panels & speaking
CIVIL SERVICE, CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE
• Teach, Talk, Transform: Communicating Climate and Sustainability (Speaker, 2025)
INPRESS FESTIVAL OF PUBLISHING CONFERENCE
• Key Note Speaker (2025)
HALF ARSE HUMAN BOOK TOUR (2025)
• Drop City Books, Stoke on Trent
• Hatchards, London
• Juno Books, Sheffield
• Waterstones, Nuneaton
• Warwick Books, Warwick
• The Heath Bookshop, Birmingham
• Bookshop by the Sea, Aberystwyth
THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS
• Demystifying Publishing (Speaker, 2024)
THE GOOD CLOTHES SHOW, NEC
• Poetry reading (Performer, 2024)
RESONATE FESTIVAL
• An evening with Ruth Jones (Chair, 2023)
VINTAGE BOOKS
• A Celebration of Love: Nikita Gill, Leo Boix & Andrew McMillan on Love Poetry (Chair, 2023)
WRITING WEST MIDLANDS
• Careers with Words panel (Panellist, 2023)
• Young Writers' Toolkit panel (Panellist, 2023)
TANDEM COLLECTIVE
• Tandem x Indie Publishers (Chair, 2023)
• Rock the Boat virtual showcase (Chair, 2022)
• Tandem & Electric Monkey - Rock The Boat showcase (Chair, 2021)
HARPERCOLLINS
• Exclusive Online Event with Holly Jackson (Chair, 2022)
• Online panel with the authors of ‘Blackout’ (Chair, 2021)
THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
• Interview with Irenosen Okojie (Chair, 2022)
NEW WRITING NORTH AND ENGLISH PEN
• Turn Up For The Books panel (Panellist, 2022)
BARGAIN BIN ROM-COM POETRY TOUR (2022)
• Latitude Festival
• Cheltenham Literature Festival
• Greenbelt Festival
• Also Festival
• London Book Fair
• University of Birmingham
• Manchester MET University
• Bristol Trinity Centre
• Waterstones, Aberystwyth
• The Bookshop on the Green, Birmingham
NATIONAL WRITERS CONFERENCE
• Marketing Yourself as a Writer panel (Panellist, 2022)
• Social Media for Writers panel (Panellist, 2019)
• Getting Your Work Heard panel (Panellist, 2019)
CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL
• Celebrating 10 years of Burning Eye Books showcase (Performer, 2022)
• Debuts and Mocktails (Chair, 2022)
• Imposter Syndrome workshop (Speaker, 2021)
CREATIVE COALITION FESTIVAL
• Soda Presents: Breaking In panel (Panellist, 2021 & 2022)
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
• Climate change and poetry lecture (Speaker, 2022)
• Literature and the Climate Crisis talk (for Trinity College Literary Society) (Speaker, 2022)
MANCHESTER MET UNIVERSITY
• Tattoo’s, art and imposter syndrome talk (Speaker, 2022)
WARWICK CLIMATE ALLIANCE
• Climate Justice Rally Leamington Spa (Speaker, 2022)
ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY
• Your Career in Publishing lecture (Speaker, 2019 & 2022)
GREENBELT FESTIVAL
• How to Consume the News While Staying Sane talk (Speaker, 2022)
• Digital Busking: Crowdfunding, Online Community And Making Art in the New Economy talk (Speaker, 2022)
• Reclaiming Histories talk (Chair, 2018)
BBC Arts and Arts Council England
• Panel with Monique Roffey, Sarah Winman and Karla Neblett (Chair, 2021)
WINTERNACHTEN FESTIVAL
• Writing Climate (Injustice) (Panellist, 2021)
• Farmer's Great-Grandaughter poem (Performer, 2021)
STUDIO 3 ARTS
• A Week of Trans Visibility panel (Chair, 2021)
GOOGLE / YOUTUBE
• Creator 360 panel (Chair, 2021)
AUTOMATTIC (WORDPRESS / TUMBLR)
• Navigating Imposter Syndrome talk (Speaker, 2021)
FEMTHINKDO
• Being a remote creative: a workshop with Leena Norms (Speaker, 2021)
NATIONAL POETRY DAY
• 24 Hour Live Lock In on Instagram Live (Host, 2020)
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• Identifying and Encouraging Prosocial Behaviour on Social Media lecture (Speaker, 2020)
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR WRITING
• Creating an Online Prescence for your Writing workshop (Speaker, 2020)
WOLVERHAMPTON UNIVERSITY
• Creative Careers Online lecture (Speaker, 2020)
LARMER TREE FESTIVAL
• Do We Need to Read the Classics? panel (Panellist, 2019)
CLEAN PROSE
• In Conversation with Jasper Fforde (Chair, 2019)
• Podcasting on a Shoestring workshop (Speaker, 2019)
LATITUDE FESTIVAL
• In conversation with Deborah Levy (Chair, 2019)
• We Need to Talk About Death panel (Chair, 2019)
• In conversation with Dr Hannah Crichtlow (Chair, 2019)
HACHETTE UK
• The Hormone Diaries: Hannah Witton in conversation (Chair, 2019)
OXFORD PUBLISHING SOCIETY
• The Future of Social Media for Publishers panel (Panellist, 2019)
LONDON PODCAST FESTIVAL
• I'm Not Being Funny But interview with Laura Jane Williams (Chair, 2018)
RUCKUS RETREAT
• How to Survive Your Side Hustle talk (Speaker, 2018)
• Imposter Syndrome talk (Speaker, 2018)
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
• How to Create Change Online lecture (Speaker, 2018)
BOOK MARKETING SOCIETY CONFERENCE
• Podcasting for Marketers speech (Speaker, 2018)
INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS GUILD
• How to Sell More Books Through Newspapers speech (Speaker, 2018)
BANGING BOOK CLUB
• Live with Juno Dawson (Speaker, 2017)
• Live at the YouTube space, London (Speaker, 2017)
• Live at Summer in the City (Speaker, 2016)
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL CONFERENCE
• Commissioned poetry performance screening (Performer, 2016)
STOKE NEWINGTON LITERARY FESTIVAL
• BookTube and Online Book Reviewing panel (Panellist, 2016)
ITV NEWS
• LeadersLive debate (Speaker, 2016)
GREENWICH LITERARY FESTIVAL
• How to Start a BookTube Channel panel (Panellist, 2016)
SUMMER IN THE CITY
• Mental Health panel (Chair, 2016)
• BookTube panel (Panellist, 2015)
• Calling People Out Online panel (Panellist, 2015)
WARWICK UNIVERSITY
• Your Career in Publishing lecture (Speaker, 2015)
LONDON BOOK FAIR
• How to Work with BookTubers panel (Panellist, 2014)