11th April: In conversation with Kaliane Bradley, celebrating her novel The Ministry of Time as part of the Milton Keynes Literary Festival. More details here.
January 2025: As part of the National Gallery’s Friday Lates events, joining Gallery Educator Fiona Alderton as she introduces work by Judith Leyster and Hendrick ter Brugghen, alongside responses from poets Sinnead Singson, Bella Weerasinghe and S J Fowler. More information available here.
January 2025: Speaking with students at Goldsmiths University as part of their Writers Centre event series, introduced by Amy Sackville. More details here.
November 2024: In conversation with Ali Smith, launching the marvellous new novel Gliff as part of the South Bank’s winter literature programme. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.45-9pm. https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/ali-smith-gliff/
August 2024: Book launch for Moderate to Good, Occasionally Poor at London Review of Books bookshop, hosted by So Mayer. More details about tickets available here, with podcast of conversation to follow.
August 2024: An online evening masterclass dedicated to ‘literary play’ with Word Factory and Cathy Galvin; more details available here.
June 2024: Presenting during Performance Studies International PSi29 conference Assemble! as part of Generative Constraints committee. Held at Senate House library; more information available here.
May 2024: Appearing with Sarah Bernstein to discuss recent work with Max Liu, as part of ‘Fictions: Silence and Confusion’ at the Hay Festival. Tickets available here.
February 2020 — LONDON, E1: Talk with students at QMUL, 2pm.
February 2020 — LONDON, SE14: Discussing writing with Nell Stevens at the Writers' Centre at Goldsmith’s University. Located at Professor Stuart Hall Building, Room PSH LG01, 7pm: tickets available here.
February 2020 — LONDON, SE15: Leading workshops with Nicholas Tufnell to explore modern mythology in Southwark. Taking place in Peckham Library and All Saints Hall in Surrey Square. The day featured exhibits and artefacts from the Cuming collection. More info here.
February 2020 — LONDON, SE17: As above, the second of two workshops takes place in More info here.
July 2019 — Appearing aurally as part of Bold Tendencies’ FICTION: LIVE to celebrate the launch of new publishing house Prototype, and the publication of its first annual anthology, prototype 1. The evening features readings from Test Centre and Prototype authors Sam Riviere, Jen Calleja and Caleb Klaces and a discussion chaired by publisher Jess Chandler and literary agent Harriet Moore. Tickets available here.
July 2019 — ‘A Night of Pure Moby Dickery’ curated by David Collard. Featuring Will Barrett, Robert Cohen, John Dobson, Henningham Family Press, Howard Horner, Will Eaves, Jen Hodgson, Jessica Kinsey, Melissa McCarthy, Matt Prendergast, Tony White and others. The Tin Tabernacle, Kilburn, 7pm..
May 22nd 2019 — Working with fiction writers for the Totleigh Barton Arvon writing course.
March 4th 2019 — Participating in a panel discussion of Joyce as part of the ‘Dadaist pop-up cabaret’ celebration of Finnegans Wake, Finneganight. With Jen Hodgson, Susan Tomaselli and June Caldwell.
March 23rd 2019 — Running a Creative Writing course for the Writers’ Toolkit series at the National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, 115-123 King Street, Norwich, NR2 3LF.
March20th2019— Celebrating the work of László Krasznahorkai alongside Steven Fowler, Karen Sandhu, Stephen Watts, David Spittle, Mischa Foster Poole, Benedict Taylor and Christian Patracchini. Part of the European Poetry Festival, hosted by the Hungarian Cultural Centre. More info here: https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/europeanwriters
March 6th 2019— Appearing as part of the Ian Patterson series of talks on Ash Wednesday, hosted by Andrew Zurcher at Queens’ College, Cambridge.
October 18th 2018 — As part of Vanguard Readings organised by Richard Skinner, launching Ana Teresa Pereira's new work, alongside Tom Lee, Paul Ewan, Toby Litt & Alex Pheby.
September -November 2018 — Term of Poetry School short story course ‘On Noticing and Startling’ with David Hayden.
