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Editors Victoria is running a weekend course over 10-11 August in Hepburn Springs.
Redact is a residential weekend course offered by Editors Victoria over the weekend of 10, 11 August at the Bellinzona Grange in Hepburn Springs, central Victoria. This year the strands will be fiction editing, epublishing and project management.
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Australian Publishers Association (APA) professional development sessions include:
The Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow 2013/14 will be announced on Saturday 25 May at 1 pm at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Join the industry at the panel event ‘When a Book Travels’ chaired by Ben Ball of Penguin Books. Two...
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The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. will present a one-day professional development workshop on editing annual reports: a special approach with Arthur E Delbridge AM, FPRIA* on Wednesday 19 June.
In recent years annual reports have evolved from single print versions into multiple documents delivered in print, online and even in digital...
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The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced that there is only one week left to book tickets to the Book Design Awards and Australian Book Industry Awards.
Book Design Awards will be held on Thursday 23 May at the Powerhouse Museum. The awards night will feature jazz, cocktails and canapés. Ticket price:...
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Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group (SAMAG) will hold a seminar on The Future of Arts Publishing, Journalism and Criticism with guest speakers James Ley and Angela Bennetts.
This panel looks at the rapidly changing face of publishing, journalism and criticism in the arts world. How are people engaging with content now and what might the landscape...
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Australian Publishers Association (APA) professional development sessions include:
Editing on Screen: For the Keen, Green and In Between with Kevin O’Brien Thursday 9 May (afternoon) and morning of Friday 10 May in Sydney at Macleay College.
Four places available.
Monday 13...
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The LIANZA 2013 Conference Programme Committee welcomes abstract submissions for papers, lightning sessions, and workshops for the conference, themed 'Wai-Ora, Wai-Māori, Waikato', running from 20-23 October in Hamilton, New Zealand.
The conference theme reflects the association that the Waikato area of New Zealand has with its most significant landmark, the river. The ancestral river has always...
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Applications for the Australian Publishers Association’s (APA) Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship for 2013/14 are currently open, and will close on Friday 5 April 2013.
The biennial fellowship is open to Australia-based editors with ‘considerable experience of the editor’s role, working either in-house or freelance’.
The successful applicant will undertake a research project...
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The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc is holding an April meeting with barrister Richard Potter on legal issues for editors.
Richard Potter practised law in England for nine years before moving to Australia to work with Phillips Fox (now known as DLA Piper). In 1997 Richard acted for Random House in an action brought by Tony Abbott...
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Entries for the 2013 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) are now open. Nomations can be made on the website here. All entries must be submitted via the Awards website. Each person must make a new account to register nominations. All nominations must be in by Friday 22 March. All Payments must be made by Monday...
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Australian Publsihers Association (APA) professional development March and April workshops:
Introduction to Australian Book Publishing: creating a book
One week away, last chance to book!
This unique seminar is a must for anyone in the early stages of their publishing career...
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The Media Law Regional Forum in Bendigo is part of a series of professional development opportunities for regional media workers.
The forum is presented by the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance and the Latrobe University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Sessions include information and workshops on new media and the law, and...
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The National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) is asking for writers and artists to join the festival, which runs from 3-6 October 2013. NYWF presents writing in its broadest sense through panels, discussions, workshops, launches, performances, exhibitions, events and readings, and provides professional development opportunities. The festival is encouraging proposals that are unafraid to dream big, as...
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The Australian Publishers Association's (APA) professional development are open for bookings.
Industry Induction Course supported by Copyright Agency
Introduction to Australian Book Publishing: Creating a Book is available at half the usual price due to support from CA. Two scholarships are also available, one...
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Australian Publishers Association (APA) professional development sessions include:
Metadata Magic: The Essentials with Gavin King: Tuesday 26 February (Sydney)
A half day ‘essentials’ seminar which will demystify and highlight the importance of metadata for the publishing industry.
Cost:...
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The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. will present a one-day workshop on structural editing: fiction with Nicola O'Shea, on Friday 15 March.
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Venue: City Tattersalls Club, 198 Pitt Street, Sydney
Cost: $195 for society members, $290 for non-members (includes lunch, and morning and afternoon teas)
Nicola O'Shea was a senior editor at...
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The first Australian Publishers Assocaition (APA) professional development workshops for 2013 are open for booking.
Tuesday 26 February: Sydney (Melbourne TBC)
Metadata Magic: The Essentials with Gavin King
This half day ‘essentials’ seminar aims to demystify and highlight the importance of...
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Applications for the 2013 Children’s Picture Book Illustrators’ Initiative will be accepted from 4 February 2013 until 5 March 2013. This program aims to support illustrators in creating new picture books, graphic novels and comics.
Presented by the Australian Society of Authors, with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts,...
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The Walkley Media Conference ‘What’s the Story: Capital Edition’ will be held in Canberra on 29-30 November.
International guests include the US editor Aron Pilhofer and US journalists Charles Feldman and Leonard Witt. Speakers will include Malcolm Turnbull, Laura Tingle, Laurie Oakes, Chas Licciardello, Jonathan Biggins, Lyndal Curtis, George Megalogenis, Greg...
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The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that applications will for the 2012-2013 Annual Mentorship Program for unpublished writers and book illustrators will open on 10 December 2012.
Supported by Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund, this program provides twelve successful applicants with the opportunity to work one-on-one with a mentor of their...
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