Society of Editors NSW - News and events

Next meeting: Tues, Feb 7th

Rick Feneley - A day in the life of a newspaper editor

Bio
Rick Feneley is the Editor of The Sun-Herald, Fairfax’s Sydney Sunday paper. He was previously senior writer and columnist on The Sydney Morning Herald and was the Herald’s long-term night editor and Sunday editor.

Feneley has been with Fairfax for 13 years after a career that began almost 30 years ago as a copy boy with News Ltd.

A day in the life of a newspaper editor
In the rapidly changing media landscape, the job of a newspaper editor has undergone many changes. From his vantage point at the helm of one of Sydney’s leading newspapers, Rick Feneley will discuss what’s involved in the role today and what the changes mean for the future of the leisurely read of the weekend newspaper.

Location: City Tattersalls Club, 198 Pitt Street, Sydney, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or <membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 3 February 2012.

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Join us for The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc.
2011 Christmas Party!

Sydney Flying Squadron
76 McDougall Street, Milsons Point (5 mins walk from Milsons Point station)
www. sydneyflyingsquadron.com.au

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
6.30 pm for 7.00 pm
Partners and non-members are welcome

$30 includes main, dessert, tea/coffee with soft drinks
$38 includes main, dessert, tea/coffee with wine
All bookings are subsidised by contribution from Society of Editors (NSW) Inc.

RSVP Monday, 28 November 2010. Booking is essential. Later bookings cannot be
guaranteed as booking will be finalised with venue. (Click link for booking form)

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Next meeting: Tues, Nov 1st

Agata Mrva-Montoya - Should editors embrace social media?

Bio
Agata Mrva-Montoya aka @agatamontoya has worked at Sydney University Press since 2008 in a role combining editing and project management. She has been trying to balance social media engagement with regular work since 2009.

Should editors embrace social media?
Is social media a complete ‘waste of time and brain space’ or a useful new tool? With no entry barriers, short of enthusiasm and basic computer knowledge, and cost chiefly limited to time, jumping on the social media bandwagon is easy. But is it worth the effort? Agata will talk about the pitfalls and opportunities created by Twitter and other social media platforms, and their impact on editors’ work and life.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or <membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 28 October 2011.

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IPEd Notes

News from the Institute of Professional Editors Limited
www.iped-editors.org
July–August 2011

The IPEd Council met twice during the period covered by these notes, both meetings by teleconference. Two major surveys, and preparations for the 2011 national conference and IPEd’s AGM, were finalised. Summary details of these and other major activities follow at this link.

Bio
Jenny Lewis began her writing career in 1987 in her hometown of Melbourne, on the very successful sketch series The Comedy Company. Soon after, Jenny took up a position as a writer and storyliner with the hit Aussie soap, Neighbours, which soon led to a story editing position. She returned to freelance work in 1993, and since then has worked as a writer, story editor or script editor on a variety of productions, including All Saints, Stingers, Something in the Air, Bananas in Pyjamas, Wakkaville, Neighbours, Blue Heelers, Full Frontal, Jimeon, Home and Away and Packed to the Rafters. She has recently written newspaper articles on the lack of good role models in Australian drama, and was interviewed on radio on the subject. She currently lives in Sydney where she combines a career as a freelance writer with private investigating.

TV script editing
Jenny will be discussing how the role of script editing for series and serial television has changed over the years. In the past, writers had to earn a script-editing position and were trained not to fix anything that wasn’t broke. Script editors would mentor new writers – some of our best in the business today were taught by them. In contrast, many script editors today have never written so they’re unsure how to direct writers, instead putting their energies into the much easier re-writing rather than editing.
We’ll also be exploring how the script-editing role differs in the UK and the USA. In the States, there’s virtually no such thing as script editors in TV. In the UK, a script editor is more like a writer’s assistant and their role is about making sure writer and production team are on the same page.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or <membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 30 September 2011.

SURVEY: How do editors and proofreaders use social media tools in the context of their work?

The aim of this survey is to gain a better understanding of how editors and proofreaders use social media tools in the context of their work. Editors and proofreaders include publishing professionals carrying out structural editing, copyediting or proofreading on any type of publication (books, textbooks, scholarly journals, government and corporate publications, websites, etc.) as a significant part of their everyday role.
This questionnaire will form the basis of a paper to be presented at the 5th National Editors Conference “New Horizons for Editing and Publishing” in September 2011 in Sydney, Australia.

Please take a few minutes to answer the questions below. Note that the information you provide will be kept CONFIDENTIAL and will be reported only in aggregate. Please provide your name and an email address if you would like to receive the results of the survey and agree to be contacted with follow-up questions. If you have any questions, please contact Agata Mrva-Montoya at Sydney University Press.

