events/contact
readings
14 Oct 2019, 2:00 pm, English Research Seminar, University of Sheffield (with Scott Thurston and Rachel Newsome): 'Quarantine Season'
9 Oct 2018, 6:30 pm, Centre for Poetry & Poetics, HRI, University of Sheffield (with Honor Gavin and Katharine Kilalea): "The Other Side of Darwin"
26 Sept 2016, 7:30 pm, Verbose, Fallow Café, Fallowfield: "The Other Side of Darwin"
28 Sept 2015, 7:30 pm, Verbose, Fallow Café, Fallowfield: "The Other Side of Darwin"
3 Sept 2014, 5:30 pm, Kro Bar, Oxford Road, Manchester: "The Other Side of Darwin"
5 Sept 2013, 6:30 pm, Anthology Launch, Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester: "Dry River"
27 Feb 2013, 7:00 pm, Old Nags Head, Manchester: "The Other Side of Darwin"
presentations
11 Nov 2015, 4:00 pm, IDS 500 Class on Interdisciplinarity, University of Maine (via Google Hangouts): " 'I Was Content and Not Content' "
13 Nov 2013, 2:00 pm, IDS 500 Class on Interdisciplinarity, University of Maine (via Jabber): " 'I Was Content and Not Content' "
papers
22 Sept 2017, 3:00 pm, Fragmentary Writing in Contemporary British and American Fiction, University of Wroclaw, Poland: "Fragmentary Writing and Globalisation in the Writings of Ali Smith"
22 Mar 2014, 10:30 am, Invisible Circus: An International Conference on the Work of Jennifer Egan, Birbeck, University of London: "A Visit from the Goon Squad, Altermodernism, and the Literary Experiment"
7 Sept 2013, 1:30 pm, Ali Smith and C21 Fiction, Royal Holloway, University of London: "Time and Temporality in Ali Smith’s The Accidental"
tours
I show up in the world in lots of different ways. For years I did conferences—in oral history and folklore and more recently in writing. Now I stay home to write.
Book tours happen once a decade; mine took place in Maine in February 2000. When it’s time for another one, I will let you know.
contact
Need to reach me? Send me an email.