Appearances & Participation in SFF Conventions, Conferences, Workshops, and Other Events
2025, Oct World Fantasy & British FantasyCon: TBA
2025, June Cymera, Edinburgh: TBA
2025, April Eastercon, Belfast: Panellist: Visualising the Impossible; Moderator: Bad Endings and How to Avoid Them
2025, Feb. UK Ghost Story Festival: ran online workshop "Who's Haunting You?"
2024, Sept. Fantasycon, Chester: Panellist: Explain Dark Academia To Me Like I’m 5; Panellist: Navigating Creative Burnout;
Panellist: Where are all the mothers?; Moderator: Allure of the Apocalypse and Dystopias
2024, Sept. Strange as Folk online event: Ran workshop "Folk Horror: Linking the Chain"
2024, Aug. Worldcon, Glasgow: Member of the Publisher Liaison Team; Panellist: Co-Writing: A Growing Trend; Panellist:
The Impact of a Good Debut; Panellist: Finding Story in the Landscape; gave a Table Talk; ran Writing Folk Horror
workshop; Luna Press Book Launch Party (to launch Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 2)
2024, March Eastercon, Telford: Panellist: This Green and Pleasant Land; Panellist: The Venn Diagram of Subgenres of Horror;
Panellist: Fantastical Secret Histories of Real Events; Panellist: Horror in Antiquity; Moderator: Bookselling: The
Trials and Tribulations
2024, March Spring Scares online event: Ran workshop "The Sub-Urban Hellscape of Technology: Writing Horror Set at
Home"
2024, March Waterstones, Cambridge: Interviewed Noah Medlock, author of A Botanical Daughter
2024, Feb. Bury St Edmunds Library: Gave a talk: "The Cottage Garden Conundrum: The Fantasy of Garden Re-creation"
2023, Oct. Waterstones, Cambridge: Led "Halloween Horror Panel" with authors Verity Holloway, Ellis Saxey, and Ally
Wilkes
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 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; Ran "Writing Historical Fantasy: Research as a Catalyst" 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: 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; Panellist: Bloody Reviews: The Role of
Reviewers; gave a reading
2022, April Eastercon, Heathrow: Panellist: Peeing in Space; Panellist: 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; guest on live recording of the Fantasy Book Swap podcast; did a reading
2021, March Eastercon, virtual: Panellist: The last 20 Years: Fantasy in the 21st Century; Milford Writers Panel; Panellist: Male Power Fantasy: Can We Stop Now?; Panellist: Storytelling through repetition; Ran workshop "Writing Historical Fantasy: Research as a Catalyst"; 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; Panellist: The ins and outs of SFF erotica [over 18s]; Panellist: What has art ever done for science?
2109, March Eastercon, Heathrow: MC of the RapidFire InfoShots; Panellist: SF-ing Clueless; Panellist: Planning for the
Apocalypse; also gave a reading
2018, Oct. Fantasycon, Chester: Panellist: The End of the World; Panellist: Historical Fiction; Panellist: Women in Genre Fiction
2108, March Eastercon, Harrogate: MC of the RapidFire InfoShots; Panellist: Victorian Fantasy; Panellist: 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; Panellist: Landscapes in Fantasy; Panellist: Creative Writing in Education; Panellist: Adult Themes in Genre Fiction; Panellist: 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; Panellist: Two's Company: Panellist: Collaborative Genre Writing
2017, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London: Panellist: Shut Up & Write; Panellist: Technology for Writers
2017, April Eastercon, Birmingham: Panellist: Pedagogy and Speculative Fiction; Panellist: Writing Groups, Conferences, and Workshops: Which Way to Go?; Panellist: You Want a Revolution? I Want a Revelation!; Panellist: 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; Panellist: Menstruation,
Contraception, and Reproduction in the Apocalypse; Panellist: 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; Panellist: The Wrong Apocalypse
2014, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London: Guest on All the Books track; Panellist: Love and Sex: An Intimate
Exploration; Panellist: 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”
2025, June Cymera, Edinburgh: TBA
2025, April Eastercon, Belfast: Panellist: Visualising the Impossible; Moderator: Bad Endings and How to Avoid Them
2025, Feb. UK Ghost Story Festival: ran online workshop "Who's Haunting You?"
