Honorary president: Judith Butcher Honorary vice-president: David Crystal OBE
Press release: 10 May 2005
Clarissa Dickson Wright to deliver Whitcombe Lecture
at the Society for Editors and Proofreaders Conference
26-27 September 2005
Crown & Mitre Hotel, Carlisle, Cumbria
One Step Beyond
This year the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) is holding its annual conference at the Crown & Mitre Hotel in the heart of the ancient city of Carlisle, Cumbria. The conference will concentrate on widening delegates' horizons – helping them to learn new skills, find new markets and meet new clients. The SfEP is delighted to announce that Clarissa Dickson Wright will be delivering the conference's main event – the Whitcombe lecture (named in honour of the Society's founder, Norma Whitcombe).
Many people will instantly have a picture of Clarissa Dickson Wright as one of BBC TV's Two Fat Ladies and, more recently, in Clarissa and the Countryman with sheep farmer Sir Johnny Scott, paying homage to rural Britain. Others will have read her books: Two Fat Ladies' Obsessions, Hieland Foodie, Sunday Roast and Food – What We Eat and How We Eat It.
When you look a little closer, she is an ideal speaker for the SfEP: she is a food historian, a scholar, an archivist, a campaigner, an avid reader, and a former bookshop owner and rector of Aberdeen University. She trained as a lawyer and practised as a barrister; she set out on her own as a professional caterer; she wrote books; she moved into other media. Like many of us, she has taken 'One Step Beyond'.
The SfEP's slogan is 'upholding editorial excellence' and the conference is one way in which it helps its members and anyone who aspires to excellence in the written word to achieve that aim. The conference is open to individual members and associates and corporate associates of the SfEP; delegates from other interested organizations are also welcome.
Information about the conference and a provisional programme can be found on the SfEP website (www.sfep.org.uk/pub/confs/conf2005_advance.asp), from where booking forms for attending the conference (including details of the fees) can be downloaded. There are discounts available for individual members and associates who book early or who are attending the conference for the first time.
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For further information about the conference and the SfEP, please visit the website (www.sfep.org.uk) or contact Jane Ward (tel: 0131 337 4380; email: ).
