v excited to be getting ready for the UAL publishing innovation event tonight with the team! tickets are still available and free if you feel like hopping on in. #LCCDiversityPublish24 eventbrite.co.uk/e/amplifying-d…

We’re kicking things off soon with our first speaker, Jen Calleja with a talk about ‘The Small Press: An Author-Translator-Publisher Perspective’. #LCCDiversityPublish24

Up next is Lithemba Velleman with a talk about ‘The Windy, Unorthodox Road to Success’. #LCCDiversityPublish24

After this 5 minute break is Irene Vasquez with a talk about ‘Translation, Solidarity and Social Justice’. #LCCDiversityPublish24

Love a lil cat appearance in publishing/book talks #LCCDiversityPublish24

Up next is P Eldridge with a talk about ‘Writing Like a Sissy’. #LCCDiversityPublish24

Join us now for a Q & A with speakers Jen, Lithemba, Irene, and P. #LCCDiversityPublish24

super cool Q&A with this group rn #LCCDiversityPublish24

Super informative evening so far! #LCCDiversityPublish24

Vasquez’s point about publishers not getting diverse books into the right hands reminds me of Saha and van Lente’s point about UK publishing visualising middle class, white folk as their only/target readers #LCCDiversityPublish24

After this 10 minute break is speaker Peter Willis with the talk “it was easy, it was cheap – go and do it!”. #LCCDiversityPublish24

Up next is Osman Bari with a talk about ‘A Taste of Chutney’. #LCCDiversityPublish24

After this 5 minute break is Jessica Higgins & Matthew Walkerdine with a talk about ‘Why Open Submission?’. #LCCDiversityPublish24

Up next is Sophie Paul & Kaiya Waerea with a talk about ‘On Intradependence’. #LCCDiversityPublish24

Join us now for our final Q & A with speakers Peter, Osman, Jessica, Mathew, Sophie, and Kaiya. #LCCDiversityPublish24

What a wonderful night with fabulous speakers, shedding light on some really interesting topics! Thank you all for joining us and don’t forget to follow everyone to see what they get up to next. #LCCDiversityPublish24