Date: Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Time: 6.00-7.00pm
Price: Free
Language: English
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Are you looking to better understand the publishing landscape in Wales? Are you preparing to go out on submission? Join Literature Wales and four representatives from the publishing industry in Wales for an evening of discussion and information sharing. During the session, each speaker will give a 10-minute presentation on their publishing house, and provide details on the genres they publish, submission windows and their top tips when going out to submission. Please note that this session will run in English only. If you write in Welsh, you may be interested in our Publishers in Wales (Welsh Language) session, on Wednesday, 10 July.
The speakers
Caleb is the Publisher for Calon, University of Wales Press’s trade imprint launched in 2022, telling Wales’s stories to the wider world. He grew up in Gwynedd, north Wales, and is excited to work with authors to shape stories with a Welsh connection to be as compelling as possible to wide audiences. Caleb was previously Publishing Director for Inter-Varsity Press UK, and has had roles with Scripture Union, Hodder & Stoughton and Seren Books. He now lives in Pontypridd with his wife and three children. He enjoys reading widely, particularly science fiction and fantasy.
Dr Richard Lewis Davies is a founding partner of Parthian which he set up with Gillian Griffiths and Ravi Pawar in 1993. It was initially established to publish his first novel, Work, Sex and Rugby but quickly developed into a leading independent publisher based in Wales with a focus on Welsh writers working in English while also assembling a carnival of voices from many languages and cultures. Parthian received the inaugural Bookseller Small Publisher of the Year Award for Wales in 2019. He has worked as an editor on recent award-winning books including Pigeon by Alys Conran and Hummingbird by Tristan Hughes while project managing the Parthian India Wales Valley City Village venture. In addition to publishing, he has a parallel career as a creative writer. His work has received a number of awards, including the Rhys Davies short story prize and the John Morgan writing award. He has also worked extensively in Welsh theatre. Davies has been involved in the literary scene in Wales since 1990 and is the current commercial director of Parthian and the Library of Wales series.
Jannat Ahmed is co-founder and director at Lucent Dreaming. Established as a creative magazine in 2017, Lucent Dreaming now also publishes poetry collections, novels, and anthologies. Lucent Dreaming promotes new and emerging authors and artists worldwide and is based in Cardiff, Wales.
Sarah Johnson is Deputy CEO and Head of Marketing & Sales at Seren Books. After joining the company in 2019, she was named a Bookseller Rising Star in 2022. She founded the Seren Poetry Podcast and has managed events such as Seren First Thursday and The Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival. She has a first class degree in English Language with Creative Writing from Bangor University and has just finished her third year of learning Welsh. In her spare time, she enjoys reading fantasy, writing speculative fiction and playing in a brass band.