February 2021
Vol. 2 No. 1 | ISSN: 2652-5836
Feature Article
Conversations highlight author-editor relationships
IPEd and the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) have embarked on a project to highlight creative collaborations between authors and editors.
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IPEd News
Update from AIWP
Since our first meeting in October 2020, the members of the Accessibility Initiative Working Party (AIWP) have been scouring the internet for information that could be used to establish accessibility guidelines, standards, training and resources for editors.
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Benefits of getting involved in IPEd
IPEd achieves an enormous amount of work through its staff and volunteers. Apart from the board and Accreditation Board, we have seven branch committees, two programs, two working parties, five standing committees and a conference committee (see below for the full list), all of them made up of volunteers.
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CEO’s message
Dear members
Welcome back to work and 2021. We hope you enjoyed your break and have returned feeling refreshed and re-energised.
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WA President advocates for the profession
This issue of Gatherings profiles Western Australia branch President Jess Gately.
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Conference update
The conference program soon will be live on the website and registrations for very early birds will then open. The range and quality of proposals we received made it very difficult to decide which should be excluded.
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2020 accreditation exam update
The IPEd accreditation exam held on 5 December 2020 went smoothly, overall. A total of 99 candidates sat the exam, 94 in one of seven venues (Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Wellington) plus five remote candidates.
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AE renewal reminder
The Accreditation Board reminds those AEs who are due to renew their accreditation this year to start getting their information ready for application.
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Publisher joins forces with women’s community
Future Women and Hachette Australia have embarked on a two-year publishing and entertainment partnership.
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SMSG is now a standing committee
IPEd’s Style Manual Steering Group (SMSG) is set to take on an ongoing role as the Style Manual Standing Committee (SMSC).
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General Interest
Shady characters: the secret life of punctuation, symbols & other typographical marks by Keith Houston
In Shady characters, Keith Houston examines the relationship between language and typography, and illuminates how punctuation has become an important part of written expression.
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EdSA Christmas trivia
Last December, Editors SA made the reluctant decision (as did most of us) to eschew our usual in-person Christmas celebrations for a Zoom trivia night.
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Cryptic crossword No. 5
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Profile: SA member Tina Morganella
During polite conversation, I was asked the inevitable, ‘So, what do you do for a living?’. When I said I was a freelance copyeditor, this woman reeled back in horror.
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Why is the grammatical metaphor so important?
The grammatical metaphor is being praised as the unsung hero of academic writing.
Vinh To, Lecturer in English Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of Tasmania, details four reasons why the grammatical metaphor is valuable in academic writing in an article published by The Conversation.
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Events
EdANZ: Wellington Editors’ Catch-Up
Date: Tuesday 2 February, 11am
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EdNSW: The freelance editor’s toolkit
Date: Tuesday 2 February, 7pm
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EdsQ: What does a literary agent do?
Date: Wednesday 3 February, 6.45pm
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EdANZ: Academic Zoom Hui Summer 2021 Edition
Date: Tuesday 9 February, 7.30pm
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EdANZ: Zoom Hui Summer 2021 Edition – non-fiction, magazines and newspapers
Date: Thursday 11 February, 7.30pm
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EdANZ: Fiction and Poetry Hui
Date: Monday 15 February, 7.30pm
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EdANZ: Zoom Hui Summer 2021 Edition – business and government
Date: Tuesday 16 February, 7.30pm
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EdANZ: Grammar refresher with Linda Nix
Dates: 20 February, 27 February and 6 March
Times: 1pm to 3pm/3pm to 5pm
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EdVic: On editing and being edited in the enchanting world of children’s books
Date: Thursday 25 February, 6pm
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EdSA: Annual Writers Week breakfast
Date: Saturday 27 February, 8.30am
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EdNSW: The IPEd mentoring program
Date: Tuesday 2 March, 7pm
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EdSA: Book club
Date: Tuesday 30 March
Booking link to come.