Lectures & Talks

The Summer School offers three days of one-hour lectures and 10-minute talks delivered by the leading experts in the field; the programme combines a series of academic talks with a panel discussion on publishing as well as two talks given by the fantasy writers (for further information, see Bloomsbury Afternoon).

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The programme can be accessed here.

 

For the afternoon of Day 2, the School hosted Bloomsbury Publishing, supporters of the School.

Introduced by Nigel Newton CBE, Founder and Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing, the afternoon started with a conversation between Zoe Gilbert (chair; Bloomsbury author and academic), Vicky Leech Mateos (Publishing Director, specialising in fantasy fiction), Lucy Strong (Bloomsbury Academic Editor for Literary Studies and Creative Writing), and Rebecca McNally (Bloomsbury Publishing Director & Editor in Chief, specialising in children's literature).

This was followed by talks with Bloomsbury fantasy authors Katherine Rundell* (Impossible Creatures, Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, etc.) and Oxford alumna Samantha Shannon (The Bone Season  series, The Roots of Chaos cycle).

Introduction & Publishing Panel

Samantha Shannon

 

* At the author's request, this session was not recorded

 

A picture of the communal meeting area in Cohen Quad, with people walking out of it