Amara Laurent on the literary festival mainstage

From the page
to the room.

She speaks rarely, by invitation. Literary salons, women’s intensives, conferences where the audience knows how to listen. The talks are essays delivered out loud, same voice as the writing, same demand on the room.


The topics.

Talk 01

Sovereignty as a practice.

The keynote drawn from Becoming Sovereign. The five movements, the methodology, the practical work. 45 to 60 minutes. For literary, women’s, and cultural-leadership audiences.

Talk 02

Identity in the algorithmic age.

A talk about authoring yourself before someone else does it for an audience. Drawn from her work with Nick Onken and the Identity Alchemy framework. 30 to 45 minutes.

Talk 03

Voice and authority.

For writers, editors, and women in industries that ask them to soften the sentence. The work of locating where you stop revising and start being read. 30 to 45 minutes.

Talk 04

Inheriting the Levant.

A more personal talk, on Beirut, on Paris, on what you carry forward when you have already lost a country once. Reserved for literary and Levantine audiences. 30 to 60 minutes.


Recent rooms.

Paris, Librairie Galignani, 2025
PARIS · LIBRAIRIE GALIGNANI · 2025
New York, private salon, 2025
NEW YORK · PRIVATE SALON · 2025
Somerset, women's intensive, 2025
SOMERSET · WOMEN’S INTENSIVE · 2025
London, conference keynote, 2025
LONDON · CONFERENCE KEYNOTE · 2025
Beirut, T-Marbouta, 2024
BEIRUT · T-MARBOUTA · 2024
Hong Kong, M+ Reading, 2024
HONG KONG · M+ READING · 2024

The list.

2026 Venue TBD Topic TBD
2025 Librairie Galignani · Paris Sovereignty as a Practice
2025 Private Salon · New York Voice and Authority
2025 Women’s Intensive · Somerset Sovereignty as a Practice
2025 Conference Keynote · London Identity in the Algorithmic Age
2024 T-Marbouta · Beirut Inheriting the Levant
2024 M+ Reading · Hong Kong Sovereignty as a Practice

Inquire about speaking.

She accepts a small number of invitations each year. Literary, cultural, women’s-leadership, and Levantine-diaspora audiences welcome. For corporate events, audience-fit conversation precedes any commitment.