2024, Sept. Fantasycon, Chester: Panellist: Explain Dark Academia To Me Like I’m 5; Panellist: Navigating Creative Burnout;
Panellist: Where are all the mothers?; Moderator: Allure of the Apocalypse and Dystopias
2024, Sept. Strange as Folk online event: Ran workshop "Folk Horror: Linking the Chain"
2024, Aug. Worldcon, Glasgow: Member of the Publisher Liaison Team; Panellist: Co-Writing: A Growing Trend; Panellist:
The Impact of a Good Debut; Panellist: Finding Story in the Landscape; gave a Table Talk; ran Writing Folk Horror
workshop; Luna Press Book Launch Party (to launch Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 2)
2024, March Eastercon, Telford: Panellist: This Green and Pleasant Land; Panellist: The Venn Diagram of Subgenres of Horror;
Panellist: Fantastical Secret Histories of Real Events; Panellist: Horror in Antiquity; Moderator: Bookselling: The
Trials and Tribulations
2024, March Spring Scares online event: Ran workshop "The Sub-Urban Hellscape of Technology: Writing Horror Set at
Home"
2024, March Waterstones, Cambridge: Interviewed Noah Medlock, author of A Botanical Daughter
2024, Feb. Bury St Edmunds Library: Gave a talk: "The Cottage Garden Conundrum: The Fantasy of Garden Re-creation"
2023, Oct. Waterstones, Cambridge: Led "Halloween Horror Panel" with authors Verity Holloway, Ellis Saxey, and Ally
Wilkes
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 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; Ran "Writing Historical Fantasy: Research as a Catalyst" 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: 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; Panellist: Bloody Reviews: The Role of
Reviewers; gave a reading
2022, April Eastercon, Heathrow: Panellist: Peeing in Space; Panellist: 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; guest on live recording of the Fantasy Book Swap podcast; did a reading
2021, March Eastercon, virtual: Panellist: The last 20 Years: Fantasy in the 21st Century; Milford Writers Panel; Panellist: Male Power Fantasy: Can We Stop Now?; Panellist: Storytelling through repetition; Ran workshop "Writing Historical Fantasy: Research as a Catalyst"; 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; Panellist: The ins and outs of SFF erotica [over 18s]; Panellist: What has art ever done for science?
2109, March Eastercon, Heathrow: MC of the RapidFire InfoShots; Panellist: SF-ing Clueless; Panellist: Planning for the
Apocalypse; also gave a reading
2018, Oct. Fantasycon, Chester: Panellist: The End of the World; Panellist: Historical Fiction; Panellist: Women in Genre Fiction
2108, March Eastercon, Harrogate: MC of the RapidFire InfoShots; Panellist: Victorian Fantasy; Panellist: 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; Panellist: Landscapes in Fantasy; Panellist: Creative Writing in Education; Panellist: Adult Themes in Genre Fiction; Panellist: 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; Panellist: Two's Company: Panellist: Collaborative Genre Writing
2017, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London: Panellist: Shut Up & Write; Panellist: Technology for Writers
2017, April Eastercon, Birmingham: Panellist: Pedagogy and Speculative Fiction; Panellist: Writing Groups, Conferences, and Workshops: Which Way to Go?; Panellist: You Want a Revolution? I Want a Revelation!; Panellist: 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; Panellist: Menstruation,
Contraception, and Reproduction in the Apocalypse; Panellist: 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; Panellist: The Wrong Apocalypse
2014, Aug. Nine Worlds GeekFest, London: Guest on All the Books track; Panellist: Love and Sex: An Intimate
Exploration; Panellist: 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”