Special interest groups events

Date: Thursday 9 January

Time: 10am-11:30am 

Younger children's fiction - features of editing, and the publishing process (host: Wendy Shakespeare). Instructions for joining the Zoom meeting, and the necessary link, will be posted on the Fiction forum. For further details, contact Judith Leask.

Date: Friday 7 February

Time: 2pm - 3:30pm 

Dealing with contentious issues - how to work with authors and publishers when contentious issues arise, and how to work with a sensitivity reader's inputs. Participants to bring examples of books that have been criticised, and why. (Host: Lisa Davis). Instructions for joining the Zoom meeting, and the necessary link, will be posted on the Fiction forum. For further details, contact Judith Leask.

Date: Thursday 6 March

Time: 10am - 11:30am 

Story structures and writing formulas (host TBC). Instructions for joining the Zoom meeting, and the necessary link, will be posted on the Fiction forum. For further details, contact Judith Leask.

Date: Friday 4 April

Time: 2pm - 3:30pm 

Romantasy (host: Claire Cronshaw). Instructions for joining the Zoom meeting, and the necessary link, will be posted on the Fiction forum. For further details, contact Judith Leask.

Date: Thursday 1 May 

Time: 10am - 11:30am 

Working with Word styles and formatting - what the copyeditor can do to help the formatter (host: Alison Shakespeare). Instructions for joining the Zoom meeting, and the necessary link,  will be posted on the Fiction forum. For further details, contact Judith Leask.