Newsletter
It’s a funny old word, newsletter not really a letter at all (all of those columns and boxes breaking up the free-flowing paras ...), but the informal bulletin, as one circulating among people with a common interest’ part of the definition is, perhaps, the part we should focus on. Maybe we need to come up with a portmanteau word to get the best bit of newsmonger into the circulating informal bulletin’ vibe section of the former, although only the spreader of news by ... written means’ would apply from the latter, obviously, not the gossip bit!
Offpress is the newsletter of the Society of Editors (Queensland) Inc. It is published electronically and distributed to members via email every second month or so; a cheeky short form called Offshoot will pop up in members’ in boxes in the alternate months.
If you’d like to submit something for publication in Offpress or Offshoot an article, a short essay, a letter to the editor (a.k.a everybody who reads it), a relevant image (you know what that means, both re content and file size for web friendliness’), a book review or something else that you think might be of interest to the readership at large, please send an email to offpress[at]editorsqld[dot]com. The deadline for submissions is the Wednesday after each monthly general meeting.
Come on: contribute!
Download an issue of Offpress or Offshoot
We keep some archived copies of Offpress and Offshoot here so you can catch up on any that you missed.
Potted history of Offpress
2007 |
2008 |
| November | November |
| October | September |
| September | August |
| July | July |
| June | June |
| May | May |
| April | April |
| March | |
| February |
Thirteen years’ worth of newsletters in three volumes (beautifully bound by the Queensland Bookbinders’ Guild) were unveiled at the September 2004 meeting of the Society. A ‘potted history’ of Offpress was presented to take members through the early years (from idea to reality: by Jan Whelan, inaugural president) and through a roll of honour of the newsletter editors (by Kim Manning, the then speaker secretary). Paul Bennett, the longest serving position holder, reminisced about his tenure with some anecdotes.
There were three flyers of snippets (one for each volume) produced in conjunction with the presentation:
– Flyer 1
– Flyer 2
– Flyer 3.