News
September 2024: My story The Bluebell Wood is translated into Arabic in issue 42 of Fikr Magazine
19 November 2021: My story Man Dancing is published in Queer Life, Queer Love (Muswell Press).
11 July 2021: First place in the Frome Festival Short Story Competition with Your Call.
Future Events
Hatchards, Piccadilly, London – 25 March at 6.30 pm – in conversation with Olivia Laing
The BFI Reuben Library, South Bank, London – 7 April – in conversation
The National Portrait Gallery, London – 1 May – in conversation
Past Events
Bird in Hand, Charles Village, Baltimore – 2 November 2022 at 6 pm – reading and discussion with Judith Krummeck.
Owl Bookshop, Kentish Town, London – 10 June 2020 at 6.45 pm – reading and discussion with Judith Krummeck. CANCELLED.
Charm City Books, Baltimore – 27 May 2020 at 7 pm – reading and discussion with Judith Krummeck. CANCELLED.
Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters, Thiruvananthapuram – 30 January – 2 February 2020.
Winchelsea Literary Society, Lower Court Hall, Winchelsea – 21 June 2019 at 7 pm – ‘Telling the Truth’, a talk about North Facing and Derek Jarman.
Love Books, Melville, Johannesburg – 28 May 2019 at 6 pm – in conversation with Alison Lowry about North Facing.
Franschhoek Literary Festival – 17-19 May 2019.
U3A, Caerphilly – 7 September 2018 at 1.30 pm – talking about North Facing.
London Review Bookshop – 15 May 2018 at 7.00 pm – in conversation with Gareth Evans, Whitechapel Gallery Film Curator, after a screening of Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio.
Essex Book Festival, Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker – 25 March 2018 at 3.30 pm – on the panel for Under the Influence: A Soviet Childhood with Agnieszska Studzinska and Paavo Matsin. Ros Green chairing.
Polari Literary Salon at the Royal Festival Hall – 11 December 2017 at 7.30 pm – reading from North Facing alongside Susie Boyd, V.G Lee, William Parker and Ian Elmslie.
Wivenhoe Bookshop – 3 November 2017 at 6.30 pm – talking about and reading from North Facing.
Owl Bookshop, Kentish Town, London – 23 October 2017 at 6.30 pm – in conversation with Candida Lacey about North Facing.
London Review Bookshop – 19 February 2014 at 7.00 pm – in conversation with Gareth Evans, Keith Collins, So Mayer and Ali Smith about Derek Jarman’s A Finger in the Fishes Mouth.
Serpentine Galleries, London – March 2008 – talk on Derek Jarman as part of the Derek Jarman: Brutal Beauty exhibition.
Magic Cinema, 19eme Festival Théâtres au Cinéma, Bobigny – celebrating Derek Jarman & Jean Cocteau – 28 March to 13 April 2008 – talking about Derek Jarman at screenings of various of his films.
The Drill Hall, London – 28 October 2007 at 4 pm – Aids: the Dark Muse, hosted by Rupert Smith, with Paul Burston, Simon Garfield, Le Gateau Chocolat, David Hoyle & Lisa Power – talking about Derek Jarman.
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon – 15 November 2005 – in discussion with Keith Collins and Gilles Pasteur on the subject of Derek Jarman.
The Barbican Centre, London, 13 July 2005 at 6.30 pm – in conversation with James Mackay after a screening of Derek Jarman’s Blue.
British Council, Hong Kong – 17 January 2004 at 2.30 pm – in conversation with Jimmy Ngai about Derek Jarman.
The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone – 24 September 2001 at 7.30 pm – talking about Derek Jarman.
9th Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival – 3-6 August 2001- talking about Derek Jarman.
Ways with Words, St Edmund’s Hall, Southwold – 8 June 2001 at 2.30 pm – talking about Derek Jarman.
Royal Academy of Arts, Bafta, London – 4 March 2001 at 8 pm – talking after a screening of Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio.
The New School, New York – 7 October 2000 at 7 pm – in conversation with Marc Balet, Hal Bromm, Tom Malin and Christine Vachon after a screening of Derek Jarman’s Glitterbug (session introduced by Robert Polito).
Housing Works Used Book Café, New York – 6 October 2000 at 7 pm – reading from Derek Jarman.
Ways with Words, Dartington Hall – 9 July 2000 at 5 pm – talking about Derek Jarman, event chaired by Suzi Feay.
Between the Lines, Belfast Literary Festival, Catalyst Arts, Belfast – 26 March 2000 at 8 pm – talking about Derek Jarman after screenings of The Garden and Caravaggio.
The N19 Writers Network, Stoke Newington Bookshop, 14 February 2000 at 8 pm – talking about Derek Jarman.
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Arts Project, Literary Lunch-Hour, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, 19 January 2000 at 1 pm – talking about Derek Jarman.
Crossings, Middlesex University Literary Festival, Perry Hall – 21 April 1999 at 4.45 pm – in conversation with Blake Morrison and Stella Orakwue on the subject of biography.