Upcoming events.
Paper & Word Online Event
We are so excited to announce our online event with Phoenicia Rogerson to celebrate the launch of Isolde! The event will be hosted by Rosie Hewlett, author or Medea. It's going to be a great conversation!
🎟️ Tuesday 10th November at 7pm, hosted online
Tickets can be found here
Main Character Books - An Evening with Phoenicia Rogerson and Isolde!
Come find new joy in a beloved tale — ahead of its release! Celebrated author Phoenicia Rogerson breathes new life into Tristan and Isolde with her feminist retelling, set in Camelot. Rogerson will be in conversation with author Bea Fitzgerald as they discuss old myths, new books, and love stories that last the ages.
Save half-price on your admission when you purchase the novel in advance!
11 NOV 2026
✨ 19:00: Event doors
✨ 19:30pm: author discussion and Q&A
✨ 20:15–21:30: author signing, drinks, chats!
Main Character Books, Spitalfields Market, E1 6DX
This ticket is for admission to the event. If you also want Isolde, please add it separately to your cart and you’ll get a 50% discount on the admission price at checkout! Novels will also be available for purchase at the event.
Tickets can be purchased here
Book Bedazzling with Phoenicia Rogerson
Join us for an afternoon of book bedazzling to celebrate the release of Isolde with the author, Phoenicia Rogerson!
Event date and time: Saturday 14th November, 11am-12:30pm
Location: Love Stories Bookshop (36-38 Castle Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1BW)
Your ticket includes a copy of the book, and all bedazzling supplies!
This event will take place on the first floor of the bookshop, which is only accessible via a set of stairs.
Tickets are available here
Becoming a Goddess: An Evening with Nikita Gill and Phoenicia Rogerson
This October, prepare yourself to move beyond this mortal coil. Authors Nikita Gill and Phoenicia Rogerson will be leading us through the Underworld and Mount Olympus as they discuss their new novels Hekate and Aphrodite. In Hekate, Nikita Gill delivers a fiery, propulsive, and absorbing retelling of the Greek myth of an orphan girl who grows up in the underworld and goes on to become the goddess of witchcraft, necromancy and darkness. In Aphrodite, Phoenicia Rogerson takes a feisty spin on Greek myth, as the beautiful Aphrodite tricks the gods into believing she is one of them before hatching a plan to bring down Zeus himself.
https://www.waterstones.com/events/becoming-a-goddess-an-evening-with-nikita-gill-and-phoenicia-rogerson/cambridge
Aphrodite: An Evening with Phoenicia Rogerson
Waterstones Gower Street is very excited to present an evening in conversation with Phoenicia Rogerson, winner of the 2024 Somerset Maugham Award and author of Aphrodite.
After her spellbinding debut, Herc, Phoenicia Rogerson returns with an equally remarkable novel centred on the Greek Goddess of Love (with a capital L). Funny, witty and yet tragic, Aphrodite gives us a fresh take on the Greek pantheon as the beautiful Aphrodite tricks the gods into believing she is one of them before hatching a plan to bring down Zeus himself.
https://www.waterstones.com/events/aphrodite-an-evening-with-phoenicia-rogerson/london-gower-street
Feminist retellings panel at Waterstones Piccadilly
Join us for a fantastic evening, delving into the world of feminist retellings within fiction, with Nikki Marmery, Laura Shepperson and Phoenicia Rogerson.
https://www.waterstones.com/events/feminist-retellings-panel-at-waterstones-piccadilly/london-piccadilly
Stories We Retell: Myth & Legend in Three Novels (Online)
Authors Kate Heartfield, S. L. Huang, and Phoenicia Rogerson join us to discuss their new novels, retelling classic Norse, Chinese, and Greco-Roman tales.
Kate Heartfield's The Valkyrie is a lyrical retelling of one of Norse mythology's greatest epics, introducing us to Brynhild, a Valkyrie in exile; Gudrun, a princess of Burgundy and prize for an invading king; and Sigurd, a warrior with a sword sharper than the new moon. As the legends tell, these names are destined to be rivals, fated as enemies. But in the world of Midgard, legends can be lies.
Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history - or tear it apart. Disgraced and on the run, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan, mountain outlaws on the margins of society who proclaim a belief in justice - for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy.
Phoenicia Rogerson's Herc is a queer, revisionist retelling of the myth of Hercules which gives voice to silenced characters. Told with humor and heart, this is not the story of Hercules, but the story of everyone else - his friends, his enemies, his wives, his children, his lovers, his rivals, his gods, and his victim.
Kate Heartfield, S. L. Huang, and Phoenicia Rogerson speak about their new novels and what it means to reconsider, reimagine, and retell some of history's most beloved myths and legends.
Link here
Waterstones Liverpool
Join us for a wonderful evening with debut author Phoenicia Rogerson as we hear all about her enthralling new queer, feminist retelling of Greece's greatest hero, Hercules. The evening will be in conversation with bestselling author, Jennifer Saint.