September 2024
Vol. 5 No. 8 | ISSN: 2652-5836
Congratulations to the 60 IPEd members who sat the accreditation exam at locations across Australia, New Zealand and Japan last month. We wish you all the best with your results!
This month we’re continuing the editing for accessibility conversation with a great article from Julie Ganner AE on the value of inclusive language. You may have noticed a greater focus on editing for accessibility in Gatherings recently and we’re pleased to share that there’s lots more to come on this very important and necessary topic. Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing some great advice and tips drawing on the information and research in IPEd’s groundbreaking guide, Books without barriers: a practical guide to inclusive publishing.
In other news, nominations are open for the 2025 Janet Mackenzie Medal. The Rosie Award is also open for nominations. We encourage editors to celebrate their commitment and dedication to their craft and nominate themselves for these fantastic awards.
Also this month, we have a fantastic wrap up of the biennial Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) International Conference, news from the Special Interest Group on Academic Editing, plus events reports, a new crossword, some great resources and opportunities, and updates from our New Zealand, NSW and Victorian branches.
A reminder that IPEd will be at the Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne, as part of the National Writers Conference, on Sunday 8 September. Volunteers from the Editors Victoria branch will be there, promoting IPEd and the valuable work of editors. If you’ll be at the conference, please come say hello!
Happy reading!
News on the 2025 IPEd Conference
We’re excited to be returning to an in-person confernece in 2025, the first since 2019!
The Conference Committee is hard at work finalising plans and will have more to share soon, including details on dates, the program and volunteer opportunities.
However, right around the corner is the announcement of the call for papers, which will be with you in the coming days. The theme of the 2025 conference is “Editors as Changemakers” and we’re excited to see what conversations, panels and workshops this theme and the conference streams encourage.
- The art of indexing: Delving beyond main headings, subheadings and locators
- Date: Thursday 12 September 2024
- Editors South Australia Annual Branch Meeting
- Date: Sunday 15 September 2024
- Editors Victoria eastern suburbs editors networking lunch
- Date: Wednesday 18 September 2024
- Accessibility in action: editing for equal access and inclusion
- Date: Thursday 19 September 2024
- Business planning for freelance editors
- Date: Tuesday 1 October 2024
- Editors Queensland Sunshine Coast Group
- Date: Wednesday 9 October 2024
- Accessibility in action: creating useful image descriptions
- Date: Thursday 17 October 2024
- Developing your freelance editing business plan
- Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024
Don’t miss out on these forthcoming workshops. Bookings will open closer to the event, but pop the dates in your diary today!
- Grammar Refresher (3-part workshop), with Linda Nix
Date: 9, 16, 23 October 2024 - Macros for Mac (2-part workshop), with Paul Beverley and Jennifer Yankopolus
Date: 7, 21 November 2024 - True Tracks – Indigenous Copyright and IP for editors, with Terry Janke & Co
Date: 26 November 2024 - Macros for PC (2-part workshop), with Paul Beverley and Jennifer Yankopolus
Date: 27 November, 4 December 2024 - Intro to Indexing, with Sherrey Quinn
Date: 11 December 2024
Over the coming months, Gatherings will run a series of articles based on the information and research in Books without barriers. The aim is to help all editors become familiar with the main issues we may encounter during our daily professional practice. Eventually, editing for accessibility should become as natural as spotting typos. This month, Julie Ganner AE discusses inclusive language
“Language has the power to include or exclude, depending on how it is used. It is our job to make sure the language in our publications is neither hurtful nor physically prevents readers with disability from participating in the reading experience.”
Nominations for the 2025 Janet Mackenzie Medal (the Mackenzie) are now open. The Mackenzie is IPEd’s most prestigious award. It recognises the outstanding achievements and contributions of a current or past IPEd professional member to the editing profession.
Catch up on all the latest news from IPEd’s Special Interest Group on Academic Editing. This month, updates include outreach to universities, tips for working with students and marketing.
On Sunday 7 July, the editing community lost a friend and supporter, who died following a brief illness at the age of 94. Allan Watson had been a member of the Society of Editors WA (SOEWA) since shortly after its inception in the 1990s. He had edited for institutions such as the WA Art Gallery, and had worked as a freelancer.
At the start of August, New Zealand publishers big and small converged on cool and grey Auckland for two days of discussing the newest publishing trends, asking the big questions about everything from accessibility to AI, reconnecting with colleagues and forging new connections – in short, the biennial Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) International Conference.
So you want my arts job: Legal Editor
ArtsHub’s recent “So you want my arts job” column features legal editor, Erin O’Dwyer who edits the The Law Handbook.
Each year, O’Dwyer looks at new developments in our legal framework, and seeks to refresh The Law Handbook to address current discussions, such as migration and topics around the LGBQTIA+ community.
Read more on the Arts Hub website.
Upcoming Aotearoa New Zealand writers festivals
- New Zealand Young Writers Fest (Dunedin): 13 to 15 September
- Queenstown Writers Festival: 1 to 3 November
- Not quite a festival, but the NZSA Regional Roadshow (Dunedin): 7 September
Best books?
In July, the New York Times released their list of the best books of the 21st century. In response, or perhaps to complement that list, The Conversation’s Books & Ideas team asked 50 Australian literary experts to each their favourite Australian books of this century. How many have you read?
There’s a New Zealand’s best books list coming soon!
Read the list on The Conversation.
