2019 Northeast Student PubCon

We invite you to join us for the Third Annual Northeast Student PubCon...

... hosted at Boston University this April 13th. We welcome instructors who are interested in the program to register as well and ask that you help us spread the word to your students.

Updated on 4/2: We have begun to reach our space limit for some of these events. If tickets are sold out, please contact us at booklab@bu.edu. A member of the organizing team will reply to you directly by email to help you determine if any particular sessions have seats available for your participation.

This student-led publishing conference is designed to bring students together who answer 'yes' to following questions:

• Are you a college student interested in writing and publishing?
• Are you involved on your campus as a publication manager, editor, designer or contributor?
• Do you want to learn more about how to get your work online or in print?
• Do you want to learn more about the publishing pipeline?
• Do you want to explore professional tracks in the literary world, including teaching, publishing, curation, editing, design, and the management of literary organizations?
• Do you want to sit down with experienced designers, editors and managers for a focused consultation about your campus publication?

We will have the following panels and seminars throughout the course of the day:

• Pathways in Publishing and Book Trades
• Publishing Consultation
• How Books Get Sold in 2019
• Seminar: Print and Web Comics
• Seminar: Instagram Poetry
• Seminar: Funding for Little Magazines
• How to Make a Living as a Writer
• A Literary Reading

Featuring speakers such as:

• Zachary Bos of BU BookLab
• Spenser Ruchti of Harvard Book Store
• Beth Moore of MIT Press
• James Parker of The Pilgrim
• Georgia Park, instagram poet
• James Nelson, freelance Author
• Ryne Hager, tech writer
• And more...

If you are an instructor teaching in a publishing-related discipline, we would be immensely grateful if you would forward information about the conference to your students.

The 2019 NESPC is hosted by BU BookLab with co-sponsorship by the CAS Associate Dean of Humanities, the BU English Department, Clarion Magazine, The Beacon, Kilachand Honors College, and the BU Editorial Institute, as well as Wellesley Writes.

Keep in mind, attendees do not need to stay for the whole conference, they may drop in whenever they would like from 9:00-4:00pm. More detailed schedule information will be released soon.