The Society of Editors South Australia

Professional development workshops 2010

2010 is our twentieth anniversary year, and we are offering some exciting  workshops.

Next workshop

Style sheets

To be presented by Kathie Stove DE on Saturday 30 October 2010 at the Writer's Centre.

Stay tuned for more detials.

Previous workshops

Successful proofreading

There’s much more to successful proofreading than just running spell check or giving the text a quick read. This practical, interactive workshop covers proofreading from first pages to printer’s proofs. It explores the different demands of proofreading at each stage of the publishing process.

Meryl Potter is an editor, writer and project manager with more than 30 years’ experience across different kinds of publishing. She has worked in education, trade, academic and custom book publishing, trade magazines and professional journals, and for a broad range of corporations and corporate consultancies. She teaches editing for the Macleay College Diploma of Book Editing and Publishing, and has presented workshops for the Society of Editors (NSW) Inc., for which she is also currently professional development coordinator. Meryl Potter is a Distinguished Editor, IPEd.

The first workshops for 2010

The Society of Editors (SA) presented two workshops in March 2010.

The presenter for both workshops was Pamela Hewitt, an Accredited Editor and a highly experienced NSW freelance editor, writer and trainer. She publishes The Fine Print, an independent online journal for editors and writers. She is also the author of ‘Professional Editing’, a series of online training programs for editors.

Pamela has developed and presented programs on writing and editing for universities, vocational educational colleges, writers’ centres, literary festivals and societies of editors around Australia and in New Zealand.

Pamela has worked as an in-house and freelance editor for over 20 years, and her work spans fiction, non-fiction, educational, academic, government, corporate and web editing.

Workshop 1: Introduction to onscreen editing

Saturday 27 March, 9.30 am – 1.00 pm

Venue: A computer training lab in the CBD (to be advised)
Includes break for a light snack

Costs: Members $90 (includes SAWC members)
Concession $80
Non-members $105

Workshop 2: Freelance editing costing and quoting

This workshop was suited to all freelance editors and those thinking about going freelance.

Sunday 28 March, 10.00 am – 2.00 pm

Venue: SA Writers’ Centre, 2nd floor, 187 Rundle Street
(wheelchair access through Caffe Brunelli, next door)
Includes break for light lunch

Costs: Members $70 (includes SAWC members)
Concession $60
Non-members $85

Accreditation exam preparation

Presented by Karen Disney, Kathie Stove and Celia Jellett

When: 1.00-4.00 pm Saturday 4 July 2009
Where: SA Writers’ Centre, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide
Aim: to prepare candidates for the accreditation exam in September 2009

The workshop is free to all Society members (full and associate) but you need to book.

Accreditation exam preparation workshop

When: 2:00-5:00pm Saturday, 6 September 2008
Where: SA Writers’ Centre, 187 Rundle Street
Aim: To help you assess whether you are ready to become an Accredited Editor in October this year, we are holding a workshop based on the new sample exam.

The workshop will be presented by a panel of South Australian assessors including Karen Disney (current chair of the Accreditation Board) and Celia Jellett. We will work through the exam and answer your questions as we go.

Our society wants to provide you with as much information about the national accreditation exam as possible before it is held on Saturday 18 October 2008, and to reassure any members who may have concerns about it.

Remember, anyone with two to three years' full-time editing experience should be able to pass.

The workshop is open to all interested members and non-members, not only those planning to sit the exam this year, and is free.

• More information on the Editors Accreditation exam

Annual reports and the meaning of life

When: Saturday, 23 August 2008

Asking someone to take responsibility for the preparation of an organisation’s annual report has been likened to giving them a poisoned chalice. People who are tasked with this job often feel a sense of hopelessness—‘why me?’. There are a few souls out there, however, who actually like doing annual reports. What’s their reason?

This is the question that Virginia Wilton, principal of Wilton Hanford Hanover, and Lawrie Kirk, of Tanner James Management Consultants, who have successfully collaborated on three annual reports to date, set out to answer in this workshop.

The answer — and the secret to remaining sane while delivering a high-quality annual report — is two words: project management. This workshop will show you how to use project management principles in the preparation of any annual report. We will draw on numerous case studies and offer participants an insight into how to put these principles into practice. By the end, we can (almost) guarantee that you will regard the ‘poisoned chalice’ as a Holy Grail of personal development!

Lawrie Kirk, Senior Consultant at Tanner James Management Consultants Pty Ltd and Virginia Wilton, Director of Wilton Hanford Hanover, both based in Canberra and both with extensive experience in producing annual reports for federal government agencies, will lead the workshop.