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Publishing student wins runner-up prize in Business Plan competition

Ting Ting Wang, a student on the MA in Digital Publishing, has won the runner-up prize in a university competition for her business plan to create a new online platform for self-publishing.  The proposal will put authors together with readers, enabling authors to share their stories and gain support from readers through a crowdfunding model.  The judges based their decision on the originality of the idea and her overall vision; the analysis of the market and competition; the operational, delivery and management plans; and the projected financial performance. Congratulation to Ting Ting and it is hoped that the plan will find a backer to take the project forward.

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London Book Fair - 16-18 April 2012 - Earl’s Court

As usual, we'll have a stand at the Book Fair - O560 - so do come by and say hallo.  After the success of previous years, the London Book Fair organisers have yet again asked for some of our students to act as volunteer helpers at the Fair, working with them to ensure the seminars run smoothly.  The students work hard, but get a wonderful opportunity to meet authors, publishers and others in the business who often prove to be excellent contacts in the future.

Staff from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies will also be running seminars at the Fair. Further details are availble here.

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Internships at ILO in Geneva

Each year two students from the MA in Publishing programme have the opportunity to do internships at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. Two students, Jenny Peebles and Jorinde Singh, write about their experiences as interns over six months during 2011-12.

You can read about their experiences here:

Jenny Peebles and Jorinde Singh

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2nd UK China Publishing Forum

Friday 13 April, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies

This is the second forum in association with Peking University and the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication. The first was held in August 2011 in Beijing. The aim is to continue the agenda around the copyright trade between the two countries and broaden out the discussion to cover recent developments in publishing as well as cultural relations. You can download the full programme from here; speakers include:

Stephen Bourne, Chief Executive, Cambridge University Press; Professor Xiao Dongfa, Peking University; Lynette Owen, Copyright Director, Pearson Education; Professor Paul Richardson; Susanna Nicklin, Director Literature, British Council; Professor Zhiqiang Zhang, Nanjing University

Publishing professionals, academics, and students interested in the forum are welcome to attend. To book a place, please email Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies:

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World Book Capital bid - Angus Phillips interviewed

Oxford is bidding to become World Book Capital in 2014. This an annual award granted by UNESCO which acknowledges the best year-long programme proposed by a city to promote books and foster reading. Oxford’s bid is for the year from April 2014 to April 2015, but the winner of this bid will be announced in 2012. Oxford has unparalleled resources and a world-renowned economy in place to support a programme of this kind. There are probably more major culturally diverse authors based in or around Oxford than in any comparable city in the world. The International Publishers Association, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and the International Booksellers Federation all participate in the award selection, which has no financial prize.

One of the partners involved in the bid is Oxford Brookes University, and Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, has been interviewed about the bid:

http://oxfordworldbookcapital.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/interview-series-angus-phillips/

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Jane Potter selected for BBC workshop

Jane Potter from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes has been selected as one of the twelve researchers invited to participate in an AHRC/BBC workshop on the First World War. The AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) issued a call in December inviting expressions of interest from researchers interested in taking part in an event that will help inform and influence BBC thinking around the coverage of the centenary of the First World War in 2014.

Jane Potter is the editor of a new Penguin Classic, Three Poets of the First World War: Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen (2011). Her co-editor is Jon Stallworthy, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. Jane is also editor of the Wilfred Owen Association Journal.

It was the first AHRC call of its kind and a total of 73 expressions of interest were received with 12 researchers selected by the specially convened panel.

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2011

In October 2011, 32 students from the MA Publishing programme at Oxford Brookes visited the Frankfurt Book Fair, where they took in the range of activities and events at the largest trade fair for publishing in the world. They also had meetings on stand with a number of publishers including Bloomsbury, Dorling Kindersley, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Macmillan, New Internationalist, Pearson, and Perseus Books. Neil Munro, MA Publishing student, writes about his experiences:

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SYP conference at Oxford Brookes

Sophie Hall, studying for the MA Publishing at Oxford Brookes, writes about the conference of the Society of Young Publishers held on Saturday 19 November 2011. The conference title was Press Forward: Updating an Outdated Industry – the programme was put together by Aaron O’Dowling Keane, who graduated from the master’s at Brookes in 2010.

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Stationers’ Foundation ceremony

Abigail Pukaniuk and Daniel Parker, the two recipients from Oxford Brookes in 2010 of bursaries from the Stationers’ Foundation, were made Freemen of the City livery company on Monday 24 October 2011. Abigail and Daniel have now graduated from the MA Publishing. At the same ceremony, the 2011 bursary recipients, including Emma Griffin from Oxford Brookes, were called forward by Nick Steidl, Chairman of the Foundation, to receive their certificates.

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Bleached Bone and Living Wood

The poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4 November 1918 at Ors in the north of France, seven days before the Armistice was announced. His parents received the news on Armistice Day itself.

His house has now been turned into an ‘imaginary building’ – a work of art by Simon Pattinson – leaving untouched the cellar in which Owen wrote his last letter home to his mother. ‘There is no danger down here - or if any, it will be well over before you read these lines.’ In a recent R4 programme, Bleached Bone and Living Wood, Jane Potter, Senior Lecturer at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, was interviewed about the conversion of the house. She was also interviewed in the Oxford Times.

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