2012
27 January- 1 February, Kolkatta Literary Meet
11 February The Glasgow Film Festival and Words Per Minute
17 March Aye Write Glasgow
25 March - The Oxford Literary Festival
9-14 April - Arvon Foundation course, Moniack Mhor
27 - 30th July, Poetry Parnassus at the Southbank Centre, London
August, Edinburgh International Book Festival
4 December, New North Writing, Newcastle
2011
24 September, Wigtown Book Festival
August, Edinburgh Book Festival - Kapka talks about Villa Pacifica and John Gimlette talks about Wild Coast
27 July, The National Academy of Writing
26-30 May, Elizabeth Kostova Sozopol Fiction Seminars
2010
9-14 August, Arvon Foundation course, Totleigh Barton
7-9 June, Travel Writing course, West Dean College
11-12 June, Determining Form: creative non-fiction journeys, University of Glasgow
2009
1 November, Durham Book Festival
23 October, University City London, East Looks West
9-18 October 2009, The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, writer in residence
July 2009, Freiburg University conference: 'Representations of Eastern Europe in the media'
28 June, Shore Poets reading, Edinburgh, The Lot
June, Sozopol Elizabeth Kostova Foundation programme
29 April 6.30pm, SoPo poetry readings, Soho, London
February, London School of Economics
May, Arvon Foundation guest spot
May, Aberdeen Word Festival
April, Zagreb Poetry Festival
March, Chichester Festival
March, Cumbria Festival
March, Aye Festival, Glasgow, with the Forest Cafe's Golden Hour
Feb, London School of Economics Festival
2008
October, Bluecoat Literary Festival, Liverpool
September, Apolonia Art Festival, Sozopol, Bulgaria
August, Edinburgh Book Festival
July, London Literature Festival
July, University of Stirling Poetry Conference
May, Auckland Writers' and Readers' Festival
March, Poetry Association of Scotland reading at the Scottish Poetry Library
2007
July, John Hewitt International Summer School, Armagh, Northern Ireland www.johnhewitt.org
May, Auckland Readers' and Writers' Festival www.writersfestival.co.nz