What’s new

Posted 5 May 2008

7 May Meeting

Pam Koger, graphic designer, PowerPoint wizard and trainer extraordinaire at Queensland University of Technology will be our guest speaker at our meeting on 7 May. See the Meetings page for more details.

Posted 26 April 2008

Adam Lindsay Gordon Poetry Competition

The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee Inc. was formed in 2006 by a group of dedicated enthusiasts. The aims of the committee are to:

• Raise the profile of Adam Lindsay Gordon as Australia's national poet (competition time!).
• Facilitate events around Australia on the anniversary of Adam Lindsay Gordon's death ('Froth and Bubble Day' anyone?).
• Collate material on Adam Lindsay Gordon's life and works and make it available to researchers and admirers alike.
• Undertake projects to perpetuate the memory of Adam Lindsay Gordon (there's a grave site appeal underway).
• Do all such other things as are conducive or incidental to the attainment of the above purposes or any of them.

Poetry submissions close on 24 May 2008. For details go to www.adamlindsaygordon.org.

Prizes will be awarded in Federation Square, Melbourne on Saturday afternoon 14th June 2008 between 2pm and 4pm. Present will be author Professor Michael Wilding, University of Sydney, and Editor/publisher Lorraine Day of Adelaide in conjunction with the Fellowship of Australian Writers, World Poetry and Federation Square. Presenting the poetry prizes will be Susan Pender, NSW and Allan Childs from Dingley Dell S.A and Lorraine Day.

Posted 13 April 2008

Copy editing and proofreading course

The Society’s next professional development event will be a copy editing and proofreading course by Helena Bond on Saturday 17 May. Go to our Training page for full details.

Posted 8 March 2008

CredAbility 7

The latest accreditation update — CredAbility 7 — is now available from the IPEd page.

Posted 31 January 2008

Twenty-twenty vision: Looking forward, looking back
SfEP Conference: 8–9 September 2008, St Catherine’s College, Oxford

You can now register for this year’s Society for Editors and Proofreaders (UK) conference.

Celebrating 20 years of the SfEP, They’ll be looking forward as well as looking back over the two decades the Society has been in existence. The conference will review some of these changes and help delegates to look forward to an exciting and stimulating future in publishing. The conference programme will be a mix of workshops, seminars, plenary sessions and panel discussions—and of course networking and socialising with other delegates.

Speakers at Oxford will include Charlotte Brewer, fellow of Hertford College and lecturer in English, Oxford University, and author of Treasure-House of the Language: The Living OED (Yale University Press, 2007). Also speaking will be our charismatic honorary vice-president David Crystal.

For more details, including how to register, visit the SfEP website.