Visiting Speaker programme for Semester 1, 2015-16

October 6th, 2015 | Posted in Blog | Comments Off on Visiting Speaker programme for Semester 1, 2015-16

The visiting speaker sessions for Semester 1 are as follows:

  • October 8: Stevie Marsden (PhD researcher, University of Stirling/the Saltire Society): ‘‘fit tay be in schools, huvn no bad language, sex subversion or antireligion’: The Saltire Society’s Book Awards, Judgment Culture and the Scottish Literary Canon’ & Sarah Mygind, (PhD researcher, Aarhus University, Denmark): ‘How you and them work for you – when readers become co-promoters’
  • October 15: Peter Dennis, Publishing Manager, Leckie & Leckie
  • October 22: Mairi Kidd, Publisher, Barrington Stoke
  • November 5: Gillian Macrossan, Publishing Manager, & Jo Marjoribanks, Publishing Quality Controller, Witherby Publishing
  • November 12: John Watson, Commissioning Editor, Edinburgh University Press (as part of Academic Book Week) *PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL TAKE PLACE IN COTTRELL 2B84*
  • November 19: Lindsey Fraser, Literary Agent, Fraser Ross Associates
  • November 26: Cherise Saywell, Author & Royal Literary Fund Fellow
  • December 3: Lucy Feather and Eleanor Logan, Publishing Scotland

Please note a change of venue from previous years. All sessions will now be held in Cottrell 2B86 on Thursdays, beginning at 2pm. Places are free but limited. If you wish to attend but are not a Publishing student, please email frances.sessford@stir.ac.uk to register.