NEXT EVENT: May’s Multi Genre Salon

Tuesday the 27th of May, 2025, 7pm,

It’s the time of year for our annual dip into genre fiction, and a visit from our good friends at CYMERA.

The month of May starts with a fabulously futuristic pun (May the Fourth be with you!) and ends with our Speculative Salon. We look forward to seeing some of our good friends who have had a long association with the Literary Salon. Just ahead of the start of this year’s festival of science fiction, fantasy, and horror writing, we can’t wait to hear about CYMERA from its Director and founder, Ann Landmann.

Another good friend and former Salon Guest whose work we were pleased to publish in our first anthology, Lost, Looking & Found, Lyndsey Croal, has a new book coming out in June, and is also appearing at CYMERA. Dark Crescent – dark and seasonal tales inspired by Scottish folklore – covers a wide range of genres, including gothic, weird horror, speculative, dark fantasy, and solarpunk.

Lyndsey’s book will be published by Luna Press Publishing, an award-winning independent UK press, founded in 2015 by author and translator Francesca T. Barbini. Luna publish Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Dark Fantasy, in both fiction and academia. We’re delighted to welcome Francesca to our multi genre Salon.

Our evening will be presented by two members of our Steering Group, ABS and Zuzi, who are genre aficionados, and we hope to have people from the many genre and speculative groups to mingle with and meet after the presentation section of the evening. We will be at our usual home, The Outhouse, and tickets are free as always, but we ask for donations towards Salon costs.

How it works

 

6.30: Doors Open – reception in the Function Room at the Outhouse  

6.50: Open the Zoom meeting (details emailed to all ticket-holders)

7.00: Welcome, and Introduction

7.10: Multi-Genre Presentation

7.40: Round-up and Notes of Interest

 

Registration can be found on Eventbrite – it is free to register for all of our events.

Sadly, we are unable to offer a glass of wine on arrival, but we hope to re-continue this tradition in the future. 

We ask for donations and encourage people to buy us a coffee to help fund our work. If you can’t afford to donate, you are still welcome. Our two anthologies are on sale here, and books will be available to purchase on the night.

We look forward to seeing you in person or in the zoom-room.

Accessibility Notice

Edinburgh Literary Salon is open to all those with an interest in all aspects of Literature, whether professional or personal, and to all parts of the industry: writers, publishers, booksellers etc. All are welcome, and events have free registration. While we aim to hold some events at accessible venues, our regular salon is in an upstairs room at The Outhouse. For this reason, we aim to livestream most events. If there is a problem accessing zoom, we will do what we can to assist. We strive to ensure adequate audibility, and straightforward registration.

We invite positive feedback on how we can improve, even within our limitations as a non-funded organisation. We welcome open conversation.