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...
9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
By Carolyn Page AE This engaging presentation by editor Kate O’Donnell and author Jessica Dettmann was a superb lesson in editing that is “done with” rather than “done to”. Jessica and Kate originally worked as in-house editors for the same publisher but, finding...
9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
With a packed itinerary of discussion panels and workshops plus an array of bookish merchandise sure to make any book lover happy, Book Fair Australia is a literary festival that celebrates stories of all genres. From Saturday 2 November to Sunday 3 November, authors,...
