Day one – Academic day program, 25 November
On the first day of the 2021 Independent Publishing Conference, we will hear from our keynote speaker, Laura Jean McKay, winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her book The Animals in That Country. The day will feature academic experts on multiple panels discussing their research within the publishing industry. Sessions include ‘The Rise of Environmental Science Fiction’, ‘The Risks of Sustainable Small Press Production’, ‘The Invisibility of Editors and the Australian COVID-19 Gig Economy’, and ‘Love in Lockdown: Publishing Pandemic Romances in 2020’.
Scroll down to see the full day’s program.
Ticketing
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| Single-day | Two days | Three days | |
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| SPN member | $50 | $90 | $125 |
| Student/unwaged | $40 | $75 | $100 |
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On the first day of the 2021 Independent Publishing Conference, we will hear from our keynote speaker, Laura Jean McKay, winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her book The Animals in That Country. The day will feature academic experts on multiple panels discussing their research within the […]
Keynote speaker
Laura Jean Mckay
Laura Jean McKay is a lecturer in creative writing at Massey University, with a PhD from the University of Melbourne focusing on literary animal studies. McKay’s debut novel The Animals in That Country (Scribe 2020), has been praised for its boldness and originality, winning The Victorian Prize for Literature 2021 among other accolades. She currently lives on the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand and is working on a gritty-realist turned speculative-fiction novel.
Academic day program 2021
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8:15am-8:30am
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Housekeeping & Welcome
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8:30am-10:00am
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Session A
Moderator: Alexandra Dane
Ellen Barth: A Melting Island Frozen in a Book: Survival of Republishing of the Eskimo Cook Book
Beth Driscoll & Claire Squires: CANAPYAY or CANAP-NAY? The Canape as an Environmental Signifier in the Global Book Business
Ellen Forget & Selena Middleton: The Rise of Environmental Science Fiction and the Risks of Sustainable Small Press Production
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10:15am-11:45pm
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Keynote speaker - Laura Jean McKay
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11:45am-12:30pm
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Lunch
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12:30pm-2:00pm
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Session B - Moderator: Alexandra Dane
Jodie Lea Martire and Sue Wright: Making a community art book in contemporary Brisbane
Emily Baulch: Journey to the Shelf: Stories of the contents on Australian Bookshelves
Tracy O’Shaughnessy and Zoe Dzunko: Publishing in a time of intangible goods: the material impacts of digitalisation in a climate of environmental risk management
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Session C - Moderator: Claire Parnell
Aiden Aylett: Schrodinger’s Threshold – Archive Of Our Own tags as the gateway to online fanfiction environment
Sarah Layton: Dickens to Dumbing of Age: Discovering a modern literary serial through 19th-century paratexts
Kenna MacTavish: Doing It for the Gram: conceptualising possible futures of “greenwashing” in the contemporary publishing industry, an autoethnographic experiment
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2:15-3:45pm
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Session D Moderator: Beth Driscoll
Jan Zwar: The international circulation of Australian-authored books 2008-2018: rights sales and exports of Australian books
Airlie Lawson: The High Cost of Trading International Rights: Technological developments, environmental impact and pandemic-influenced changes to global practices
Claire Parnell and Alexandra Dane: Un/sustainable work: The role of publicists in the Australian publishing industry
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Session E - Moderator: Kenna MacTavish
Jocelyn Hargrave: The invisibility of editors and the Australian COVID-19 gig economy
Jodi McAlister: Love in Lockdown: Publishing Pandemic Romances in 2020
Chloe Agius: Intimate imitations of the post-digital bookstore: investigating the changing landscape of bookselling post-COVID
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4:00pm-5:30pm
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Session F - Moderator: Jodi McAlister
Naomi Milthorpe: Manufacturing Bibles at the End of the World
Rebecca Giblin: Untapped: Upcycling Australia’s lost literary heritage – Watch her keynote speech from 2018
Millicent Weber: Audiobook circulation through Australian libraries, 2006-2017
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