1 March 2021 | March 2021
Write like a human Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming more prevalent and ‘human’, emphasising the need for students to learn how to break the rules of formulaic writing in this new landscape. In an article published by The Conversation, ‘To succeed...
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 | Editors Qld, March 2021
Committee report Hi all I don’t know about you but I’m currently wondering how we’re already two months into 2021. Remember when 2020 seemed like it was going to be a future of hoverboards and flying cars? And instead it gave us a plague. Ripped off! But here we are...