Bio
Christopher Warren is the Federal Secretary of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, the union of people who inform and entertain Australia and New Zealand. He is responsible for coordinating the industrial and professional campaigns of the organisation on issues to build a strong and independent media and entertainment sector. A journalist, Chris is also CEO of the Walkley Foundation for Excellence in Journalism and a long-time trustee of the $3 billion Media Super. He is immediate past president of the International Federation of Journalists.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or <membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 29 July 2011.

Winter Dinner
William Blue Dining
William Blue College of Hospitality Management
Northpoint, 171 Pacific Hwy, North Sydney
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m.
Partners and non-members are welcome
$30 per person with soft drinks/$40 with wines
Three-course menu of modern Australian cuisine, in a private dining room. Cost includes a choice from three entrees, three mains and three desserts followed by tea or coffee.

RSVP Tuesday 21 June.
Booking is essential.
You can pay on the night if you have
registered.
Later bookings cannot be guaranteed as spaces are limited.
CLICK HERE FOR BOOKING FORM

Guest Speaker: Debra Adelaide

Dr Debra Adelaide is an author and teacher of creative writing. She has worked as a researcher, editor, proofreader, book reviewer and lecturer, and has written over ten books ranging from research works to contemporary fiction. Her doctoral thesis was on Australian women writers, and this led to several publications. She has published three novels, the latest of which is The Household Guide to Dying (Picador 2008) which has been published worldwide. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Creative Practices at the University of Technology, Sydney.

As a professional reader and writer Debra Adelaide has experienced almost all aspects of the writing and publishing process. She will discuss her career as a creative writer and her experiences as an editor, focusing on the author-editor relationship.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Through the generous support of the CAL Cultural Fund, four CAL National Editors Conference Bursaries are being provided so that emerging editors from all parts of Australia may have the chance to attend the National Editors Conference and workshop programs in Sydney.

Lynn Lewis has worked as an editor and writer for magazines and books in the UK and Australia, including Sotheby's Publishing, Tate Gallery Publications, Vogue Entertaining Guide and Gourmet Traveller. She also has extensive experience commissioning and managing illustrated reference books on a number of topics, for companies such as Weldon Owen and Reader’s Digest. She is currently Backlist Publisher at Murdoch Books, specialising in cookery and lifestyle titles.

Creating cookbooks for a highly competitive marketplace presents an editor with many challenges. Tailoring a product to a price point and an end customer is a demanding task and there are many ways to approach it and disciplines to observe. Lynn Lewis will share her experience with authored and generic titles, with cookbooks for different channels (such as supermarkets and direct sales) and repackaging cookbooks for the Australian and overseas market.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or <membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 29 April 2011.

Two books, three disparate protagonists. Yet when examined together, the lives and deeds of photographer Frank Hurley and architect Walter Griffin and his wife and design partner Marion Mahony expose much about a fledgling Australian nation and its view of itself.

Biographer, painter, photographer and sometime architect, Alasdair McGregor puts his subjects under the microscope, but warns that the contemporary biographer should not illuminate such children of a different time by the glare of 21st century celebrity.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or <membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 1 April 2011.

May meeting: Food publishing and editing with Lynn Lewis, Murdoch Books; Tuesday, 3 May 2011.

With the National Conference coming up this year, the Committee has been hard at work making a few other changes. One of these changes has included developing a brand new logo for the Society:

We're also busy behind the scenes, redeveloping and updating the website to a new system. This logo will be part of the new look for the updated site.

No charge-food and drinks provided
Come along to discuss the 2010 Annual Report and to elect the 2011 committee (Click the following links to download your nomination or proxy forms.)

All are welcome but only financial professional members may vote or stand for office at the AGM. If you have not renewed your membership yet, you can do so at the meeting (please bring your renewal form with you). You can also join on the night if you wish.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or <membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 25th February 2011.

This is the first call for papers for ‘New Horizons for Editing and Publishing’, the National Editors main conference, 8–9 September 2011.

• papers are for 25–30 minute sessions
• closing date for submitting abstracts is 10 February 2011
• the conference committee will notify applicants as to whether their proposal has been accepted on 24 February 2011
• full accepted papers due 7 August 2011.
• papers will be considered for inclusion in the conference proceedings, which will be published electronically.

‘New Horizons for Editing and Publishing’ is a broad, flexible theme that encompasses trends, innovations and new markets across all genres of editing, and includes both traditional and electronic publishing.
Three streams will cover different areas of publishing: trade (fiction and nonfiction); academic, education and technical; government and corporate.
The conference will celebrate the art of editing and the profession of editor. We especially encourage senior in-house editors to submit papers for the conference.

