This Aunt Luter will moderate a very much needed panel about the future (such an impossible word to concieve these days!) of publishing! A Publishing the Future panel seems so fitting for our times! How do we (indie presses) reconcile present and future while struggling to survive financially? How do we search for the next boundary pushing manuscript while freedom of speech is under threat? Is it possible to inspire readers through our collective sense of loss and fear? How do these indie presses stand apart from big publishers and from each other?
Publishing the Future will be one of the headliner events at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, CA. It is a ticketed event. Get your $20 ticket here before they run out! Join us to see how indie presses are raising to the ocassion.
From the Bay Area Book Festival site:
To write an inclusive future, we must publish diverse voices who represent our collective interests and stories. The publishers and imprints represented in this headliner panel will discuss the implications of the current political climate on the future of publishing and put forward creative solutions to the lack of opportunities for publishing underrepresented stories.
Tiny Reparations Press, founded by standup comedian, bestselling author, producer, and actress Phoebe Robinson, is a highly curated imprint dedicated to fiction and nonfiction that pushes the conversation forward.
HeartDrum, an acclaimed imprint of HarperChildren’s featuring stories that emphasize the present and future of Native peoples and the strength of young Indigenous heroes, will be represented by its author-curator and award-winning writer Cynthia Leitich Smith.
Palestinian American author and book worker Hannah Moushabeck runs Interlink Publishing alongside her family, the only Palestinian-owned independent publishing house in the United States offering global perspectives to readers through works of literature-in-translation, history, activism, politics, art, cultural guides, award-winning cookbooks, and illustrated children’s books.
Through publishing talented writers whose works have been overlooked by large-scale publishers, co-founder Kate Gale of Red Hen Press fosters diversity, promotes literacy in local schools, and supports the Greater Los Angeles Area and international communities with arts-based events and literary advocacy.
Moderated by acting Co-CEO of the intersectional, feminist press Aunt Lute, María Mínguez Arias, this inspiring panel is a celebration of the innovative and diverse members of the publishing industry dedicated to creatively curating and publishing the voices of our future.
Introductory live music performance by Bushwick Book Club Oakland!
Honored and looking forward to conversing with these publishing trailblazers
maría mínguez arias 