How to… reprint a lost feminist classic
Channel: British Library
Date: 2021-01-22

A free, three day mini-festival showcasing the past, present and future of feminist publishing and creativity

Our fantastic line up of practical workshops and energising talks will ignite your creative feminist visions. Meet Virago chair Lennie Goodings, Dialogue Books publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, Crystal Mahey-Morgan from Own It! literary agency, Kate Macdonald of Handheld Press, Sofia Niazi from One of My Kind, comic artist and Laydeez do Comics founder Nicola Streeten and many other inspirational women creatives.

Republishing books can be an important political act. Virago’s Modern Classics series has revived the memory of countless women writers that have fallen out of favour. How though, do you go about it - from research and rights, to design, to curation and marketing?

Find out more from Maria Vassilopoulos, the British Library’s publishing sales & marketing manager and book trade historian, who talks about the new British Library Women Writers series. She’ll be in conversation with Handheld Press director Kate Macdonald who discusses the elegant Handheld Classics. Chaired by D-M Withers, author of Virago Reprints and Modern Classics (c.1975-87): The Timely Business of Feminist Publishing.