John is frequently invited to be interviewed by media around the world on areas of his research, creative writing and poetry and education.
Arts Council Malta - Dar-Riħ Malizzjuż
Writers' Roost - Everyone but Fajza.
Antonella Galea Loffreda, Campus FM - BEJN IL-BINARJI. Horizons, 2022.
The Needle and Knife, 10 Questions with John Portelli
Podcast interview, Antenni Suspettużi
National Book Council of Malta, Episode 20, 2022
‘SURVIVAL OF A NOMAD’ – Interview on NEWSBOOK
Times of Malta, ‘Universities are not the utopias people imagine’ March 2026
European Writers’ Council INVASION OF REALITY – PROSE, POLITICS & POETRY
Arts Council Malta in New York
Poetry: transforming the ordinary into extraordinary
“Writing as a form of activism” Malta Today
“John Portelli, Everyday Encounters” (podcast)
Wiċċ imb Wiċċ Ep 39 John Portelli (video)
Episode 15: John Portelli - Breaking boundaries (video)
Niltaqgħu ma' John Portelli (video)
Niltaqgħu ma' John Portelli: It-Tieni Parti.wmv (video)
Niftakar || John P. Portelli (video)
Niltaqgħu ma' John Portelli (video)
Taħt il-Qoxra - Il-Versi tal-Pandemija ma' Kit Azzopardi u John P. Portelli
Presentation at the fifth EPNoSL Peer Learning Activity (PLA) – Nice, France between the 25-26 September 2014
Book Launch Events
Book Reviews
Malta Today, June 2026: Once I forget: Poems by John P. Portelli
The Independent, June 2025: Unsilenced: Global poets unite for Gaza
Unsilenced, Review Daraja Press
The Independent, February 2026: “Boy from village in Malta spends life as a professor in Canada.”
Asymptote: Antoine Cassar reviews Luggage / Bagage by John P. Portelli
The Times of Malta, July, 2025: Words refusing to be buried: 50 voices against erasure
illium, 2025: Ara ġejja l-poeżija għalik
illium, 2026: Dawk kollha mafja!
The Miramichi Reader, Here Was by John Portelli (September 2023)
Malta Today (September, 2024): Never-ending Exile Soup / Kivilcim Akay
Reviews: ONCE I FORGET/LA DARBA NINSA.