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SUMMARY:Publishing 101: Meet the Agents - SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:Hosted online via Zoom\, this one-hour event offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from Kerry-Ann Bentley\, Harriet Moore\, Juliet Mushens\, Flo Sandelson and Amandeep Singh about the role of a literary agent\, the writers and stories they are looking to represent\, and what makes a submission truly stand out. \nThe evening will begin with a conversation featuring all five agents\, who will introduce themselves and their work\, discuss the lists they are currently building\, and share what they are looking for from querying writers. \nFor the second half of the event\, attendees will divide into five smaller breakout rooms for more focused discussions with an individual agent. These sessions will offer the chance to hear more about each agent’s particular areas of interest and take individual questions from attendees. \nWhether you’re preparing to go on submission\, curious about the role of a literary agent\, or simply keen to better understand the publishing landscape\, Meet the Agents gives you the chance to hear candid advice from some of the industry’s leading voices. \nAbout the speakers \nKerry-Ann Bentley is a literary agent and founder of KAB Literary\, where she represents award-winning authors across commercial and upmarket fiction. She got her start in agenting as an intern at Janklow & Nesbit Associates and joined the agency full time in 2020\, working across the New York and London offices. Kerry-Ann graduated with a First-class degree in English & United States Literature from the University of Essex. Then\, she earned her master’s with Distinction in Caribbean Literature and its Diasporas from Goldsmiths\, University of London. \nJuliet Mushens  has been an agent for over a decade. More than a dozen of her clients are Sunday Times bestsellers with half a dozen claiming the number one slot in the last two years alone. Her clients include major no. 1 bestsellers such as Jessie Burton\, Claire Douglas\, Saara El-Arifi and Richard Osman. The Times ran a piece recognising her as the first agent to represent the number 1\, 2 and 3 UK bestsellers in the same week\, a feat she repeated in 2022. Juliet sits on the advisory board of Book Brunch\, is a Trustee of the Women’s Prize Trust and is currently President of the British Fantasy Society. \nHarriet Moore joined Aitken Alexander Associates in 2024 after a decade at David Higham Associates. Her authors include three out of this decade’s 20 Granta Best of Young British novelists: Sarah Bernstein; Women’s Prize for Fiction-nominated Sophie Mackintosh and Jennifer Atkins; Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for Fiction and Gordon Burn Prize-winner Kathryn Scanlan; Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for Non-fiction and Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller; and the Sunday Times bestseller Naoise Dolan. In all forms she is looking for what Hilary Mantel called “a book that one can think and live inside”. \nFlo Sandelson joined Curtis Brown in Spring 2022\, after a few years of working in contemporary art galleries and later bookselling. She works alongside Felicity Blunt on her authors\, whilst actively building her own list of clients. She represents authors such as Rumer Hale\, Marvellous Michael Anson and Claude Montclair\, working broadly across the SFF and romance space\, with a list of authors spanning speculative literary\, commercial romantasy\, sci-fi\, young adult and adult dystopian and upmarket fantasy. \nAmandeep Singh joined Graham Maw Christie in 2025. Prior to this she spent 10 years working as an editor\, bookseller and agent\, most recently at Penguin Random House and The Good Literary Agency. During her time as a commissioning editor\, she published only debut authors and as an agent continues to champion new voices and works in-depth on concept and editorial development. Amandeep has judged the Future Worlds Prize for SFF Writers of Colour 2025\, the Bloomsbury Mentorship Programme 2026 and Little\, Brown New Voices award 2024 and has been a reader for Write Now and the 4th Write Prize. Her authors have won or been nominated for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing\, Eric Gregory Award\, Creative Future Award\, Austrian Science Book Prize\, Forward Prize and Pushcart Prize. Amandeep is a mentor for Black Girl Writers Mentorship Programme and is seeking books with international appeal that entertain and inform.
