Learn More webinar: Creative Access & Booksellers Association – Building a career in bookselling

Closing date for signing up: Tuesday 20th May 2025 at 5pm

Event date: Wednesday 21st May 2025

Event time: 5pm - 6pm via Zoom

Are you interested in building a career in or around bookselling? Or keen to hear more from booksellers from across the UK? If so, our upcoming Booksellers Association webinar is perfect for you.

Join us for an exclusive webinar arranged by the Booksellers Association – the membership organisation for all booksellers in the UK & Ireland, representing over 95% of bookshops – to learn more about careers in bookselling, and hear from the President of the Booksellers Association as well as managers and owners of bookshops across the UK.

This will also be an excellent opportunity to learn more about our upcoming Creative Access & Booksellers Association mentoring programme, due to open for applications w/c 12/05/25. Please note the mentoring opportunity is a Positive Action Scheme open to individuals from groups that are under-represented in the creative industries. The session will conclude with an audience Q&A to the Chair and panel speakers.

Meet our speakers:

• Panel chair: Fleur Sinclair, Owner-manager of Sevenoaks Bookshop & current president of the Booksellers Association
• Amanda Truman, Owner-manager of Truman Books, Leeds
• Emily Adsett, Manager of Haslemere Bookshop, Surrey
• Helen Tamblyn-Saville, Owner-manager of Wonderland Bookshop, Retford, Nottinghamshire

To sign up for the Learn More session, please:

• Log in to your Creative Access account or  register today 
• Click the apply button to book your place on the session
• If you have questions prior to submitting an application please submit these via the registration form.

This event is aimed at individuals from groups that are under-represented in the creative industries. This includes, but is not limited to, individuals who identify as Black, Asian, or from other ethnically diverse backgrounds, or people of any ethnicity who belong to the following under-represented groups: disabled people, people with the characteristic of gender reassignment, individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, carers and asylum seekers.