REGISTER AT THE GRAD CENTER  Graduate Students have priority

Special 1 hour lunch and learn

Demystifying Book Proposals & Publishing Workshop

This workshop will introduce steps and considerations for publishing a book -- from transforming your dissertation to writing a proposal, approaching editors as an early career scholar, and what actually happens between submitting your manuscript and publishing it with a university press. The workshop will focus primarily on conventional publishing while also introducing considerations for open access and born-digital publications. 

The workshop will be led by Jenny Tan, Acquisitions Editor at Penn Press, and Cosette Bruhns Alonso, Contemporary Publishing Fellow with Penn Libraries and Penn Press.

Support for Publishing Workshops Spring 2024
This workshop is part of a series hosted by the Libraries in collaboration with the Grad Center at Penn. Each workshop focuses on an element of the research or publishing process. From February through April, take part in in-person and online workshops covering citation management, impact metrics, promoting your work, selecting the right publishing venue, fair use, and more.  See the full suite of workshops to support you as you make progress toward your publishing goals. Check back to keep track of new workshops being added.

The Lunch and Learn series at the Grad Center features resources and tips that will help you successfully navigate your academic experiences at Penn. Campus partners share best practices to benefit all graduate and professional students. Light lunch will be provided for in-person attendees so please register in advance so we can get an accurate headcount. If you registered for the in-person session, please show up on time! These sessions are quick so no admittance after 12:25 pm. And please pay attention to your registration choice.

You may also want to review our Services for Authors guide.

Location: Meyerson Conference Room, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 2nd floor