WRITING AND THE SMALL PRESS

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

l.armitt@salford.ac.uk

Ursula Hurley

u.k.hurley@salford.ac.uk

Scott Thurston

s.thurston@salford.ac.uk

School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences

University of Salford

Salford

M5 4WT