Appearances & Participation in SFF Conventions, Conferences, and Other Events
2024, Aug. Worldcon, Glasgow--Member of the Publishing Liaison Team
2023, Oct. Waterstones, Cambridge--Leading Halloween Horror Panel with authors Verity Holloway, Ellis Saxey and Ally
Wilkes on the 25th
2023, Oct Foreword Festival, Bury St Edmunds--Ran workshop Writing Historical Fantasy: Research as a Catalyst; Panellist:
SF, Fantasy, and Horror (last-minute step-in)
2023, Sept. Fantasycon, Birmingham--Panellist: Marketing and Promoting Your Work; Panellist: Immersion
2023, Sept. Darkness in the Fields 3 online Folk Horror event--Ran workshop Writing Folk Horror: Juxtaposing Then & Now
2023, Aug. Writing the Occult: Witches online event--Ran workshop Writing Witches: Character, Worldbuilding & Magic
Systems
2023, June Cymera, Edinburgh--Led panel/interview Tales from the Dark with Joanna Corrance, John Lees, and Mathew West;
Led Writing Historical Fantasy workshop
2023, May Waterstones, Cambridge--Led Writing Historical Fantasy workshop
2023, April Eastercon, Birmingham--Book Launch Party for Spec Fic for Newbies; Book Launch Party for Eclectic Dreams;
Moderator on My First Contract; Panellist: Writing Collaboratively: How to Write All Alone Together
2023, March BFS Workshop Series online event--Ran workshop Writing Historical Fantasy: Research as a Catalyst
2022, Oct MCM London ComicCon--Panellist: Down the BookTok Rabbit Hole
2022, May Chillercon, Scarborough--Panellist: Inner Demons: Mental Health in Horror; Bloody Reviews: The Role of
Reviewers; gave a reading
2022, April Eastercon, Heathrow--Panellist: Peeing in Space; Publishing in the Pandemic; participated in All the
Book Launches!; MC of the RapidFire InfoShots
2021, Oct. MCM London ComicCon--Panellist: How to Scare People: Horror Authors on Turning Your Blood Cold
2021, Sept. Fantasycon, Birmingham--Panellist: Time and Time Travel; Live recording of the Fantasy Book Swap podcast;
Reading
2021, March Eastercon, virtual--Panellist: The last 20 Years: Fantasy in the 21st Century; Milford Writers Panel; Male Power
Fantasy: Can We Stop Now?; Storytelling through repetition; Led of Writing Historical Fantasy workshop; also
gave a reading, did a signing, and held a kaffeeklatsch:
2019, Nov. Waterstones, Cambridge--Led Building Other Worlds: A Panel Discussion on Worldbuilding in SciFi with authors
Jane Rogers, Andrew Bannister, and Chris Beckett
2019, Aug. Worldcon, Dublin--Panellist: Time travel novellas after the end of history; The ins and outs of SFF erotica [over
18s]; What has art ever done for science?
2109, March Eastercon, Heathrow--MC of the RapidFire InfoShots; Panellist: SF-ing Clueless; Planning for the
Apocalypse; also gave a reading
2018, Oct. Fantasycon, Chester--Panellist: The End of the World; Historical Fiction; Women in Genre Fiction
2108, March Eastercon, Harrogate--MC of the RapidFire InfoShots; Panellist: Victorian Fantasy; The Women's Periodical to
#MeToo
2017, Sept. Fantasycon, Peterborough--Presented Where are the Tampons? The Estrangement of Women's Bodies
in Apocalyptic Fiction"; Panellist: Imaginary Book Club; Landscapes in Fantasy; Creative Writing in
Education; Adult Themes in Genre Fiction; Writing Research
2017, Aug. Worldcon 75, Helsinki--exhibition hall volunteer and part of the Move-in/Move-out crew; Presented "Where are
the Tampons? The Estrangement of Women's Bodies in Apocalyptic Fiction"; Panellist: Building Resistance; Two's
Company: Collaborative Genre Writing
2017, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London--Guest; Panellist: Shut Up & Write; Technology for Writers
2017, April Eastercon, Birmingham--Panellist: Pedagogy and Speculative Fiction; Writing Groups, Conferences, and Workshops: Which Way to Go?; You Want a Revolution? I Want a Revelation!; Fantastical Art
2016, Nov. NAWE, Stratford-upon-Avon--presented "Performance in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing Workshop"
2016, Sept. Fantasycon, Scarborough--Panellist: What I Go to School for: How Important is a Literary Education to a Writing Career?
