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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

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