James was a speaker at the:

• 2023 Needlewriters poetry and prose evening
• 2022 Needlewriters prose evening 
• 2018 Bristol Literary Festival at the Arnolfini
• 2017 Rattle Tales event
• 2016 Oxford University FH Pasby prize-giving
• 2015 Brighton Fringe
• 2015 International Flann O’Brien Society conference in Prague presenting his paper: Parallel Explorations of the Boundaries between Fiction and Real-life.