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Talks, panels, workshops...​

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Clare-Based Writers Panel  at the Ennis Book Club festival  with Kitty Murphy and Eilís Haden-Storrie, March 2025.​

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‘Healing the Land: A Feminist Reframing of the Cailleach through Creative Writing and Research.' Myth, Ritual and Practice for the Age of Ecological Catastrophe conference, May 2024, Potsdam, Germany.

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Anthology launch event - Whispers In The Earth livestream launch, YouTube, May 2024.

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Keynote talk - 'Waking the Hag: Excavating Folkloric Landscapes'. Art and Psyche Symposium, TUS, Limerick, April 2024.

 

Folk Sources. Panelist with Alison Littlewood, Maura McHugh, Fantasycon, September 2023.

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‘The Hag: Excavating Familiar and Unfamiliar Landscapes.’ Haunted Landscapes conference, University of Falmouth, July 2023.
 

Keynote talk - 'Storytelling in Folklore,' Fantasticon, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2023.

 

Genre Fiction. Panelist with Chris Beckett, Malene Sølvsten, Freja Gyldenstrøm. Fantasticon, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2023.
 

Portal Fiction. Panelist with Malene Sølvsten, Chris Beckett, Flemming Rasch. Fantasticon, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2023.

 

Workshop - ‘Science Fiction: Writing New Worlds.’ Delivered Sean Lemass Library, Shannon, May 2023.
 

Workshop - ‘Writing Heroes.’ Delivered Kilfignaghty Library, Sixmilebridge and Sean Lemass Library, Shannon, May 2023.
 

‘Excavating Folk Horror: Landscape and Archaeology.’ Talk. Darkness In The Fields II, Derby, UK, March 2023.
 

Why Horror? Panelist with Tara Ansley (Fangoria), Liza Bolton (director) John McDonnell (producer), James Ryan (director) at Ennis Fantastic Film Festival, October 2022.

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'From Distinegration to Reenvigoration: Creative Reflections on the Irish Female Gothic Experience 2012-2022.' Creative paper delivered at Haunted Hibernia conference, Carlow College, October 2022.

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Horror Beyond the Page. Panelist with Kit Power (moderator), Ashley Stokes, Benjamin Langley, Tina Rath., Fantasycon, September 2022.

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Monsters and Monstrosity in SFFH. Panelist with Andrew Hook (moderator), JL George, David Watkins, Kit Power. Fantasycon, September 2022.

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Folk Horror. Panelist with Anna Smith Spark (moderator), Steve Toase,Ellis Saxey, Paul M Feeney, Caroline Hardaker. Ftansycon, September 2022.

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Interview and writing exercises for Falmouth University Creative Writing Programme, October 2022.

Workshop - ‘Using Mythology, Archetypes and Belief in Folk Horror.' Delivered for Darkness In The Fields, September 2022.

 

Workshop - ‘Write Your Own Myths.’  Delivered for Summer Stars programme, Shannon Library, Ireland, July 2022.
 

Workshop -  ‘Writing Folk Horror Stories.’  Delivered for First Fears summer school, UK., July 2022.
 

Workshop - ‘The Uncanny Short Story. ’ Delivered for Christchurch University, March 2022.

 

Workshop - ‘Write Where You Come From. Delivered for the Ennis Book Festival, March 2022.

 

Folk Horror. Panelist with Stephanie Ellis, Simon Clark, at UK Ghost Story Festival, November 2021.

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Workshop - ‘Crafting Contemporary Folk Horror’. Delivered for the UK Ghost Story Festival, November 2021.

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Workshop -  ‘The Return of the Repressed: Writing the Uncanny.' Delivered for the UK Ghost Story Festival, November 2021.

 

The Modernisation of the Monster. Panelist with John McNee, J.S. Barnes, Cymera Festival, Edinburgh, June 2020.

