Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Time: 6.00 pm -7.00 pm
Price: Free
Language: English
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Are you looking to better understand the publishing landscape in the UK? Are you preparing to go out on submission? Join Literature Wales and three representatives from the publishing industry across the UK for an evening of discussion and information sharing. During the session, each speaker will give a presentation on their publishing house, and provide details on the genres they publish, submission windows and they’re top tips when going out to submission.
The speakers
Cameron Myers is a Commissioning Editor at Ebury, the non-fiction specialist division of Penguin Random House. His focus is on publishing high-quality commercial non-fiction that offers to readers fresh perspectives and absorbing stories. He has commissioned across a range of areas from current affairs and politics, to history and memoir, and including authors such as George the Poet (‘Track Record’) and Ashley John-Baptiste (‘Looked After’). He is also a non-executive director for Creative Access, a social enterprise committed to inclusivity in the creative industries.
Laura Jones-Rivera is the co-founder and co-publisher of the award-winning 404 Ink, most recently named Scotland’s Small Press of the Year by the British Book Awards in 2024 . She has co-ran 404 Ink since its inception in 2016 while also working for numerous other publishers as a freelance production specialist such as Charco Press, Bloomsbury, Cipher Press, and many more. She was previously Dead Ink’s Interim Publisher and named a Rising Star by the Bookseller.
Pru Rowlandson is the Campaigns and Publicity Director at Granta Books and Granta Trust. Before working at Granta, she was the publicity manager at Canongate Books, and at Random House. As a publicist, she has promoted a vast array of outstanding literary works including books by Booker Prize winners, Yann Martel, Eleanor Catton and Jenny Erpenbeck. In 2005 she created and directed the celebrated Debut Authors Festival which ran for three years. Before her publishing career, she was a bookseller at Pan Bookshop and Books for Cooks.
She lives in London with her husband and children.