Media

Ashley has a wealth of experience on TV, radio and appearing at festivals. He regularly reviews books for BBC Radio 4, Notts TV Book Club and The Observer.

  • Norwich Book Benches – June 2023

  • With Queen Camilla – 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)

    (c) John Smedley

  • 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