Celebrating Bath as a City of Publishing

The event is being co-organised with The Society of Young Publishers South West and is part of BRLSI’s Bicentenary programme.

Join us for a day celebrating the past, present and future of publishing in Bath.

Bath has been a city of publishing for over three centuries. Initially, it was mainly medical tracts and tourist guides, but from the mid-eighteenth century, booksellers in the city were publishing literary texts, newspapers, and works of scholarship. Since then, Bath has continued to thrive as a city of publishing and today it boasts a large number of independent publishers and booksellers.

On Saturday 9 November, we will be celebrating Bath’s importance as a centre of publishing with a day-long event featuring local publisher stalls and career stands; panel discussions with authors, agents, booksellers and publishers; history talks; and a pop-up exhibition of 18th and 19th-century books and other works published in Bath. The event and exhibition are being supported by Bath Spa University.

Current participants include:

• Exhibitors: North Parade Publishing, Raspberry Books. Fox, Finch and Tepper, Peirene Press; Emblaze, Bath Spa University’s Publishing Department
• Panellists: Juliet Pickering (Blake Friedmann), Daniel Ginsburg (Emblaze), Nic Bottomley (Mr B’s Emporium), Tracey Turner and Sidonie Beresford-Browne (Raspberry Books), Megan Farr (Bath Spa University), James Tookey, Peirene Press
• Historical talks: Dr Kevin Grieves (Bath Spa University), Emma Louca (University of Bristol), Professor Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University)

Schedule of talks and panel discussions:

• 11.30am–12.30pm: Bath Publishers’ Panel
• 1.30pm–2.30pm: History of Bath Publishing
• 3.00pm-4.00pm: Industry Spotlight Panel

Entrance will be free but we ask that you RSVP below if you wish to attend the talks and panel discussions.

The day will be followed by an invitation-only networking event for the Society of Young Publishers South West (5–6pm).

The Society of Young Publishers is a not-for-profit organisation aimed at helping young people enter the publishing industry through immersive events just like this one, and this year, we’re celebrating our 75^th Anniversary!

For more information please visit https://thesyp.org.uk/branch/south-west. If you’d like to find out more about the South West branch or this networking event, please contact Charlotte and Sophie at syp.southwest@gmail.com