Media
I am available for readings, interviews, panel discussions, and events.
For urgent requests, contact me via the email form on this website.
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Interviewer & Chair
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#Merky Books Lit Fest, 'Celebrating Queer Voices', Chair, 23 April 2023
Saqi Books, Book Launch for C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor, Host, Poet, & Interviewer, 7 October 2021
British Library, 'Truly Uncensored? LGBTQ+ Young Adult Literature', Chair, 26 September 2019
Coast is Queer Festival, 'Publishing & Platforms', Chair, 15 September 2019
UCL Festival of Culture, 'Queer Comics', Organiser, 4 June 2019
'An Evening with Angela Steidele', Chair, Gay's the Word, 2 March 2019
UCL Festival of Culture, 'UK Queer YA', Chair, 7 June 2018​​
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Radio & Podcasts
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Queer Joy Podcast, 'Baby Got Gaydar! with radical bi butch bookseller Erica Gillingham', 10 April 2024
Queer Lit, 'Queer Space Special: "Gay's The Word" with Erica Gillingham', 5 December 2023
Queer Literature Lost & Found: The Aesop Queer Library Panel Discussion, Aesop, July 2024
The Cultural Frontline, 'Inside the Rise of LGBTQ+ Fiction', BBC World Service, 6 February 2023
Short Cuts, 'Accessing the Powers of the Solar System: An Invocation for All Fertility Treatments', Series 31, 'Devotion', BBC
Radio 4, 4 June 2022
Brighton Book Club, '...The Human Body is a Hive', Episode 33, Radio Reverb, 24 April 2022
The Hive Poetry Collective, 'Erica Gillingham with Farnaz Fatemi', Season 4, Episode 10, KSQD FM, 28 March 2022
Out in South London, 'Accessing the Powers of the Solar System: An Invocation for All Fertility Treatments', live recording from
BOLD: A Queer Poetry Night at the Above the Stag Theatre on 3 June 2021, Resonance FM, 22 June 2021
A Lesbian Affair, 'Alex & Erica', Ep 9, 25 May 2020
Front Row, 'Lesbian Visibility Week' on lesbian literature, BBC 4, 23 April 2020
Feminist Book Club - Paris, 'In Conversation with...Erica Gillingham', S:1; Ep 7, 18 July 2019
Front Row, 'Queer books of the 2010s', Front Row, BBC 4, 28 June 2019
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Online Events
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MotherFlux Book Launch, Nine Pens, 12 May 2024
14poems IG Live for Issue #6, featuring 'Greasy Spoon Conception', 10 March 2022
UK Book Launch for Last Night at the Telegraph Club, 'In conversation with Malinda Lo', Chair, 18 March 2021
Untitled Underrep'd Writers Festival, 'Writers' Salon', Featured Poet, 5 September 2020
Edinburgh International Book Festival, 'Dean Atta & George Lester: Shine On', Chair, 20 August 2020
'C19 Poems', IGTV, @gaysthewordbookshop, 23 March - 29 May 2020 [10 week series]
'Queer Literature - LGBT History Month', Dept. of Digital, Media, Culture, & Sport, 21 February 2020
'Gay's the Word - London Pride', BBC London, 4 July 2019
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Audio Interviews from the Poet in the City audio archive
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Otis Mensah, The Repeat Beat Poet, and PiC Producer Billy Manning, Poetry & Lyrics Festival
John Wilson, Jehnny Beth and Simon Armitage, Poetry & Lyrics Festival
Nãnci Correia, Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Mary Jean Chan, Poets Who Changed 1968: Adrienne Rich
Aoife Mannix, Poets Who Changed 1968: Adrienne Rich
Joanna Burke, Poets Who Changed 1968: Adrienne Rich
Mark Ford, Poets Who Changed 1968: Adrienne Rich
Danez Smith, reading from Don’t Call Us Dead
Amina Jama, Tokens of Motherhood
Rebecca Goss, Tokens of Motherhood
Liz Berry, Tokens of Motherhood
Uncle Mez and Chantelle Fiddy, Grimelight
Roger Robinson, Poetry & Lyrics Festival
Richard Stokes, Poetry & Lyrics Festival
Dr Shahidha Bari, Lyric & Lust in Poetry​​​​