AMANDA BETTS is a senior editor with Knopf Canada at Penguin Random House Canada. She has edited and contributed to a wide variety of non-fiction titles in the areas of memoir, the natural world, psychology, history, and science, and seeks out literary fiction with speculative elements and stories that transport readers to another time or place. She’s proud to be the Canadian editor of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell and The Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter. Upcoming books that she’s excited to publish include the non-fiction work Generation Dread: How to Find Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis by Britt Wray and the memoir The Tenth Nerve: A Brain Surgeon’s Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him by Dr. Chris Honey.
Program
Agent and Publisher Panel, Saturday, September 18, 2021
Pitch Sessions, Saturday, September 25, 2021