U.K. Event Aims to Interest Teens in Publishing

Feb 08, 2023

Three U.K. publishing industry is making a push to interest more teenagers in the profession of publishing and recruit people to the industry. The new initiative is called OpenBooks and will offer a series of online events aimed at 14-19-year olds. A program of live, online events will take place this February 22 and 23. 

The event is backed by the Publishers Association, Booksellers Association and The Association of Authors’ Agents, with funding National Lottery through Arts Council England. 

OpenBooks will offer short presentations from numerous industry speakers including Becky Thomas (Literary Agent, Lewinsohn Literary Agency), Daphne Lao Tonge (founder, Illumicrate and Daphne Press) , Zain Mahmood (Head of Ecommerce, Waterstones), and Amy Mae Baxter (Senior Editor, Dialogue Books), and will be hosted by authors including Juno Dawson, Cerrie Burnell and Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho. The events will then be available to stream thereafter.

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