2024 isn’t just any year for Franz Kafka fans. The literary giant is being celebrated in grand style. The hundred-year anniversary of his untimely death has been embraced with particular …
When many of us think of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the first image that comes to mind is a dystopian future where the world is operated by machines. This isn’t surprising considering …
The UK publishing industry had a “record-breaking year” in 2022, with a total income of £6.9bn and 669m physical books sold in the UK, according to new figures from the …
The publishing industry is known for attracting many passionate and creative individuals, like yourself. You have likely heard that entry-level publishing roles can be extremely competitive, making it a challenge …
An interview with Chelsea Graham, Founder and Editor in Chief of The Publishing Post. What is your connection to publishing? My name is Chelsea Graham and I am an MA …
As we noticed the fear and uncertainty brought about by a disrupted job market, SYP Oxford joined forces with the ECPC to organise an informative panel event to demystify STM …
This week each SYP branch announced their mentors for the upcoming mentorship scheme. The Oxford Committee is covering all of Oxfordshire. If you are based in the Oxfordshire area, you …
Is publishing taking the gender pay gap seriously? By law equal work needs to receive equal pay. However, that does not mean women and men are now equal in the …
The world is changing. It has been changing rapidly for the last 15 years. Two of the most game-changing disruptions have been the technological revolution and the social revolution (this …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNOhQRnEGo&feature=youtu.be In this first episode of our new series on diversity in publishing, SYP Oxford have spoken to 4 authors and publishers about their takes on diverse employment …
The world has seen huge changes in the last few months, and publishing has swiftly adapted to the challenges coronavirus has created. However difficult, it is vital to be realistic …
SYP Oxford recently ran a Q&A on Twitter, answering your questions about working the publishing industry! Here are some of our best bits of careers advice, distilled into a single …
So your novel is finished. Nowadays submitting your work to a literary agency is as easy as dispatching an email – gone are the days of manuscripts tucked in white …
Written applications are almost always the first stage of an entry-level job application, but they can also be the most difficult to get right. Aoife Inman, Agents’ Assistant at Felicity …
On Work in Publishing Week Esther Morrison describes the moment she knew she wanted to work in publishing and how she got to her current position as Portfolio Marketing Executive …
Guest speaker Carlos Gimeno at our Public Speaking for Career Progression Event Nerves, fear and even panic are some of the words that come to mind when we hear the …
Deborah Frances-White, host of the popular The Guilty Feminist podcast, gave a powerful key-note speech at the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize ceremony last month. She told a story of ‘crashing’ …
One of the nicest things about living in Oxford is how lucky we are with literary events. One of the literary highlights of the year is always the Oxford Literary …
On the Friday night of the Oxford Literary Festival, I went to see Kerry Hudson speak about her upcoming memoir Lowborn, in which she recounts her working-class upbringing and revisits …
Top tips from Nadiya Patel – MSc biomed grad, aspiring publisher, and culinary enthusiast Time management is a key skill to acquire and is relevant to most professional areas, ranging …
Have you heard the news? SYP Oxford has launched the second stream of the OxForward mentoring scheme! This time, we are looking for applications from students, jobseekers, temps, interns, recent graduates, …
On Thursday 20th September, SYP Oxford hosted a special extended event which included a practical workshop element, as well as super presentations from our panel of speakers who were highly …
We are looking for 4 student liaison officers (2x University of Oxford, 2x Brookes University – 1 undergrad, 1 MA) to join the Society of Young Publishers Oxford committee. The …
If you’re like us, you’re always looking for a good recommendation! And what better time than summer to get stuck into a great book? (Other than spring, autumn, and winter, …
Publicity may be one of the lesser known parts of publishing (compared to Editorial and Marketing for example), however this department are the key behind having books featured in newspapers, …
During our last panel session, Rights Debunked! it seemed there was a great interest in titles to read and websites to visit if you’re interested in moving into this area. …
Booker-prize winning author Arundhati Roy discussed her latest novel at Oxford Town Hall earlier this month, in an event organised by Blackwells. In conversation with Dr Faisal Devji, Fellow at …
You may have heard SYP Oxford shouting about our exciting new mentoring scheme that has recently launched, OxForward. If you haven’t, then we’re about to shout about it some more! …
