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Humanities Beyond Academia: Publishing and Entrepreneurship
Join us for an inspiring Publishing and Entrepreneurship event with Alice Curry, founder and CEO of Lantana Publishing, an award-winning independent press championing diversity and inclusion in children’s literature.
Named after lantana camara, ‘a flowering plant in the Verbena family with many-coloured petals on a single stem’, used as an allegory for children of all colours reading happily on one earth, Lantana’s mission is to promote diversity and inclusion in children’s literature. The award-winning publishing house gives authors and illustrators of colour a platform to publish, and gives children of diverse backgrounds ‘a chance to see themselves in the books they read’. Since launching in 2014, Lantana has published 28 titles, many of which have earned their own awards. In 2017, Curry was awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize for women of promise in publishing, and in 2018, Lantana was selected for the Oxford Foundry’s L.E.V8 accelerator for high-potential ventures.
Curry earned a BA in English Language and Literature from St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, in 2005, and went on to earn an MA and PhD in Children’s Literature from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where she also worked as a lecturer.
Date:
24 February 2026, 17:30
Venue:
Oxford Edge, 37 St Giles, Oxford
Speaker:
Alice Curry (Lantana Publishing)
Organising department:
Christ Church
Organiser contact email address:
sylvia.alvares-correa@chch.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Oxford Edge Events
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
