Simon is a regular speaker at the Greenbelt Arts Festival, held every August Bank holiday weekend at Cheltenham racecourse. Threee of these talks are now online.

What makes a good story? - a talk about having to read nearly fifty novels in three months and what you can learn from that, from Greenbelt 2006

How to read Science Fiction - a talk for non-sf readers extolling the joys of all things spaceshippy, from Greenbelt 2006

Sex, Death and Christian Fiction - a polemic on the state of christian fiction, from Greenbelt 2005