Conference planning continues, despite the pandemic. It is possible that we will need to move to a fully virtual conference, but we remain hopeful that we will be able to run an in-person conference. In that event, we expect to offer some degree of remote access, either in real time or in the form of […]
My name is Jax Jacki Brown and I’m the Publishability Project Officer at Writers Victoria. Publishability is a ground-breaking, two-year initiative funded by the Victorian Government’s Talent Matters Program through Creative Victoria. There are three key elements to the Publishability program: 1) we work with four writers with disability (two each year) to help them […]
I’ve always felt like an outsider. As a shy introvert who grew up living with social anxiety, I’ve always struggled to feel comfortable interacting with other people. At school, I’d never put my hand up to answer a question for fear of getting it wrong in front of my peers. That fear of judgement and […]
Editing social media content in many ways sits at one of the edges of editing. Not only do you need the traditional skills and aptitudes of a good editor, you often also need to develop additional skills from neighbouring professions. As someone who now spends a fair amount of my work time on writing and […]
Quick quiz question: what’s the object in the image above? Correct! It’s a pica ruler, used for measuring type size and leading. Along with a set of red, blue and green pens, this was the only piece of equipment I was given when I started working for a small independent book publisher in the UK […]
If you’re a professional editor – either freelance or an employee – you probably already benefit from networking and sharing information with other editors, online. For more information about online networking, read The benefits of networking online with other editors. But meeting other professionals in your industry face to face can give you additional benefits […]
At the Brisbane conference in 2017, Dr. Sandra Phillips and Grace Lucas-Pennington gave a presentation on the importance of having Indigenous editors working on Indigenous content. I didn’t attend that particular presentation, but heard and read a variety of responses, including Hella Ibrahim’s blog post We need diverse editors. When the Tasmanian branch committee started […]
