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Selected recent outputs:

In conversation with Dentu’s Chris Heathcote for Imperica magazine – we discuss positive and negative visions of the future, advertising, nostalgia and more (Jan 19th)

Preparatory sessions I’m organising in Feb, ahead of this year’s hotly anticipated apocalypse ThisistheEvent.com (Feb 12th & 19th)

Talking about the End of the World, on The Pod Delusion podcast (about 1 hour in) (January 2012)

John Fleming interviews me about some of my early comedy memories, in the Huffington Post (December 2011)

How To Become a Professional Online Gambler for WIRED UK (January 2012)

Shift Run Stop Christmas Special, podcast hosted by Roo Reynolds and myself, interviewing Jon Ronson, Stefanie Posavec, Sound Diaries, and Lee Maguire (December 2011)

Quick Pummelvision of moments from Storywarp #3, storytelling conference I co-organise, features Professor Joanna Woodall, Ivor Baddiel, Helen Lewis-Hasteley and John Fleming (December 2011)

Talking about time travel on The Pod Delusion (39:22) (December 2011)

>>> See more talks, slides, and articles from 2011

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Who am I?

I am Leila Johnston (pronounced Layla) and this is my online portfolio. I work full-time as a digital copywriter for a creative studio in London called Made by Many, but I could also be described as an author, blogger, comedy writer, journalist of interesting countercultural ideas, speaker, newspaper editor, and broadcaster. I’m currently working on projects involving various configurations of comedy, publications, the internet, and events. If you’d like me to do some work for you then please get in touch - leila@finalbullet.com.