TAGS Festival

@tagsfest.co.uk

Tabletop & Graphic Storytelling Festival
https://tagsfest.co.uk/

🏷️ 17th October 2026
📌 Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh
✉️ [email protected]
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Run by @smallpress.scot

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 11, 2026, 11:01 AM

💬 PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT! Join @qmanivannan.bsky.social, @tsundernova.bsky.social, and @tettix.bsky.social in a discussion about the current state of Scotland's art scenes.

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk
🎤 See what other panels are happening at tagsfest.co.uk#talks

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 10, 2026, 11:01 AM

Not long until TAGS Fest 2026! See you soon at Out of the Blue Drill Hall for a day of indie publishing, games, and talks!

@chrislaumanson.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:14 PMReposted by @tagsfest.co.uk

Also debuting at @tagsfest.co.uk next weekend: this zine, which accurately depicts what I get up to at art school 👀

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 9, 2026, 11:02 AM

💬 TALK ANNOUNCEMENT! Join Cleo Goodman from Basic Income for Artists Scotland to hear all about the new Scottish Artists Minimum Income pilot.

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk
🎤 See what other panels are happening at tagsfest.co.uk#talks

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 8, 2026, 11:02 AM

💬 TALK ANNOUNCEMENT! Join Maria Stoian and Sarah Lippett from Onion Press in an exploration of a postcard collection, and try your hand at writing your own.

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk
🎤 See what other panels are happening at tagsfest.co.uk#talks

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 7, 2026, 11:00 AM

Our Board Game Zone is hosted by the wonderful folks at @ancientrobotgames.bsky.social and their amazing team of volunteer Game Masters 🤖

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 7, 2026, 11:00 AM

📋 Board Game Zone sign-ups are now OPEN! You can stop by the Board Game Zone on the day to borrow a game or sign up to Blood in the Clocktower, or book in advance to secure a spot in one of 3 different RPGs!

Book in advance: www.ancientrobotgames.co.uk/bookings

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 6, 2026, 11:02 AM

💬 PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT! Join Bhavani Balasubramanyam and @toadlett.bsky.social as they discuss how to use history as inspiration in storytelling.

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk
🎤 See what other panels are happening at tagsfest.co.uk#talks

@toadlett.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 8:28 PMReposted by @tagsfest.co.uk

Quick post with the remaining cons I have booked for the year! Next week I'll be in Sheffield for SCARF, then the week after is @tagsfest.co.uk , and then in November I'll be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social ! See you there! I'll have several brand new books, more on them soon!

graphic showing a picture of me leading a big bristly pig with the word BOOKS painted on her side. text reads: witness the book hog

> scarf, 10th october, sheffield,
trafalgar warehouse
> tags fest, 17th october, edinburgh,
out of the blue drill Hall
> thought bubble, 14-15th november,
Harrogate convention centre,
2000ad Hall b5

@furtiveshambles.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 11:08 AMReposted by @tagsfest.co.uk

see you next soon Edinburgh!

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 5, 2026, 11:01 AM

💬 PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT! Join @palleonpress.bsky.social and @furtiveshambles.bsky.social as they discuss using game design to encourage play and learning.

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk
🎤 See what other panels are happening at tagsfest.co.uk#talks

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 4, 2026, 11:01 AM

📢 Exhibitor announcement: BATMAKES.

"Bat is a queer artist who makes zines about their own experiences. Their newest zines, BAT Zine 1 and 2, focus on topics like feminism, physical media and 90s/2000s nostalgia."

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 3, 2026, 11:02 AM

📢 Exhibitor announcement: FURTIVE SHAMBLES (@furtiveshambles.bsky.social).

"Furtive Shambles is a game design co-op based in Yorkshire. We make wild, strange and sharp games, for people and community."

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 2, 2026, 11:03 AM

📢 Exhibitor announcement: COMICS YOUTH SCIO.

"Comics Youth SCIO is a charity for children and young people aged 8-25, based in Dundee. We deliver comics-based literacy, sequential art, publishing and wellbeing projects."

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

@smallpress.scot Oct 1, 2026, 3:25 PMReposted by @tagsfest.co.uk

We're looking for a new director! Are you passionate about Scottish small press? Do you want to make a substantial impact for Scotland's self-publishing creators? Then you might be the perfect fit for the Small Press Scotland team!

📌 See the full details: smallpress.scot/jobs/director

We're looking for a new director!

Would you like to make a substantial impact on Scotland’s small press scenes and help uplift self-publishing creators? Small Press Scotland CIC is looking for a new director to join our existing team as a partner. You will assist with and oversee event organisation, community engagement, and development of resources and strategies to educate and assist creators working across many creative fields.

This is a volunteer, unpaid role for the immediate future; all current directors are working on a volunteer or contractor basis dependent on project funding. If full funding is received for our 2027 programme and beyond, we expect to pay all directors a rate of £20/hour for approximately 200 hours a year.

See the full details on our website!

Deadline to apply: 5pm, 9/12/2026
Interviews: from 4/1/2027
Responses: by 22/1/2027
Expected start date: February 2027

@tagsfest.co.uk Oct 1, 2026, 11:02 AM

📢 Exhibitor announcement: TOM HUMBERSTONE (@tomhumberstone.com).

"Award-winning comic creator based in Edinburgh."

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

@tagsfest.co.uk Sep 30, 2026, 11:02 AM

📢 Exhibitor announcement: SHONA HEANEY ART (@iwanttobeahydra.bsky.social).

"Sho is a comic artist and unrepentant art gremlin based in Glasgow. She spends a completely normal amount of time drawing sad fictional men with silly faces!"

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

@tagsfest.co.uk Sep 29, 2026, 11:02 AM

📢 Exhibitor announcement: SHAZLEEN KHAN (@shazleenmkhan.bsky.social).

"Shazleen Khan is a queer Bangladeshi Muslim Illustrator and Author based in London. Their work centres experiences of diaspora and complicated inter-personal relationships."

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

@tagsfest.co.uk Sep 28, 2026, 11:02 AM

📢 Exhibitor announcement: PALLEON PRESS (@palleonpress.bsky.social).

"Palleon Press is a small publisher of handmade roleplaying zines and pocket-sized storytelling games. It was founded in Texas in 2023."

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

@tagsfest.co.uk Sep 28, 2026, 9:59 AM

Our posters are up across the city! If you catch a glimpse of any of our posters, or our ad on the tram, shoot us a photo! 🏷️

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