Wednesday 11 June | 4 – 5pm

Substack is an exciting platform for anyone wanting to share their writing, create a community and even earn an income, but what are the best ways to approach it? Emma Gannon and Jessica Pan will be sharing the lessons that they’ve learnt in this enlightening workshop about the potential of the platform to reach new readers and spark creative ideas.

Emma Gannon is a Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of the popular Substack newsletter The Hyphen. She has written columns on work, wellbeing and creativity, and published six bestselling books. Her debut novel Olive was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 2022. For six years she hosted the WEBBY-nominated careers podcast Ctrl, Alt, Delete, which has had over 13 million downloads to date. Alongside writing, she is a teacher on the online learning platform Skillshare and hosts creativity retreats in the UK and all over the world. In 2018, she was in the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Media. Her new novel Table for One was published in April 2025.

Jessica Pan is a features writer and freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in Guardian Weekend, Stylist, New York Magazine, Lenny Letter and more. She is the author of Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: An Introvert’s Year of Living Dangerously. Her next non-fiction book is forthcoming from Transworld in 2027. She previously worked as a TV reporter and magazine editor in Beijing and now lives in London. Read about her musings from working at an indie bookshop in London on her Substack.