2010 Christmas Party
The Red Snail
Cnr Kings Cross Road and Ward Avenue, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
www.redsnail.com.au
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
6.30 pm for 7.00 pm
Partners and non-members are welcome
$30 per person for three courses

Sydney Writers’ Festival artistic director Chip Rolley talks about the challenges and surprises he has experienced at the helm of a festival with some 300 events and over 400 participants. As Sydney Writers’ Festival 2011 looms large, Chip will outline his hopes and themes for the upcoming festival in May.

Chip is an editor, literary project manager and writer who has worked in Australia, the US and China. Conversant with current literary, social, cultural and political issues, he has an eclectic background in marketing, advertising and literary events management. He is also an activist for freedom of expression, particularly through his recent involvement with both the International and Sydney PEN organisations.

In his writing, Chip has covered a wide range of subjects from politics to poetry, food to fashion. He has a particular focus on literature and Chinese politics and culture. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Griffith Review, Vogue and Rolling Stone.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or the email address
<membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 28 January 2011.

The near-death of the literary editor

There is a lot of panic these days about the collapse of newspapers, the closure of book review pages, the falling quality of book reviews, and the irrelevance of print in the electronic age. Should we be worried? Susan Wyndham talks about what exactly a literary editor does, the challenges of the job, how books get reviewed, and why it still matters to the book industry.

Susan Wyndham has been literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald since 2008, and did an earlier stint in the job from 1996 to 1999. She has a BA (Hons English Literature) and started her career in journalism as a cadet with the Herald in 1981. Since then she has also been a news reporter, feature writer, editor of Good Weekend magazine, New York correspondent for The Australian and a deputy editor of the Herald. In 2008 Picador published her first book, Life in His Hands, about the Sydney neurosurgeon Charlie Teo and his patient Aaron McMillan, a young concert pianist. She has edited and contributed to other books, reviewed books, judged book awards and reads books in every spare moment.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or the email address
<membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 29th October 2010.

December meeting: Christmas dinner at The Red Snail, Darlinghurst; Tuesday, 7 December 2010.

Newly appointed executive director of the Australian Society of Authors Angelo Loukakis will speak on the ASA’s current activities and new directions, including a research project on manuscript assessment services. As Angelo is involved in the federal government’s Book Industry Strategy Group, he will also give us some early insights into what that group hopes to achieve. An editor as well as authors’ advocate, Angelo will offer his thoughts on editing in an e-book world and the e-book royalty issue.

Angelo Loukakis has worked as a writer, teacher, scriptwriter, editor and publisher. He is the author of the fiction titles For the Patriarch (a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award winner), Vernacular Dreams, Messenger, and The Memory of Tides. He has also written a number of non-fiction works, including a book of the SBS television series Who Do You Think You Are? (Pan Macmillan 2008). His latest novel, Houdini’s Flight, was released in June 2010 (HarperCollins Publishers).

Angelo has taught writing, publishing and editing subjects at the University of Technology, Sydney and the Australian Catholic University, Strathfield. He is a past member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and chair of the NSW Writers’ Centre.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or the email address
<membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 30 July 2010.

November meeting: Sydney Morning Herald’s literary editor and author Susan Wyndham; Tuesday, 2 November 2010.

Redact is a residential weekend training intensive for experienced editors hosted by the Society of Editors Victoria. This year it will be held at the Mercure Hotel in Geelong on the weekend of 16–17 October.

If you are considering some professional development in 2010, think about Redact. You will join a small group of experienced editors for in-depth training in a specialist stream of your choice. Plenary sessions and meal breaks will present opportunities to hear about participants' experiences in the other groups, as well as provide the setting for socialising and networking.
Trainers for this event are:

Mandy Brett is a senior editor with Text Publishing, working on both fiction and trade non-fiction titles. Previously she was editor and publisher at IAD Books, an Aboriginal publishing house in Alice Springs, handling trade titles as well as education, reference and dictionaries. Mandy has also worked as a freelance editor, as a production editor on a small magazine and as a computer programmer at Penguin Books. Mandy is guest lecturer in fiction editing for the RMIT Grad Dip in Editing & Publishing.

Tim Coronel has been involved in the book industry since 1989. He has worked in a variety of book retailing positions in chain, independent and specialist stores. Tim joined the staff of Thorpe-Bowker in 2002 and was assistant editor of Bookseller + Publisher magazine and the Weekly Book Newsletter from 2003 until 2005; he then became editor of both magazines. He was appointed publisher at Thorpe-Bowker in 2008. Tim is also involved with the University of Melbourne Book Industry Study.

