Venue: The Lancaster Suite, The Midland Hotel, Peter St., Manchester, M60 2DS.

Authors North Autumn Meeting & AGM

Saturday 13th October

11:00am – Registration, tea and coffee

11:15 am - AGM

Annual General Meeting for Authors North members only, including Chair’s report

11:30 am -  Dr Alison Baverstock: Why self-publishing is now just publishing. What the associated processes and technology have to teach authors, publishers and readers.

Dr Alison Baverstock was a publisher, has written extensively about writing and how to get published, and is now Course Leader for MA Publishing at Kingston University. In 2011 she carried out an extensive survey of self-publishing and emerged confident that not only is it changing the face of publishing, it is also equipping authors to engage more effectively with the process of being read. Her conclusions, published as 'The Naked Author' (Bloomsbury) make important - and heartening - reading for anyone embarking on a related project. www.alisonbaverstock.com

1:00 pm Buffet lunch & networking, then

2:00pm Peter Hobbs: Imagination and the novel

Peter Hobbs is the author of The Short Day Dying, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the International IMPAC Dublin literary award, and won a Betty Trask Prize. It was followed by a collection of short stories, I Could Ride All Day in my Cool Blue Train. His most recent novel is In The Orchard, The Swallows.

To book, please contact Neha Matkar to reserve a place and either telephone 020 7373 6642 to pay by card or send a cheque to 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB, made payable to The Society of Authors. Please write the event code 401 on the reverse of the cheque.

Bookings by 5 October please.

If you have hearing difficulties please let us know when you book. There will not be a hearing loop but seating can be reserved at the front. A table will be provided to display your latest books. 

Please advise of any dietary requirements in advance