Calling all literary lovers! A brand new books festival is launching in York next month.
Jupiter Cloud Book Festival is a new one-day book festival, that aims to bring together book lovers, authors, and storytellers for a vibrant celebration of all things literary.
It’s set to take place on Saturday 28 February from 11am to 5pm at Central Methodist Church on St Saviourgate in York.
The festival was created by Romy Morgan, a 26-year-old author of magical queer romance from the North of England.
The first two books in her debut series ‘Fallen Feathers’ was published in 2025, with the third coming soon. Fallen Feathers is set in York, and follows demon Nessa and angel Ophelia in a sweeping queer love story full of feelings, morals, found family, and peril.
As well as an author, Romy is also a historian and recently graduated with a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies, basing a lot of her works on York’s history.
Romy founded the publishing company Jupiter Cloud Books, with the name inspired by her two cats Jupiter and Nimbus.
“I made the decision early when writing my books, that I would like to create my own independent publisher to produce my books.”
Romy explained she wanted to do this for a number of reasons. “Mainly that I wanted to retain all rights and control over my stories. I have published my own books, and hope to offer publication to other authors of queer stories soon.”
The inspiration behind creating the festival came from Romy spending a lot of 2025 attending various markets, conventions and events and finding “not many affordable book-specific events in the North of England.
“So I decided to create my own!
“After conducting some research I found that York was a popular location suggestion, and as it is my favourite city, I thought it would be the perfect place to host the first Jupiter Cloud Book Festival.
“I feel that as there are very few of this kind of event in the North; it’s an event that we have been missing here.”
The festival will feature over 25 authors of a wide range of genres including romance, adventure, horror, poetry, non-fiction, children’s, historical, fantasy, and more.
“My hope is that visitors can discover their next favourite book and author at this festival,” said Romy.
“I want to highlight authors that most people may not be familiar with, to encourage people to read away from just the well-known bestsellers, or the ones that are popular on ‘BookTok’.”
As well as visiting authors who will be eager to meet and chat with visitors, there will also be talks and performances, hands-on workshops such as poetry writing and bookish crafting, and local businesses who will be selling a range of literary gifts.
“I am excited for the future of Jupiter Cloud Books, and I hope the festival will be the beginning of many more book related adventures in the future.
“I’m hoping to make the festival an annual event in York, but I am also planning to host festivals in other nearby cities – the next one is set to take place in Sheffield!”
Tickets for the Jupiter Cloud Book Festival are £3 with under 16s going free, and are available via Eventbrite.
To find out more about Jupiter Cloud Books, visit their website here.
