Exhibit and Advertise at NeMLA

Deadline to register: February 5, 2021
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• Connect with over 2000 professors, graduate students, and independent scholars in language and literature from across the Northeast US and Eastern Canada
• Largest of the regional MLAs with over 2500 members
• Promote your authors! Suggest your authors as potential special events speakers for NeMLA's upcoming conventions
• Work with the Exhibits Coordinator and a Graduate Fellow, who will curate lists of convention pansl that will be of special interest to your press
• Returning exhibitors and advertisers receive a 10% discount
• The Exhibits Room is the heart of NeMLA, the setting for all coffee and snack breaks, as well as the Job Clinic, Undergraduate Research Forum, and Exhibitor-sponsored workshops
• Exhibits are open every day of the convention
  
• #NeMLAsouvenir photo contest encourages our members to buy books and promote them on our social media
  

Even at a virtual NeMLA, the exhibits hall will remain the central part of our convention. All exhibitors will be featured on our new platform’s Exhibitor Hub that will:

• Boost your visibility with a custom profile including a video and link to your website and in-app giveaways  (set up promotional offers in the form of custom mobile coupons, raffles, and giveaways)
• Promote your booths with ready-made social media images that are stylishly branded with each exhibitor’s information
• Connect you with presenters in your field by having your logo appear in-app on sessions that overlap your areas of publication. NeMLA staff will work with you to identify relevant sessions.
• Increase booth traffic with fun event or passport contests (attendees receive a digital stamp from each participating booth they visit and those who collect every stamp are entered into a prize draw)
• Manage leads more easily by adding booth staff to the app to help capture even more leads
• Get a higher ROI without spending more money

In addition to featuring on convention platform, this package entitles exhibitors the opportunity to:

• Propose and organize a workshop on publishing, pedagogy, or to promote one of your authors. These will be advertised in our Winter Newsletter.
• Send one e-mail advertisement to the membership in advance of the convention
• One advertisement on each of NeMLA’s social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)
• Listing in our convention program and on NeMLA’s Website
• Participate in NeMLA’s new elevator pitch initiative via Zoom

Package includes all of the above plus:

• three e-mail advertisements to the membership (instead of 1)
•  two advertisements on each of NeMLA’s social media (Twitter, Facebook Instagram)
• half page ad in our convention program

Intellect Books

LectureSource

Lexington Books

Michigan State University Press

Modern Language Association

Do you have an author with a forthcoming book or a new service to promote? Exhibitors have the opportunity to offer a workshop at the NeMLA convention. Space is limited, and exhibitors who sign up after November may be asked to share a workshop.

• "Shakespearean Cultures: Latin America," featuring João Cezar de Castro Rocha, organized by Michigan State University Press
• "Intellect's Publishing Bootcamp – Academic Presses: Tips and Strategies," organized by Intellect Books
• "Supporting Your Class and You: Making Materials Compatible and Marketable with OER," organized by LectureSource, Inc
• "Pitch to Publication: A Roundtable with Convention Exhibitors," organized by Clemson University Press and featuring exhibitors from additional presses

• "Don't Take Grants for Granted: How to Pitch Research and Apply for Funding," organized by the Joint National Committee for Languages
• "Introduction to Literature: Teaching a First-year Course," organized by Universitas Press
• "Skip the Textbook! Open Resource Texts and Readings," organized by LectureSource
• "The Foreign Language Enrollment Solution Room: From Data to Aspiration," organized by the Modern Language Association

Members will have the opportunity to sign up ahead of the convention to pitch their book proposal to exhibitors and receive feedback. Exhibitors will be able to choose the pitches they want to hear, offer feedback, and acquire new projects.

The Northeast Modern Language Association arranges with The Scholar’s Choice to manage the combined book exhibit for our annual conference. Publishers who are unable to attend but wish to have a few titles exhibited can contact The Scholar's Choice. Individual members who wish to have their recently published books on display should have their publishers contact The Scholar's Choice as well.

Mary Lynn Howe, Exhibits Manager
The Scholar’s Choice
6300 West Port Bay Road, Suite 101
Wolcott, NY  14590
(315) 905-4208
mlh@scholarschoice.com