Leon Craig has done numerous live readings of her work, in addition to presenting other speakers. Please contact Matt Turner at Rogers, Coleridge and White if you would like to book Leon to read at your event, host or take part in a panel discussion.
Previous appearances
In conversation with Louise Hegarty to celebrate her debut Fair Play at Daunt Books Notting Hill
English PEN Literary Salon at The London Book Fair 2024 on Horror and Freedom of Expression, with Alison Rumfitt and Mónica Ojeda, March 2024
Cork International Short Story Festival with Éilís Ní Dhuibne and Róisín Leggett Bohan, October 2023
Short Stories, Tall Tales with AM Moskowitz for Jewish Book Week, 5th March 2023 at King’s Place, London
An Evening of Literary Gothic, in conversation with Francine Toon at Daunts Summertown, Oxford, 2nd November 2022
Halloween event at Kirkdale Bookshop, London, 29th October 2022
Berlin paperback launch in conversation with Jane Flett, hosted by The Reader at Das Gift, 25th October 2022
Dead Ladies Show No.31 (on Angela Carter) with Audrey Naline and Susan Stone, Acud Macht Neu, Berlin, 9th June 2022, also released as a podcast
Summer Lecture on the Short Story for Birkbeck University of London , online event with Saba Sams and Vanessa Onwuemezi, hosted by Toby Litt, 10th May 2022
The Art of the Short Story, online event with RZ Baschir, hosted by Rosanna McLaughlin for The White Review, 12th May 2022
Queer Gothic Tales: Leon Craig in Conversation at Waterstones Gower Street, 8th April 2022, reviewed in Strand magazine
Berlin launch of Parallel Hells in conversation with Mikaella Clements, hosted by The Reader, at The Word event space, 4th March 2022
Queer Gothic Horror at Manchester Blackwells with Alison Rumfitt and Rosie Garland, 21st February 2022
London launch of Parallel Hells in conversation with Julia Armfield, Libreria Bookshop, London, 17th February 2022
Futures in the Making showcase at Gay’s The Word bookshop, 31 October 2019
Speak= a night of readings hosted by London Queer Writers at The Jago, Dalston, Thursday 25 July 2019
Futures – a night of new writing to celebrate LGBT History Month Wednesday 20 February 2019, from 6pm at the Islington Museum
The launch for Thousand: An Anthology of Very Short Fiction from the Brainchild team, co-edited with Tristan Rogers. Event took place Thursday 1 March 2018 at Platform Southwark with the anthology available to purchase afterwards from the Brainchild Festival online shop.
The Perfect Liars’ Club, Tuesday 11 September 2018
She Grrrowls, Thursday 7 June 2018
An appearance by Leon Craig on Radio Diva on Resonance FM, from 42:30
Polari/ LGBTQ History Month at the Southbank Centre in 2017
(Read the review here)
and Polari Literary Salon at the Hemel Hempstead Library in 2018
That’s What She Said, 2017 and again in April 2018
Brainchild Festival, August 2017, also acting as Short Story Hour Coordinator where she brought together a selection of up-and-coming young writers including Chibundu Onuzo and Naomi Ishiguro to read their short fiction aloud at the festival
Video clip of Leon Craig reading her work aloud (credit: Ben Noble)
At The Inkwell, 2017
The Moth in London, 2017
L Fest writing series and panel discussion, 2017
Women’s Art For Change, 2017
https://www.evensi.uk/womens-art-for-change-ziferblat-london/198646095
An evening with Swimmers in 2016
http://www.storeprojects.org/event/an-evening-with-swimmers-3/
Queercircle, 2016