Honorary president: Judith Butcher Honorary vice-president: David Crystal OBE
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Acting PR director Penny Williams
SfEP AGM and 19th annual conference
Twenty-twenty vision: Looking forward, looking back
St Catherine's College, Oxford
Sunday 7 to Tuesday 9 September 2008
Plans are really coming together for this year's conference, which marks the Society's 20th anniversary. The provisional programme is now in place, and booking forms can be downloaded. Early-bird discounts on the delegate rate are available until 31 March, so book now to secure your place and save some money.
Highlights
In keeping with this year's theme, we will be looking to the future as well as the past, with a variety of workshops, seminars and lectures. Among the highlights:
- Our esteemed honorary vice-president, David Crystal, will be joining us again and giving a keynote lecture.
- This year's Whitcombe Lecture will be given by Charlotte Brewer, Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and author of Treasure-House of the Language: The Living OED.
- Elizabeth (Liz) Wager, former head of international medical publications at Glaxo-Wellcome, who through her own company now provides a variety of services – writing, editing and publication consultancy – and runs training courses for doctors, journal editors and medical writers.
There's something for everyone in our workshops this year, with topics as varied as pricing strategies, HTML, copywriting, computer housekeeping, macros, networking, reference sources, editing with TeX and development editing.
Sponsorship
Various sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities are still available – if you are interested, please contact our PR and marketing consultant Sara Hulse for more information. If you have any questions about the conference, please contact conference director Lotika Singha.
Forthcoming SfEP training courses
Over the next few months, the SfEP will be running a number of training courses in London, Bristol, York and Edinburgh:
For further details, see our current training schedule.
Don't forget that all our courses are demand-led, so if you have a specific requirement, please contact training director Caroline Landon.
We also offer in-house courses to both conventional publishers and non-publishing organizations such as local authorities, statutory bodies, service providers and businesses. For more information, please contact our in-house training co-ordinator.
'Editing translations' forum
Christina Thomas, editor of the SfEP magazine Editing Matters, will be taking part in a forum organized by Arts Council England, the British Council, the Society of Authors' Translators Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation. The event Putting our heads together: A forum devoted to the editing of translations will take place on 28 February 2008 at the British Council, London.
Please contact Sarah Baxter (020 7373 6642) at the Society of Authors for further details or to book a place.
SfEP Directory of Editorial Services
If you are looking for a professional editor, proofreader or project manager, the online SfEP Directory of Editorial Services provides contact information for nearly 500 SfEP members plus details of the skills, subjects and services they offer.
The directory can be searched by name, geographical location or subject specialism, to enable users to pinpoint quickly and easily those with the necessary skills and experience. Users of the directory can be confident they are selecting professionals who have the expertise to provide a high-quality service.
Editing Matters – the magazine for editors and proofreaders
Editing Matters is a bi-monthly magazine for those who work with words for publication – both in traditional paper form and on the internet – or are simply interested in learning about the world of editing and proofreading. It is available free to all SfEP members and associates and on subscription to non-members at just £21 per year.
Articles cover topics such as:
Advertising
Details of advertising in Editing Matters can be found on the rate card (21 KB pdf). For further information, contact the editor.
Index and back copies
A complete index of Editing Matters is now available. We hope eventually to have back copies of all articles available as pdfs within the Members' area of the website. In the interim, both members and non-members can obtain photocopies of any articles listed in the index, taken from the complete set of newsletters and magazines kept in the SfEP Office.
If you would like a photocopy, you will need to provide the following information:
For a photocopy of one article, there is a charge of £2.50 to cover admin costs, and a further charge of £1.50 for each subsequent article ordered at the same time.
Please send the article information, your address and a cheque (made out to 'SfEP') for the appropriate amount to the SfEP Office. Allow one week for a response.
Media releases 2008
28 January 2008
Twenty-twenty vision: Looking forward, looking back30 June 2008
SfEP Conference: The workshops
Media release archive
Public relations
Sara Hulse is the SfEP's public relations and marketing consultant. Journalists looking for informed comment on issues such as the use of language or on editing or proofreading should contact her via email or telephone: 01623 823 002.