Sarah Fish

Advanced Professional Member
Location Cardiff, Wales
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Skills

  • Copyediting (onscreen and hard copy)
  • Proofreading (onscreen and hard copy)
  • Editorial project management
  • Editing non-native English
  • Anglicising
  • Proof collation

Media

  • Books
  • Brochures and leaflets
  • Company literature
  • Educational materials
  • Illustrated books
  • Journals
  • Multi-author books
  • Newsletters
  • Online courses
  • Reports

Qualifications and experience

  • Advanced Professional Member, CIEP
  • SfEP Accredited Proofreader
  • More than 20 years of freelance editorial experience
  • Mentor, CIEP proofreader mentoring scheme
  • Tutor, CIEP proofreading and copyediting courses
  • Tutor and co-creator, CIEP Getting to Grips with Grammar and Punctuation
  • MA Celtic Studies (University of Wales Trinity St David)
  • BA French Language and Literature (University of Sheffield, class 2.1)

Training

  • Annual CIEP conferences 2022, 2021, 2020
  • Introduction to fiction editing (CIEP)
  • Editing fiction (PTC)
  • SfEP Tutors Training Day, 2019
  • Annual SfEP conferences, 2018, 2017 and 2016
  • On-screen editing 1 (SfEP)
  • Brush up your copyediting (SfEP)

Clients

  • Assessments and Qualifications Alliance (AQA)
  • Atlantic Books
  • Bear Press
  • Cornerstones Literacy Agency
  • Firefly Press
  • IRC (WASH Systems Academy)
  • Mac Keith Press
  • Parragon Books
  • Poetry Wales
  • Public Health Wales
  • Routledge
  • Seren Books
  • Taylor & Francis
  • The History Press
  • University of Wales Press
  • Whitgift School

Subjects

Architecture, biography (historical, literary), children (fiction and non-fiction), Celtic studies, Cornwall, cultural studies, education, English literature, fiction, folklore, French, French literature, geography, healthcare, history (general, British, Celtic, Cornish, European, medieval, social, Welsh), language, literary studies, poetry, political philosophy, psychology, social sciences, Wales

Testimonials

Thanks again for doing such a great job and making wise suggestions.  You're by far the best copyeditor I've dealt with!

Colin Cooper, author, Individual Differences and Personality (4th edn)