A day in two lives at UQP — Kristina Schulz and Alexandra Payne
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Kristina Schulz and Alexandra Payne from the University of Qld Press will present an informal talk and Q&A session on...
26 July 2012
Attention all freelance members!
It's time to take a break from your own company, get out of your PJs and mix with other...
What daily journalism taught me about editing — Marsali Mackinnon
1 August 2012
Can tabloid journalism really teach us anything about editing well? That's the question Marsali Mackinnon asks - and...
The Tao of Everest — Ian Woodall
29 August 2012 (AGM)
Having climbed Mount Everest by both its south and north sides, Ian brings the triumphs and tragedies to the...
3 October: Reminiscences and realisations on the Queensland publishing scene
In a coup for our final general meeting for 2012, we will hear about the fascinating careers of three top-gun editors: Sue Ogilvie, Maggy Saldais and...
21 November: End-of-year party!
It's all happening at our end-of-year dinner at Riverbend Books & Teahouse. Come and enjoy a scintillating evening of fine food, plus music, songs, yarns and action-packed word-games performed and organised by your talented fellow SocEds members!
20 January 2013
The Society invites you to join us for a 'dejeuner sur l'herbe' picnic and barbecue by the river to launch the new...Tuesday 5 February 2013
We're starting our Society of Editors year with a Big Name Speaker for our first general meeting: Chris Warren, the...March General Meeting: The future for IPEd, an open members' forum
Wednesday 6 March 2013
Get set for this special meeting of the Society of Editors (Qld) at The Gabba Ward Office, Cnr Annerley Rd & Crown...Thursday 14 March 2013
Where: The Gunshop Cafe, 53 Mollison Street, West End Date: 14th March 2013 Time: 12.30 RSVP: Friday 8th March...April General Meeting: Contracts, Copyright and Digital Rights
Wednesday 3 April 2013
Our guest speaker for April is locally based publishing consultant Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing...Wednesday 8 May 2013
GUEST SPEAKER: Caroline McKinnon, plain-language expert and PhD researcher at the University of Queensland TOPIC:...Wednesday 5 June 2013
GUEST SPEAKER: Charlotte Nash-Stewart, lecturer and tutor at The University of Queensland, freelance technical...Wednesday 3 July 2013
Promise or peril? The future of corporate relations in a social media world In the face of a digital...Wednesday 7 August 2013
The plot unthickens for a night at the movies GUEST SPEAKER: Susan Bush, blogger, arts critic and film...Wednesday 28 August 2013
Our guest speaker for the 2013 AGM is Honorary Member, IPEd patron and language scholar, Professor Roland (Roly)...October General Meeting:Editorial criticism, strategic dating and commercial flair
Our guest-speaker for October is Anne-Maree Britton, former director of the ACT Writers Centre, literary festival director and current Qld Literary...
November General Meeting – End of Year Party!
Morish and Musical – who's coming?
If you are coming to our end-of-year party on Wednesday, November 27, make sure that you RSVP as...Wednesday 5 February 2014
GUEST SPEAKER: Tonile Wortley, UQP editorial assistant responsible for ebook publishing
On her website,...
Saturday 18 January 2014
As the Society farewelled 2013 with our grand end-of-year social, so we will welcome 2014 with a relaxed...Wednesday 5 March 2014
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr Sue Turner, geoscience consultant, editor and Society member
On her website, Sue's Place,...
Wednesday 2 April 2014
GUEST SPEAKER: Meg Vann, CEO of the Queensland Writers Centre
On her website, mamaguilt, Meg leads off her...
Wednesday 7 May 2014
Feel like celebrating after the accreditation exam? Just want to unwind and catch up with your colleagues after the...Wednesday 4 June 2014
GUEST SPEAKER: Helene Young, Qantas pilot and romance/crime novelist
Our guest speaker for June is...
Friday 6 June 2014
Come one, come all to the Sunshine Coast sub-group's very first gathering! The Society of Editors (Qld) Sunshine...Wednesday 9 July 2014
GUEST SPEAKER: Rosemary Noble, WP4 Project Manager
The July meeting will present an open forum...
Wednesday 6 August 2014
GUEST SPEAKER: Susan Johnson, journalist and novelistWednesday 27 August 2014
GUEST SPEAKER: Tony Cavanaugh, scriptwriter and novelist
Sunshine Coast sub-group meeting
Friday 5th September, 2014
GUEST SPEAKER: Terese Finegan from WebApple
Delicious food, stunning views and informative...
Wednesday 1 October 2014
GUEST SPEAKER: Jill Morris DE Our guest speaker for October is educational publisher, author, documentary...Friday 28 November 2014
Save the date, and plan to come and celebrate the year with your fellow editors. More details about the dinner...Sunshine Coast sub-group meeting
Friday 5 December 2014
The Society of Editors (Qld) Sunshine Coast sub-group are getting together again! Save the date and keep your...International Proverse Prize 2015
The international Proverse Prize for unpublished fiction, non-fiction or poetry 2015 is now open.
