WNBA-Boston Pro Devo Series: How to Navigate Today’s Publishing Landscape

People are saying publishing is broken, but what does that really mean? What do writers--whether previously published or not--need to know about how the industry is structured, where the author truly fits in, and what opportunities there are to have greater agency as a writer? Join the WNBA-Boston Chapter for an event to help you answer these burning questions! Our special guests, Anjali Mitter Duva and Henriette Lazaridis, have spent two years planning for the launch of their new publishing company, Galiot Press. Together, they have decades of experience as authors, editors, writing instructors, and founders of various literary programs. They will share some of the more eye-opening things they have learned about the inner workings of publishing, what they are looking to fix, and how writers can improve their chances of a rewarding writing career.

Guest Bios

Anjali Mitter Duva is an Indian American writer, planner, and publisher who was raised in France. She is the author of the historical novel Faint Promise of Rain. Anjali is a co-founder of Galiot Press, an instructor at Grub Street Writers, and a former fiction Co-Editor at Solstice Literary Magazine. She co-founded and runs the Arlington Author Salon, and is also a co-founder of the Indian kathak dance non-profit Chhandika. Anjali was educated at Brown University and MIT.

Henriette Lazaridis’s second novel Terra Nova was called “ingenious” and “provocative” by The New York Times and her debut The Clover House was a Boston Globe bestseller. Her short work has appeared in Elle, The New York Times, Forge, New England Review, and more. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and taught at Harvard for ten years. She runs the Krouna Writing Workshop in northern Greece and is a co-founder of Galiot Press, ushering in a sea change in publishing. Her novel Last Days in Plaka will be published April 9, 2024.