CBCP workshop: Re-vision: On re-publishing & re-design, 1 July 2025

This workshop brings together creatives and practitioners involved in the art and business of republishing to explore the social, artistic, political and economic dynamics of bringing previously published texts back to life in different historical, linguistic, textual, and geographical contexts for new markets and audiences.

The workshop is free to attend. If you would like to come in person, please click the Select tickets button on the right-hand side.

Refreshments (incl. lunch) will be provided throughout the day. If you have any dietary or accessibility requirements please email the Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing at cbcp@reading.ac.uk.

Workshop Programme

10.00-10.15am Refreshments & Welcome

Republishing:
10.15-11.15am Social justice and republishing Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (Jess Samuel, Amber Stevenson, University of Exeter & Jenny Harper, University of Reading)
Chair: Dr Nicola Wilson

11.15-11.30am Refreshments

11.30am-1.00pm

• Designing co-editions on Marie Neurath with Quinto Quarto (Prof Sue Walker, University of Reading)
• Ethics and republishing children’s books (Dr Darren Chetty, UCL)
• Lurid publishing: Reprints from a pedagogical perspective (Dr D-M Withers, University of Exeter)
• Chair: Dr Sophie Heywood

1.00-2.00pm Lunch

Industry:
2.00-3.00pm

• The backlist from the literary agent’s perspective (Norah Perkins, Curtis Brown Heritage Division)
• Small publishers & audiobooks (Kate Bland, Spiracle Audiobooks)
• Chair: TBC

3.00-3.15pm Break

Forms:
3.15-4.15pm 

• Re-imagining Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery as a Graphic Novel (Sophie and Scarlett Rickard)
• Re-translations: amplifying discourse [online] (Prof Gerry Leonidas, University of Reading)
• Chair: Prof David Brauner