Chairing & Event Programming

I’ve programmed literary events for Golden Hare Books, the Fruitmarket Gallery, the University of Cambridge, the National Library of Scotland, Creative Scotland, the Scottish Poetry Library, the Centre for Poetic Innovation at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee and more – if you’d like to talk programming, please get in touch! I also co-founded Inky Fingers, the Edinburgh spoken word night, and ran Hear Hare Here, a monthly poetry night at Golden Hare Books.

As a chair, I’ve been lucky enough to chat to everyone from Ruth Padel to Tom Pow, via Drew Milne, Holly Ringland, Thomas A. Clark and many, many more. I’ve chaired for a huge range of organisations, from the Edinburgh International Book Festival to Durham University via EIBF, Wigtown Book Festival, StAnza, and many more. I am a professional, social chair, and always extremely well-prepared. Get in touch to talk about chairing!

In conversation with Holly Ringland, November 2018