Events

2025

 

 

29 May: Transport & Mobility History Seminar Series. Seminar Title: 'Railways in Literature: 200 Years of Literary Response', School of Advanced Study, University of London. Speaker: 'Waystations and Arrivals: Railways in Contemporary Poetry' 

7 May: Hi Doubt Reading Series #3, Guest Reader, Literature and Languages, University of Surrey

2024

13 December: 'Reading, Writing, and Sensing the City: Creative and Critical Perspectives on Urban Mobilities', Panel Chair, Mobility & Humanities Joint Seminar. University of Padua (Italy) and University of Surrey https://www.mobilityandhumanities.it/ 

9 November: The Ministry of Environmental Disasters: Exhibition as part of the Being Human Festival in conjunction with the University of Surrey. Exhibit title: 'Poems From a Lost Botanist' (mixed media with text). Exhibition curator Angela Szczepaniak. https://www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/ministry-environmental-disasters-exhibition

8 November: Poetry and Publishing Day. Session run for undergraduates as part of the Writing Poetry: Composition and Craft module (Liz Bahs module leader). University of Surrey.  Events included attendance at Spoken Word reading as part of the Being Human Festival, interactive session on small press publishing and a migrant writing event.

8 June: Victorian Memorials at Surrey History Centre. Guest Speaker: 'Stay Bones: Inspirations, Groundwork, Methods'.  https://victorianmemorials.wordpress.com/

2022

October--November: Writer-in-Residence, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Collemacchia, Italy. https://themuseumoflossandrenewal.life/individual-residencies-2022/

28 June: International Conference on Narrative, University of Chichester, UK. Panel title: Multi-Narrative Genres and Boundaries. Speaker: 'Cathy Park Hong's Poetry Collection Dance Dance Revolution as Braided Narrative'.

7 May: Surrey Poetry Festival, Guest Reader. School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey

27 January: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Festival of Research: Creative Showcase. Guest Speaker with Paul Vlitos, Liz Bahs, Alex Reeve.

2021

15 November: Narrative and Music Conference, Brussels. Speaker: 'On the Threshold: Polyphony and Countermeasure in Gabrielle Calvocoressi's The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart'  https://sites.google.com/view/narrative-and-music

2 September: Multi-Narratives Conference at CAU Kiel. Speaker: 'Cathy Park Hong's Dance Dance Revolution as Historiographic Multi-Narrative' https://www.multi-narratives.uni-kiel.de/de?set_language=de

5 May: Crossing Boundaries, Surrey Literature and Languages PGR Conference, University of Surrey: Keynote Speaker; 'Creative Collaboration: Where Boundaries Become Bridges in Creative Practice'

24 April: Surrey New Writers Festival: Creative Collaborations Panel with Paul Vlitos, Collette Lyons, Martha Cook, and Liz Bahs https://surreynewwritersfest.com/

 

2020 

3 December: University of Surrey, School of Literature & Languages: Staff Book Launch

11 November: University of Surrey, School of Literature & Languages: Headline Reader at Staff-Student Lunchtime Reading

12 July: Double Pindrop Press Book Launch: Liz Bahs & Alex Jospehy: Virtual readings (click here to watch the reading from Stay Bones)

14 March: Surrey New Writers Festival. Reading: Historical Fiction & Memoir with Liz Bahs, Lulah Ellender, and Julie Evans surreynewwritersfest.com

22 February: Poetry Book Fair, London. New Pindrop Poets Reading

2019 

18 December: University of Surrey, School of Literature & Languages: Not-Quite-Afternoon Reading Series with Paul Vlitos, Liz Bahs, Stephen Mooney, Ed Luker, Judith Popova, M.E. Rolle

August—September 2019: Writer-in-Residence, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia USA, Collaborative residency with ceramicist Martha Cook 

30 May—1 June 2019: International Conference on Narrative, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.  Speaker: 'Reading the Null Point: Multi-Narrative Strategies in Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s Rocket Fantastic'  http://narrative.georgetown.edu/conferences/conference2019/ConferenceProgram2019.pdf

12 April 2019: Corroding the Now: Poetry + Science / Science Fiction, London, UK. Reading: Poems from a Lost Botanist, New poetry from my residency at Hambidge, USA  http://corrodingthenow.com/ 

15-16 March, 2019: Narrative Symposium, University of York, UK.  Inaugural symposium of research for British and Irish Association of Narrative Studies. Speaker: 'On the Threshold: Countermeasure and Chronotope in Poetry Sequence'

2018

18 October 2018: The Needlewriters, Lewes, E. Sussex.  An Evening of Poetry and Prose. Readings by Lulah Ellender, Liz Bahs, Jan Woolf https://needlewriters.co.uk/2018/07/27/lulah-ellender-liz-bahs-jan-woolf-18th-october-2018/

7 September 2018: Sussex Double Book Launch: Liz Bahs & Andy Brown: Greyhound Night Service; Bloodlines. The Linklater Pavilion, Lewes, E.

19 April 2018: International Conference on Narrative, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Speaker: 'More Than A Sum of Parts: Multinarrativity in Jackie Kay's Poetry Sequence "The Adoption Papers"' http://narrative.georgetown.edu/conferences/WEB-PROGRAM-G180681-Narrative-Conf-1.pdf

March—April 2018: Writer-in-Residence, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia USA

2017  

26 March 2017: International Conference on Narrative, University of Kentucky, Lexington USA. Speaker: 'Countermeasure in the Polyphonic Poetry Sequence'https://narrative2017.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/2017narrative-program-finaledit3-9.pdf

2016

9 March 2016: Creative Historiographies: 'Glimpsing Truth, Constructing History'. PhD Seminar Research Series, Speakers: Kei Miller, Clair Le Couteur, Liz Bahs, Viv Graveson. Senate House, University of London https://rhulpracticebasedphd.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/creative-historiographies/

2015

17 September 2015: Written and Composed: Truth / Lies, Collaborative project with the composer Tom Wilson. Hackney Attic, London.

8 May 2015: The Place for Poetry Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London. Speaker: 'On the Threshold: The Polyphonic Poetry Sequence' https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/files/25356784/The_Place_for_Poetry_2015_Full_Programme.pdf 

20 April 2015: Confessions of a Writing Group. Reading and discussion in association with New Writing South: Liz Bahs, Clare Best, Beth Miller, Alice Owens. The Writers' Place, Brighton.

26 March 2015: Needlewriters Anthology Launch: Readings by Liz Bahs, Clare Best, Charlotte Gann, Robin Houghton, Judith Kazantzis, Alice Owens, Jeremy Page, Janet Sutherland, Kay Syrad and Irving Weinman. Needlemakers Cafe, Lewes, E. Sussex.  http://www.needlewriters.co.uk

2014

23 October 2014: An Evening of Poetry and Prose: Readings by Sian Thomas, Colin Bell, Liz Bahs. Needlemakers Cafe, Lewes, E. Sussex. 

6 June 2014: Oxford English Faculty Graduate Conference, Speaker: 'Interacting Voices: Polyphonic Conversation in Poetry Sequences' https://marginsconference.wordpress.com/