Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Society of Editors (NSW) are running two professional development sessions on Microsoft Word for editors presented by editor Kevin O'Brien. Beginner to intermediate on 2 August 2013 from 9.30am to 4.30pm. Intermediate...

Tuesday, 18 June 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is thrilled to announce it will manage The Asher Literary Award in 2013, on behalf of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for...

Tuesday, 18 June 2013
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Medal is offered annually for the most outstanding index to a book or periodical compiled in Australia or New Zealand. The index...

Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Australian Publishers Association (APA) professional development sessions include: Click on Kids’: Children’s Digital Publishing Seminar: Thursday August 1 in Sydney at Aerial UTS Function Centre, Level 7, 235 Jones Street,...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Nomations for the ‘The Nib’ Waverley Library Award for Literature are closing soon. The award winner receives a prize of $20,000, plus a trophy and all shortlisted authors receive the Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Registrations are open for Redact 2013 running during 10-11 August at Bellinzona Resort in Hepburn Springs. Redact is a intensive residential course for working editors with at least two years’ experience. The program offers: Fiction...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
The Institute for Media and Communications Management of the University of St Gallen in Switzerland and the Frankfurt Academy in Germany have announced scholarship awards for participation in the St...

Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Australian Publishers Association (APA) professional development sessions include: Please note if you registered for The Publishing Contract it is now a half day workshop followed by another half day workshop...

Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Editors Victoria is running several workshops over the next few weeks: Punctuation Refresher for Writers and Editors (Saturday 29 June).  Introduction to Structural Editing (Saturday 27 July).  Introduction to Copyediting...

Tuesday, 4 June 2013
The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. will present a professional development workshop on editing annual reports: a special approach on Wednesday 19 June with Arthur E Delbridge AM, fellow of the Public Relations...

Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Australian Publishers Association (APA) professional development sessions include: Thursday 20 June (Sydney); Tuesday 25 June (Melbourne) Industry Seminar: it’s not all about the words, but also the business environment in...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
On Saturday 29 June Editors Victoria is running the professional development session Punctuation Refresher for Writers and Editors. This workshop is designed as a refresher for those who have some knowledge of...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Editors Victoria is running a professional development session on Advanced Microsoft Word 2011 for Editors (Mac), on Saturday June 8.  Much of an editor's job involves repetitive work, especially as the technological...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. will present a talk on Editing skills in the era of digital (r)evolution with Dr Agata Mrva-Montoya on Tuesday 4 June. In a time...

Tuesday, 21 May 2013
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...

Tuesday, 21 May 2013
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...

Tuesday, 21 May 2013
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...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
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...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
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...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Australian Publishers Association (APA) professional development sessions include: Book Design: A Thousand Words’ Worth - Friday 24 May 10-11am at Wharf Theatre Two. Free entry. Held the morning after the...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
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 on Wednesday 19 June.     The workshop...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Editors Victoria is running a session on Ebooks on Saturday June 1. The session answer questions such as: What are ebooks? How are ebooks created? Where does the editor fit into an ebook...

Wednesday, 8 May 2013
First round entries for this year’s Walkley Book Award are now open for titles produced by an Australian journalist or writer, published in the year from 1 September 2012 to 30 August...

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Australian Publishers Association (APA) professional development sessions include: Industry seminar: The Publishing Contract and New Frontiers. Sydney 20 June; Melbourne 25 June. Facilitated by Publishing Consultant and Literary Agent Alex...

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
The Society of Editors (NSW) will present a one day workshop on structural editing: fiction with Nicola O'Shea, on Friday 24 May.  In this workshop, editor Nicola O’Shea will explain the structural...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
On May 7 the Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. will present the new chair of IPEd, the society’s Owen Kavanagh, who will lead a Q&A style presentation to highlight IPEd’s...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
The Society of Editors (NSW) will present a one-day workshop on EPUBs with Sarah J H Fletcher and David Henley, on Tuesday 14 May.  The workshop will take a look through the...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Australian Publishers Association (APA) professional development sessions include: The new frontiers: what are the scary bits about digital distribution? Can we be excited? What about Digital Only?  What are the trials,...

Monday, 29 April 2013
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Children's Book Council of Australia (Victorian Branch) Inc. will be held on 30 May at 57 Canterbury Road, Canterbury at 7pm. RSVP to vic@cbca.org.au as space...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said: ‘The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamouring to become...