2024
Sep 30 / Oct 7 / Oct 14 / Oct 21 / Oct 28 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
May 19 reading, Featured Poet, Spoken Word & Music hosted by Anita Govan, Lost in Leith, Edinburgh
May 9, reading, Earthly Rewards: Live Literary Event presented by thi wurd, Glasgow University Union, Glasgow
Apr 15 / Apr 22 / Apr 29 / May 6 / May 13 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
Feb 29 reading/interview, The Process of Poetry: From First Draft to Final Poem: Curated Interviews with Award-Winning Poets, ed. Rosanna McGlone, Zoom launch
Jan 15 / Jan 22 / Jan 29 / Feb 5 / Feb 12 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
2023
Dec 18 publication, The Process of Poetry: From First Draft to Final Poem: Curated Interviews with Award-Winning Poets, ed. Rosanna McGlone – includes a chapter on ‘(Un)certainties’
Nov 23 poetry reading, Interpret magazine, Golden Hare Books, Edinburgh
Oct 30 / Nov 5 / Nov 13 / Nov 20 / Nov 27 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
Sep 28 podcast, Writer’s Block (impact of trauma), commissioned and recorded by the Royal Literary FundSep
All My Words, Poems in English for Secondary Schools S1-S3 (Lesson Plans designed by Aoife Lyall, commissioned by the Scottish Poetry Library)
Aug 13 podcast, Being Genre Fluid (fiction vs poetry), commissioned and recorded by the Royal Literary Fund
Aug 7-13 guest poem on the Acumen website
May 25 reading, Shore Poets, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh
May 23 / May 30 critical reading group, Edinburgh
Apr 17 podcast, The Writer as Outsider (bullying), commissioned and recorded by the Royal Literary Fund
Apr 19 / Apr 26 / May 3 / May 10 / May 17 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
Jan 16 / Jan 23 / Jan 30 / Feb 6 / Feb 13 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
2022
Oct 3 / Oct 10/ Oct 17 / Oct 24 / Oct 31 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
Apr 20 / Apr 27 / May 4 / May 11 / May 18 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
Feb 21 / Feb 28 / Mar 7 / Mar 14 / Mar 21 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
2021
Oct 15 podcast recording: Writer’s Block, (commissioned and recorded by the Royal Literary Fund)
Oct 15 podcast recording: The Writer as Outsider, (commissioned and recorded by the Royal Literary Fund)
Oct 15 podcast recording: Being Genre-Fluid, (commissioned and recorded by the Royal Literary Fund)
Apr 9 awarded pamphlet publication, Voices in the Dark series, special edition, The Common Breath, 1 Oct 2021 – ‘The Salvage’ (5,000+ word story)
(no longer forthcoming due to the sad, sudden death of the publisher)
Feb 1 reading, Zoom launch, Ambit 242 – ‘The Other Side’ (flash fiction; Video)
2020
Oct 25 reading, Forward Prizes for Poetry 2020, prize-giving ceremony hosted by the British Library – opening sequence of ‘(Un)certainties’ starts 5 mins, 20 secs into video
Jun 10 shortlisted, Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2020 – ‘(Un)certainties’
Jan 28 / Feb 11 / Feb 25 / Mar 10 / Mar 24 (Skype meeting) / Apr 7 (Skype meeting) / May 26 (Zoom meeting) / Jun 9 (Zoom meeting) / Jun 23 (Zoom meeting) / Jul 7 (Zoom meeting) critical reading group, Edinburgh
Jan 25 / Feb 29 / Mar 28 (Skype meeting) creative writing workshop, Rebel Writers, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Jan 15 reading, Spoken Word Edinburgh (From the Horse’s Mouth), The Royal Dick, Summerhall, Edinburgh
Jan 13 / Jan 20 / Jan 27 / Feb 3 / Feb 10 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
2019
Dec 1 1st Prize, Mslexia/Poetry Book Society Women’s Poetry Competition 2019 – ‘(Un)certainties’
Oct 8 reading for Dove Tales, Ghandi, the Man Who Changed the World, Consulate General of India, Edinburgh
Oct 6 panel discussion (with Jenni Calder and Claire Squires), Are We There Yet? The Road to Equality for Scottish Women Writers, Portobello Book Festival, Edinburgh
Sep 30 / Oct 7 / Oct 14 / Oct 21 / Oct 28 Reading Round, COL, Edinburgh University
Sep 11 Reading Round, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
reviewed by Désirée Wenger, Tagblatt, 12 Sep 2019 (Thurgauer Zeitung, 13 Sep 2019)
Sep shortlisted, Eyelands 9th International Short Story Contest (Greece) – ‘When the bikers blow into town’
Jul 25 reading, Edinburgh launch of Unthology 11 (Unthanks Books), Blackwell’s Edinburgh South Bridge
Jun 25 featured, ‘Ambit is 60: Celebrating six decades discovering the greats of tomorrow today’ (Video by Andrew Warwick)
May 28 Reading Round, English Circle, Hotel-Restaurant Trauben, Weinfelden, Switzerland
Apr 16 reading, launch of Ambit 236, Tate Modern, London
Feb 24 introduction, screening of ‘The Divine Order’, Red Theatre, Summerhall, Edinburgh
Jan 29 / Feb 12 / Feb 26 / Mar 12 / Mar 26 / Apr 9 / Apr 23 / May 7 / May 21 / Sep 24 / Oct 8 / Oct 22 / Nov 5 / Nov 19 / Dec 3 critical reading group, Edinburgh
Jan 26 / Feb 23 / Mar 30 / May 18 / Jun 29 / Jul 27 / Sep 28 / Oct 26 / Nov 30 creative writing workshop, Rebel Writers, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
