WEDNESDAY 28 MARCH
Join us for a quick look back and look forward by three NALD members from our Advanced Mentoring Programme, then facilitator Beccy Owen, will lead a series of discussions using the Open Space format.
10.00
Angela Hicken, Literature Development Officer, Hampshire County Council
Sara Beadle, Birmingham Book Festival Director
Sarah Hymas, Writer & Editor
11.00-13.00 & 14.00-16.00 (with lunch between)
Open Space facilitated by Beccy Owen
What happens then, is entirely up to you delegates.
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Literature development faces significant change, The Space Between Us is a chance to think and talk about the future. NALD’s two day conference brings together literature development professionals to explore the influence of changing economic factors, hybrid art forms, emerging platforms and social technology.
Speakers with experience of new forms of publishing, online society, technology and gaming will invite us to rethink the possibilities ahead for literature organisations and individual activists.
The Space Between Us
27 March - 28 March
The Tabernacle, London
Delegates rates from £50
THE PROGRAMME
TUESDAY 27 MARCH
Join us for a day of provocations and debate followed by an evening meal,
conference social, and a reading of specially commissioned work.
from 12.30 Registration
13.15 Keynote with James Bridle, Technologist, Writer, Publisher
14.00 THE SPACE BETWEEN
..exploring the spaces writers, readers and audiences
occupy between traditional definitions of literature
and new spaces opened up by technology with ...
Nathan Jones, writer & curator
Sophie Rochester, editor of The Literary Platform
Naomi Alderman, fiction & gaming writer
15.15 DEFINING SPACES
..exploring how technology has created new
dispersed transnational communities while changing
and enhancing our relationship to our immediate locality
with...
Ian Daley, publisher of route
Kate Feld, writer and blogger
Yvonne Biggins, movellas.com
16.30 OCCUPYING THE SPACE
...exploring how organisations and individuals
occupy the space to support writers, readers
and new audiences and new content with...
Bill Thompson, technology critic
Patrick Keogh, Guardian Masterclasses
Ola Animashawun, Euphoric Ink & the Royal Court
19.00 AN EVENING MEAL
FOLLOWED BY READINGS FOR THE SPACE BETWEEN US
from Laura Dockrill Helen Mort and Kei Miller
