“Getting Your Book Published” Virtual Roundtable Being Held on February 7, 2025
The Central New York Humanities Corridor, in partnership with Syracuse University Humanities Center, Syracuse University Office of Research and Syracuse University Libraries, will be hosting a virtual roundtable titled “Getting Your Book Published” on February 7, 2025 from 10 am to 12 pm. The panelists, consisting of university press editors, will demystify the publishing process by discussing questions they most often hear from authors and answering audience questions. Register for the event online.
The roundtable will be moderated by Heather Stauffer, Editor-in-Chief, Syracuse University Press. She acquires for the Irish Studies, Indigenous Studies, Jewish Studies and TV/Pop Culture lists, among others. Having completed MA degrees in History and English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she worked at the University of Nebraska Press for over a decade before joining Syracuse in the spring of 2024.
The panelists for the roundtable are:
- Rebecca Colesworthy, Senior Acquisitions Editor, SUNY Press. Colesworthy acquires in gender and queer studies, education and Latin American studies, among other fields. She writes a publishing advice column for the Chronicle of Higher Education, published a book in 2018 with Oxford UP, and holds a PhD in English from Cornell.
- Laura Fish, Acquisitions Editor, Syracuse University Press. Fish acquires scholarly, nonfiction and fiction book projects related to Middle East studies, Geography and New York State studies. She received her PhD in Middle Eastern Literatures and Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on Iranian cinema. Previously, she worked in acquisitions, marketing and rights and permissions at the University of Texas Press and in marketing at the University of Washington Press.
- Sonia Kane, Editorial Director, University of Rochester Press. Kane has a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center, with a specialization in the works of eighteenth-century British women writers.
- Meagan Levinson, Editorial Director, Three Hills Imprint of Cornell University Press, the regional trade imprint. Levinson is on the lookout for engaging stories, both fiction and non-fiction, which deepen our understanding of and appreciation for New York state and the greater Northeast. Before joining Cornell UP, she held editorial positions at Princeton University Press, Penguin Random House and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
A resource list will be provided to registrants.
About Syracuse University Press:
Syracuse University Press, part of Syracuse University Libraries, was established in 1943 and has published groundbreaking works such as Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Ernst Bacon’s Words on Music, Jay Dolmage’s Disability Rhetoric, Siao-Yu’s Mao Tse-tung and I Were Beggars, and Barry Chevannes’s Rastafari: Roots and Ideology.
In its eighth decade of academic publishing, SU Press continues to be committed to serving New York State—as well as the region, nation, and globe—by publishing vital scholarship, sharing ideas, and giving voice to important stories that may not have otherwise been told.