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The day before Magazine Street!
Please book your tickets separately for our Masterclasses and Pre-Party on 16 September

GSA Caseroom Tour

Our Caseroom Tour is separate to Magazine Street – find out more and book your ticketshere

Masterclasses

Our Masterclasses are separate to Magazine Street – find out more and book your ticketshere

Pre-Party

Our Pre-Party is separate to Magazine Street – please book your ticketshere


Welcome to Magazine Street!

Join 100 independent magazine people for an epic day of talks, workshops, chat and inspiration

09.00-09.25

Coffee and registration

09.30-09.40

Welcome
From Nikki Simpson and our host Eloise Leeson-Smith

09.40-10.05

Kevin Whitchurch – Pitch
A game plan to launch – looking for an opportunity

10.10-10.20

Darren Sital-Singh – Three Little Birds
Investment is petrol, not an engine

10.25-10.50

Choose from
Main Stage
Laura Hurst – Paper Arcade
Creatively raised by wolves: a manifesto for doing it your way

or Breakout Room
John Byrne – Writers’ Bloc
How to tell if AI is eating your archive

10.50-11.15

Coffee break

11.20-11.45

Mila Moisio – Tauko
Community is the new circulation

11.50-12.15

Choose from
Main Stage
Rachel Arthur – boom saloon
On 444&2, in conversation with Peter Houston

or Breakout Room
Natalie Smith – Warners Circulation
From features to feelings: how emotion-led subscription offers drive magazine growth

12.20-12.45

Choose from
Main Stage
Mark Millar and Vaughan Statham – Blue Balls
More than a scroll: why the Blue Ballers’ stories needed a magazine

or Breakout Room
Darren Sital-Singh – Three Little Birds
Build the engine first – stress-test your commercial model and find the money that fits

12.50-13.50

Lunch

13.50-13.55

Welcome back

14.00-14.25

Choose from
Main Stage
Peter Allen – Magneto
How indie magazines reignited my creative career

or Breakout Room
Helen Coston – Inktop Commercial
Build your advertising sales strategy in 70 minutes
(please note, Helen’s workshop runs from 14.00-15.10)

14.30-14.40

Maddy Bays – It’s Alright Pet Press
Reframing place: how independent publishing can change the stories we tell about place

(Runs concurrently with Helen Coston’s sales strategy workshop)

14.45-15.10

Amer Safir – Review of Religions
The fear of getting it wrong (and how we got it right)

(Runs concurrently with Helen Coston’s sales strategy workshop)

15.15-15.40

Choose from
Main Stage
Nilly von Baibus – Lonely Hearts Club
Connecting strangers through the power of print

or Breakout Room
Eiman Munro – Fractal Spectrum
Funding your community magazine through partnerships, grants and art

15.40-15.55

Comfort break

16.00-16.25

Choose from
Main Stage
Sadaff Rangrez – Friday
Unstrategic strategies

or Breakout Room
Mark Alker – Singletrack
Could you give it to AI?

16.30-16.55

Max Meighen – Serviette
Eat your words: creative lessons for magazines from the restaurant business

17.00-18.30

Drinks Reception
Kindly sponsored by Acorn Web Offset

We can’t wait to welcome you to Sloans in Glasgow

Sloans started life as a coffee house back in 1797. Fast forward more than 200 years and it’s now a Glasgow institution, famous for their fantastic events, beautiful courtyard & gorgeous Grand Ballroom!

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