5 June 2024 | Home Page, June 2024, Newsletters
From the Accreditation Board By the time you reach the exam venue, you will have put in many hours of preparation and practice to make you ready for the day. You may not have taken an exam for many years and your last one may have been in a vast university hall,...
5 June 2024 | Home Page, June 2024, Newsletters
by Paul Anderson In this in-conversation event, cultural critic, Autistic advocate and screenwriter Dr Clem Bastow (they/them) and Autistic editor Dr Louise Merrington AE (she/her) discussed editing the Autistic voice. The event was hosted by Editors NSW on 7 May...
5 June 2024 | Home Page, June 2024, Newsletters
By Kylie Howard, Editors Victoria events subcommittee On 21 May 2024, we had the pleasure of welcoming Eileen Camilleri, lawyer and CEO of the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), to speak at an Editors Victoria event on where to find answers to copyright questions in...
8 May 2024 | Home Page, May 2024, Newsletters
By Camilla Cripps Editors NSW welcomed Dr Kai Jensen AE to their 2024 professional development series on Tuesday 2 April. Kai shared his lived experiences of working with Australian universities, covering the sorts of editing work that universities, their staff and...
8 May 2024 | Home Page, May 2024, Newsletters
By Ted Briggs AE, Accreditation Board skills-based member When I ask people what they get from being accredited, one of the most common replies is “increased confidence”. That’s certainly one of the major benefits I felt when I became accredited in 2011. Taking the...
8 May 2024 | Home Page, May 2024, Newsletters
Dr Renée Otmar DE will be running a fiction editing masterclass for IPEd with a focus on historical fiction. Renée spoke with IPEd Chair Stephanie Holt AE about what draws her to historical fiction, how the genre is changing and what members can expect from the...