24th APRIL, 6:30pm – 7:30pm:

Jack Fogg, DunnFogg

Jack Fogg and Ben Dunn have over 50 years of combined experience in publishing, working their way up from editorial assistants to publishers and managing directors of their own lists at major publishing houses. They have worked with many bestselling authors who have won and been shortlisted for literary awards across fiction and non-fiction. They formed their own agency in 2021, having worked together for nearly two decades.

Jack started his publishing career at Bloomsbury in 2004, and went on to work at 4th Estate, Hodder, Century and Harper Fiction and Harper Non-Fiction over a seventeen-year career as an editor and publisher.

In 2018 he was nominated as editor of the year at the British Book Awards and in 2019 he set up the multiple award-winning Mudlark imprint at HarperCollins, which concentrates on quality non-fiction of all varieties.

Jack would love to find books with a speculative edge, which introduce an element of the unknown into real-world settings, or throw forward into imaginable versions of our future. In non-fiction, his tastes are broad, and he reads widely in the areas of memoir, current affairs, politics, biography, sport, history, psychology, pop science, food and nature writing.

As a publisher and agent, Jack has worked on books by investigative journalists, chefs, war veterans and reporters, carpenters, composers, comedians, heart surgeons, rock stars, car designers, neuroscientists, submariners, shoemakers and street artists, and the great lesson he took from his time working with them is that any subject, person, field, niche or subculture can be made interesting by powerful storytelling, passion and knowledge. He is always on the lookout for people who want to marry their love and expertise of a subject with great writing.

Join Jacq and our featured guest Agent where they will chat about what you need to know about writing and publishing.

Jacq Burns was commissioning editor at Random House & Editorial Director at Harper Collins where she edited classics such as Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus, Who Moved My Cheese, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Toddler Taming - which have sold millions of copies.

She is the author of Write a Bestseller, published by Hodder, and a bestselling series of successful books for Random House, under a pseudonym. Jacq has also ghostwritten a number of well-known titles and co-founded The London Writers Club. She is also a literary agent for authors.

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