1 March 2021 | Editors Vic, March 2021
From the President The year is now well underway, and (despite a brief hiccup) Victoria is returning to more usual ways of doing things. I hope this newsletter finds members looking forward with renewed optimism to the year ahead. At our February branch committee...
1 March 2021 | March 2021
Peter Riches The freelance editor’s toolkit by Paul Anderson Peter Riches explained the main software apps and digital tools he uses to run his business, Red Pony Communications, at the Editors NSW speaker meeting on 2 February 2021. The content was platform-agnostic,...
1 March 2021 | March 2021
Jan Whelan Honorary Life Member profile series: Jan Whelan In this issue, Gatherings starts a series of profiles of honorary life members. Like most editors of my day, I fell into editing. I had wanted to be a journalist from a very young age. I loved the English...
1 March 2021 | March 2021
What does a literary agent do?’ presentation by Debbie Golvan The work of a literary agent isn’t just a day-long soiree from coffees with one publisher after another. In this presentation, literary agent Debbie Golvan gave us a ‘straight down the barrel of the gun’...
1 March 2021 | March 2021
Nominations closing soon for prestigious IPEd award Nominations for the 2021 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award (the Rosie) closing mid-March. The Rosie honours the memory of Rosanne Fitzgibbon DE (1947–2012), a distinguished editor of literary fiction, nonfiction and...