The deadline for completed entry forms and fees...
General meeting Wednesday 7 October 2015
Special guest for our final general meeting of the year on Wednesday 7 October will be the exceptionally talented author of young adult fiction (YA),...
Wednesday 4 November 2015: Special General Meeting of Society of Editors (Qld)
At this special general meeting members of the Society of Editors (Qld) will have the chance to cast in-person votes (many will have voted using...
Saturday 21 November 2015: Society of Editors (Qld) end-of-year dinner
Don't miss this year's end-of-year dinner! Laugh out loud with fabulous entertainer Paula White ... and enjoy a scrumptious 2-course sit-down dinner...
February general meeting
For the first general meeting of 2016, Ellen van Neerven of the State Library of Queensland will be updating us on the library's black&write!...
Sunshine Coast editors lunch
The next Sunshine Coast editors lunch is being held on Friday 4 March. The topic is everyday agreements and contracts for editors, a highly relevant...
General meeting March 2016
Gillian Lloyd is the guru of writers groups in Queensland. She has a passion for bringing writers together to regularly and constructively meet in...
General meeting April 2016
Attention, editors!
Our 'guest' speaker for April is writer, editor, content producer and SocEd member Susan Prior.
Susan holds a degree...
General meeting May
Wednesday 4 May 2016, 6.00 pm for 6.30 pm
The Gabba Ward Office, 2/63 Annerley Road (Cnr Annerley Rd & Crown St, Woolloongabba) - yes, our true and...
General meeting Wednesday 1 June 2016
Join us for the next general meeting of the Society of Editors (Qld) on Wednesday 1 June 2016.
When? Wednesday 1 June, 6 pm for a meeting start at...
Next branch member meeting of Editors Queensland
Work like a business, play like a freelancer
Attention freelance editors: come to our next monthly general meeting and learn some...
Networking dinner - book now!
There are a number of things to celebrate: the successful transition to IPEd direct membership, the accreditation exam, the name change to Editors...
Sunshine Coast sub-group lunch meeting
The next lunch meeting of the Sunshine Coast sub-group of Editors Queensland will be held on Friday 2 September from 12 noon at the Brightwater...
Final SocEd AGM and SGM of Editors Qld
It's that time of year again - and a historic occasion: the final AGM of the Society of Editors (Qld) Inc., and the SGM of Editors Queensland.
Member meeting October 2016: Better business models
Join Editors Queensland - whether you are an IPEd member or not - for an evening of networking and learning from guest speaker, Tamyka Bell.
General meeting Wednesday 1 June 2016
At our next monthly general meeting on Wednesday 1 June, contributing editor to Australian Geographic, Joanna Hartmann, will talk about the process...
Editors Queensland End-of-Year Dinner
Celebrate a very full year for Editors Queensland and for IPEd! Join us at 6.30 pm for our
Last Freelancers Lunch for 2016
Join us - whether you are a member or not - for the final freelancers lunch of the...
Cool down at EdsQ Picnic by the Pier!
This isn't a regular meeting, but there'll be plenty of time to network and exchange ideas.
Cool down at the Editors Queensland picnic at...
EdsQ member meeting Wed 1 February 2017
EdsQ member Maggy Saldais has been combining editing and writing for decades. During that time, she has worked for a range of prominent institutional...
EdsQ member meeting Wed 1 March 2017
In our digitally-obsessed society, the predominance of short information videos is rapidly increasing, and just like any other information product,...
Sunshine Coast subgroup lunch 3 March
No, not THAT president … thank goodness!
Our very own EdsQld president, Ruth Davies, will be joining us for the next Sunny Coast Editors lunch on...
April member networking dinner
Instead of a meeting with a speaker, in April we will be meeting for a member networking dinner. Join us! You don't have to be a member, by the way.
First freelancers lunch for 2017
You are invited to come along and enjoy good conversation and a delicious lunch with your fellow editors at 12:00 PM on Tuesday 28 March 2017 at
From editing to public art
Join us for our May member meeting with guest speaker Jennifer Wright. Non-members also welcome!
When: Wednesday 3 May 2017, 6.00 for...
Member meeting: Nick Earls
Register now for our next member meeting on 7 June.
Come and hear Nick Earls, multiple award-winning author of twenty-six books for adults,...
Mid-year freelancers lunch
Just when we'd resigned ourselves to the fact that Brisbane's weather was destined to be hot forever, winter has arrived! Yet, now that we've all...
Member meeting: From wireless to wifi
Rhianna Patrick will be our speaker at the next member meeting. Her topic will be: From the wireless to the wifi.
