Publishing News
Dr Tom Betteridge Secures Award to Restage The Play of the Weather at Hampton Court
Oxford Brookes English Department Reader Dr Tom Betteridge has secured a prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant for a project examining the Court Drama of the Reign of Henry VIII. The project includes restaging John Heywood’s the Play of the Weather at Hampton Court Palace in 2009.
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Brookes Modern Languages Initiative expected to feed into international collaboration
A one-day interdisciplinary workshop took place at Brookes on 12th June 2008 entitled ‘Urban Spaces: Cultural Dynamics in the modern Metropolis'. Organised by Dr Christina Horvath and Dr Dervila Cooke (French), the event was funded by the Institute of Historical and Cultural Research and the British Academy. The overarching aim of the initiative was to promote progressive urban research across disciplines in the urban arena. The workshop attracted researchers from Belgium, France, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Finland and various institutions across UK.
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Philip Pullman to be Creative Writing Fellow for MA in Creative Writing
Philip Pullman has agreed to be one of the new Fellows for Oxford Brookes' forthcoming MA in Creative Writing, and will be launching the course in September.
The new and exciting MA will bring opportunities for writers to develop their work across a wide range of genres, including screen writing.
Teaching on the course will be novelist James Hawes (A White Merc with Fins , Rancid Aluminium and most recently Speak for England) and poet Jane Yeh (Marabou and Teen Spies), as well as other Creative Writing Fellows who will be announced shortly.
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British Book Design and Production Awards 2008
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University is busy dealing with a steady stream of entries for this year’s British Book Design and Production Awards which were launched in April at the London International Book Fair. Entries are already up on this time last year, and signs are that this year will be a bumper one.
Deadline for entries is Friday 27 June, and the winners will be announced at a Gala Dinner on 12 November at the Marriott Hotel in London.
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MA Publishing students win World Bank scholarships for 2008
Two students on the MA in Publishing programme have won scholarships to work at the World Bank in Washington for three months this summer.
In 2006, with the goal of broadening its talent pool, the Office of Diversity Programs and the Office of the Publisher at the World Bank in Washington created the World Bank Publishing Internship Prize, to be awarded annually to three students studying publishing. The winners each receive an award of $7,500, to cover travel and their living expenses during their three-month internship at the World Bank in Washington
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Graduate Publishing Scholarships
Graduate Publishing Scholarships for 2008
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies is delighted to announce four new scholarships for students on the MA in Publishing programmes at Oxford Brookes University starting their studies in September 2008. The four new scholarships are:
- Cambridge Publishing Scholarship – award of £1,500
- Hachette Livre UK Publishing Scholarship – award of £1,500
- Publishing Training Centre Diversity Scholarship – award of £5,000
- Random House Group Publishing Scholarship – award of £1,500
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Fabrizio Nevola awarded RIBA Sir Nikolaus Pevsner Award for Architecture
RIBA Bookshops has announced the winner of the 2008 RIBA Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture as Fabrizio Nevola for his book 'Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City' (Yale UP, 2007)
The winning books were announced on Wednesday 28th May at a prestigious
ceremony at the The Athaeneum Club in Pall Mall, London. The event was
attended by a large number of people representing the worlds of
architecture, construction, interior design and publishing. Speaking at
the ceremony and representing the awards juries were Max Fordham,
Dikkie Scipio, Doug Atherley, and Adrian Forty, who provided the
reasons why the judges chose the winning titles.
Also speaking was the RIBA President Sunand Prasad who described the evening as one of his favourite RIBA events of the year.
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‘Modernism: A Sourcebook’ by Steven Matthews published
Prof. Steven Matthews' new book, 'Modernism: A Sourcebook' will be published on 13th June 2008.
The book is described as 'A wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature. Documents are supported by substantial editorial material drawing connections to the major Modernist texts, and a full introduction outlining the key events, social and political movements, and cultural issues of the time.'
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Publishing at the London Book Fair
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies (OICPS) once again had a stand at the London Book Fair in April, following the success of last year’s attendance. It was an excellent opportunity to meet many of our alumni who were working with their own companies at the fair, as well as many of our publishing contacts in the UK and international industries. Current students were greatly in evidence, wearing OICPS T-shirts and distributing leaflets and brochures for our forthcoming Digital Publishing series of courses. Two students helped out at the stand for the Independent Publishers Guild. We were busy throughout the Fair and, for example, hosted two well-attended seminars on children’s publishing. Sheila Lambie and Claire Squires wrote articles for the trade journal Publishing News to coincide with the seminars.
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Working with independents at the London Book Fair in 2008
At this year’s London Book Fair, two graduate publishing students worked with the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG). Jonathan Davis and Sarah Kulasek assisted with the stand and the meetings organized for members of the IPG with the major retailers. Bridget Shine, Director of the IPG, said about Jonathan and Sarah: ‘I wanted to let you know that I thought they were terrific—hard working and enthusiastic. The IPG stand is hugely busy and in addition to this, we organise meetings on behalf of our members with retailers. They both coped extremely well and I would hope they’ll get work experience with our publishers as a result.’
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