Ready to get your work published? What should you do next?

Dr Nicola Streeten shares knowledge, experience and gossip from the UK graphic novel publishing industry to reflect on the whys, whats and hows of the graphic novel publishing journey. She will offer practical tips around aspects including agents, approaching publishers, self-publishing, post-publication and making without publication. She will evaluate the pros and cons of each of these areas and the different approaches you may take. With time for Q and A this guarantees to be of value to graphic novelists at whatever stage.

Dr Nicola Streeten Biography
UK-based multi-award-winning graphic novelist and comics scholar. Her graphic memoir Billy, Me & You (Myriad Editions, 2011) was followed by The Inking Woman (Myriad Editions, 2018) a 250-year illustrated history of British women’s cartoonists. This was complemented by theoretical publication UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics: A Critical Survey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). She is currently working on Yield, her second graphic novel based on the origin story of radical American alternative community Black Mountain College (1933-1957) told through her familial eyes as great niece of founding member, John Evarts.

Nicola is founding director of LDComics – a women creator-led forum welcoming all, championing graphic novel works, particularly by women. In 2022-2023 She received a British Council International Collaboration award to deliver REVEAL! Women’s Comics East Africa-UK with a Kenyan partner, storying gender and climate change.

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