A Newcastle-based e-book publishing firm, Inpress Books are partnering up with South Tyneside Council and the city centre’s library, The Word this September, for South Shields Write Fest 2023.
Inpress Books, who’re an Arts Council non-profit organisation, work with a set of unbiased publishers to assist profile and push independently printed writers.
The collaboration between Inpress Books, South Tyneside Council and The Word, will contain 4 occasions, What Makes A Good Debut?, Make Your Submission Stand Out, The Business of Writing, and Creative ‘Therapy’ Surgery with Carmen Marcus.
The first occasion, What Makes A Good Debut?, will contain a dialogue across the means of growing a debut novel. It will embody a panel of specialists, together with Sarah Fortune, a Project Editor at Orion/Hachette, Lucy Rose, who’s an award-winning filmmaker and writer, and Rebecca Robinson, a advertising skilled.
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The second occasion, Make Your Submission Stand Out, will likely be a masterclass in what makes a submission stand out amongst many, and what widespread errors may end up in rejections. A panel of publishers will ship the discuss, together with friends from Hachette, Curtis Brown Creative and The Bragg.
The third occasion, The Business of Writing, will discover the business facet of writing and publishing, with talks being delivered by authors Laura Steven, Lisette Auton and Carmen Marcus.
The fourth and ultimate occasion, Creative ‘Therapy’ Surgery with Carmen Marcus, will likely be hosted by writer Carmen Marcus, and can contain six ten-minute slots, the place she is going to analyse brief items of writing from members of the general public and assist them to work via ‘creative blocks’. 500 phrase excerpts should be despatched upfront.
General admission tickets are priced at £2 for every occasion, apart from the Carmen Marcus occasion, which is priced at £6.13.