Rhianna Patrick started at the...
AGM of EdsQ this week!
Don't forget that the Editors Qld AGM will be held on Wednesday 2 August at Ruth Fairfax House (RF on Gregory). Hurry to
The Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award - the Rosie
Editors Queensland, a branch of the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), has initiated an IPEd award for editorial excellence in Rosanne...
October member meeting
Join us for our October member meeting. This will be Ruth Davies's last meeting before she heads off to the Netherlands for two years, so come along...
Don't miss the End of Year Dinner! Book now
You are warmly invited to the EdsQ End of Year dinner on Friday 24 November at 6.30pm at Siam Samrarn...
First member meeting of the year
You're invited to our first Editors Qld member meeting of 2018, with guests Robert Whyte and Anne Jones from ToadShow.
Date: Wednesday 7...
Come to our March member meeting and learn how to be kinder to your body.
Date: Wednesday 7 March 2018
Time: 6.30pm (nibbles...
Freelancers Lunch Friday 23 March 2018
You are invited to come along and enjoy good conversation and a delicious lunch with your fellow editors.
When: 12.00pm on Friday 23...
EdsQ networking dinner
Join your Editors Qld colleagues for a delicious networking dinner at the Tibetan Kitchen. The food includes specialties from Tibetan, Nepalese and...
EdsQ member meeting
You are warmly invited to the Editors Qld May member meeting with guest speaker Dr Felicity Meakins.
Date: Wednesday 2 May...
Starting your editing career
Megan Harris was one of four editors who spoke on the emerging leaders panel at the 2017 IPEd conference. Megan will talk about starting out as an...
July member meeting
Try your hand at poetry editing!
Come along this coming Wednesday, 4 July, to hear award-winning Brisbane poet Ross Clark talk about his writing...
EdsQ Annual General Meeting 2018
IPEd CEO Karen Lee meets the members
IPEd CEO Karen Lee, Corporate Services Officer Tay Winchester, Council Chair Kerry Davies and...
All Dogs have ADHD
Don't miss this evening with award-winning children's writer Kathy Hoopmann, whose books for children...
'Secret Editors' Business'
Secret Editors' Business. It's not just a Facebook page.
Rather than listen to a speaker at the upcoming EdsQ members meeting, we will...
IPEd Annual General Meeting 2018
Institute of Professional Editors Limited ACN 129 335 217
Notice is given that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the members of the...
EdsQ end-of-year dinner
Join us for dinner on Friday 30 November at South Bank's iconic The Ship Inn to wrap up Editors...
First EdsQ member meeting of 2019
Going to the conference and want to see if anyone wants to share an Airbnb?
Want to network with other editing colleagues and learn from each...
Academic editing
Register now for this event!
Do you have...
Self-publishing: an author's perspective
At our members meeting in April (non-members also welcome), we will hear the story of someone who had a wealth of stories to tell and finally...
Lunch anyone?
Make sure you set aside Thursday 11 April in your calendar for the first Editors Queensland freelancers lunch of 2019. The freelancers...
Exciting speakers and topics
We have some excellent speakers lined up for the next few months of EdsQ member meetings in 2019. Note that non-members are very welcome!
In...
Editing stories of trauma
It seems everyone is writing a memoir, and many of them contain various kinds of trauma stories. The emotional cost of telling and editing these...
Playing Hopscotch: The writer in fiction and non-fiction
Don't miss the upcoming member meeting with award-winning writer Kristina Olsson.
Date: Wednesday 3 July 2019
Time: 6:30...
Spring freelance lunch
Spring is around the corner, so why not put some salsa in your step, splash some salsa on your lunch, and join your freelance colleagues for a fine...
All you need to know about copyright
What's the difference between moral rights and copyright? When can you simply attribute, and when do you need to seek permission?
Find out the...
What can editors and translators learn from each other?
Members of The Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators Inc. (AUSIT) will be joining us this meeting for...
Shared reading: twin-vision children's books
With children's author of twin vision books, Kayt Duncan. Twin-vision books are written for both the sighted and the vision-impaired.
Imagine if...
Editors After Five
Date: Friday 1 November 2019
Time: from 5pm (happy hour 5-7pm)
Venue: Cafe Brisbane, Reddacliff Place, George Street,...
End-of-year dinner
Join your editing colleagues and friends for a fun night out at Caravanserai, West End, Brisbane, for the annual EdsQ End-of-year dinner.
Date:...
EdsQ New Year picnic
Calling all edi-bears!
All editors and their partners, and anyone interested in the profession of editing, are warmly invited to the first Editors...
Dictionaries and how they got to be that way
Join us for our first member meeting of the year (also open to non-members). This is your chance to uncover the mysteries of the seemingly ethereal...
