ALT Poster for the programme. Background description (applied to all images): background is a collage of manuscript and early printed books in different languages on the left, engravings of authors' portraits, such as Toni Morrison and janes austen on top left corner , old books and an old type writer on the bottom right corner, and an antique bust on bottom left corner. Top right corner are the engraved portraits of Shakespeare and Aphra Behn, further to the corner is written in large ESTS 2023. Day 1 - Thursday 13 April. Programme: Registration opens at 8am followed by opening remarks at 9.15. The first session opens at 9.30 with four concurrent panels (Names and Anonymity/Authorship, Manuscripts, and Biography/Authorship and Uncertainty/Born Digital). After a coffee break, Session 2 starts at 11am, with 4 concurrent panels too (Authorship in Early Medieval Europe (1)/Authorial Promotion/Publishing, Authorship, Identity/Principles and Procedures). Lunch from 12.15 to 1pm.

ALT Day 1 - Thursday 13 April. Session 3 starts at 1pm and runs until 2.30pm with 4 concurrent panels (Records and Memory/Rountable: 400 Years from the first folio/Early 20th Century Authorship/Authors and Interfaces). Two Group tours starting at 3.30pm and 4.30pm will run parallely at Canterbury Cathedral Library & Archives for a workshop/exhibit, and the other beng a canterbury literary walking tour leaving from chirst church gate at the cathedral. Wine reception at 6.30pm at the chapter house.

ALT Day 2 - Friday 14 April. Programme. UniKent Special Collections Exhibit at 9am in parallel with the ESTS board Meeting. Tea and coffee at 10am. The fourth session of the conference opens at 10.15am with two concurrent panels (Authorial wishes and editing/B Digital Scholarly Edition: challenges and new avenues). Followed directly by Session 5 starting at 11.15am, with 4 concurrent panels (Authorship and Posthumous Reputation/Establishing Canons/Authorship and Gendered Identity/Creative Ecologies). Lunch from 12.30 to 1.15pm.

ALT Day 2 - Friday 14 April. Programme. The sixth session of the conference opens at 1.15pm with four concurrent panels (Roundtable: What is Early Modern Dramatic Collaboration?/History and Myth/Digital Approaches and Attribution/Roundtable: Authorship and Practice-as-Research). Followed by a coffee break at 2.45pm. Session 7 starts at 3pm, with 4 concurrent panels (Annotations, interventions, and erasures/Plagiarism and Editorial Intervention/Visibility and Authorship ).