9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
By Michèle Drouart Could just 500 words do justice to the person in whose honour the Institute of Professional Editors’ most prestigious award, the Janet Mackenzie Medal, has been named? Hardly, but this brief sketch below should offer some sense of the remarkable...
9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
From the Accreditation Board At 1 pm on 12 August 2024, the accreditation exam took off with a hushed hurrah across much of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. A total of 58 candidates sat the exam, with Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne hosting the highest numbers and...
9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
By Susan Pierotti AE I was sitting in an Editors Victoria committee meeting a number of years ago when a cry of desperation was heard: “We need a Victorian rep on the Accreditation Board.” I’d passed the exam a few years beforehand and thought it might be an...
9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
From Editors Victoria On Sunday 8 September 2024, IPEd was at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, which ran from 5 to 15 September at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. Volunteers from Editors Victoria were on hand to promote IPEd and the important role editors play. It...
9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
By Carolyn Page AE This engaging presentation by editor Kate O’Donnell and author Jessica Dettmann was a superb lesson in editing that is “done with” rather than “done to”. Jessica and Kate originally worked as in-house editors for the same publisher but, finding...
9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
With a packed itinerary of discussion panels and workshops plus an array of bookish merchandise sure to make any book lover happy, Book Fair Australia is a literary festival that celebrates stories of all genres. From Saturday 2 November to Sunday 3 November, authors,...
