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Media release: 28 January 2008

REF: SfEP/ 08 / 01

Twenty-twenty vision: Looking forward, looking back

SfEP Conference: 8–9 September 2008
St Catherine’s College, Oxford

Booking is now open for this year’s conference. Why not join us in Oxford to help celebrate 20 years of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP)?

Much change

We’ll be looking forward as well as looking back over the two decades the Society has been in existence. The SfEP has come a long way since it was founded in 1988 and much has changed in the world of publishing too. The conference will review some of these changes and help delegates to look forward to an exciting and stimulating future in publishing. As usual, the conference programme will be a mix of workshops, seminars, plenary sessions and panel discussions – and of course networking and socialising with other delegates.

Speakers

Among those speaking to us at Oxford will be Charlotte Brewer, fellow of Hertford College and lecturer in English, Oxford University, and author of Treasure-House of the Language: The living OED (Yale University Press, 2007). Also speaking will be our charismatic honorary vice-president David Crystal. If you missed his excellent lecture at the Birmingham conference, you have a chance to hear him at Oxford.

Contacts

The SfEP website has further details about the conference, including information for delegates and the booking form. You can also contact the SfEP office (admin@sfep.org.uk, 020 7736 3278) or Lotika Singha, conference director (conference@sfep.org.uk, 01782 710 395). For details of sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at this year’s conference, please contact Sara Hulse, PR/marketing consultant (pr_marketing@sfep.org.uk, 01623 823 002).

ENDS

Editors' notes:

  1. Sara Hulse, PR/marketing consultant to the SfEP, oversees the Society's UK public relations activity. Journalists looking for informed comment on issues such as the use of language or on editing or proofreading should contact her on pr_marketing@sfep.org.uk or 01623 823002.

  2. The SfEP (http://www.sfep.org.uk) is a non-profit-distributing organization (formally, a company limited by guarantee) with the twin aims of:
    • encouraging high standards of editing and proofreading
    • upholding the professional status of editors and proofreaders.
    It has about 1,400 members and associates (mostly in the UK), providing a wide range of editorial services to the publishing community and beyond. In addition, more than 40 publishing companies and other organizations have become corporate associates of the SfEP.

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