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Publishing Days Sharmaine Lovegrove, Managing Director of Dialogue Books, a brand-new divi- sion of Hachette UK, partnered with DLIE to stage a number of events in May. The events kicked off with a cocktail reception at Spanish Court Hotel on Wednesday May 22 for writers and practitioners in the local publishing industry. Ms Lovegrove, along with Christina Demosthenous, Commercial Publisher with Dialogue Books, conducted a Manuscript Workshop on Wednesday, May 24 which saw them having individual meetings with students and others to discuss improvements on their submitted manuscripts. Dialogue Books provided lunch for the seven participants who attended. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students, some of whom described the event as life-changing. On the evening of May 24 the Dialogue Books representatives presented a seminar for members of the public, titled “Meet the Publishers: Demystifying Publishing – From Manuscript to Bookstore” at the Multifunctional Room. Visual Artist Laura Facey Cooper screened her film Paddlin’ Spirit and partici- pated in a discussion on the film as part of the activities for the course, Women in Cinema: LITS2907, on Wednesday February 15. The activity was intended to allow students a better understanding of how film can function as an expression of life-writing and how the process of life-writing can serve as a means of reinventing the self and healing. Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS) Undergraduate Conference Grant: Three undergraduates were awarded the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS) Undergraduate Conference Grant to present their work at the 15th Annual International Charles Town Maroon Conference & Festival, June 21–24, 2023, but only two students presented at the conference, Kandice Thompson and Natalia Downer. The students were granted the award on the basis of impressive coursework submitted for a project in PUBL3003: Editing and Proofreading. The award was made possible through the coordination of Lecturer for the course, Visiting Fulbright awardee, Dr Francis Botkin, who also organises the conference. The course assignment required students to submit content for a class project, a mini-literary magazine called Fear of the Folk. The Conference theme was “Recon- ciliation: Justice, Healing, Unity” and students participated on a panel: “Reconcil- ing Jamaicans with their folk culture”, chaired by Dr Isis Semaj-Hall, Lecturer in DLIE. The award provided transportation to the conference and accommodation for one night.
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