You’ll find information on all my upcoming events here
Cymera Literary Festival
Sat June 1st
1.30-2.30pm
Cailean is chairing Eliza Chan and Natasha Pulley’s panel at Cymera 2024.
In Eliza Chan’s debut novel Fathomfolk, Revolution is brewing in the semi-submerged city of Tiankawi, between humans and the fathomfolk who live in its waters, while Natasha Pulley’s terraformed Mars may be Utopia for some, but for others it’s life sentence to hard labour and ferocious discrimination. Join our panel as they explore the themes of diaspora, immigration and class in their latest novels..
Writing Workshops at Oban High
May 21st 2024
Oban
Cailean will be providing creative writing workshops to S4 pupils at Oban High School, focused on developing ideas and skills for their National 5 portfolios.
If you’d like Cailean to visit your school, or provide a workshop to a group of adult writers, get in touch at caileansteed@gmail.com.
Previous 2024 Events
Reading Minds: Helensburgh’s Literary Festival
March 22-24th 2024
Helensburgh
Cailean is co-programming Reading Minds: Helensburgh’s Literary Festival. Now in its second year, the festival is aimed at engaging a non-traditional audience and promoting wellbeing through reading.
Cailean will be hosting two of the panels:
Kirsty Logan and Heather Parry, 12pm Sun 24th
Kirstin Innes, Rachelle Atalla and Eleanor Thom, 2pm Sun 24th
We Are For Palestine
March 25th 7.30pm
The Roxy Assembly, Edinburgh
A live show raising funds for Medical Aid For Palestinians and UNWRA.
Hosted by Gemma Cairney, spoken word and live music from Callum Easter, Jenni Fagan, Gavin Francis, Doug Johnstone, Kathryn Joseph, Kirstin Innes, Hannah Lavery, Kirsty Logan, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Denise Mina, Andres N Ordorica, Heather Parry, Michael Pedersen, Cailean Steed, SSHE, Irvine Welsh, Chitra Ramaswamy + more TBC.
Some acts will appear by video stream. We hope to invite some Palestinian writers to contribute by video.