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Advanced Copyediting and Proofreading

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As editors, we subscribe to the sentiment expressed by esteemed author (and editor) Arthur Plotnik, who wrote: “You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.” This workshop will sharpen your eye for detail; ensure you are able to work with the production team (designers and typesetters, etc.) to produce as close to perfect a piece as possible.

Who needs this course

Editors, proofreaders, communication students or anyone who wants to polish their copyediting and proofreading skills.

Course Outline:

  • Analysing and identifying challenges in texts: Checklists and exercises
  • Audience and purpose: Aligning text to particular markets
  • Macro and micro editing: Balance and coverage
  • The editor’s role and responsibilities beyond ‘pure’ editing
  • Proofreading techniques: Checklists and exercises
  • