video-gaming worlds. Publisher (Portal Books) Taran Matharu talks about the genre, with readings from Russell Jones, Jonathan Smidt and Jay Boyce.
8pm, Thursday 20th August 2020
“Destroying the lie of Plotter vs Pantser, and other unhelpful writing rules”
Do you plan your story to the tiniest detail, or do you make it up as you go along?
Are you looking for advice for your next writing project, and are bewildered about all the writing ‘rules’ out there? Cat Hellisen answers your writing questions.
Join Shoreline of Infinity for our annual reunion of SF writers Jane Yolen, Jo Walton, Rachel Plummer and Ada Palmer – readings and chat, with a live audience Q&A.
Monday 10th August 2020
Scottish writer Ru Pringle talks about his near-future thriller set in the west coast of Scotland. He also ponders humour and folk music in science fiction, while aided and abetted by Noel Chidwick, Shoreline of Infinity’s Editor-in-Chief.
Launching Shoreline of Infinity 18: Spotlight on BAME SF writers
Music: Fadzai Mandaza
Prose: Zen Cho, Asith Pallemulla, Tobi Ogundiran
Poetry: Robert René Galván
Drama: Debbie Cannon, Jonathan Whiteside, Ben Blow
Emelumadu and Huchu will be discussing their love of African monsters, the weird, and the craft of writing dope SFF.
Launching Shoreline of Infinity 18: Spotlight on BAME SF writers
Live performances from…
Music: Fadzai Mandaza
Prose: Zen Cho, Asith Pallemulla, Tobi Ogundiran
Poetry: Robert René Galván
Drama: Debbie Cannon, Jonathan Whiteside, Ben Blow
with Tendai Huchu
and your host: Russell Jones
Tonight’s Line-up:
Chris McQueer, Nerine Dorman, Caroline Hardaker, Tendai Huchu and your host: Russell Jones
Zen Cho reads from her short story, Odette, published in Shoreline of Infinity 18, released in June 2020.
Pippa Goldschmidt, Joyce Chng and Brian M Milton. Contrasts today as we meet the first woman in space visiting Edinburgh, tentacles on a football pitch in Glasgow and a space opera from Singapore.
Tendai is reading from his short story Corialis, we have archive footage of Atz improvising on the cello,and Neil reads ‘Rare as a Harpy’s Tear.’
Come join us at Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon Online.
cocoon is a new full-length collection of poetry by Edinburgh-based writer & editor Russell Jones, who is of course our fearless Deputy and Poetry Editor.
Meet your host, Russell Jones, who introduces you to Event Horizon online.
He also reads his own SF poems and story segments — and includes his most disgusting bad joke.
T H Dray reads The Worms of Talav, a flash poem-story about clever, kind, blue earthworms from another world.
She is reading from her Lockdown Location in Glasgow.
Ru Pringle joins us at Event Horizon Online from his Lockdown Location in Dunoon in Scotland.
He is reading an extract from his latest novel, October Song, set in the near future and takes us on a nail-biting chase around the Highlands.
Ken MacLeod joins us at Event Horizon Online from his Lockdown Location at home in Gourock, near Glasgow.
He is reading an extract from an as yet unreleased novella, Selkie Summer, to be published by NewCon Press
Performing at Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon on 12th March 2020 at an event celebrating International Women’s Day.
Birthed in the body shop,
polished by the nurse,
it rests in your arm
without movement or thought,
until you speak.
Tonight’s Line-up:
Hosted by Laura Lam
Stories – Cat Hellisen
Poetry – Jeda Pearl Lewis
Music – Aurora Engine
Drama – Witches’ Gets
with Alex Delaney,
written by Noëlle Harrison
Stories – Pim Wangtechawat
& Sienna Vance
Test your knowledge – it’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Quiz Night! Hosted by Cymera Quiz GuruJames AndersonplusPoetry from Aileen Ballantyne Danielle Farrow reads the winning
Scotland has big plans for its space industry in the next decade: opening Europe’s first orbital spaceport, expanding further its satellite research and manufacturing industry,
Shoreline of Infinity’s Expedition to Mars Launching the Scotland in Space anthology Orbiting the R** planet with: Mars fiction – Pippa Goldschmidt Space fact
Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon Two Launches in One Night! Oh, how we spoil you…: Prose: Jonathan Whitelaw – launching The Man in the Dark
On catch-up. Fill your screen, turn up the volume and sit back. Enjoy the show!
Did Scotland ever have its own top-secret space programme? Did the project succeed in sending a man into space, even if it couldn’t bring him back?
Watch the (book) launch event.
Join Jane Yolen and the Shoreline team as we proudly publish and launch her short collection, The Last Robot.
Poems, will be read, chat will be had, jokes may be made.
Hosted by Russell Jones.
Music: Texture
Poetry: F.J. Bergmann
Prose: Chris Beckett, Tony Ballantyne
Art: Jackie Duckworth and Mark Toner
Flash Fiction Awards – winning story read by Danielle Farrow
Zoom Drama: The Infinitesimals – Reptilian Flux continues
Hosted by: Noel Chidwick and Mark Toner
Thursday 19th November 2020
Join editors Claire Askew and Russell Jones at the launch of a new edition of Umbrellas of Edinburgh, where they explore Scotland’s capital city through contemporary poetry and prose.
Live readings by:
Alice Tarbuck
Finola Scott
Ricky Brown
Lady Red Ego
Marjorie Lotfi Gill
Thursday 12th November 2020
Launch of ‘Uncanny Bodies’ anthology – readings of stories, poems and essays celebrating the uncanny.
Published by Luna Press
Featuring readings of stories and poems from contributors
Pippa Goldschmidt (MC)
Christine De Luca
Neil Williamson
Alice Tarbuck
Sara Wasson
Eris Young
Naomi Salman
nicky melville
8pm Wednesday 4th November 2020
New visions of city living through the laser-sharp lenses of biological research.
Readings and chat from
Clare Duffy
Pippa Goldschmidt
Gavin Inglis
Neil Williamson
Andrew J. Wilson
Kirsti Wishart
Vivek Senthivel
Editors: Larissa Pschetz, Jane McKie, Elise Cachat
8pm, Thursday 22nd October 2020
Join Ruth EJ Booth and Russell Jones as they explore sci-fi in video gaming, with live videogame-inspired poetry, prose, music and talks from videogames researchers and industry professionals.
Music: Theremin Hero
Poetry: Stephen Sexton
Prose: Corey Brotherson
Academic chat: Gabriel Elvery (University of Glasgow) and Charly Harbord (Abertay University)
Games design talk: Graeme McKellan, No Code (Observation, Stories Untold)
Hosted by Ruth EJ Booth and Russell Jones
Discussing Parallel Universes and Parallel Lives.
8pm, Thursday 15th October 2020
Surveillancing the Future
A chat about sci-fi technologies, surveillance, the bias and discrimination of technologies with Nailah King and Chimedum Ohaegbu
8pm, Thursday 27th August 2020