- 9:30
Doors and coffee
Refreshments served in the main hall.
- 10:00
Opening remarks ↗
Field Notes editorial team
A short welcome from the editorial team and a look at the weekend ahead.
- 10:30
Editing without a net
Lena Park
On running a regional quarterly with a staff of two and a thousand subscribers.
- 11:30
The economics of a 2,000-copy print run
Marcus Howell
Pricing, distribution, and what changes when you move from 500 to 2,000 to 5,000 copies.
- 12:30
Lunch
Lunch served on the mezzanine. Included with all passes.
- 14:00
Designing for the page, not the platform
Ines Vautrin
A talk on long-form layout decisions in a feed-driven world.
- 15:00
What a worker-owned printing co-op actually does
David Okafor
Inside the production realities of small-run offset and risograph work.
- 19:00
Reading and reception ↗
Open to all full-pass holders. Drinks on the mezzanine.
Schedule
Two days, one room, no parallel tracks.
Sessions run on a single track in the main hall. Workshops on Sunday morning are an optional add-on for workshop-pass holders.
Lunch is served on the mezzanine both days. The Saturday-evening reading is open to all full-pass holders and starts at 7:00pm.
Programme
- 9:30
Workshops begin
Workshop-pass holders only. Three concurrent sessions in the side rooms.
- 11:00
Editorial coffee
A second pot and a chance to keep yesterday's conversations going.
- 11:30
Reportage from a place that doesn't make news
Suzanne Reilly
On editing a journal of rural North America.
- 12:30
Lunch
Lunch served on the mezzanine. Included with all passes.
- 14:00
Translating fiction across formats
Hiroshi Tanaka
How a small Tokyo press moves between book, journal, and exhibition.
- 15:00
A panel on what comes next
All speakers, moderated discussion, audience questions.
- 16:30
Closing
Brief farewells from the editorial team. Doors stay open until five.