Careers in Publishing

Finn Brown (they/ them) is the Events Manager at Writers & Artists and works in the comms team at Bloomsbury Publishing. They are also a Founder, Editor and Designer at queer arts and literary collective t’ART Press, which publishes arts and literary magazines, anthologies and collections, and prior to this they have worked on publicity for indie publisher Indie Novella.

They are also a writer themselves, and their work has been published in journals and anthologies including Queer Life, Queer Love 2 (an anthology by Muswell Press), Booth Journal, Annie Journal, Meniscus Journal, The Bombay Review and Snowflake Magazine. They have been commissioned by the London Writers Centre, shortlisted for the Creative Future 2024 Writers’ Award and commended for the Moth Short Story Prize 2025.

James Rennoldson has a degree in Journalism and English Literature from the University of Central Lancashire and an MA in Novel Writing from Brunel University. He is the author of the Writers’ & Artists’ Guide To How to Hook An Agent, a Q&A guide based on over 180 questions regularly posed by aspiring authors at W&A events. James is W&A Product Owner, and has overseen the development of writersandartists.co.uk, as well as W&A events and editing services, since 2014.

Jonathan Eyers has been an editor for over 15 years and has commissioned several dozen non-fiction books for Bloomsbury. In a freelance capacity he has worked on books published by HarperCollins, Bonnier, Audible, Boldwood and others, from debut children’s novels to bestselling thrillers. He is also the author or co-author of six books of fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, his first children’s novel having been published in 2014, and his first adult novel due to be published in 2026.

Alice Murphy-Pyle is a BMS-award winning marketer and publicist. She worked at Simon & Schuster UK and Penguin Random House before moving back to Manchester to join HarperNorth, where she has delivered campaigns for authors including Sunday Times top ten bestsellers Stuart Maconie, James Timpson and Sophie McCartney. She has mentored for Children’s Books North and the Northern Fiction Alliance, and is part of HarperCollins’ social mobility network. In 2024 she co-founded Love Stories Etc romance festival in Manchester, which returns this summer at Manchester Central Library and was highly commended by the Publishers Publicity Circle.

Alexandra joined Bloomsbury in 1999 and was Editor-in-Chief for 20 years. Her list of Nobel, Booker, Women’s Prize-winning and bestselling authors includes Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Madeline Miller, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Kamila Shamsie, Ahdaf Soueif and Patti Smith. She is on the Advisory Board of the Bradford Literature Festival, a Patron of Index on Censorship, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan Festival. She is writing a memoir, Caravan, to be published in the UK and US in 2027.