2024 EVENTS

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL — Jenni Fagan: 'OOTLIN'

• The long awaited publication for OOTLIN, a memoir about an extraordinary life, launched at Edinburgh International Book Festival to a sold out auditorium and a standing ovation.

• Ootlin will burn a home in your heart, it has in mine. Handle Ootlin with care. Read every word of every page. Turn them carefully. Jenni Fagan is made of fire and spirit. These words are like stones left by hansel and Gretel as they are cast into the forest without mother or father or family. Ootlin is alone. Ootlin will burn a home in your heart. It has burned a home in mine. From heart to finish I could not put it down. Beautiful, deep, dangerous, transfixing, with a heart so big it could swallow the world. Hers is a life untold with its secrets stuffed beneath scars. She is our sister. And sisters know. And now she tells. Stop, before you leave. Close the door. Sit down now. Read Ootlin. Read. " Lemn Sissay

  PORTY BOOKS

  A Swan’s Neck on the Butcher’s Block launch event, October 2024.

  VERB WELLINGTON FESTIVAL, NEW ZEALAND, November 2024.

  Ootlin, in conversation with Pip Adam.

  Poetry reading as part of anthology in action, eight poets collect to mark a live anthology on stage.

  In conversation with essa may ranapiri, Island to Island exchange.

  I have read in Paris, Italy, France, Germany, Croatia, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New York, Portland, Oregon, LA, London, the Highlands, New Zealand, attending literary festivals and book tours. I have performed in literary festivals, bookshops, prisons, high schools, derelict psychiatric hospital, libraries, nightclubs,