Taking Five with Phillip Berrie

Phillip will be running a workshop, Preparing Your Manuscript: An Editor’s Tips, Sunday 4 December at the Writer Centre, 10am–3pm.  Come and learn some tips and techniques  to help make your manuscripts as accurate, consistent and professional as possible.  Tell us about your path to becoming an editor. I fell into proofreading after taking up a challenge … Continue reading →

Taking 5 with Dr Pippa Carron

This week we ask workshop tutor, Dr Pippa Carron, five questions about writing and editing. Pippa is teaching two upcoming workshops at the Writers Centre: Grammar and Punctuation Primer for Fiction and Nonfiction Writers and Focus on Stylistics. Check our website for more information and to get involved.  Can you briefly describe your writing and editing career? … Continue reading →

Editing Wisdom from the Professionals

Blogger in Residence, Chris Kerr, talks editing with Geoff Page and Duncan Felton. The editing process can seem opaque to writers. It lost a lot of its mystery after I had the opportunity to edit poetry magazines and a poetry pamphlet myself. Nothing reinforces the fact that editors are not infallible more than this experience. … Continue reading →