Activities

Presentations and literary events

• Presentation of the series of books “Cuentos de la mitología” at Áurea bookshop, 29th  February 2024.
• Presentation of the book “Tras las huellas de los mitos” at Eugenio Trías Library, Madrid, 21st June 2022.
• Madrid Book Fair, June 2022.
• Presentation of “Las cabezas de la Hidra” at La Livreria (Madrid), 16th March 2022.
• Presentation of “Sangre de centauro” at La Livreria (Madrid), 12th February 2020.
• Presentation of “La pared y otros cuentos de lo extraño y lo sobrenatural” at Generación X Bookshop, 20th February 2019.
• Signing of books at the Madrid Book Fair 2018 with Ediciones de la Torre.
• Presentation of “La pared y otros cuentos de lo extraño y lo sobrenatural” at the Fuenlabrada Book Fair, 27th May 2018.
• Presentation of “La pared y otros cuentos de lo extraño y lo sobrenatural” at Café Madrid, 25th April 2018.
• Presentation of “Vidas, historias y cafés” in café Pombo in Madrid, 24th February 2018.
• Signing of books at the Madrid Book Fair 2017 with Ediciones de la Torre.
• Presentation of “Vidas, historias y cafés” in James Joyce Pub in Madrid, 7th October 2016.
• Presentation of “Vidas, historias y cafés” in Casavieja (Avila), 23rd May 2016.
• Presentation of “Vidas, historias y cafés” in the Semana Complutense de las Letras (Facultad de Filología, Escolar y Mayo bookshop), 20th May 2016.
• Presentation of “Cuentos de la mitología celta”, at Casa de Galicia, Madrid, 26 January 2016.
• Presentation of “Cuentos de la mitología celta”, James Joyce Pub, Madrid, 14 January 2016.
• Presentation of “El cuadro inacabado” in FNAC Valencia, 15 January 2015.
• Presentation of “El cuadro inacabado” in “Libros en Directo” organised by the Faculty of Philology, Universidad Complutense, in the bookshop Escolar y Mayo, 3rd of December 2014.
• Presentation of “El cuadro inacabado” in Museo del Vidrio y el Cristal, Malaga, 20th March 2014.
• Presentation of “El cuadro inacabado” in Fundacion Caja Murcia, Murcia, 6th March 2014.
• “Recorrido por la mitología” with Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton and María Dolores Castro, in Casa del Libro (Madrid). 13  November 2013.
• Participation in the Gibraltar Literary Festival with two events:
  • Presentation of “El cuadro inacabado”. 25 October 2013.
  • Joint presentation with Kevin Crossley-Holland “Myths and Legends and what they tell us about life”.  27 October 2013.
• Presentation of “El cuadro inacabado” in “La Livreria” Madrid 3 October 2013.
• “Semana Cultural” of the Department of Hispanic Studies (University of Bristol) – “Mercedes Aguirre in conversation: Relatos miticos del mundo cotidiano”, 12 March 2013.
• Presentation in the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin of “Relatos miticos del mundo cotidiano”/”Mythical Tales of the Everyday World”, 4th of March 2013.
• Book fair:  Éride Ediciones;  Madrid,  June 2012.
• Book fair : Ediciones de la Torre;  Madrid, June 2012.
• Workshop on Mythology in Casa del Libro;  Fuencarral, Madrid, March 2012.
• Participation in “Semana-Cultural-Week”  in the Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol: “Escribiendo con los mitos: Déjame morir por ti y otras Historias”; 5-10 March 2012.
• Presentation of Mythical Tales of the Everyday World in Las Tres Rosas Amarillas Bookshop; Madrid, November 2011.
• Presentation of Mercedes Aguirre’s work in “Tertulia” at Spike Island; Bristol, November 2011.
• Presentation in the Bookshop “Oletum” with Televisión Castilla y Leon; Valladolid, June 2011.
• Presentation in the literary event “La novela, un recurso inestimable para el ser humano”; Astudillo (Palencia), June 2011.
• Presentation in the “I Encuentro de escritores noveles” in the Cultural Centre Los Cristianos; Arona (Tenerife), March 2011.
• Presentation of El narrador de cuentos in Euskal Etxea; Hogar Vasco de Madrid, March 2010.
• Presentation of Nuestros mitos de cada día in El Circulo de Bellas Artes; Madrid, September 2009.

Creative writing

• Creative writing workshops on crime fiction and detective fiction with other authors of this genre in La Livrería, Madrid.
• Creative writing workshop “Short Story and Classical Mythology” in the “Semana Complutense de las Letras” 26th of April 2017, University Complutense, Madrid.
• Creative writing workshop: Introduction to the genre of crime fiction, 1st October 2016.
• Creative writing workshop in the Asociación Cultural Life Three, Madrid, 1st October and 19th November 2016.
• Creative writing workshop: “Writing with myths” in the Semana Complutense de las letras (Biblioteca María Zambrano), 20th May 2016.
• Creative Writing Workshop at the Life Three Association

Examples of courses and seminars in the Universidad Complutense in Madrid

• Seminar on myths II: Classical Mythology and English Literature.
• Seminar of mythology: Myth and Immortality.
• Literature of the Ancient World.
• Classical Mythology (Undergraduate degree in Modern Languages, Undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature).
• Themes, motifs and forms of Greek Literature (MA in Classics).
•  Seminars on Art and Literature:
  • “Fantasmas, aparecidos y muertos sin descanso”.
  • “El jardín como lugar de encuentro de la literatura y el arte”.

Tapas Literarias

Tapas Literarias is a reading group on literature in Spanish in collaboration with Bristol Spanish (meeting in Foyles bookshop and Henleaze Library, Bristol).

Aimed at Spanish-speakers or advanced students of Spanish, Tapas Literarias brings you stories and poems – selected texts by Spanish and Hispanic American writers – to read, learn, chat about and enjoy.

Bristol Spanish have arranged a Zoom event. For details please contact macics@yahoo.co.uk.

Radio / television appearances and interviews

• Mercedes and Richard Buxton discuss the book and Cyclopes in Greek Mythology, on the Ithaca Bound Podcast, 4th June 2021.
• Interview with Emma Bridges for The Open University: Practitioner’s Voices in Classical Reception Studies.
• Interview in the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin about “Relatos miticos del mundo cotidiano” / “Mythical Tales of the Everyday World”.
• Participation in a discussion about the Classical myths in the Spanish televisión chanel TNT.
• Interviews in the Spanish Radio chanel Cadena SER (SER Historia) about Troy and other Greek myths.
• Participation in the television series “Mitos y Leyendas (Televisión Española, La 2).
• Presentation of “El cuadro inacabado” in the radio programme SER Historia of “Cadena SER”.