R116. In Pursuit of Inclusivity: Actively Creating Opportunities

B113, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Thursday, March 28, 2019
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Recently, the lack of diversity in publishing has become a prioritized issue. However, creating awareness is not enough of a solution; publishers must actively seek and embrace voices that might otherwise not be heard. In our panel, outreach directors and program coordinators will discuss ways to create a more inclusive industry, calling for publishing professionals, on every level of the industry, to actively seek out and request work from more diverse authors, on more diverse topics.


Participants

Moderator:

Andrew Jimenez is a writer, editor, and literary journal publishing consultant. Former Circulation and Marketing director at The Paris Review, he is now Publishing Director at F(r)iction.

Mia Herman is the Outreach Director and Creative Nonfiction editor for F(r)iction. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hofstra University, and her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications.

William Johnson is the online editor of Lambda Literary Review. He is also the editor and publisher of Mary: A Journal of New Writing dedicated to publishing gay writing of artist merit and a contributing arts and culture writer for CrushFanazine.

Cheryl Buchanan is a founder of Writers Without Margins, providing workshops in shelters, rehabs, health centers, youth services and prison reentry. Cheryl received the 2018 National Association for Poetry Therapy’s Social Justice Award. She is a producer of the documentary, In Their Shoes.

Caits Meissner is the author of the illustrated hybrid poetry book Let It Die Hungry. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York, and currently serves as the Prison and Justice Writing Program Manager at PEN America.

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