a one-day conference at the University of Salford
Saturday 31 March 2012 from 9am-5pm
The Old Fire Station
The Crescent
Salford
M5 4WT
9:00 Arrival: registration, tea and coffee
9:30
Introduction
PLENARY: Elizabeth Baines, novelist:
‘Jumping into the Lifeboat’
10:30 Morning session – 2 parallel sessions
Parallel session 1: Poets, Publishers and Poet-Publishers
Chair: Scott Thurston, University of Salford
Nikolai Duffy, Manchester Metropolitan University:
‘An Alternate Way of Doing Things: Burning Deck and Small Press Publishing’
Richard Barrett, University of Salford:
‘Poet, Publisher or Both? A Paper in Two Parts’
Parallel session 2: Contemporary Small Presses: Literature and Innovation
Chair: Lucie Armitt, University of Salford
Ra Page, Comma Press:
‘Publishing the Liminal’
Kevin Duffy, Bluemoose Books:
‘Independent Publishing and the Business of Books’
12 :00 LUNCH
1 :00 PLENARY: Robert Sheppard, Edge Hill University
2 :00 Afternoon session – 2 parallel sessions
Parallel session 3: The Small Poetry Press in the Sixties
Chair: Scott Thurston, University of Salford
Ian Brinton, independent scholar:
‘Nearly Brassed Off’
Lila Matsumoto, University of Edinburgh:
‘Tumultous Blossom: The Early Years of Wild Hawthorn Press’
Parallel session 4: Publishing Workshop
Chair: Ursula Hurley, University of Salford
Alec Newman, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, Newton-le-Willows
Ollie Wright, The Red Telephone, Manchester
Presentations followed by discussion and advice about publishing your writing and working in small press publishing
3 :30 Break for tea and coffee
4 :00 Book Launch
Erbacce Press (Liverpool) launches books by Jo Langton and Stephen Shimmans
4:30 Results of the Write Northwest competition announced by Zahid Hussain
5:00 Closing remarks
Please note that bookstall space is available throughout the day for small press publishers
Please register online here
Directions are available here
Organisers:
Lucie Armitt
Ursula Hurley
Scott Thurston
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
University of Salford
Salford
M5 4WT
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