2016, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London--Guest on Academia & Humanities track; Individual talk: Just Call Me the Doctor: Doing a PhD in Creative Writing
2016, Mar. Eastercon, Manchester--Panellist: Transcending the Genre and Other Polite Insults; Menstruation,
Contraception, and Reproduction in the Apocalypse; Place, Identity, Story
2016, Feb. Historical Fictions Research Conference, Anglia Ruskin University--Presented "The Cottage Garden Conundrum"
2015, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London--Guest on Creative Writing track; Panellist: Collaborative Writing: How to Write with Others (and Stay Friends)
2015, Mar. Eastercon, London--Panellist: History in Fantasy Fiction
2014, Sept. Fantasycon, York--Member of the British Fantasy Con planning committee; Moderator: My First Con;
Panellist: Building the Same Old World
2104, Aug. Worldcon 72, London--exhibition hall planning volunteer and part of the Move-in/Move-out crew; Panellist: Sex in
SF&F: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; The Wrong Apocalypse
2014, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London--Guest on All the Books track; Panellist: Love and Sex: An Intimate
Exploration; School Stories: Prefects, Headmasters and Tuckshops, oh my!; Participated in New Voices
reading
2014, June Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, Imperial College--Presented “Theme as a Route into Rewriting; Beyond the Moral of the Story”
2014, June The Country House in Britain 1914-2014, Newcastle University--Presented "The Garden as Character: Britain's Great Country House Gardens in Children's Fantasy Literature
2013, Nov. National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), York--Presented "Planting a fantasy: Using Historic Places to Grow Fiction
2013, Mar. Eastercon, Bradford--Panellist: Fantastic British Landscape
2011, Mar. Myth and Fairy Tale in Film and Literature post-1900, University of York--Presented “A Subtle Revolution: Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter as Utopian, Feminist Fairy Tale”
2023, Oct. Waterstones, Cambridge--Leading Halloween Horror Panel with authors Verity Holloway, Ellis Saxey and Ally
Wilkes on the 25th
2023, Oct Foreword Festival, Bury St Edmunds--Ran workshop Writing Historical Fantasy: Research as a Catalyst; Panellist:
SF, Fantasy, and Horror (last-minute step-in)
2023, Sept. Fantasycon, Birmingham--Panellist: Marketing and Promoting Your Work; Panellist: Immersion
2023, Sept. Darkness in the Fields 3 online Folk Horror event--Ran workshop Writing Folk Horror: Juxtaposing Then & Now
2023, Aug. Writing the Occult: Witches online event--Ran workshop Writing Witches: Character, Worldbuilding & Magic
Systems
2023, June Cymera, Edinburgh--Led panel/interview Tales from the Dark with Joanna Corrance, John Lees, and Mathew West;
Led Writing Historical Fantasy workshop
2023, May Waterstones, Cambridge--Led Writing Historical Fantasy workshop
2023, April Eastercon, Birmingham--Book Launch Party for Spec Fic for Newbies; Book Launch Party for Eclectic Dreams;
Moderator on My First Contract; Panellist: Writing Collaboratively: How to Write All Alone Together
2023, March BFS Workshop Series online event--Ran workshop Writing Historical Fantasy: Research as a Catalyst
2022, Oct MCM London ComicCon--Panellist: Down the BookTok Rabbit Hole
2022, May Chillercon, Scarborough--Panellist: Inner Demons: Mental Health in Horror; Bloody Reviews: The Role of
Reviewers; gave a reading
2022, April Eastercon, Heathrow--Panellist: Peeing in Space; Publishing in the Pandemic; participated in All the
Book Launches!; MC of the RapidFire InfoShots
2021, Oct. MCM London ComicCon--Panellist: How to Scare People: Horror Authors on Turning Your Blood Cold
2021, Sept. Fantasycon, Birmingham--Panellist: Time and Time Travel; Live recording of the Fantasy Book Swap podcast;
Reading
2021, March Eastercon, virtual--Panellist: The last 20 Years: Fantasy in the 21st Century; Milford Writers Panel; Male Power
Fantasy: Can We Stop Now?; Storytelling through repetition; Led of Writing Historical Fantasy workshop; also
gave a reading, did a signing, and held a kaffeeklatsch:
2019, Nov. Waterstones, Cambridge--Led Building Other Worlds: A Panel Discussion on Worldbuilding in SciFi with authors
Jane Rogers, Andrew Bannister, and Chris Beckett
2019, Aug. Worldcon, Dublin--Panellist: Time travel novellas after the end of history; The ins and outs of SFF erotica [over
18s]; What has art ever done for science?
