Events
Details of where you can meet me at festivals, workshops and other events are kept up to date on my events page.
Signed copies of The Cure for Sleep
You can request these – including what you’d like as a handwritten message – from Much Ado Books
Press & event bookings
For all enquiries relating to press and festivals for The Cure for Sleep please contact Virginia Woolstencroft at Orion Books: publicity.enquiries@orionbooks.co.uk
Rights & other enquiries
Please send any other book-related enquiries via my literary agent Robert Caskie: robert@robertcaskie.com
Guest tutoring & workshops
As a rural working-class writer first published after forty, I have a particular interest in working with organisations who support underrepresented voices.
My most recent mentoring, host tutor and guest speaking credits include the Class Festival at Bristol Festival of Ideas (2020), Ilkley Literature Festival (2021 and 2022), the Charles Causley Trust (2022) and Bath Spa MA in Nature and Travel Writing (2023). From October 2022 to September 2023 I’m a co-tutor on fellow author Sharon Blackie’s Hagitude program, offering intensive monthly creative confidence exercises for her book’s large international membership community.
As a creative workshop leader I specialise in helping others to write with more confidence about their past, their places and their people – with an emphasis on non-fiction and memoir. I’ve delivered these workshops for many groups including Wealden Literature Festival, Chip Lit Fest and New Writing South.
If you are interested in funding me to work with your organisation, please outline your requirements and fee offering by email to editor@selkiepress.com
Mentoring & group courses
I’m receiving many requests from aspiring and emerging writers around the world for one-to-one mentoring and small group classes. I’m moved that so many people want to do depth work with me after reading The Cure for Sleep and I’m working in 2023 to design some options for the new year. I will only be extending invitations to people who are already engaged members of my existing online communities, so please do join me on my free Substack to be sure of receiving news of opportunities to work with me.
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