Tamsin Wagner is Digital Publishing Coordinator for Melbourne-based independent publisher Scribe Publications. Tamsin has been with Scribe since 2005, previously working there as an editor and as rights and contracts manager. From 1998 to 2002, Tamsin worked as a linguist in the Kimberley region of Western Australia where she helped to develop interactive learning materials for several Indigenous languages. She has also worked as a bookseller for Bookery in Melbourne and Ariel in Sydney.

Janet Salisbury has been the director of the science information consulting company Biotext since 1990. Over the past 20 years, Janet has researched, written or edited proceedings and reports for numerous government departments and agencies, non-government organisations and academic institutions. For many major projects, Janet has been involved with every aspect of document production—from rigorously assessing scientific evidence, to conducting research and literature review and public forums and workshops as well as writing, editing and production management of the final document.

Bookings for Redact are now open.
Early-bird registration—a saving of $100—close on 13 August.
Go to www.socedvic.org/training/redact.html to register now.

Course summaries and the current weekend timetable are available on the Society’s website and detailed curriculum outlines will be available soon.

redact, v. To put (matter) into proper literary form; to work up, arrange, or edit.

Elizabeth Weiss from Allen & Unwin recently declared that 2010 will be the year for e-books in the Australian market. At our next meeting Elizabeth will outline her digital publishing journey with Allen & Unwin. She will explain some of the issues related to digital publishing, including producing regular and ‘enhanced’ e-books, dealing with vendors, rights and royalties, and what this all means for editors.

Elizabeth Weiss is Academic and Digital Publishing Director at Allen & Unwin. In 1994 a friend showed her the early web browser Mosaic and she has been captivated by the potential of the web for publishing ever since (that’s when she’s not waking up at night in a cold sweat). Allen & Unwin is considered one of the leaders in digital publishing in Australia.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or the email address
<membership@editorsnsw.com> by Friday, 30 July 2010.

September meeting: Beatrice Davis Fellowship winner Alexandra Nahlous on working in New York; Tuesday, 7 September 2010.

Winter Dinner

William Blue Dining

William Blue College of Hospitality Management
Northpoint, 171 Pacific Highway, North Sydney

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m.
Partners and non-members are welcome

$40 per person with wines/$30 with soft drinks
Three-course menu of modern Australian cuisine, in a private dining room. Cost includes a choice from three entrees, four mains and three desserts followed by tea or coffee.

You can pay on the night if you have registered. Later bookings cannot be guaranteed as spaces are limited.

The trade book publishing industry has changed a lot during the past 50 years, but in many ways it remains the same. Having spent almost 50 years in the industry, publishing consultant Richard Smart is in a great position to give an overview of Australian publishing.

In an interactive session (he welcomes as many questions as you can muster), Richard will talk about his career and offer observations on developments in the trade books’ scene. As he has made the transition from editor to publisher, via just about every department in between, Richard will discuss the role of an editor in a 21st century organisation.

Richard Smart was a director of The Australian Publishers Association (APA) from 2002–2010 and convenor of the APA’s independent publishers’ committee. He now acts as a publishing consultant to the Association. During his career he has worked for several major companies in Australia and overseas (Ure Smith, Angus and Robertson, Collins, Macmillan, ABC Books and CHOICE Books.) He now runs his own publishing and consulting business, Richard Smart Publishing. Richard was a member of the APA’s training committee for ten years and of Publish Australia’s inaugural committee. In 2007 he was on the Australia Council’s assessment panel for their Literature International Market Development program.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

Speculative Fiction Editing and Publishing

Speculative fiction is one of the biggest selling genres in Australian book publishing. Two author-editor-publishers from the speculative fiction world will describe the kinds of work it encompasses. Alan Baxter works in the realms of dark fantasy, science fiction and horror. Bill Congreve’s books encompasses horror, with a specialisation in ghost and vampire stories. Between them they are familiar with all the different demands on author, editor and publisher.

Alan Baxter is a fiction writer and editor who also set up his own press, www.blade-red.com/books, to produce speculative fiction works. He will have some useful tips on using the latest technologies to print, distribute and sell books, including ebooks and print-on-demand.

Bill Congreve is a technical writer, fiction writer, editor and reviewer, and an independent publisher. His company, MirrorDanse Publishers, produces Speculative Fiction anthologies, so he will have some valuable insights into editing an anthology.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

The Society of Editors (NSW) is now able to offer full members a discount rate on professional indemnity and public liability insurance.