2109, March Eastercon, Heathrow--MC of the RapidFire InfoShots; Panellist: SF-ing Clueless; Planning for the
Apocalypse; also gave a reading
2018, Oct. Fantasycon, Chester--Panellist: The End of the World; Historical Fiction; Women in Genre Fiction
2108, March Eastercon, Harrogate--MC of the RapidFire InfoShots; Panellist: Victorian Fantasy; The Women's Periodical to
#MeToo
2017, Sept. Fantasycon, Peterborough--Presented Where are the Tampons? The Estrangement of Women's Bodies
in Apocalyptic Fiction"; Panellist: Imaginary Book Club; Landscapes in Fantasy; Creative Writing in
Education; Adult Themes in Genre Fiction; Writing Research
2017, Aug. Worldcon 75, Helsinki--exhibition hall volunteer and part of the Move-in/Move-out crew; Presented "Where are
the Tampons? The Estrangement of Women's Bodies in Apocalyptic Fiction"; Panellist: Building Resistance; Two's
Company: Collaborative Genre Writing
2017, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London--Guest; Panellist: Shut Up & Write; Technology for Writers
2017, April Eastercon, Birmingham--Panellist: Pedagogy and Speculative Fiction; Writing Groups, Conferences, and Workshops: Which Way to Go?; You Want a Revolution? I Want a Revelation!; Fantastical Art
2016, Nov. NAWE, Stratford-upon-Avon--presented "Performance in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing Workshop"
2016, Sept. Fantasycon, Scarborough--Panellist: What I Go to School for: How Important is a Literary Education to a Writing Career?
2016, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London--Guest on Academia & Humanities track; Individual talk: Just Call Me the Doctor: Doing a PhD in Creative Writing
2016, Mar. Eastercon, Manchester--Panellist: Transcending the Genre and Other Polite Insults; Menstruation,
Contraception, and Reproduction in the Apocalypse; Place, Identity, Story
2016, Feb. Historical Fictions Research Conference, Anglia Ruskin University--Presented "The Cottage Garden Conundrum"
2015, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London--Guest on Creative Writing track; Panellist: Collaborative Writing: How to Write with Others (and Stay Friends)
2015, Mar. Eastercon, London--Panellist: History in Fantasy Fiction
2014, Sept. Fantasycon, York--Member of the British Fantasy Con planning committee; Moderator: My First Con;
Panellist: Building the Same Old World
2104, Aug. Worldcon 72, London--exhibition hall planning volunteer and part of the Move-in/Move-out crew; Panellist: Sex in
SF&F: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; The Wrong Apocalypse
2014, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London--Guest on All the Books track; Panellist: Love and Sex: An Intimate
Exploration; School Stories: Prefects, Headmasters and Tuckshops, oh my!; Participated in New Voices
reading
2014, June Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, Imperial College--Presented “Theme as a Route into Rewriting; Beyond the Moral of the Story”
2014, June The Country House in Britain 1914-2014, Newcastle University--Presented "The Garden as Character: Britain's Great Country House Gardens in Children's Fantasy Literature
2013, Nov. National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), York--Presented "Planting a fantasy: Using Historic Places to Grow Fiction
2013, Mar. Eastercon, Bradford--Panellist: Fantastic British Landscape
2011, Mar. Myth and Fairy Tale in Film and Literature post-1900, University of York--Presented “A Subtle Revolution: Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter as Utopian, Feminist Fairy Tale”