Being a dog who is passionate about reading, I was very excited when this year’s Women’s Prize for fiction was announced! I wasn’t surprised to see that Eleanor Oliphant is …
Being a dog who is passionate about reading, I was very excited when this year’s Women’s Prize for fiction was announced! I wasn’t surprised to see that Eleanor Oliphant is …
Are you passionate about the publishing industry? Do you enjoy attending SYP events, reading our quarterly magazine InPrint, or following our work online? Then we want to hear from you! …
Ashley Lodge, Senior Publisher at Pearson The last year has been an exciting one for me at Pearson as I’ve been involved into two initiatives that are making a real …
Mike Shatzkin, Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company Original source: The Shatzkin Files There are three new promotion and marketing opportunities for publishers of ebooks that have been …
In adulthood, few things take me by surprise anymore. Ever since hearing about Richard Gere and gerbils, watching Honey Boo Boo drink a litre of Go-Go juice, or seeing Trump …
A simple question with a myriad of answers. We want to hear yours! At this year’s SYP conference, we’re exploring how the industry deals with issues around ethics, sustainability, and …
‘To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that’s the only way I can make …
What an exciting month for publishing! The Edinburgh International Book Festival did their bit to make the masses part with their cash; Trump helped put a damper on Amazon sales; Quarto …
Rabbie Burns, Bobby Stevenson, and Walt Scott are so 19th century! Ahead of the Edinburgh Festival next month we thought we’d bring you up-to-date with the current literary scene in …
‘Whenever people ask me that inevitable question, “Who’s your favourite author?” I always say “Shakespeare”.’ Margaret Atwood The fourth novel to be released in Vintage’s Hogarth Shakespeare enterprise, Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed is a …
Easyjet Launches ‘Flybraries’ Children’s Book Club The perfect solution to keeping kids entertained on flights, without fellow passengers having to listen to sociopathic birds killing pigs on ipads—headphones anyone? On …
It’s hard to believe it’s been 13 years since the last episode aired. The Friends were all avid readers—after all, the first piece of furniture Chandler and Joey put together …
‘Some books haunt the reader. Others haunt the writer. The Handmaid’s Tale has done both.’ Margaret Atwood Great dystopian literature will never cease to give us goose bumps from Orwell’s Nineteen …
We can’t believe June’s over already? If you feel like it was lost in a haze of equal measures of hot and dreich weather, here’s the run down of what …
‘You are a pastel-coloured Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bourdeaux wine stain that won’t come out.’ I was in a bookstore a couple of days ago and a woman bogarting …
Can you tell these literary aficionados from their childhood pics? Let us know if you think fame has made them even more quaffed, or if they’re a shadow of their …
Summer is here! So we’d highlight a few good reasons to grab your brolly and factor 30 to head outside. Twelfth Night at the Globe When and where: 18 May …
First Love by Gwendoline Riley A little book which wallops you with hefty imagery, walking you ‘into the throat of the wind’ and taking you home to the toxic relationship …
On Tuesday 18th April Blackwells bookshop hosted the Oxford Writers’ Circle’s event on Young Adult fiction. The panel consisted of three prominent YA authors; Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The …
We’re excited about this event at the Story Museum and to help you share our enthusiasm we’re offering a free ticket to a lucky re-tweeter. The Story Museum have lined up …
This year’s London Book Fair was another over the top event, with publishers from all around the world exhibiting and the tradition of focusing on a foreign market continuing with …
To celebrate the wonder that is Red Nose Day, we wanted to test whether you can tell these bookshelf pics past their noses. Let us know how you get on! …
‘I’m an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.’ – Raymond Chandler …
Now that the mayhem of the Oscars is over for another year (Envelopegate notwithstanding), it’s time to take a breath, get over the drama, and start looking ahead to the …
Can you guess the classic novel by the emojis? Easy right? How many have you actually read? 1.The Catcher and the Rye; 2.Middlemarch; 3.To Kill a Mockingbird; 4.Of Mice …
Most scholarly publishers have been feeling the adverse effects of difficult market conditions over the past few years. Libraries have on the whole been investing more in online products that …
Considering a career in communications? Enthusiastic about energy? Please join Tamarindo Communications on 22nd February 2017 at the Turl Street Kitchen. (Rumour has it there may be free beer.) Tamarindo …
March will see the publication of the third instalment in Samantha Shannon’s Bone Season series. The books are a must-read for fans of the urban fantasy or supernatural dystopian genres. …
Applications for SYP Oxford’s 2017 committee are now open! Want to be part of it? Click here to see what positions are available and apply. The committee roles are open for all …
