A Stint in Your Spotlight

A list of places where I have read/performed (incl. radio appearances):

—2026—
30th June – Featured poet at Pride Poets, Dublin, 7-9pm, Street66
31st May – Dublin launch of Real Estate at Books Upstairs, introduced by Rosamund Taylor, 2pm  
28th March – The Poetry Lounge Waterford with Jessica Traynor & Eithne Lannon
25th March – Masters: Beneath and Beyond the Brushstrokes: Mark Ward in conversation with Paul Maddern, as part of the Imagine! Belfast festival.

—2025—
12th – 13th October: London signings and social media readings for Gay’s The Word, The Poetry Pharmacy & The Common Press 
11th October – Birmingham Launch of Masters at an Emma Press event in Birmingham Literature Festival, reading with Lewis Buxton & Hannah Lutz, 4-5pm.
9th October – Online Launch of Masters with Emma Press Director James Trevelyan and guest poet Jarad Bruinstroop, 7pm. 
7th October – Dublin Launch of Masters at Books Upstairs, 6pm – 7.30pm 
16th July – Out on the Page at West Cork Literary Festival with Chloe Michelle Howarth, Liz Quirke and Damien B Donnelly

—2024— 
28th December – Long interview/reading (45 mins) with Damien B Donnelly about my poetry on his podcast Eat the Storms (Season 9, Episode 11 – available on all podcast platforms, Spotify link is here) 
12th November –Poets for Movember: A Chorus of Men’s Voices (online, as part of Milton Keynes Literary Festival)  
8th September – Reading at Books Upstairs with David McLoghlin (Crash Centre) & Kelly Michels (American Anthem)
9th June – Teaching Random Acts: A Generative Poetry Workshop and Featured Reader at Voidspace Live (Theatre Deli, London) 
23rd May – Hosting Seeking Selves featuring Seán Hewitt, Mary Jean Chan & Harry Josephine Giles at ILF Dublin, 6pm.
15th May– Cork International Poetry Festival reading with Mícheál McCann (hosted by Patrick Holloway)
30th March – Reading from my story Summer Job at the launch of the anthology MOTEL from Cowboy Jamboree Press (online)
4th January – Featured Reader at Lime Square Poets (online)

—2023—-

8th December – ‘A Little Christmas Storm’ reading with The Storms journal at The Winding Stair, Dublin, 6.30pm 
11th November – New Voices with Majella Kelly, hosted by Dani Gill, and presented as part of Dublin Book Festival 2023
25th August – Nightlight UK Tour: BELFAST w/Caleb Nichols, Nasim Asl & Joel Harkin at The American Bar
29th July – Nightlight UK Tour: BELFAST: EastSide Arts Festival w/Malcolm Guite, Rosemary Jenkinson, Gaynor Kane & Elizabeth McGeown at Templemore Baths 
28th June – Nightlight UK Tour: Edinburgh with Jane Goldman, Nicky Melville & Tony Lopez at Typewronger Books
18th June – Cultivating Voices’ 4th Annual Pride Parade w/Fern Roush, Gustavo Hernandez, Kai Coggin, Trace Petersen & Lennée Reid 
11th June – Cultivating Voices’ New Books Showcase w/Karen Poppy, David Groff & Risa Denenberg (online)
29th April – Nightlight UK Tour: London with Peter Scalpello & Serge ♆ Neptune at The Common Press 
28th April – Nightlight UK Tour: Brighton with John McCullough & Simon Maddrell at The Kemptown Bookshop
21st April – Misery Loves the Void (online) 
16th April – Celebrating Nightlight at Books Upstairs with Rosamund Taylor and Simon Costello
28th March – Featured reader at Pride Poets with Rachel Handley, Street66, Dublin
25th February – Launch of collection Nightlight with Jessica Traynor & Nell Regan 
13th January – Witchcraft Loves Misery (online) 
6th January – Misery Loves Company reading (online)

—2022—

12th July – Reading poems over/with noise musician Vincent Douris in Paris.
9th July – Misery Loves Company reading 
7th July – Featured reader at the Launch of Eamon Somers’ novel Dolly Considine’s Hotel alongside Rosamund Taylor
25th June – Featured reader on Eat the Storms Pride podcast. 
13th May – Misery Loves Company reading
27th March – Faultlines: An Interactive Poetry Experience (live online reading with decisions/paths voted by the audience) 
9th March – Queering the Green reading w/Sacha White, Mícheál McCann and Mary Montague, hosted by Paul Maddern at The Irish Secretariat, Belfast. 
22nd February – Dublin Pride’s Pride Poets w/June Caldwell, Sonya Mulligan and Ollie Bell at The Front Lounge.

—2021—

17th September – Featured Reader + Interviewed on NearTV’s Culture Night show
27th June – Cultivating Voices: 2nd Annual Pride Parade.
26th June – Featured reading on Eat the Storms Pride podcast. 
25th June – Featured reader at Neptune’s Glitter House for Wayward Poets with Lady Red Ego and Alice Hiller. 
24th April – Hosted Cúirt Festival event, Finding Ourselves: Writing through the Queer Archive.

