Adrian Bullock (he/him)

Associate Lecturer and Consultant, the Oxford International Centre for Publishing at Oxford Brookes University; Managing Director, Principal Consultant, Oxford Publishing Consultancy Ltd

After graduating from the University of Oxford with a degree in Modern Languages, Adrian joined Oxford University Press, where he worked for the next 16 years, mainly in production and project management. Adrian left OUP to join Oxford Brookes University as a lecturer on the BA and Masters courses in Publishing, where he still work as an Associate Lecturer. In 2010 Adrian set up and still runs the Oxford Publishing Consultancy Ltd.
Adrian is the author of 3 books on publishing:
·      Book production, (2012), 1/e, Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
·      The green design and print production handbook, (2013), Hachette  
·      Dictionary of Publishing, (March 2019), Oxford University Press
The second edition of Book production will be published later in the year by Taylor & Francis.

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Julie has worked in the Irish publishing industry for almost 20 years. She began her career in trade publishing as an editor at Blackstaff Press, before moving into the educational publishing sector. In her current role, she commissions and developmentally edits books and materials across a wide range of post-primary subjects, working closely with authors, editors, designers, illustrators and digital developers. 

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Grainne O’Toole (she/her)

Director, Skein Press

Gráinne O’Toole is a director at Skein Press and has a background in community development, social policy and human rights law. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin. In 2018 Gráinne cofounded Skein Press to amplify the voices of writers not often featured in Irish literature and publishing so that the richness of our culture can be shared and understood.

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Joanna Smyth (she/her)

Editorial Director, Hachette Ireland

Joanna Smyth an Editorial Director at Hachette Ireland. Joanna completed a Masters in Literature and Publishing at NUI Galway, and joined Hachette Ireland as an editorial assistant in 2010. Joanna has volunteered with Fighting Words, editing two of their short story collections by Transition Year students, and was a Publishing Ireland board member for four years, serving as President from 2020 to 2021.

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Liz Hudson (she/her)

Vice Chair, AFEPI Ireland; Advanced Professional Member, CIEP; Editor and Owner, Little Red Pen

After graduating from Trinity with a degree in English in French, Liz spent nine years away living in Paris and London before returning to Dublin to set up her own freelance editing business, The Little Red Pen. Somehow, 20 years have passed. She still loves going to work most days and indeed, finds it hard to stop most days. Liz provides adaptation, rewriting, copy-editing, proofreading and typesetting services to authors and publishers all over the world, and she’s an Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP (Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders) and a member and Vice Chair for AFEPI Ireland (the Association of Freelance Editors, Proofreaders and Indexers). Recently, Liz has been learning a lot about marketing, mindset and purpose. And yeah, she loves books.

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Alexandra Peat (she/her)

Lecturer in Publishing

Alexandra Peat is a Lecturer in English at the University of Galway where she also currently directs the MA in Literature and Publishing. She has worked and lived in the UK, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden and, now, Ireland. She researches and teaches modern and contemporary literature, and is particularly interested in travel literatures, practices of craft and collaboration, publishing and print culture.

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Priyanka Negi (she/her)

Freelance Editor

Priyanka is a Freelance Editor, who currently also works in Public Relations, Media, and Reporting. Her previous experience includes her time as a Watty’s Associate at Wattpad, an associate at Hachette, with further experience in editorial at Dzanc Books and NDTV.

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