Institute of Professional Editors Limited Videos

It's accreditation exam day! 🎉 Good luck to the the IPEd members who will be sitting the exam at locations across Australia, New Zealand and Japan. May your notes be perfectly tabbed and your mind awash with editing know-how! This year's exam is the 10th IPEd accreditation exam. In the latest issue of Gatherings, we celebrated that milestone by learning a little more about the history of the exam and what the first exam back in 2008 was like – think hard copies of the Style manual and pen and paper mark-up. ✍ https://www.iped-editors.org/august-2024/celebrating-the-10th-iped-accreditation-exam/

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been celebrating our volunteers and acknowledging the contribution they make to IPEd. We couldn’t do what we do for Australian and New Zealand editors without the efforts of our volunteers so we wanted to take the time to acknowledge their collective efforts and say thank you. Our celebration of our volunteers wraps up this week with the end of National Volunteer Week Te Wiki Tūao ā-Motu in Aotearoa New Zealand on Sunday. Keen to read more about volunteering with IPEd? Check out our story in the June issue of Gatherings, the IPEd newsletter. https://www.iped-editors.org/june-2024/build-new-skills-and-new-networks-plus-its-fun-thanking-and-celebrating-ipeds-volunteers/ #NationalVolunteerWeek

11th IPEd Editors Conference | Online | 2–9 May 2023
Our 11th IPEd Editors Conference starts on Tuesday 2 May! 🎉 We're exceptionally proud of the program we've assembled. Watch the video to see our stellar line-up. 👏👏👏 All sessions (except workshops) will be recorded. 🎥 Conference registrants can access the recordings for 3 months afterwards. Recordings will NOT be available for sale after the event, so please register if you're interested but can't attend live. Check out our professional development workshops run by industry experts! 💻 There's something available for all experience levels, whether you're a student editor 🎓 or a professional. 😎 👉🏻 Registrations close on 2 May so BOOK NOW! To register or for more information, go to: www.iped-conference.org #2023ipedconference #editorsconference

Author/Editor episode #10 – Holly Ringland and Catherine Milne
#MustSeeClip #BookSpoilers Award-winning author Holly Ringland discusses the value of the structural edit and a loaded question that she put to HarperCollin’s Head of Fiction Catherine Milne when she was deciding which publisher to sign with. Holly asked Catherine, “On your first reading of it, what struck you, and were there weak points?” in regard to her debut work, “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”, which has since become an international bestseller and was made into a successful TV series. Please be aware this clip contains a book spoiler. This clip has been taken from episode #10 of IPEd and the Brisbane Writers Festival's Author/Editor series, which is supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. To watch the full interview, which will be released tomorrow, check out: https://bwf.org.au/2022/general-events/author-editor-hash10-holly-ringland-and-catherine-milne Transcript: “And when I spoke to you and we had this conversation and I think you and I were just as emotionally wrought and anxious as each other. But we talked about it. And you said to me, very lovingly and gently, ‘Alice Hart has met Dylan Rivers in one chapter and in that same chapter the relationship has blown up and she has left him.’ And in what is just my favourite trademark Catherine Milne way, you were like, ‘I feel like maybe we need to expand on this area here.’ And I was like – because you know, there’s a reason why we talk about things being in our subconscious, it’s because they are buried and we can’t see them. And when you said that to me, it felt like someone had walked into the dark corners of my mind that I had hidden from myself and you’d flicked on your publisher version of a light sabre or like a torch and you were like ‘Here, this is what’s missing!’ And I knew it with my whole body.” #structuralediting #authoreditor

"What does this job mean to you?" – Author/editor episode #06
A must see clip. “Books have made me and now I’m helping make books.” – Publisher Catherine Milne, in response to author Trent Dalton’s question, “What does this job mean to you?” Watch the incredible three-way interview between Catherine, Trent and editor Scott Forbes at: https://bwf.org.au/2022/general-events/author-editor-hash06-trent-dalton-scott-forbes-and-catherine-milne This video is part of IPEd and the Brisbane Writers Festival's Author/Editor series which explores the collaborative dynamic between authors and editors. This insightful series is supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.