 

Moderator of panel Katie Hale & Penny Jones: The Female Monster - The Matriarchy of Madness, Cymera Festival, Edinburgh, June 2020.

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Moderator of panel Ruins, Curses and Family Secrets: The Gothic featuring Eden Royce, F. Brett Cox, Dr Theodora Goss. Panel at WorldCon, Dublin, August 2019.

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Fleshy Fears: Horror and the Body. Panelist with Ramsey Campbell, Penny Jones, Tamsyn Muir, Madeline Ashby. Panel at WorldCon, Dublin, August 2019.

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Horror and the Irish Supernatural. Panelist with Maura McHugh and Dr. Jack Fennell. Panel at WorldCon, Dublin, August 2019

 

From Screen to Page: Is The Boom in Horror Cinema Boosting Horror Fiction? Panellist with MR Carey, Gary McMahon, Tade Thompson, Angeline Trevena, Edge-Lit, Derby, July 2018.

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The Write Stuff: What Qualities and Skills Does an Author Need? Panelist with Andrew Bannister, Ruth De Haas, Rod Duncan,  Niki Valentine, Edge-Lit, Derby, July 2018.

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Public talk, ‘Alexander McQueen,’ screening of McQueen, Irish Film Centre, Dublin, January 2019.

MedFest Film Festival roundtable participant, GEMS, University of Limerick. April 2018.
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Public reading from The Girl In The Fort, Samhain festival, Limerick, October 2018.

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Public reading from The Black Room Manuscripts IV, with J.R. Park, Duncan P. Bradshaw and Penny Jones, Fantasycon, Chester, October 2018.

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Future Marginalia roundtable participant, Crawford College of Art, CIT, Cork, December 2017.

Trump Gothic: Horror and Political Trauma. Moderator of panel with Dr. Dara Downey, Dr. Bernice Murphy, Dr. Sarah Cleary, Colin McCracken, Irish Horror Expo, Dublin, October 2017.

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Public reading from The Unheimlich Manoeuvre, Irish Horror Expo, Dublin October 2017.

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Women in Horror. Panelist at Fantasycon, with Theresa Derwin (mod), Laura Mauro, Nancy Kilpatrick, Peterborough, October 2017.

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Playing with the Real. Panelist with Peter Coleborn (mod), Andrew Hook, Tej Turner, Mike Chinn, Jacey Bedford, Fantasycon, Peterborough, October 2017.

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Mythology, Folk Tales & The Imagination. Panelist with Iain Grant (mod), Eliza Chann, James Bennett, James Brogden, Justin Newland, Fantasycon, Peterborough, October 2017

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Public reading from The Girl In The Fort, Fantasycon, Peterborough, October 2017.

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Thrills and Chills: Just How Different Are Thrillers and Horror? Panelist with Simon Clark, Alex Davis (mod), Jo Jakeman, Sarah Pinborough, Sledge-Lit, Derby, July 2017.

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Public reading at launch for New Music For Old Rituals, Sledge-Lit, Derby, July 2017.

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Public reading from The Girl In The Fort, Sledge-Lit, Derby, July 2017.

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Public reading from The Unheimlich Manoeuvre, Irish Horror Expo, Dublin, October 2016.

 

‘Visualising Horror.’ Reading Horror in Art and Comic Books. Panelist at Irish Horror Expo, Dublin, October 2016 with Dr. Kevin Costrophine (moderator), Maura McHugh, Rachel Deering, Ciaran Marcantonio.

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With a new wave of real life horror stories, are we running out of imaginary scares? Is reality the new horror? Panelist at Fantasycon, Scarborough, September 2016, with Ramsey Campbell, Paul Finch (Chair), Helen Marshall, Mark West and V.H. Leslie.

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Public reading from The Unheimlich Manoeuvre, Fantasycon, Scarborough, September 2016.

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Public reading at launch of The Unheimlich Manoeuvre, Edge-Lit, Derby, July 2016.

 

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