Forthcoming Events

Future events and appearances.
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July 2025 (date tbc)
Festival of Ideas, University of Chester
​festivalofideas.chester.ac.uk
​Marie Duval's Mountaineering Bustle

Past Events

24 February 2021
Manga Jiman Awards
Embassy of Japan in the UK
Yonkoma: the subtle and surprising art of stories that are hard to tell

17 November 2019
Kendal Mountain Festival
Marie Duval's Mountaineering Bustle

11 October 2019
Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal
A Theory of Narrative Drawing
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07 September 2019
Gladfest, Haywarden
Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval

16 April 2019
Storyhouse, Chester
The Enduring Power of Comic Strips

22 November 2018
Chester Literature Festival
The Quizzical Glance: Two Centuries of Women Cartoonists in Britain with Nicola Streeten.

08 September 2018
Gladfest, Haywarden
Marie Duval
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05 July 2018
Penzance Literary Festival
​Marie Duval – rediscovering a forgotten comics genius.
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01 May 2018
Hexham Book Festival
Marie Duval – rediscovering a forgotten comics genius.

26 January 2017
The Edge, Bath
Dispossession and adaptation

24 November 2016
Sterling Maxwell Centre, University of Glasgow.
Adapting a Victorian classic. Talk.

9 November 2016
Grosvenor Museum, Chester.
Dispossession

8 November 2016
Nottingham University School of English.
Dispossession. Talk and book signing.

21-23 October 2016
North Cornwall Book Festival.
See here.
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03 September 2016:
Gladfest, Haywarden.
​Comics workshop for all ages. See here.

01 June 2016
Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival.
Dispossession: adapting Trollope. Talk and signing.

02 April 2016:
University Centre Shrewsbury
"Leaving Britain" – emigration in the Victorian Age, with Jude Pliese. Talk and book signing.

 29 November 2015: Cambridge Literary Festival
In conversation with Stephen Amarnick, editor of the excellent restored edition of Trollope’s The Duke's Children.

18 October 2015:
Lakes International Comics Festival, Kendal.
Bigamy! Blackmail! Betrayal! .
Drawing the glittering 'Dispossession'.

12 October 2015:
Chester Lit Festival
 With Yvonne Siddle.

07 October 2015:
Cheltenham Lit Festival,
With Evie Wyld and Paul Gravett.

3 October 2015:
London Lit Weekend, Kings Place, London.
With Jonathan Keates, Helen Small and John Sutherland.

6 September 2015:
Gladfest, Gladstone Library, Hawarden.
Adapting a Victorian classic.

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4 September 2015:
Gosh! Comics, London.
UK Launch of Dispossession. With window painting.

30 May 2015: 
Alliance of Literary Societies.
'With David Skilton, Emeritus Professor of English at Cardiff University.

18 November 2014. Cardiff Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research.
Creating a visual replacement for  Trollope’s literary voice.

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