{"id":12072,"date":"2024-10-20T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2024-12-04T10:43:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:43:40","slug":"cfp-publishing-fantasy-for-younger-readers-a-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/2024\/10\/20\/cfp-publishing-fantasy-for-younger-readers-a-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP – Publishing Fantasy for Younger Readers: A Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Publishing Fantasy for Younger Readers: A Symposium<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Glasgow, Thursday 3<\/em><\/strong>rd<\/sup><\/em><\/strong> April 2025<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote Speaker: Frances Hardinge<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call for Papers:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fantasy literature for younger readers continues to be a booming arm of the book industry, both in the UK and internationally, with successful children\u2019s fantasy novels and series crossing into film and TV and morphing into multimodal franchises. But to what extent do the ways in which children\u2019s and YA fantasies are read and theorized by the academy chime with the ways these genres are commissioned, produced and marketed by the industry? How are trends set and critiqued, how do industry demands drive creativity, what are the roles of readers, and how is the process of book-producing represented fictionally?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This conference invites answers to all of these questions (and more!) by inviting contributions from academics, publishers, agents, editors, and authors. It explores the fruitful intersections between critical and theoretical knowledge, on the one hand, and practice-based, professional knowledge on the other, seeking to enrich our understanding of the imaginative materials that reach the hands of young readers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n