Past Events

Past Events

2023

Writing the Occult: Tropes Re-Vamped

Our City, Our Stories at EIBF

The Shadow Cabinet Launch with Juno Dawson

Catching Up With Silvia Moreno-Garcia

New Fairy Tales with Vida Cruz and Kelly Link

Unlikely Friendships with Travis Baldree and Heather Fawcett

Ascension Launch with Nicholas Binge

The Grief Nurse Launch with Angie Spoto

SYP Scotland 2023 Conference – Skill Seekers: What About the Fast Pass? Routes Into Publishing
and Their Access Barriers

Granite Noir: Nightime Noir with Scottish BPOC Writers Network

Granite Noir: Horror with Haunt

Granite Noir: Telling Tales of the Past

Granite Noir: Literary Lunch with Sarah Amstrong

Paisley Book Festival Publishing 101: Market Yourself as a Writer

Godkiller Launch with Hannah Kaner

What Now? A Marbles Magazine Celebration

2022

The Gingerbread Men Launch with Joanna Corrance

Jericho Writers: Building A Writer’s Reputation

Unspeakable & Unthinkable Launch

Cymera Digital: All Shades of Horror (BIPOC Writing Workshop)

Cymera 2022

Horror Stories with Anna Cheung, Rhiannon Grist, & A.M. Shine

Cymera 2022

All Shades of Horror: A Writing Workshop for BIPOC Authors (In Person)

Aye Write 2022

Adrian Turpin, Ann Landmann, Katalina Watt & Ruth Wishart – What Have We Ever Learned from Book Festivals?

Aye Write 2022

Laura Bates and Harriet Johnson – When Will Enough Be Enough?

Aye Write 2022

Anna Fleming – Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains

Society of Authors Scotland

Industry Insider: Finding Help and Getting Started

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Publishing Talk at University of the Arts London

Granite Noir

Influencers, Activists, and Rebels

Granite Noir

Bold New Voices

The Royal Society of Literature

Careers in Literature 2022

Scottish BPOC Writers Network

Q&A with Creative Scotland Literature

2021

Queer as Folk(lore)

Tamlin by Aven Wildsmith

Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair

Shameless: A Celebration of Being and Belonging

In Conversation with Lucie McKnight Hardy & Anna Cheung

Scottish BAME Writers Network

Decolonising Fictional Worlds

Jonas Eika & Federico Falco

Destroying Literature’s Safety Net

Decolonising Fictional Worlds Workshop

Research Activist Network

The Ophelia Girls by Jane Healey

Launch at Lighthouse Books

Fighting the Good Fight with C.L. Clark and R.F. Kuang

Cymera 2021

Myths and Legends

Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon

Disturbing the Body

Subverting Genre

2020

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Border Between Worlds:

International Folklore & Worldbuilding

Romancing the Gothic

The Dark and the Wild

In Conversation with Kirsty Logan & Alice Tarbuck

FIYAHCON 2020

Speculative Fiction is Global Panel

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SQIFF Workshop

Queer Speculative Fiction

Twitter Q&A

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Romancing the Gothic

Day of Creation 2020

Author Showcase

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Brave New Words performer

at Cymera 2020

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Scottish BAME Writers Network

Live At Home 

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Romancing the Gothic Book Groups

Haunted Voices and Unspeakable

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Inky Fingers x Scottish BAME Writers Network Open Mic

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BookCafe Guest Author

2019

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Radical Book Fair 2019: Feminist Horror Night

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Golden Hare Books Launch

Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan

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Scottish Poetry Library Launch of Ceremony

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