3 May 2022 | May 2022, Newsletters
On Tuesday 5 April, we held our second Fiction in translation book club in which we discussed Tayeb Salih’s Season of migration to the north. Translated to English from Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies in 1969, this book was selected in 2001 by a panel of Arab writers...
3 May 2022 | May 2022, Newsletters
BookTube is a niche community within YouTube that talks about books with content including book hauls, reading wrap-ups, to-be-read lists, vlogs and more. On Thursday 14 April, student member Kirstie Horton presented the results of her Masters research on BookTube and...
3 May 2022 | May 2022, Newsletters
On Thursday 31 March, editor and author Rebecca Freeman presented to IPEd members on Self-Publishing for Editors. The presentation was a great overview of how to work with self-publishing authors as well as providing some information on how editors can value-add with...
3 May 2022 | Editors Qld, May 2022, Newsletters
Brisbane summer picnic The picnic was a triumph of quality over quantity! One of the good things about it was that it didn’t rain. Low turnout seems to persist; I think we should persist too, to see if people will come out of the post-COVID-19 woodwork. ...
3 May 2022 | May 2022, Newsletters
Speaker Jacki Ferro started by discussing what is and isn’t a memoir and pointed out that a memoir is about both the outcome – the memories and learnings of a person – and the process – how the person shares their most intimate memories and experiences. A reader of a...
3 May 2022 | Editors WA, May 2022, Newsletters
Meet our new committee members Laurie Bradford – events Some background on your career path — what led you to editing? I was frequently on “proofreading duty” in high school, so when I started my studies at Curtin University I was intrigued by the editing...