September 30th 2018 — Small Wonder Festival, Charleston, discussing concepts of 'the liminal' and 'intimacy' with Neil Bartlett.. 8pm (Tickets: £14/12).
September 22nd 2018 — Celebrating 10 years of 'Pages of Hackney' bookshop with readings by Will Harris, Jeffrey Boakye, Kate Murray-Browne, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Joe Dunthorne and Iain Sinclair. more info here.
September 23rd 2018 — Reading and Q&A as part of Milton Keynes' Literary Festival. Holiday Inn, Milton Keynes. 1.45pm. Tickets £5.
September 12th 2018 — In conversation with Ben Marcus, launching the UK edition of his Notes From the Fogat the London Review of Books bookshop.
August 18th 2018 — Celebrating shortlisted entries for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and biography, alongside Omar El Akkad, Jonathan Eig, Hari Kunzru, Craig Brown, Gwendoline Riley, Richard Beard. Presented by Sally Magnusson. Spark Theatre, George Street, 7.15pm. Tickets: £10/12.
August 17th 2018— Appearing with Gwendoline Riley at the Edinburgh Festival, as part of the James Tait Black Fiction Prize Events. Hosted by in association with the University of Edinburgh. Garden Theatre. 2.15pm. Tickets: £12/£10.
August 17th 2018 — Reading with Thomas Enger, Ziyad Marar and Fiona Sampson at the Edinburgh Festival, for LGBTQ+ STATE OF MIND event as part of the Amnesty International Imprisoned Writers Series. Baillie Gifford Corner Theatre, 5.30pm. Free.
July 12th 2018 — Appeared with Generative Constraints research committee as part of the International Federation for Theatre Research 2018, hosted by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade. Our piece 'Break-up Variations' was submitted as part of the 'Theatre, Nation and Identity: Between Migration and Stasis' strand.
June 16th 2018 — Greenwich Book Festival, appearing with Zoe Skoulding, Verity Spott, Eley Williams and D S Marriott, hosted by Emily Critchley, as part of a line-up celebrating radical poetries from London, Brighton, Wales & California.
June 16th 2018— Greenwich Book Festival, appearing with Clare Sita Fisher and David Hayden to discuss 'the long life of short fiction' with Sam Jordison.
March 8th 2018 — The third English PEN Modern Literature Festival will see 12 contemporary UK-based writers present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world at All Saints Church in Kingston-upon-Thames from 7pm. www.englishpen.org.
February 20th 2018 — ‘A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but their tasks.’ - Georges Bataille, L’informe (Formless, 1929). Participating in seminar series 'Key Words: Coming to Terms with the Environmental Humanities' curated by Amy Cutler and reading alongside Luke McMullan, Colm McAuliffe, Kate Teltscher, Emma Bolland, and Helen Clarke. In the midst of the challenges posed by global environmental change and the problems of the Anthropocene, a range of writers and thinkers have returned to the idea of the lexicon, dictionary, or glossary as a critical device. A series of collective projects have evolved that re-animate or critically inhabit these forms, from ‘Key Words for Radicals’, to ‘Posthuman Glossary’, ‘Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen’, ‘Genealogy of the Post Human’, ‘Veer Ecology’, and ‘Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities’. In this session, and marking 30 years since Raymond Williams’ death, we will take a look at a series of these projects to explore how we might ‘come to terms’ with the Environmental Humanities. Survival; resilience; decoy; human; nature; alien …which term would you deconstruct anew, and how? 11 Bedford Square, London, Room 1-03, 3-5pm. http://geohumanitiesforum.org/events-key-words-coming-to-terms-with-the-environmental-humanities-2022018/
February 19th 2018 — Reading alongside Joanna Walsh, Kirsty Gunn and Stewart Home to celebrate Tony White's new novel The Fountain in the Forest (Faber, 2018). 'Under the Paving Stones', based at The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London W1W 7JD. 7pm. http://fabersocial.co.uk/event/under-the-paving-stones
February 8th 2018 — Participating in Copy Press' Readers Union event, 'I, Without Guarantees’. Venue and time tbc.
