How to Get Published - Fiction & Memoir
We are really looking forward to welcoming you to ‘How to Get Published: Fiction and Memoir’ in collaboration with The Open University. Writers, agents and editors will be sharing their insight into craft, and routes to publication over two evenings.
The key details of the session are below, as well as the link you’ll need to join this online masterclass.
Agenda (please note all timings are UK time):
Wednesday 10th December
6.00pm - 7.00pm: Seminar - Fiction with Zoe Gilbert
7.00pm: Comfort break
7:15pm - 8:15pm: Seminar - Memoir with Miriam Mulcahy
8:15pm - 8:30pm: Q&A with Open University
Thursday 11th December
6.00pm - 7.00pm: Seminar - Fiction with Kasim Ali
7.00pm: Comfort break
7:15pm - 8:15pm: Literary Agents and Publishers Panel with Kerry-Ann Bentley, Jemima Forrester and Will Dady
8:15pm - 8:30pm: Q&A with Writers & Artists
Where: Online
Joining link (please note, this is the link to access BOTH sessions): How to Get Published: Fiction & Memoir | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams
You can download Teams free on your computer, or join via the web: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-teams/download-app
We’ll also be recording the sessions, which we’ll make available to you to watch for two weeks once you’ve received the recordings.
SLACK
We will be using Slack during the course, which is a free, easy-to-use platform that enables everything related to the course to be stored in one place. Please click on the below link to gain access to the Slack workspace that we’ve created for this course:
https://join.slack.com/t/howtogetpubli-0fg4267/shared_invite/zt-3kk9kyl0y-iBMUtWVnuqPCaaJ6d7Q2hQ
When you arrive in Slack you’ll see the workspace is called ‘How to Get Published - Fiction & Memoir (Dec25)’, with several channels within that workspace. A quick bit of guidance on how these different channels will work:
- Event Etiquette: We’ve put together some event etiquette guidelines. Please have a read and comment to confirm that you’ve seen them.
- General: This is a general discussion board. It’s mainly a space for you guys to chat amongst yourselves, discuss, share advice and book recommendations! A great way to start would be to introduce yourselves, share info about your writing journeys so far and let the rest of the group know what you’re working on and why you’re here.
- How to Get Published: We’ll share resources and the recordings for each day in this channel. They’ll be monitored during the events if you have any questions on the day.
Everyone involved in the event will have access to all channels by default. It’s therefore important to make Slack work for you, so please take a bit of time to manage your notifications. You can do this by right-clicking on the channel and then selecting ‘Change notifications’.
If you have any questions about Slack, or the event in general, please do drop us a line! We look forward to seeing you soon.
