Media

Ashley has extensive experience appearing on TV, radio and at literary festivals across the UK. He has reviewed books for BBC Radio 4, The Observer and Notts TV Book Club, and regularly speaks on literature, creativity, education and culture.

  • Credit: Ali Smith for The Observer

  • The Observer (April 2026)

  • Norwich Book Benches – June 2023

  • July 2023

  • The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, with the OWN IT! team and his copy of the THE 392 

  • Your Show a Guardian ‘Book of the Day’ – April 2023

  • Wild East – The Times’ Children’s Book of the Week (May 2024)

  • National Literacy Trust ‘Readconnect’ at HMP Swaleside (September 2023)

  • BBC Radio London with Robert Elms

  • with Akala (2019)

  • Bookseller Announcement – February 2023

  • The London Chamber of Commerce: Black Excellence Awards 2023 – Outstanding Contribution to Literature Nominee

  • Bookseller Announcement – October 2019

  • with Elizabeth Macneal (The Doll Factory) and Rosie Price (What Red Was) at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival (2019)

  • BBC Radio London

  • With Queen Camilla – July 2023

  • BBC Breakfast (December 2023)

  • BBC Radio 4

  • BBC Radio 4

  • Hackney Citizen – The 392 review – July 2020

  • Notts TV Book Club (Reviewer)

  • Notts TV Book Club (Reviewer)

  • Notts TV Book Club (Reviewer)

  • Interviewing Brandon Taylor at Brixton House

  • ‘Rising Stars’ panel – Stoke Newington Literary Festival

  • WOMAD (2019)

  • WRAP Live! Nottingham (2023)

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  • WRAP Live! Nottingham (2023)

    (c) John Smedley

  • WRAP Live! Nottingham (2023)

    (c) John Smedley

  • WRAP Live! Nottingham (2023)

    (c) John Smedley

  • Front Row – BBC Radio 4 (January 2024)

  • Front Row – BBC Radio 4 (March 2023)

  • Hay Festival (May 2024)

  • Hay Festival (May 2024)

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Television

Tortoise Lates

Tortoise Lates: Masculinity tries to make sense of maleness and masculinity: what it looks like, how it works and how it affects us.

  • How To Be A Man With Sam Delaney and Ashley Hickson-Lovence
    Tortoise Media, January 2023

Notts TV

Regular reviewer and literary critic for Notts TV

Video

  • Being a Boy - Arts University Bournemouth
    Arts University Bournemouth, February 2023
  • WHY I WRITE: Ashley Hickson-Lovence
    The Literary Consultancy, 2021
  • Master your career at City – Ashley’s story
    City, University of London, December 2022
  • Master your career at City, University of London
    City, University of London, 2023
  • Codenames
    Michael Stewart, 2022
  • 'The 392' Book Launch
    Own It!, 2019
  • Ashley Hickson-Lovence reads from his debut novel 'The 392'
    Own It!, 2019
  • 'The 392' Book Launch Q&A
    Own It!, 2019
  • Audience Reaction from 'The 392' Book Launch
    Own It!, 2019
  • Ashley Hickson-Lovence at Spineless Authors' Night
    Spineless, 2019
  • First Story Young Writers Programme at Commerce House, Haringey Learning Partnership
    First Story, September 2021
  • Ashley Hickson-Lovence on writing in the second-person - from RHLSTP Book Club 49
    Richard Herring, March 2023
  • Introducing Your Show by Ashley Hickson-Lovence
    faber and faber, November 2022
  • Tadhg Coakley & Ashley Hickson-Lovence
    West Cork Literary Festival, November 2022

Radio

Podcasts

Editorial