Events on campus available to students
Salford based Saraband have a formidable reputation for prize winning literary and commercial fiction and recently collaborated with The University of Salford to produce an audiobook. MA student Elizabeth Campbell spoke to founding editor Sara Hunt to find out more ahead of our publisher fair on March 27th, UoS library (11.00 – 16.00) What are […]
Peepal Tree Press is an independent publishing house based in Leeds. This press aims to publish and uplift voices from the UK, the Caribbean and its diasporas, and make a difference to diversity in UK publishing. Their books will be featured in the Northern Publishers section of the UoS library after their appearance at the […]
Britain’s premier poetry press, Bloodaxe will be joining us at UoS library on March 27th for our 2025 publishing fair. Leah Parkinson met senior editor Neil Astley to find out more about the publisher who smashed the mould of poetry publishing in Britain and changed it forever. Read the interview and then meet Bloodaxe yourself […]
Bluemoose Books is an award-winning independent publisher based in Hebden Bridge. They are currently finalists for Northern Publisher of the Year in the Small Press Book Awards 2025, and two of their books are presently in film and TV production with Disney and the BBC. In anticipation of their attendance at the upcoming Northern School […]
Northodox is an independent publisher based in Manchester and Sheffield and established in 2020. If you are exhausted by a book market oversaturated with stories of a London-centric Britain or the cozy Cotswolds, look no further. Northodox’s books will be joining the shelves of UoS Library this year as we build a Northern Publishers Bookshelf […]
Join us to celebrate the launch of a permanent shelf at the Library featuring books by publishers from the North of the UK. 15 Publishers will be joining us for the very first Northern School of Writing Publishers Fair. The Fair will take place at the University of Salford Library on Peel Park Campus. Editors […]
The Northern School of Writing will be hosting the first Salford Literacy Symposium on June 30 2025. The Symposium is a free, catered, one day event, bringing together artists, school teachers, academics and community organizers to inspire the city to meet urgent challenges to rates of literacy and reading for pleasure. Speakers and panels will […]
The Orwell Society organises an annual short story competition for current students (both BA and MA) at British universities. They are look for dystopian narratives of 3,000 words and entry to the competition is free. The winner will receive £750 and the winning entry will be published in the Society’s Journal. The runner up will […]
Professor Caroline Magennis will be talking to audiences at The Seamus Heaney Centre about her non-fiction book Harpy. In this timely and thoughtful book, Caroline looks beyond the often-divisive conversation around women who choose to be childfree and offers an alternative message of hope and celebration. With humour and intelligence, she explores why motherhood isn’t […]
Work in Publishing Week Work in Publishing Week is taking place from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd November this year. This is a national campaign run by the publishers association to inspire people to consider a career in publishing. It is a series of includes events and activities across social media. To engage with Publishing […]