{"id":318172,"date":"2025-10-20T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/318172\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:03:10","slug":"pan-mac-and-the-black-british-book-festival-launch-community-led-publishing-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/318172\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan Mac and the Black British Book Festival launch community-led publishing collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pan Macmillan has launched a new community-led publishing collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/black-british-book-festival-born-from-frustration-and-vision-enters-fifth-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black British Book Festival<\/a>\u00a0(BBBF). The collaboration will build on insights from the BBBF\u2019s community of 10,000 engaged readers and\u00a0&#8220;invite the BBBF community to influence and shape the books acquired and published&#8221;. The collaboration, announced at this year\u2019s Festival on Sunday 19th October, will &#8220;explore a new community-led publishing model with a clearly defined audience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of following the traditional imprint model, the collaboration means titles will be published within the most appropriate imprint across Pan Macmillan, with the first books appearing in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Pan Macmillan has been the headline sponsor of the BBBF for four years and, in 2023, BBBF and Pan Macmillan launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/the-black-british-book-festival-partners-with-pan-macmillan-for-mentoring-initiative-writers-on-the-rise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writers on the Rise<\/a> \u2013 a programme for aspiring Black British authors, which connects writers with editors, providing one-to-one mentorship and industry guidance.<\/p>\n<p>Selina Brown, founder of the BBBF, said: \u201cWhen I started the Black British Book Festival in 2021, it was about creating a platform where Black British writers could be seen, celebrated and supported. Four years on, to be collaborating with Pan Macmillan, one of the UK\u2019s biggest publishers, on a new community-led publishing model is a full-circle moment and a powerful step forward. This collaboration is about reimagining how publishing can work: putting community, access and authenticity at the heart of decision-making. Together, we\u2019re building a model that doesn\u2019t just publish books for the community but with the community, creating space for new voices, new audiences and new possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continues\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pan Macmillan has launched a new community-led publishing collaboration with the Black British Book Festival\u00a0(BBBF). The collaboration will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":318173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-318172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115405691617864978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}