4 December 2024 | December 2024, Newsletters
Judging of the Roly Sussex Short Story Competition – affectionately now known as the Rolys – is coming to a close. The competition, one of the flagships of the English-Speaking Union (Queensland Branch), attracted a record number of entries – 73 in the Open Division...
6 November 2024 | Gatherings, November 2024
November 2024Vol. 5 No. 10 | ISSN: 2652-5836 Welcome to the penultimate issue of Gatherings for 2024. While we may be heading towards the end of the year, traditionally a time of slowing down and reflection, there’s still plenty happening and lots of news and...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
Whenever we survey members about their professional development needs, two topics will reliably be high on their list. Copyright is one, as a rapidly changing and specialist field that editors nonetheless need good working knowledge of. Working with First Nations...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
By Julie Ganner AE A frustration I often hear voiced by people with low or no vision is about the lack of image descriptions (alt text) in many digital publications. An image description tells the user what an image is of. Without it, someone using a screen reader...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
By Sylvia Bauer, Editors ANZ Back this July by popular demand after speaking in 2021, Pania Tahau-Hodges hosted her second workshop on editing te reo Māori in English-language texts. This topic affects all editors in Aotearoa New Zealand, so it’s no wonder...