Join us on the 16th July for the third installment of our Career Café, Marketing & Publicity! Come along to our Zoom panel to find out all about these two fantastic, and often linked, departments. Send in your questions to our panellists beforehand and don’t be afraid to ask them anything from how they began in their careers to how you could progress in yours.
Send in your questions beforehand either directly to our Twitter page or email us at syp.events@gmail.com. Tweet your thoughts during the event using the hashtag #SYPCareerCafe – you can also connect with our panellists and other attendees via this hashtag! Zoom details will be emailed to all participants nearer the time.
Panellists:
Rose Wolfe-Emery is a Publicity Assistant at Oxford University Press, working on trade non-fiction. She is also a Communications Officer for SYP Oxford. Rose previously worked as a bookseller and interned in PR.
Ammara Isa is Trade Marketing Manager at HarperCollins overseeing booksellers communications, marketing and strategy for titles across the company. Beginning her career in the Children’s division, she is now co-chair of HarperCollins’ BAME network, Elevate, and in 2019 she was named a Bookseller Rising Star.
Jamie Norman is a campaigns Executive at Canongate, he works across fiction, non-fiction and their Black Thorn paperback crime list. He started his career working remotely for Vintage (PRH).
Hilary Bell is Publicity Executive at Egmont, HarperCollins. She works on publicity and events across children’s books, including brands, picture book, middle-grade and YA. She was previously Head of Events for SYP London, and has worked at The Bookseller and independent publishers.
Chaired by:
Aoife Datta is a Publicity and Marketing Executive at Scribe UK, working across their fiction, non-fiction and children’s list. She is also an Event Coordinator for SYP London.
This event is FREE for SYP members and £3 for non-members