September 2023
Vol. 4 No. 8 | ISSN: 2652-5836
Welcome to the September issue of Gatherings. In this issue we have news of prizes and awards, the 2023 accreditation renewal wrap-up as well as updates from our branches across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.
We’re also thrilled to announce the IPEd membership drive! We have some great prizes on offer for students, and other new and renewing members.
A reminder that the date for the next accreditation exam is 12 August 2024. We’ll have more to share with you over the coming months about the exam including advice and resources to help you prepare.
Are you following IPEd on our social accounts? Find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And don’t forget to tag us when sharing your events or news. We’re always keen to see what our members are up to and excited to share your successes!
Upcoming events and workshops
EdSA: Writing without sight: in conversation with Nicola Catalano on Wednesday 6 September 2023
EdWA: Annual Branch Meeting on Thursday 7 September 2023
EdWA: September sundowner with industry partners on Thursday 14 September 2023
EdNSW: No, they can’t take that away from me: editing in a time of change on Tuesday, 3 October 2023
EdsQ: The benefits of networking for editors, with Kirsty Ogden on Wednesday 4 October 2023
IPEd news and updates
Inaugural IPEd membership drive
We are thrilled to announce our inaugural membership drive!
The IPEd membership drive includes special offers and prizes for students, and for other new and renewing members.
The IPEd Student Prize open for entries
The 2024 IPEd Student Prize will open for entries on 11 September. The IPEd Student Prize acknowledges excellent work by a student of editing.
2023 accreditation renewal wrap-up
This year’s accreditation renewal round is now closed, and by the time you read this, the 95 AEs who submitted applications will know the outcome.
Now is your chance to nominate a great editor for the Mackenzie
The Janet Mackenzie Medal (the Mackenzie) is IPEd’s most prestigious award.
Update on Special Interest Groups
At the 11th IPEd Editors Conference in May 2023, several IPEd Special Interest Groups (SIGs) were formed.
Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Conference
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) Conference will be held on 19 to 21 October 2023. ANZSI has updated the conference topics and announced keynote speakers. IPEd members are offered the same rates as ANZSI Members as part of our Affiliation Agreement.
Event and workshop reports
Event report: Who said there’s no AI in editing?
Donna McGeorge recently spoke at the Editors SA annual branch meeting about how ChatGPT can be used to support editors in their work (not steal their jobs), and we sat down with her for a rapid-fire interview.
Event report: In conversation with best-selling author Garth Nix
Garth Nix was in conversation with Kai Jensen, the EdNSW Presentations Coordinator, in a special curtain-raiser event preceding the EdNSW Annual Branch Meeting on 1 August 2023.
Workshop report: “An Introduction to Ebook Editing” with Sarah JH Fletcher
In late August, the experienced editor Sarah JH Fletcher delivered the interactive workshop “An introduction to ebook editing”, held over two engaging sessions.
Event report: Two to tango – literary speed dating with Editors WA
On Friday 25 August, four Editors WA members and four budding writers entered the front room at the Centre for Stories somewhat tentatively and nervously.
Cryptic crossword no 20
By Mark Taylor.
News from our affiliates and friends
The ninth edition of the Macquarie Dictionary will be released on 12 September 2023 almost exactly 42 years after the first edition.
The new edition comes in two-volumes and features hundreds of new words and updated definitions from words which we share with the rest of the English-speaking world as well as words unique to Australian English, such as cozzie, shonky, snot-block, and servo.
IPEd members receive a discount for online subscriptions to Macquarie Dictionary and Thesaurus Online. Enter the relevant promo code, found in the member-only portal, onMacquarie’s subscription page.
This online seminar from Writers Victoria is specially designed to help members of arts and other similar organisations understand how they can be more involved in the organisations they choose to support. For more information and to register, please visit Writers Victoria’s website.
Events
EdSA: Writing without sight: in conversation with Nicola Catalano
Date: Wednesday 6 September 2023
Time: 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm ACST (Adelaide)
Location: Online via Zoom
Bookings
Bookings Close: 5.00 pm ACST, Tuesday 5 September 2023
EdWA: Annual Branch Meeting
Date: Thursday 7 September 2023
Time: 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm AWST (Perth)
Location: Online via Zoom
Bookings
Bookings Close: 6.00 pm AWST, Thursday 7 September 2023
EdWA: September sundowner with industry partners
Date: Thursday 14 September 2023
Time: 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm AWST (Perth)
Location: City of Perth Library Auditorium, 573 Hay Street, Perth
Bookings
Bookings Close: 5.00 pm AWST, Tuesday 12 September 2023
Details: Editors WA invite you to a special sundowner with guests from across writing, academic, government and corporate sectors.This free event is designed to help raise awareness of the benefits and role of editors in assisting people in various environments with their communication and written projects. Members will have the opportunity to mingle with potential clients to learn more about their needs, while also being able to promote their own services to relevant industry partners. Light refreshments and canapes will be provided.
EdNSW: No, they can’t take that away from me: editing in a time of change
Date: Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Time: 6.45 pm for 7.00 pm AEDT (Note: Daylight saving commences 1 October 2023)
Location: Online via Zoom
Details: In her doctoral research on editing and publishing history, Alice Grundy is considering the current state of editing, how we got here and where we’re going. Editors today work amid the quickest technological and market changes. One of the modes of editorial labour she has identified in her research is the social barometer: an editor measures atmospheric conditions — social, political, economic — and communicates these to authors. In this presentation, Alice will outline her characterisation of this mode and describe how far we are from large-language-model AIs being capable of replicating this work.
Presenter: Alice Grundy has fifteen years’ experience in publishing, working in-house for Allen & Unwin, Murdoch, Giramondo and Brio, and working freelance for many others. She is completing a PhD on Australian editing and publishing history at the Australian National University (ANU). This research formed the basis of her monograph, Editing Fiction: Three case studies from postwar Australia, published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in 2022. She has taught editing and literature at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and ANU and written for the Sydney Review of Books, Overland and The Canberra Times.
Bookings
EdsQ: The benefits of networking for editors with Kirsty Ogden
Date: Wednesday 4 October 2023
Time: 6.45 pm to 8.00 pm AEST (Brisbane)
Location: Online via Zoom
Bookings
Bookings close: 5.00 pm AEST, Tuesday 3 October 2023