1 December 2020 | December 2020
Joint presentation outlines fiction editing by Paul Anderson Catherine Hill and Nicola O’Shea delivered a joint presentation on editing fiction at the Editors NSW monthly meeting on 3 November 2020. Big picture Nicola begins working on the manuscript before it is...
1 December 2020 | December 2020
Numbers survey seeks responses IPEd members are invited to participate in a new Biotext–Macquarie Australian style survey. The survey, Feedback 37, focuses on style choices used for spaces and numbers. Responses will be used to monitor changes among language...
1 December 2020 | December 2020
WA publishing spotlight: Magabala Books by Kiara Cramer Magabala Books, in Broome, Western Australia, is an independently owned Indigenous corporation. Magabala, Australia’s most rural publishing house, sets itself apart with its cultural projects and not-for-profit...
1 December 2020 | December 2020
Linguistic change intensifies by Karina Smith This year has been dominated by pandemic-associated words. Politicians’ updates are littered with examples like ‘lockdown’ and ‘flattening the curve’. Journalists outdo one another with ‘uncertain times’, ‘unprecedented’...
1 December 2020 | December 2020
Editing on the edges goes online As was announced in November, Editing on the edges will be delivered entirely online between 28 and 30 June 2021. The conference committee’s next challenge is to work out exactly what that will mean. Fortunately, we’re far from the...