Last week team SYP headed to Oxford’s Art Cafe ready to be inspired by two very innovative and ambitious publishers. Anna Jean Hughes of Pigeonhole Press came up with her …
We can’t wait to attend Blackwell’s latest Shore to Shore event with Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay, John Sampson plus local poet, Bernard O’Donoghue. What’s more, we have …
The Baileys Prize, formerly known as the Orange Prize, was launched in 1996 after the Booker shortlist of 1991 failed to include a single woman. It goes to the …
Back in April we huddled into Oxford’s Turl Street Kitchen to hear Stewart Larking speak about all things book design. Design in publishing often proves to be a heated topic of …
The XML Summer School is a unique event for everyone using, designing, managing, or implementing solutions using XML and related technologies. The courses are taught by recognised experts and practitioners …
Bookselling had always seemed to me to be a dream job. My vast experience of the industry, based on countless viewings of a certain London-based rom-com featuring Hugh Grant, had …
This April saw the Oxford Literary Festival descend upon the city of dreaming spires and a range of interesting and inspiring speakers sharing their ideas. One of the talks that …
A short story is ‘something that can be read in an hour and remembered in a lifetime’ (Stephen Vincent Benét), so when we read about a new imprint specialising in …
I first came into contact with The Society of Young Publishers when a colleague of mine at the publisher I worked for took me to a social. I was nearing …
Greetings, SYPeeps and welcome to another edition of the Oxford Comma! With the SYP Conference on the horizon, we are getting rather excited for the big day on 21st November. …
Tickets are now available for the SYP Conference 2015 in Oxford! Buy them HERE Early bird tickets will be on sale for two weeks only, so get yours before they’re …
PUBLISHING: A THOROUGHLY MODERN BUSINESS We’re very excited to present the SYP Conference 2015, happening 21st November 2015 in Oxford! We’re looking forward to seeing all of you there. We’ll …
On 19th May the SYP Oxford had a fantastic visit to Acorn Press. Acorn Press has been operating for over 35 years, and has a workforce of over 45 people. …
Earlier this month, SYP Oxford read The Shore for the June book club. The first thing that draws you to this book is the soft matte cover, adorned with pastel seashells. …
About the roleThe Web and Direct Marketing team provide web and email marketing support to a global marketing team of over 150 marketing staff across six international offices, updating marketing …
We were delighted to be invited to the Oxford Brookes annual Working in Publishing day (9 March 2015), organised this year by Senior Lecturer Helena Markou. The event gets bigger …
SYP Oxford Pub Social – meet the new committee 18th of March, 6.30pm Come and meet the new SYP Oxford committee for 2015 at The Victoria in Jericho for a …
4th of March, 6.30 pm, The Kings Arms, Oxford We are constantly being told about how difficult it is to get into publishing, so how do you achieve your first …
We are giving one lucky SYP Oxford member the chance to win a 50th anniversary special edition of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, in time for our March Bookclub: http://on.fb.me/1L5LH3o …
Taylor & Francis Group, a leading global academic publishing company, are currently recruiting for a full-time Digital Product Manager to join a dynamic, innovative team within their Routledge Books division. …
The 2015 annual IPG Spring Conference will take place from 4th – 6th March at the Heythorp Park Crowne Plaza hotel in Enstone, Oxfordshire. The SYP have very kindly …
Web Marketing Executive About the Role We are looking for an enthusiastic, organized self-starter with a strong technical aptitude and previous marketing experience, to join us as a Web Marketing …
We are looking for your views on how we are doing! Please take a few minutes to fill in this short survey to let SYP Oxford know how we are doing and …
We have an exciting offer for 2 free spaces on BIC’s “Understanding Paper” course to be held in Sweden next week (excluding travel and accommodation which the attendee will have …
Oxford SYP have vacancies for TWO Speaker Events Co-ordinators. If you’d like to hear more about these positions please send your CV and a covering letter to: oxford@thesyp.org.uk ________________________________________________________
Click Social Round Up 2013 to see all the treats that SYP Oxford brought to you throughout the year. And what a year it was too, old sport… “Life starts all …
About Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. …
Are you a huge fan of the Fantasy genre, interested in learning more about authors, or simply desperate to meet and chat with an author who has won numerous literary …
Want to improve your CV, get some work experience and be supported by a group of your fellow publishing professionals? SYP Oxford is currently looking for one enthusiastic person, ideally in …
Recognising women’s creativity, professionalism and ambition in publishing Now accepting submissions Booktrust is delighted to call for submissions for the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2013, the national award recognising women’s …