Authors Sharon Gosling, Rebecca Ryan and Heidi Swain join Simon and Schuster's Sara-Jade Virtue to discuss their new feel-good novels, idylic settings, love, life and answer some important questions - what is love and what makes a happily ever after?

About the Festival
After a triumphant debut year, the Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival is back for 2024 with a bigger, even more stunning lineup.

The Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival is a literary festival celebrating writing for, by, and about women. We are an inclusive event and welcome everyone who finds joy in reading women's fiction - commercial, romance, historical, literary, book club and beyond. Our festival showcases authors of genres that are often overlooked, and our aim is to give readers the opportunity to connect with their favourite writers.

This year's festival will take place on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th September 2024, in our lovely venue of Morningside United Church and livestreamed for the first time for those who can't make it in person!

Virtual access to our Regency Romance author panel event.

27th Sept, 5:30-6:30pm: Unladylike and Scandalous Behaviour: Regency romance with Amita Murray and Emma Orchard — Chaired by Katrina Kendrick

Virtual access to our Insight Into Indie and Traditional Publishing author panel event.

27th Sept, 12-1pm: An Insight Into Indie and Traditional Publishing with Julia Boggio, Jayne Castel & Elliot Fletcher — Chaired by Jane Anderson

Virtual access to our Witch Trials in Scotland author panel event.

28th Sept, 10:30-11:30am: Something Wicked This Way Comes: Witch trials in Scotland with CJ Cooke and Kate Foster — Chaired by Jean Menzies

Virtual access to our Happy Event Afters author panel event.

28th Sept, 2-3pm: Happy Ever After with Heidi Swain, Sharon Gosling and Rebecca Ryan — Chaired by Sara-Jade Virtue

Virtual access to our Cosy Fantasy author panel event.

28th Sept, 3:30-4:30pm: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: The magic and love of cosy fantasy with Nadia El-Fassi and Lucy Jane Wood — Chaired by Ann Landmann

Virtual access to our Modern Family author panel event.

28th Sept, 12-1pm: Modern Family: Love, drama, and defying family tradition with Melanie Cantor and Georgina Moore — Chaired by Claire Daverley

Virtual access to our Walking In the Shadow of Men author panel event.

28th Sept, 5-6pm: Walking in the Shadow of Men: Bringing women to the centre of historical fiction with Lesley McDowell and Sara Sheridan — Chaired by Kim Sherwood

Virtual access to our Inspirational Voices event with Maggie O'Farrell.

27th Sept, 7-8pm: Inspirational Voices: Maggie O’Farrell in conversation with Jenny Brown

This ticket gives you virtual access to this panel event.

Single Event Access

This ticket gives you virtual access to all our author panel events, over 27th and 28th September.