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27 Feb: The 2025 LGBT+ History Month Lecture, Faculty of English, The University of Oxford

7 March: Reading, International Women's Day Poetry Showcase, The York Literature Festival

1 May: Reading & Conversation, Queer Intersections Oxford, Radcliffe Humanities, Oxford

11 Oct: Talk, On Bing Xin, Dead [Women] Poets Society, The Winchester Poetry Festival

14 Oct: Online Reading & Interview, On Bright Fear & Flèche, The London Writers' Salon

28 Oct: The F.T. Prince Memorial Lecture, School of Humanities, University of Southampton

2024

_{20 Jan: Reading with Victoria Adukwei Bulley & Momtaza Mehri, Blackwell's, Oxford}

_{31 Jan: Reading, Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge}

_{8 Feb: Reading with Isobel Dixon, Shehzar Doja & others, The Glasgow Network of Poets}

_{24 Feb: Reading, Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan, Magdalene Poetry Society, Cambridge}

_{29 Feb: Reading, Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan with Enora Lessinger, Daunt, Oxford}

_{1 Mar: Judge, The Avril Gilchrist Bruten Award for Creative Writing, St Hugh's, Oxford}

_{3 Mar: Speaker, On Wilderness and the Poetic Imagination, Wadham Chapel, Oxford}

_{7-9 Mar: Speaker, Poetry's Englishes Symposium, Chinese University of Hong Kong}

_{18 Mar: Interviewer, In Conversation with Diarmuid Hester, The Cambridge Festival}

_{23 Mar: Reading, Poets and Players, The Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester}

_{24 Mar: Reading, Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan, MSt in Creative Writing, Oxford}

_{28 Mar: Reading, Out-Spoken Poetry Live March Edition, Southbank Centre, London}

_{4 Apr: Speaker, Mary Jean Chan & Phoebe Wang, The University of Orleans, France}

_{11 Apr: Launch of Siblings with Jay Bernard, Will Harris & Nisha Ramayya, LRB, London}

_{9 May: Reading, Mary Jean Chan & Charlotte Shevchenko Knight, Coronet Theatre, London}

_{15 May: Reading, The 2024 Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist, Waterstones Piccadilly, London}

_{23 May: Reading with Sean Hewitt & Harry Josephine Giles, International Lit Fest, Dublin}

_{31 May: Faculty Reading with Rachael Allen & Sanah Ahsan, Faculty of English, Cambridge}

_{4 June: Reading, Mary Jean Chan, Jazz Money & Ellen van Neerven, Trinity Hall, Cambridge}

_{18 June: 100 Queer Poems with Andrew McMillan & Richard Scott, Foyles Bookshop, London}

_{15 Aug: Siblings with Jay Bernard, Will Harris & Nisha Ramayya, The Edinburgh Book Festival}

_{5 Oct: Reading with Roger Robinson, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan & Jasmine Gardosi, Derby Lit Fest}

_{13 Nov: Interview, On the 2024 Booker Prize winner Orbital by Samantha Harvey, France 24, Paris}

_{18 Nov: Reading, Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan, The Jesus College Herbert English Society, Oxford}

2023

19 Feb: Moderator, 100 Queer Poems panel, The Verve Poetry Festival, Birmingham

_{24 Feb: Reading & Discussion, English & Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick}

_{1 Mar: Reading, After Sylvia: Poets on Plath, The National Poetry Library, London}

_{9 Mar: Reading, Mary Jean Chan, Keith Jarrett & Faryal Velmi, Reading University}

_{11 Mar: Reading, Poets of Chinese Heritage, 2023 AWP conference, Seattle, US}

_{14 Apr: Reading, Mary Jean Chan with Giorgia Sensi, Ritratti di Poesia, Rome, Italy}

_{12 May: Reading with Kim Moore & Clare Shaw, The 2023 Newcastle Poetry Festival}

_{22 May: Reading with Michael Symmons Roberts, Harris Manchester College, Oxford}

_{11 July: Reading, Contemporary Queer Literature in Britain, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford}

_{28 July: Launch, Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan with Andrew McMillan, LRB Bookshop}

_{31 Aug: Reading by Mary Jean Chan, Asia Creative Writing Programme, Singapore}

_{18 Sept: Reading, Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan, Topping & Co. Bookshop, Bath}

_{21 Sept: Judge, Booker Prize shortlist event, The National Portrait Gallery, London}

_{15 Oct: Reading with Jen Campbell & Kit Fan, The Durham Book Festival, Durham}

_{16 Oct: Reading, The Forward Prizes for Poetry awards ceremony, Leeds Playhouse}

_{21 Oct: Reading with Fiona Benson & Stephen Sexton, Seamus Heaney HomePlace}

_{24 Oct: Reading with Mona Arshi & Bhanu Kapil, Pembroke College, Cambridge}

_{28 Oct: Reading, Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan, The Wantage Literary Festival}

_{30 Oct: Reading with Patrick James Errington & Fahad Al-Amoudi, Oxford Brookes}

_{7 Nov: Reading, Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan, Topping & Co. Bookshop, Edinburgh}

_{20 Nov: Reading with Rachael Allen, Ishion Hutchinson & Daljit Nagra, The Bindery}

_{26 Nov: Judge, The 2023 Booker Prize winner ceremony, Old Billingsgate, London}

_{5 Dec: Talk, The Booker Prize: Mary Jean Chan with Enora Lessinger, Oxford Brookes}