17th August — 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.
17th August — 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.
18th August — 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.
22nd May 2019 — Working with fiction writers for the Totleigh Barton Arvon writing course. More details tbc.
PAST
2018
July 12th — 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 — 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— Greenwich Book Festival, appearing with Clare Sita Fisher and David Hayden to discuss 'the long life of short fiction' with Sam Jordison.
March 8th — 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 — ‘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 — 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 — Participating in Copy Press' Readers Union event, 'I, Without Guarantees’. Venue and time tbc.
January 31st — Discussing 'Narrating London' alongside Kit Catless and Gary Budden at the Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4QH. 19.00 - 20.30, free.
2017
November22nd — '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 — New Writing From Twickenham, as part of the Richmond Literary Festival 2017. 7-9pm.
November16th — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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— 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 — 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 — Commissioned reading National Poetry Day at The Alfred Tennyson, 7pm. 10 Motcomb St, Belgravia, London SW1X 8LA.
September21st— 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 — Reading with Judith Goldman as part of Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre. 11 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London. WC1B 3RF, 7pm.
September 12th — Q&A with students from Boston University. 43 Harrington Gardens, Kensington, London SW7 4JU. 4pm.
July 21st— 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— 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 — Part of the 'Rising Stars' panel at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival alongside Nell Stevens, Miranda Doyle, Paula Cocozza and Isabel Costello.
May 27th — 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.
May3rd — Reading as part of Waterstones Gower Street's 'Short Story Salon' hosted by Alice Slater.82 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6EQ.