Events and teaching

Over the past three years I've spoken at events across the UK and overseas, including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adelaide Writers Week, Étonnants Voyageurs, and the Emirates Literature Festival.

In addition, I have led numerous workshops and seminars, and taught residential creative writing courses. 

If you'd like to book me as a speaker, or would like me to teach a writing class, please do get in touch. My schedule for upcoming events, as well as those from previous years, can be found below.

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Photograph: Chris Scott

2019

February
7th. Teaching: seminar for Stirling University's MA Creative Writing.

March
​4th-10th. Emirates Literature Festival, Dubai.
14th. London Book Fair, "The City and the Sea" event.
15th. PublishED event, Edinburgh.
31st. Aye Write Festival, Glasgow (with Madeleine Bunting).

April
11th. Cúirt Festival, Galway, Ireland.
28th. Hexham Book Festival.

May
10th. Ullapool Book Festival.
​11th. Highland Book Prize event, Ullapool Book Festival.
13th – 18th. Teaching: a tutored retreat on "Writing and Place", at Moniack Mhor creative writing centre, with Kapka Kassabova.

July
8-13th. Teaching: "Starting to Write" at Lumb Bank Arvon Centre, with Hollie McNish.
13th. Hebden Bridge Arts Festival (with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen).
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August
9th. Fringe by the Sea festival. North Berwick. 
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Past events

2018

​March
27th: Shetland Library

April
12th: Crossways Festival, Glasgow
29th: Colonsay Book Festival

May
2nd: Golden Hare Bookshop, Edinburgh
3rd: Waterstones Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
12th: Ullapool Book Festival
15th: Stirling Off the Page Festival, Strathblane Village Club
19th: Connect With Nature Festival, Edinburgh
20-21th: Étonnants Voyageurs, St Malo, France
30th: Bad Language, Manchester

August

16th: Edinburgh International Book Festival (with Gabriel Josipovici)
27th - 1st September: I taught a short course on travel writing and memoir, with Katharine Norbury, at Tŷ Newydd in Wales.
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September
8th: Gladfest, Gladstone's Library, Hawarden, Wales.
23rd: Wigtown Book Festival
27th-30th: Islay Book Festival

October
​4th: Ness Book Festival, Inverness
10th: Cheltenham Book Festival

November
6th: Stromness Library, Orkney
10th: Wordplay Festival, Shetland


2017

February
2nd: Stanford's Travel Writing Festival, London
4th/5th: Hearth Festival, Gladstone's Library, Flintshire
19th: Winter Words Festival, Pitlochry
24th: Perth International Arts Festival, Australia (with Kim Mahood)
25th: Perth International Arts Festival, Australia (with Richard Fidler)
26th: Perth International Arts Festival, Australia (with Alberto Manguel)
28th: Avid Reader Bookstore, Brisbane, Australia

March
1st: Maleny, Australia
6-9th: Adelaide Writers Week

April
13th: Main Street Trading Bookshop

June
15th: Borders Festival
30th: Iona Festival
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August
25th: Edinburgh International Book Festival

September
14th: Nairn Arts Festival
15th: Nairn Arts Festival
15th: Spirit of Moray Festival
21st: Brussels, Belgium
24th: West End Festival, Glasgow
30th: Loopallu Festival, Ullapool

October
11th: Cheltenham Festival
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2016

October
12th: St Stephen's Centre, Edinburgh
13th: Drover's Tryst Walking Festival, Crieff
17th: Glasgow University Creative Conversations
19th: Standford's, Covent Garden, London (with Katie Scott)
20th: Biggar Little Festival
23rd: Dundee Book Festival (with Amy Liptrot)
27th: Toppings and Co. St Andrews

November 
3rd: Faclan Festival, Stornoway
12th: Edinburgh, Scottish Storytelling Centre
16th: Glasgow, Waterstones Byres Road
21st: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland
22nd: Inverurie Library
23rd: Aberdeen Central Library
24th: Alexandria Library
26th: North Ayrshire Readers Day

December
2nd: Edinburgh, Flint & Pitch Revue, Bongo Club