Sept 18 : starting to write in Bexhill

Sept 23 & 24 : reading and teaching short stories with Hari Kunzru at Charleston

October 2 : workshop and reading for Havant Literary Festival

October 13 : Shaky Isles’ new production of Allen O’Leary’s My Inner Orc (I’m directing) opens at Pleasance Islington

October 15/16/17 : Friday book event and weekend workshop Cheltenham Literature Festival

20 October : Guildford Book Festival

21 October : reading for Lambeth Age Concern at Streatham Library

22 October : reading for Sex in the City anthology, 10 Portobello Rd.

23 October : reading from Eureka Commissions, Comma Press, Manchester Literature Festival

27 October – 3 November : Lifegame, Bristol Old Vic

6 November : Homotopia, Liverpool

18 November : Birmingham Book Festival/Shout