• Banff Mountain Festival 2001
• Telluride Mountain Festival 2002
• Oxford Literary Festival 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008
• Woodstock Celebrates Books 2006 & 2007
• Guildford Literary Festival 2006
• Kendal Book Festival 2005, 2006 and 2007

For the last six years Julie has been involved in the mountain festivals at Kendal, Cumbria, held each November. She has taken part as a judge on the international film jury on two occasions; she has also compered the Sunday evening awards’ ceremony three times; lectured and given seminars on Irvine and on writing biography. Most recently she has been involved in hosting the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountaineering Literature awards ceremony and interviewing climbers and writers including: Chris Bonington, Ranulph Fiennes, Stephen Venables, Maria Coffey, Arlene Blum, Andy Cave and Audrey Salkeld.