Next meeting: Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Cover story

Lisa Anne from Firekracker will outline the principles behind cover design. Drawing on her experience of designing covers for books, magazines, brochures, CDs and DVDs she will discuss adapting designs for multiple formats and will also provide tips for commissioning cover designs, including costs and what to include in a design brief.

Lisa Anne began her career in the design and visual arts industry as a Junior Art Director/Designer. In 2005, she set up Firekracker, offering practical experience and contemporary design know-how to clients. Her design work has featured in advertising campaigns, books and magazines and she has also published photographic works and essays.

From 2005 to 2007, Lisa Anne was an educator in the private and public sector. She has lectured and tutored at the Australian Centre for Photography, College of Fine Arts UNSW, Dynamic Web Training and TAFE Meadowbank in areas of Imaging, Photomedia and Vector Design.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $10 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

March meeting: Society of Editors (NSW) Annual General Meeting
will be held on Tuesday, 2 March 2010—FREE to all members.

Come along to discuss the 2009 Annual Report and to elect the 2010 committee. All are welcome but only financial ordinary or professional members may vote at the AGM.
If you have not renewed your membership yet, you can do so at the meeting (please bring your renewal form with you). You can also join on the night if you wish.

Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street
6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m.
Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Please RSVP to (02) 9294 4999 (voicemail) or to editorbruce@optusnet.com.au by Friday, 26 February 2010.

April meeting: Designing covers with Lisa Anne from Firekracker;
Tuesday, 6 April 2010.

IPEd exam, 12 September 2009

IPEd will hold the second accreditation exam for Australian editors on Saturday 12 September 2009 in the afternoon.The exam will be held simultaneously in Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth.

It will last three and a half hours, including a 30 minute reading and preparation period. Registrations for the exam have closed.

The exam coordinator will send all candidates details of the exam.

The NSW exam location is:
University of Central Queensland
Room 5.04
Level 5, 400 Kent St
Sydney

The IPEd website has a sample 2009 exam and answer guide.

As a writer and sub-editor with some 30 years of experience Maureen Shelley, co-author of Eat Happy, has found that writing a book—as opposed to articles and reports—is a demanding task. Having that work edited by someone else proved more confronting.

For an author, self-publishing is a roller coaster journey, one that Maureen and co-author Rosemarie Robertson have been travelling this year. Marketing a book is another completely separate job that the self-published author needs to undertake.

Maureen will speak about her experiences in selling words. She will also speak about her experiences as a writer and sub-editor for a major metropolitan daily newspaper, as a book reviewer for a major metropolitan newspaper and as a book censor.

Maureen Shelley has worked for News Limited for the past nine years as a senior journalist, mainly with The Daily Telegraph. As a features sub-editor she edits the work of state, national and international writers. She also writes weekly on real estate, history, education, family, the arts and books.

Her first published work was The Report on the Community Consultations with People with Disability on the Proposed Disability Discrimination Act, known as The Shelley Report (1992). As chair of Australia’s censorship appeal body for seven years, Maureen has had to ban books.

Her new book, Eat Happy, taglined as recipes for life, is for people with depression and for their families. It gives recipes and measures for people to feel energised, stay calm and in control.

Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Cost: $15 for members and students; $20 for non-members and those who do not RSVP; $7 for holders of a current concession card or student card. Non-members who book and do not attend must still pay.

October meeting: The Society of Editors (NSW) and The Galley Club of Sydney joint meeting on Production and Editing; Tuesday 6 October.

2009 IPEd National Editors Conference: Getting the message across
8-10 October 2009 Adelaide

The Society of Editors (SA) is proud to announce that the 4th IPEd National Editors Conference will be held in Adelaide on 8-10 October 2009. The conference will take place at the Adelaide Festival Centre on the banks of the River Torrens, with associated events taking place in and around the city centre. So get ready to listen, discuss, learn, edit, eat, drink… and join the Society of Editors (SA) in Adelaide in 2009!

Information about the conference will be posted here as it becomes available. The program (still being updated) is also now available. For more information please contact Susan Rintoul.

Anniversary Dinner
The Society of Editors (NSW) 30th Anniversary Dinner was held at the Italian Village Restaurant in Circular Quay on Tuesday 7 July 2009. Special guest speaker Jeremy Fisher took us on a trip down memory lane, remembering those editors who made a difference to the profession over the years. Prizes were handed out for the best 1970s inspired outfits and a truly impressive meal was enjoyed by all who braved Sydney's soggy winter weather.

A few people managed to take some photos on the night; we'd love it if you could send them to us so we can put them online! Please email them to web@editorsnsw.com and thanks to everyone for making it a special evening!