Editing Your Own Work

Thursday 5 July 2012 - Thursday 4 October 2012

Presented by: Jo Case
Rating: Early and Emerging
Type: Course

Thursdays, 12 – 4pm. 5 July, 2 August, 6 September & 4 October

Learn the basics of editing your own work for publication – teaching you what you can do as an author to ready your work for submission to a publisher, and how to work with an editor towards publication. You’ll learn how to recognise common editing problems – from the detail of grammar and punctuation to the “big picture” issues of dialogue, character, structural flaws and deleting unnecessary repetition. There will be tips and exercises on the business of both editing your work and redrafting, along with tips on how to work with an editor.

Jo Case is associate editor of Kill Your Darlings and editor of Readings Monthly. She has been books editor of The Big Issue and deputy editor of Australian Book Review. Her first book, a memoir, will be published by Hardie Grant.

Early birds receive 10% discount. Offer closes 20 June

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