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BRN Bookselling Conference 2026: Spaces of Bookselling
We welcome proposals that engage with all forms of the bookselling space—physical, virtual, historical, social, communal, commercial, and imagined—and encourage transcultural, transnational, and intersectional perspectives.
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September
2026
How Queer Bookshops Changed the World
With A. J. West, author of How Queer Bookshops Changed the World (Oneworld, 2026). A.J.West is a Sunday Times bestselling, multi-award-winning historical fiction novelist and historian. Prior to publication he […]
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November
2026
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- BRN26 Conference Schedule
9 Dydd Mercher / Wednesday 14.30: Registration (coffee, tea, water) 15.00: Welcome 15:15: Keynote 1 – Tim Smith & Polly Atkins of Sam Read Bookseller, Grasmere 16.15: Panel 1 – The Printing House as Bookshop: Printer-Bookseller Firms Across Eras 17.15 Reception 18:00: Pizza and a Bookstore Movie 10 Dydd Iau / Thursday 09:15 Panel 2… Read more: BRN26 Conference Schedule - BRN26: Travelling to Bangor in the UKFlying to the UK The most convenient airports from which to reach Bangor are Manchester Airport and Liverpool Airport. Manchester is slightly easier as the train to Bangor departs directly from the Airport. Arriving at Liverpool, you will need to take a shuttle to the train station in the city. See below for details. You… Read more: BRN26: Travelling to Bangor in the UK
- BRN26: Local Info About BangorWhere to stay, places to eat, and things to do while at Bangor.
- BRN26: RegistrationUse this guide to help plan your trip to Bangor. Click to download this guide Click to download this trip guide Come back to this page for more updates on the BRN 2026 Bookselling Conference!
- BRN Bookselling Conference 2026: Spaces of Bookselling“For such a space entails the unexpected. The specifically spatial within time-space is produced by that—sometimes happenstance, sometimes not—arrangement-in-relation-to-each-other that results from the multiplicity of trajectories. In spatial configurations, otherwise unconnected narratives may be brought into contact, or previously connected ones may be wrenched apart. There is always an element of ‘chaos.’ This is the chance of space.”
