From the Standing Committee for Awards and Prizes
The 2025 IPEd Student Prize has now opened for entries. Entries close on Monday 11 November 2024, with the winner to be announced in early 2025.
The IPEd Student Prize acknowledges excellent work by a student of editing. The prize is open to any tertiary-level student enrolled in an editing or publishing course at a New Zealand or Australian tertiary institution, including students who finish their studies at the end of the first semester. Entry is open for work completed as part of the student’s course that demonstrates editing skills or reflects issues relevant to the editing profession.
The winner receives A$500, an IPEd membership, a dictionary of the winner’s choice from a list provided (either a one-year subscription or a printed copy), a style guide or manual (either a one-year subscription or a printed copy) or book of the winner’s choice from IPEd’s selected offerings, and a copy of The editor’s companion by Janet Mackenzie.
The 2024 Student Prize was awarded to Despina Cook, a student in the Graduate Certificate in Writing, Editing and Publishing program at the University of Queensland, for a structural edit report of “The Blue Poppy Sea”, a literary thriller. The report, and other winning entries from the past few years, are available on the IPEd website.
The annual IPEd Student Prize is judged by a panel of professional IPEd members, coordinated by the Standing Committee on Awards and Prizes. The committee will call for expressions of interest from potential judges in early October.
More information is available on the IPEd website.