Events

Since my debut novel Dark Chapter came out in 2017, I’ve spoken at hundreds of events in various countries, ranging from literary festivals to private salons, from TEDx London to  discussion groups with rape crisis centres.

Upcoming 2025 events

In 2025, I will primarily be doing events to promote my new novel WHAT WE LEFT UNSAID and the new edition of DARK CHAPTER, both of which are published in July/August.

Aug 5 — London launch for WHAT WE LEFT UNSAID, 6:30 – 8:30pm (private)

Aug 7 – Frome launch for WHAT WE LEFT UNSAID, with Libby Page, 7pm (FREE)                       

The Archangel Pub (upstairs) + Hunting Raven Books, 1 King Street, Frome BA11 1BH, UK

California Book Tour for WHAT WE LEFT UNSAID 

Aug 17 – Bel Canto Books at KUBO, Long Beach, CA, 4pm (FREE) 3976 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90807

Aug 21 – Bookshop West Portal with Grace Loh Prasad, 80 West Portal Ave, San Francisco, CA 94127,  7pm (FREE)

Aug 23 – Books, Inc. Palo Alto, with Rowena Chiu, 4pm,  (FREE) 855 El Camino Real #74, Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, CA 94304

Aug 25 – Vroman’s, with Naomi Hirahara, Pasadena, CA, 7pm (FREE) 685 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91101-2116

I also run workshops on writing, media and gender, activism and the arts, creativity and resilience, and the impact of sexual violence.   If you’re interested in having me speak for your organisation or event, please contact me on my Instagram or Facebook author page.

Previous 2025 Events: 

March 18 – The Briena Staunton Practice of Writing Seminar, Trinity College Dublin (private), Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing

May 21 – The Heath Bookshop, Birmingham, 6:30pm (£4.50) Curtis Chin and Winnie M Li in Conversation: Chinese-American Identity and the City in Memoir and Fiction  

June 29 – RAW Writing Memoir Masterclass, ONLINE , 7pm

Previous 2024 Events:

Mar 5 – Writing Difficult Subjects workshop, The Literary Consultancy

Apr 16 – Writing Coercive Control podcast live-stream

June 11 –  Festival of Learning by SoundDelivery

July 26-28 – Primadonna Festival, Food Museum, Stowmarket, UK

Aug 5-9 – Raw Writing Memoir Bootcamp Guest lecturer, ONLINE

Sep 14 – ESEA Authors Lit Fest, London

Oct 19 – MilkTea community screening: BLACK BOX DIARIES (SOLD-OUT)   Post-show panel discussion with Soma Sara, Sophie Yates Lu & Tashmia Owen

Nov 23 – Iceland Noir, Reykjavik, Iceland

Previous 2023 Events: 

Feb 9 – Frontline Focus conference, New Pathways (3pm GMT), FREE, online

Feb 28 – BookSoup with Jordan Harper (7pm PST), FREE Los Angeles, CA, USA

Mar 3 – Cultur Club, US-Ireland Alliance Salon (private), Los Angeles, CA, USA

Mar 4 – Platform Conference for Black & Asian Writers (2:45pm GMT), online

Mar 11 – LA County Public Libraries, Hacienda Heights, CA

Mar 16-19 – Left Coast Crime, Tucson, AZ, USA

Mar 29 – Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre, FREE, London, UK

May 17 – WoWFest (7pm), The Women’s Organisation, Liverpool, £10 ‘How Many More Women?’ with Keina Yoshida, Jennifer Robinson, and Betsky Stanko OBE

May 26 – Hay Festival (7pm), Event 29, The Hive, Hay-on-Wye, UK, £10 With Laura Bates, Mandu Reid & Sadaf Saaz

June 17 – LSE Festival: People and Change (4pm), London, UK & ONLINE FREE, ‘#MeToo and the Media’ with Rowena Chiu, Dr. Kathryn Claire Higgins, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, and Prof. Sarah Banet-Weiser

NORTHEAST US BOOK TOUR in June 2023 

June 20 – Kew & Willow Books with Alex Segura (7pm), Queens, NY

June 22 – Norwich Bookstore with Susan J. Brison (7pm), Norwich, VT

June 25 – Newtonville Books (4pm), Newton, MA (Boston)

June 26 – Katonah Reading Room (1:30pm), Katonah, NY

June 26 – J. Anderson’s Books (7pm), Larchmont, NY

June 27 – Barnes & Noble (6pm), 1708 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA

June 28 – Yu & Me Books (6pm) with Ed Lin, Manhattan, NY

June 29 – Watchung Booksellers (7pm), Montclair, NJ

July 12 – West Cork Literary Festival (6:30pm), Bantry, Ireland

July 18 – Signing Event for Complicit, Waterstones Cork

July 19 – Sisters in Crime Online panel (7pm GMT/ 2pm EDT), ONLINE & FREE

July 28-30 – Primadonna Festival, Food Museum, Stowmarket, UK

Aug 11-13 – St. Hilda’s Crime Fiction Weekend, Oxford, UK & ONLINE

Sep 14 – Rare Birds Book Shop, Edinburgh, UK  (7pm), £5

Sep 19 – Accidental Book Festival, Black Swan Arts Centre, Frome, UK (7pm), £6

Sep 21 – ESEA Authors Lit Fest, SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre, London (3pm), FREE

Oct 7 – San Diego Writers’ Festival: Festival U, ONLINE (10am PST), $60 day pass

Oct 8 – Murder One, LexIcon Library, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland (1pm), EUR 12/10         ‘Complicit: Winnie M Li’ in conversation with Remie Michelle Clarke  

Nov 27 – Writing Sexual Violence in the Age of #MeToo, Lancaster University

Nov 28 – Creative Writing Workshop Lancaster University