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11-12 November 2024
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
All ages welcome
Online
Activism
Environment and Nature
Publishing
Northern Fiction Alliance
There will be opportunities to attend panels, present titles and network with like-minded independent publishers.
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11th November * 9 am – Making Sustainability Sexy with John Pabon Sustainability author, consultant & UN advisor (half hour with Q & A after) – Open to all * 10.30am ‘Going International’ Panel with Senja Požar, Director, Ljubljana Literary Agency and Özlem Öztemel, AnatoliaLit Agency, Turkey – Open to all * 12pm – How to approach a translation project as a publisher (With Honford Star, Antony Bird, Comma Press, Ra Page and English Pen) – Open to all * 2pm – How to sell rights to TV and Film with Kevin, Bluemoose Books and Mark Vestapol Films – Open to all * 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM: Marketing Literary Fiction Globally (With Fly on the Wall Press, Isabelle Kenyon (UK), Zofia Dimitrijevic, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Poland and Margot Atwell, Feminist Press, USA) – Open to all
12th November * 10 am – 11.50 pm Online Pitching Session with International Publishers at the Green Book Fair (Open only to booksellers and publishers.) * 1pm – Marketing politically-sensitive Books (with case study of Don’t Look Left) (With Ra Page, Comma Press, Rebeca González Izquierdo , Blackie Books, Noura Books and Perpetua Cannistraro, Beacon Press and Marcia Lynx Qualey from Arab Lit) – Open to all. * 3pm – Fitzcarraldo Editions – The Art of Distinctive Publishing – Open to all
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