9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
By Peta Robson, Standing Committee for Awards and Prize Editors have the opportunity every two years to nominate or be nominated for the Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award (the Rosie). This award recognises editorial excellence in memory of editor Rosanne Fitzgibbon...
9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
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...
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...
