The Exeter Entrepreneur: The Literary Platform

Anna Kiernan is an author, Director of the MA Creativity: Innovation & Business Strategy programme at the University of Exeter and publisher at digital publishing agency, The Literary Platform. Anna built upon her background at trade publishers Simon & Schuster and Andre Deutsch and her experience at Arts Council England to take over The Literary Platform in 2019.

The Literary Platform delivers publishing initiatives to champion underrepresented writers and bring together the rich mix of voices, practices and spaces that make up the contemporary publishing industry.

The platform has been recognised in the prestigious Fortune 50 Index of the UK’s fastest-growing femaleled small businesses (2015); it was listed as one of the ‘most innovative and influential’ businesses in the creative industries by the Guardian in the h.Club100 list; and the founders were acknowledged in the British Council Top Ten list of Creative Economy Entrepreneurs (2013).