{"id":32,"date":"2018-01-19T20:56:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:25:19","slug":"live-readings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/?page_id=32","title":{"rendered":"Live Appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Previous appearances<\/strong><\/p>\n

Locked Rooms event with Tom Hindle, author of A Killer in Paradise<\/em>, and Melanie Han for University of Surrey New Writing Festival, April 2026<\/p>\n

Salon Europe Berlin 2026 reading series, March 2026<\/p>\n

‘Dangerous Debuts’ event with Sean Gilbert, author of I’ll Be the Monster<\/em> and Gemma Seltzer for Jewish Book Week<\/p>\n

Panel event for Nottingham Women in Horror Festival with Nessa Santos, author of Make a Home of M<\/em>e and Leigh Radford, author of One Yellow Eye<\/em>, 2nd November 2025, featured here<\/a><\/p>\n

In conversation with Nick Newman, author of The Garden<\/em> at Daunt Books Notting Hill, 30th October 2025<\/p>\n

In conversation with Andrew Michael Hurley, author of Saltwash<\/em> at Manchester Blackwells, 28th October 2025<\/p>\n

Launch event for The Decadence<\/em> with Kate Collins, author of A Good House for Children<\/em> at the Owl Bookshop in London, 25th September 2025<\/p>\n

Chair for Louise Hegarty to celebrate her debut Fair Play<\/em> at Daunt Books Notting Hill, March 2025<\/p>\n

English PEN Literary Salon<\/a> at The London Book Fair 2024 on Horror and Freedom of Expression, with Alison Rumfitt and M\u00f3nica Ojeda, March 2024<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cork International Short Story Festival<\/a> with \u00c9il\u00eds N\u00ed Dhuibne and R\u00f3is\u00edn Leggett Bohan, October 2023<\/p>\n

Chair for Kate Collins to celebrate her debut novel A Good House for Children<\/em>, at Daunts Summertown, Oxford, March 2023<\/p>\n

Short Stories, Tall Tales with AM Moskowitz for Jewish Book Week<\/a>, 5th March 2023 at King’s Place, London<\/p>\n

An Evening of Literary Gothic, in conversation with Francine Toon at Daunts Summertown, Oxford, 2nd November 2022<\/p>\n

Halloween event at Kirkdale Bookshop, London, 29th October 2022<\/p>\n

Berlin paperback launch in conversation with Jane Flett, hosted by The Reader at Das Gift, 25th October 2022<\/p>\n

Dead Ladies Show No.31<\/a> (on Angela Carter) with Audrey Naline and Susan Stone, Acud Macht Neu, Berlin, 9th June 2022, also released as a podcast<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

The Art of the Short Story, online event<\/a> with RZ Baschir, hosted by Rosanna McLaughlin for The White Review<\/em>, 12th May 2022<\/p>\n

Queer Gothic Tales: Leon Craig in Conversation at Waterstones Gower Street, 8th April 2022, reviewed<\/a> in Strand<\/em> magazine<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Berlin launch of Parallel Hells<\/em> in conversation with Mikaella Clements, hosted by The Reader, at The Word event space<\/a>, 4th March 2022<\/p>\n

Queer Gothic Horror at Manchester Blackwells<\/a> with Alison Rumfitt and Rosie Garland, 21st February 2022<\/p>\n

London launch of Parallel Hells<\/em> in conversation with Julia Armfield, Libreria Bookshop<\/a>, London, 17th February 2022<\/p>\n

Futures in the Making<\/a> showcase at Gay’s The Word bookshop, 31 October 2019<\/p>\n

Speak= a night of readings hosted by London Queer Writers<\/a> at The Jago, Dalston, Thursday 25 July 2019<\/p>\n

Futures<\/a> – a night of new writing to celebrate LGBT History Month Wednesday 20 February 2019, from 6pm at the Islington Museum<\/p>\n

The launch<\/a> for Thousand: An Anthology of Very Short Fiction<\/em><\/a> from the Brainchild team, co-edited with Tristan Rogers. Event took place Thursday 1 March 2018 at Platform Southwark<\/a> with the anthology\u00a0 available to purchase<\/a> afterwards from the Brainchild Festival online shop.<\/p>\n

The Perfect Liars’ Club<\/a>, Tuesday 11 September 2018<\/p>\n

She Grrrowls<\/a>, Thursday 7 June 2018<\/p>\n

An appearance by Leon Craig on Radio Diva<\/a> on Resonance FM, from 42:30<\/p>\n

Polari\/ LGBTQ History Month<\/a> at the Southbank Centre in 2017
\n<\/span>(Read the review here)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and Polari Literary Salon<\/a>\u00a0at the Hemel Hempstead Library<\/a>\u00a0in 2018<\/p>\n

That’s What She Said<\/a>, 2017\u00a0<\/span>and again<\/a> in April 2018<\/p>\n

Brainchild Festival<\/a>, August 2017, also acting as Short Story Hour Coordinator where she\u00a0brought together a selection of up-and-coming young writers including Chibundu Onuzo and Naomi Ishiguro to read their short fiction aloud at the festival<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.leoncraigwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/leonreadingfinal.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

Video clip of Leon Craig reading her work aloud (credit: Ben Noble)<\/strong><\/p>\n

At The Inkwel<\/a>l, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

The Moth<\/a> in London, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

L Fest<\/a> writing series and panel discussion, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Art For Change, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.evensi.uk\/womens-art-for-change-ziferblat-london\/198646095<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

An evening with Swimmers in 2016
\n<\/span>http:\/\/www.storeprojects.org\/event\/an-evening-with-swimmers-3\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Queercircle, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/limewharf.org\/portfolio\/queercircle-launch-festival\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 Previous appearances Locked Rooms event with Tom Hindle, author of…<\/p>\n

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