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MACMILLAN 175 EVENTS FOR 2018
Throughout 2018 Pan Macmillan is celebrating 175 years of bringing authors and readers together.
LONDON BOOK FAIR
AUTHOR OF THE DAY: JOANNA TROLLOPE 10 APRIL, 2:30PM–3PM ENGLISH PEN LITERARY SALON
Joanna is in conversation with Mary Anne Sieghart
HOW I WRITE: DAVID BALDACCI 10 APRIL, 4.45PM–5.30PM AUTHOR HQ
Join number one bestselling writer David Baldacci in Author HQ where he will be discussing his writing methods and creative approach.
BEING MENTAL: IS THERE A RIGHT WAY TO PUBLISH ON MENTAL HEALTH? 10 APRIL, 1PM–2PM CLUB ROOM, NATIONAL HALL GALLERY
How can publishing help shatter the stigma around mental health? What can books and the publishing industry offer to people who want to better understand their own and others’ experience of mental illness? Leading mental health campaigners and authors Natasha Devon MBE (The Beginner’s Guide to Being Mental: An A-Z —A is for Anxiety. Z is for Zero Fucks) and Jonny Benjamin MBE (The Stranger on the Bridge) discuss their experiences of mental health, writing and being published, with publisher and founder of Bluebird and ex-publisher of HarperNonFiction, Carole Tonkinson.
MEMOIRS THAT MATTER: ADAM KAY, THIS IS GOING TO HURT 11 APRIL, 2.30PM–3PM OLYMPIA ROOM GRAND HALL
Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt, published by Picador, has been a massive hit this winter, overtaking celebrity memoirs at the tills and taking readers on a no-holds-barred, hilarious, horrifying and heart-breaking tour of the NHS
front line in the company of a junior doctor. Now optioned for TV with Sister Pictures, the book is part of a growing market for immersive, emotional and entertaining personal memoirs, written by people who are remarkable for what that have to share about their lives. Why do these stories matter? Is it because they genuinely have something to say? And what does it take to write and publish one?
SHORE 2 SHORE 16–23 JUNE VARIOUS LOCAL BOOKSHOPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Following the hugely successful first jaunt in 2016, poetry tour Shore 2 Shore is returning for Independent Bookshop Week this year. Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy will accompany Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker and Jackie Kay, along with musical MC John Sampson. They will cross the country to visit and perform in nine independent bookshops, and will be joined at each one by a local poet. Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse will be published by Picador in paperback on 14 June 2018.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS OF THE INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP INNOVATION AWARD 10 SEPTEMBER 2018 BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
As part of the celebrations for its 175th anniversary, Pan Macmillan has launched a competition for independent booksellers across the UK and Ireland in which seven independent bookshops will each be awarded £1,750 to launch a new and innovative project in their store, with projects focusing around community outreach or supporting new readers particularly encouraged. Submissions for the award are now open, with a deadline of 18 May for ideas. A shortlist of stores will be announced on 15 June, ahead of Independent Bookshop Week, with winners announced at the Booksellers Association Conference dinner in Birmingham on 10 September.
DEAR MAC: AUTHOR LETTERS FROM THE MACMILLAN ARCHIVE 18 SEPTEMBER 2018 BRITISH LIBRARY
Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan published their first books 175 years ago next month. The success of their publishing house was built on their generous, intelligence and passion, evidenced through their letters to authors including Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Join some of Pan Macmillan’s greatest writers today to hear this correspondence brought to life from the collection at the British Library.
FAITHFUL TO OUR TASK: 175 YEARS OF MACMILLAN PUBLISHING 22 OCTOBER 2018 (DAY) SENATE HOUSE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
A one-day conference welcoming papers related to Macmillan’s publishing history, organised by the Institute of English Studies at University of London and the Centre for Publishing at UCL in partnership with Palgrave Macmillan and Pan Macmillan.
THE GOLDEN TREASURY: THE BLOOMSBURY CHAPTER STEVENSON LECTURE 22 OCTOBER 2018 (EVENING) SENATE HOUSE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Picador poetry editor Don Paterson reflects on publishing in verse from Tennyson, Rossetti and the Golden Treasury to Robin Robertson, Carol Ann Duffy and Kate Tempest.
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