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SUMMARY:Publishing 101: The Three Types of Edits You Need to Know
DESCRIPTION:Editing is an essential part of the writing and publishing process\, but the different stages of editing can sometimes feel confusing\, daunting and hard to distinguish. What is the difference between structural editing and line-editing? When does copy editing happen? And what can writers expect from working with an editor? \nJoin us for ‘The Three Types of Edits You Need to Know’\, an exclusive online event exploring the key editorial stages that transform a manuscript from first draft to finished book and the second event in our three-part autumn series of Publishing 101s. \nFeaturing Serena Arthur\, Francesca Main and Joelle Owusu-Sekyere\, this one-hour discussion will offer insight into three crucial areas of the process: structural editing\, line-editing and copyediting. Our panel of industry-leading editors will take turns to share their approach to different stages of the process\, where each edit sits within the timeline\, share the do’s and don’ts and what authors can expect along the way. \nThere will be time set aside for questions from attendees. Whether you’re preparing a manuscript for submission\, working through edits on your first book or simply curious about what happens behind the scenes in publishing\, ‘The Three Types of Edits You Need to Know’ will help demystify the editorial process and give you a clearer understanding of the path to publication. \nAbout the speakers \nSerena Arthur is Commissioning Editor for the Footnote Press list at Bonnier Books UK\, where she publishes bold\, observant and memorable fiction in the literary and translated space. Outside of work\, she is also a writer and performer of spoken word poetry. Before Bonnier\, she worked at Hachette UK – first at Headline Books\, where she was an editorial trainee and then editorial assistant and then at Orion Books\, as a fiction Editor within the Trapeze Books team. As a student she was Deputy Editor and co-creator of Onyx magazine\, which platforms the work of creatives of African and Caribbean descent. \nFrancesca Main is the publisher of Phoenix\, an imprint of Orion\, where her authors include Florence Knapp\, Alison Espach\, Emily Howes\, Tom Newlands and Jessie Burton. She previously had editorial roles at Picador\, S&S and Hamish Hamilton/Penguin. Francesca won the British Book Award for Editor of the Year in 2015 and was shortlisted for Imprint and Editor of the Year in 2026. \nJoelle Owusu-Sekyere is Editorial Director and imprint lead at #Merky Books\, Penguin Random House\, with a decade of editorial experience. After completing a BSc in Petroleum Geology\, she left the industry soon after to pursue her dream career in Publishing. She was previously Junior Editor at Unbound\, where she built a list from scratch\, then Commissioning Editor for Coronet (Hodder & Stoughton) before becoming Editorial Director at Dialogue where she acquired commercial non-fiction. Now publisher of culturally significant fiction and non-fiction at #Merky Books\, Joelle has acquired a wide range of titles including Everybody Hates HR\, based on the podcast of the same name\, The Recovery House by Derek Owusu and the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize-winning novel Where Geezers Call Home by Abaka Debrah. She is also a proud mentor to publishing hopefuls. \nClaire Shanahan (chair) is Executive Director of The Women’s Prize Trust. Before moving to the charity sector\, Claire worked in Editorial across a range of publishing\, culture and media clients\, including Pearson\, Hachette\, Penguin Random House\, the Guardian and the BBC. Claire is on the board of Trustees for the charity Bookbanks and often appears as a keynote speaker on the arts\, creativity and equality at global events.
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SUMMARY:Publishing 101: How to Pitch Your Story
DESCRIPTION:Finished your manuscript? Welcome to the next chapter\, ‘How to Pitch Your Story’\, an exclusive online event and the final talk in our three-part series of Publishing 101s. This event will explore the role of the publicist in the publishing world\, how authors and publicists work together to build a campaign and how to talk about the project that has formerly lived inside your head to the outside world. \nFeaturing Cynthia Hamilton\, Kimberley Nyamhondera and Jessica Spivey and chaired by Georgina Moore\, this one-hour discussion will offer insights into the work of a book publicist\, the campaigns behind some of their titles and how they work with authors to identify the stories\, themes and ideas at the heart of a book\, and how these can be used to build a compelling publicity campaign. The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A\, moderated by the chair. Attendees are encouraged to submit questions in advance to help shape the conversation. \nWhether you’re an aspiring author\, preparing for publication or simply curious about what happens on the promotional trail\, ‘How to Pitch Your Story’ will offer practical insight into the art of telling a book’s story and getting it into the hands of readers. \nAbout the speakers \nCynthia Hamilton is Head of PR & Marketing for the Cheltenham-based publisher The History Press and joined the PPC committee as an Independent Representative in 2025. Her extensive experience in the trade includes bookselling\, publishing sales and\, most recently\, marketing and publicity. Cynthia has held senior positions in a variety of independent houses and has promoted a medley of non-fiction authors – from iconic boxer Frank Bruno to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Armed with a first-class MA in book history from the School of Advanced Study in London\, she is also a published award-winning performance poet and former BBC Radio 4 dramatist. \nGeorgina Moore (Chair) is an award-winning book publicist\, who has worked in the publishing industry for twenty-five years\, most recently as Executive Director at the arts PR agency Midas\, and before that at Headline where she was Communications Director. Georgina has worked with a raft of bestselling authors including Lucy Foley\, Philip Pullman\, Patricia Cornwell\, Maggie O’Farrell\, Patrick Gale\, Adele Parks\, Harriet Tyce and many more. Georgina is also a Sunday Times bestselling novelist of two books\, The Garnett Girls and River of Stars. Her third novel\, Summer House\, will be published in 2027. \nKimberley Nyamhondera is Head of Publicity at Pan Macmillan and previously worked across fiction and non-fiction at Hodder & Stoughton and Little\, Brown Book Group. She has worked across a range of genres including political memoir (working with Nicola Sturgeon and Jacinda Ardern)\, narrative non-fiction by Sarah Wynn-Williams\, debut literary fiction including The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley and Woman\, Eating by Claire Kohda and with Sunday Times-bestselling authors such as V.E Schwab. \nJessica Spivey is a Publicity Manager at Vintage\, Penguin Random House\, where she works with authors of fiction and non-fiction\, including Gisele Pelicot\, Margaret Atwood\, Isabella Hammad\, Sophie Elmhist\, Lauren Elkin\, Édouard Louis\, Susan Stokes-Chapman and Lady Brenda Hale. She also works closely on the Vintage Classics list\, where the authors tend to be harder to get hold of for PR. Before joining Vintage\, she worked with award-winning independent publishers Les Fugitives and Hope Road\, and as a freelance translator.
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