‘Risking it all on a sustainable business? How do small presses approach the relationship between risk taking and sustainability?’

Rosamund Davies (University Of Greenwich)

‘Cinderella or Sell-Out: Independent Publishers and Success’

Samantha Purvis (University Of East Anglia)

‘“A timebomb or a cesspool or a manuscript”: Risk, Emergence and the Speculative Form of Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick’

Tom Chadwick (University Of Leuven)

‘When Voices Move: International Prize Culture and the Case of Peekash Press’

Jennifer McDerra (University Of East Anglia)

‘“A banana with coffee is nice”: Unknown and Strange Things in the Work of Claire-Louise Bennett

Liam Harrison (University Of Birmingham)

‘Bluets are blue, Bluets are white: Genre as Colour in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets’

Michael Askew (University Of East Anglia)

‘A Memoirist ‘in Drag’? Genre Trouble in Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts’

Ioannis Tsitsovits (University Of Leuven)

‘Long Story Short: Small Presses and the Form of the Contemporary Short Story’

Sam Reese (University Of Northampton)

‘Honno Press: Feminist Publishing in Wales’

Sarah Hudis

‘Dreamy Idiotic Visions of the Future’

Rachel Genn (Manchester Writing School/School of Digital Arts)

‘Indie Fictive Hybridity as Cultural and Civic Acts’

Elizabeth Reeder (University Of Glasgow)

In 2018 the University of East Anglia (UEA), through our in-house UEA Publishing Project, became the academic sponsor of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, which celebrates achievement in small-press fiction. To mark this step in the Prize’s growth, UEA hosted a symposium on Saturday 2 March 2019, bringing together a variety of papers to imagine a poetics of contemporary small-press fiction. The symposium was organised by Olivia Heal and Rosalind Brown in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing.

Love Takes Risks (Symposium)

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