—2020—

25th December – Read ‘Hibernating’ on The RTÉ Poetry Programme, Christmas Edition (December 2020)
6th December – Interviewed on, and read ‘1992’ and ‘A Poem for Actors’ for The RTÉ Poetry Programme
3rd December – The Queer Body with Séan Hewitt and Liz Quirke, hosted by Sasha de Buyl, as part of Dublin Book Festival, in partnership with Cúirt Festival
17th November – Interviewed for, and read ‘A History of Empathy’ on, RTÉ Radio 1 show Arena (segment starts at 54:30).
30th October – Read ‘Sleep Over’ on Words Lightly Spoken #96
28th October – Poetry Ireland Introductions Reading, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin
24th October – Read ‘Vegas Epithalamion’ for Poetry Ireland, as part of their 2020 Introductions series. 
21st October – Wild and Precious Life Reading Series (rescheduled date). Video on the WPLS Videos page (the video with the thumbnail of the guy with yellow headphones) 
11th October – Cultivating Voices: National Coming Out Day Poetry Reading (watch here: My reading is at 1 hour 28 mins.)
18th September – Bray Literary Festival event: Four Poets Walk Into A Bar with myself, Anne Tannam, Grace Wilentz and Fiona Bolger   (watch here) 
5th September – Read ‘Creation Myth’ on RTÉ Lyric FM’s Weekend Drive (The Poetry File segment. Listen here.)
4th September – Fingal Poetry Festival Poetry Slam featured poet (event cancelled due to Covid) 
12th August – Wild and Precious Life Reading Series (pulled out due to unforseen circumstances, rescheduling)
26th July – Cultivating Voices: New Books Showcase (15 min reading. Watch here. I’m on at 45mins in)
18th July – Read ‘Withdrawn’ on RTÉ Lyric FM’s Weekend Drive (The Poetry File segment. Listen here.)
28th June – Poetry Pride Parade: A Cultivating Voices Live Special Event.  (You can watch my hour here, my reading starts at 30:22)
10th June – Interviewed on, and read two poems – ‘Detatched’ and ‘Urge’ – for Umbrella Radio Show on Liffey Sound FM. (Listen here.)
5th June – Trim Online Poetry Festival: Boyne Berries 27 Launch (You can watch here, my reading starts at 3:05)
30th April – Poem-In with my Homies (organised by Hunt+Gather and Spooky Beure)

—2019—

28th September – Winners’ Reading at the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Awards in Iniskeen, Monaghan, where I was Highly Commended.
27th September – Takin’ the Mic with MC Mark Ward and special guest BeRn, Irish Writers Centre.
20th June – Read ‘Vegas Epithalamion’ on RTÉ 1’s Arena. 
17th May – Tales of the Cities: An Evening of LGBTQ+ Poets featuring myself, Annemarie Ni Churreain, Derek Coyle, Liz Quirke and Paul Maddern. The Liquor Rooms, 5.30pm, 5EUR, as part of ILF Dublin. (I also organised and curated this event!)
10th April – Staccato with Danielle McLaughlin, Madeline Darcy Lane, Colin Dardis and Geraldine O’Kane
15th March – Launch of Boyne Berries #25 at the 2019 Trim Poetry Festival
13th March – Finalist in the 2019 Intervarsity Poetry Slam – Joint 3rd Place!

—2018—

6th November – Circumference Book Launch w/Deirdre Sullivan and Sarah Elaine.
24th May – Polari Literary Salon w/ Hillary McCollum, VG Lee, Paul Burston and John Boyne (as part of ILF Dublin).

—2017—

1st January – Slam Sunday – Joint 3rd Place!

—2016—

22nd October – Festival Klub in Lingo Festival 2016 (Featured act in the Lingo Festival!)
27th June – The Monday Echo (w/Christy Gaffney, Rebecca Ní Chaolí, Ozgejan, Katie O’Connor & Brendan Carvill)
25th June – Hunt + Gather’s Rebels in Love tent at Dublin Pride 2016 (as part of PETTYCASH set) 
24th March – Well-Versed (w/Vickey Curtis and Leo Connell)
26th January – The Noise Upstairs’ The Night of Infinite Sadness
21st January – Well-Versed (w/Raven and Clara Rose Thornton)

—2015—

30th December – NYF Poetry Slam
17th December – Well-Versed (w/Ruben Quesada, Alicia Byrne Keane and Ailish Kerr)
26th November – Well-Versed (the impromptu edition)
7th December – Slam Sunday – 2nd Place!
22nd October – Well-Versed (w/Elliott Tighe and Chris Joyce)
16th October – Fresh Poetry Slam – WINNER! 1ST PLACE!
14th September – The Monday Echo
6th September – Slam Sunday
3rd September – UCD Lit Soc Spoken Word Showcase
20th August – Well-Versed (w/Christy Gaffney and Chris Bradley)
23rd July – Well-Versed (w/Oisin McKenna and BeRn)
27th June – PETTYCASH presents US, The Love Shack @ Pride Village
18th June – Well-Versed (w/Ailish Kerr and Bonny Tsang)
21st May – Well-Versed – The Night Before Equality (w/Mark Ward and Kit Fryatt)
6th May – PETTYCASH presents RISING
24th April – Well-Versed and Irish Writers Centre present TAKING THE MIC @ the Irish Writers Centre
19th March – Well-Versed (w/Alicia Byrne Keane and Sonya Mulligan)
19th February – Well-Versed (w/Vickey Curtis)
22nd January – Well-Versed (w/Stephen Clare and Una Mullally)

Started in January 2015, I co-founded and co-host WELL-VERSED, a monthly LGBTQ spoken word night