January 31st 2018 — Discussing 'Narrating London' alongside Kit Catless and Gary Budden at the Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4QH. 19.00 - 20.30, free.
November22nd 2017 — 'Dissolution or Division: Conscious Uncouplings and Collaborative'. A special event organised by Generative Constraints, in association with the Practice-Based Research Programme and the Department of Drama, Theatre, and Dance’s ‘Breaking Waves Seminar Series’ at Royal Holloway, University of London. This event brings together researchers and practitioners who wish to share ideas relating to the problems particular to working in groups: the challenges of collaboration, the disagreements and community-led conflict resolutions, the difficulties with acting professionally, and the desires to keep working together, despite it all. Studio 2, Katherine Worth Building, Royal Holloway, Egham, 5-7pm.
November22nd 2017 — New Writing From Twickenham, as part of the Richmond Literary Festival 2017. 7-9pm.
November16th 2017 — Reading and discussion with RHUL's Eng Lit Soc as part of their series. The Boiler House, Royal Holloway, Egham Hill, Egham TW20 0EX
November 15th 2017 — Commissioned by Steven Fowler to respond to the work of Peter Handke at the Austrian Cultural Forum off Hyde Park. More details here: http://www.theenemiesproject.com/#/illuminations/
October20th 2017 — Celebrating the work of Little Island Press' David Hayden (Darker With the Lights On), and Russell Persson (The Way of Florida) by joining a discussion of recent innovative fiction. Hosted by Burley Fisher Books, 400 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4AA with tickets and more info available here. 7.00pm.
October 22nd 2017 — Supporting the launch of Tom O. C. Wilson's new album 'Tell A Friend'. More details here, doors 7pm. Servant Jazz Quarters, 10a Bradbury Street, London N16 8JN.
October26th 2017— Participation at UEA Live for The Writers' Centre, Norwich. Further details concerning the day available here. The Pig and Whistle, 2-8 All Saints Green, Norwich NR1 3NA. 6.30pm, free.
September 30th 2017 — Reading with poets from the Sad Press stables as part of 2017's Free Verse: Poetry Book Fair. 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
September 28th 2017 — Commissioned reading National Poetry Day at The Alfred Tennyson, 7pm. 10 Motcomb St, Belgravia, London SW1X 8LA.
September 21st 2017 — Participating in a 'Novel Writers conversation' at Spike Island in Bristol. Tickets priced at £5 and £3 concessions, with booking advised. Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX, 6.30-8pm.
September 18th 2017 — Reading with Judith Goldman as part of Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre. 11 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London. WC1B 3RF, 7pm.
September 12th 2017 — Q&A with students from Boston University. 43 Harrington Gardens, Kensington, London SW7 4JU. 4pm.
July 21st 2017 — Launch of small collection of poetry,Frit (Sad Press) at that month's Anathema, reading alongside Emily Critchley, Jonathan Mulcahy, Sarah Cave & Anna Cathenka and others. The Light Room, Arnolfini, Bristol, BS1 4QA.
June 29th 2017 — Reading at the double-launch event for Isabel Waidner's queer avant-garde novel Gaudy Bauble(Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017), and Not Here—a queer anthology of loneliness (Pilot Press, 2017) edited by Richard Dodwell. Other reader/performers on the night include Timothy Thornton, Olivia Laing, and a DJ set with Chapter 10's Charlie Porter. The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1JD.
June 4th 2017 — Part of the 'Rising Stars' panel at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival alongside Nell Stevens, Miranda Doyle, Paula Cocozza and Isabel Costello.
May 27th 2017 — Reading with Paul Stanbridge as part of Greenwich Book Festival, hosted by Galley Beggar Press for their panel "Truth and Fiction in an Alt-Fact World". Taking place at the University of Greenwich's Queen Anne Court, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS.
May 3rd 2017 — Reading as part of Waterstones Gower Street's 'Short Story Salon' hosted by Alice Slater.82 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6EQ.
