Simon is a regular speaker at the Greenbelt Arts Festival, held every August Bank holiday weekend at Cheltenham racecourse. Four of these talks are now online, along with the foreward to a short story anthology.

Foreward to Leaps of Faith - a foreword to a religious-themed anthology of science fiction short stories, first published in ebook format in 2004, and as a paperback with this foreword in 2008.

A thousand points of light - a talk about the Inklings and what we can learn from them about writing groups, from Greenbelt 2008

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