Feb 19: #DiverseCanLit Chat: Becoming a Canadian publishing professional

Date: Wednesday, Feb 19, 2014

Time: 8pm ET

Topic: Becoming a Canadian publishing professional

Use the #DiverseCanLit tag to follow along on Twitter (or TweetChat). Last week we talked about poetry and how it can be more inclusive. This week we’ll talk about the path to becoming a Canadian publishing professional and the obstacles that keep the industry from being more diverse. Below are a few of the questions we may discuss:

• What are the pathways to becoming a publishing professional?
• Are there obstacles on those pathways that hinder people from marginalized groups?
• What can organizations in the publishing industry do to counter these obstacles?
• What can current publishing professionals do to help

Getting Ready

• Read the highlights from last week’s chat.
• Follow the #DiverseCanLit list on Twitter. Feel free to tweet me (@leonicka) if you want to be added!
• Subscribe to Leonicka.com in the sidebar to get the schedules, recap posts, and digests of relevant resources.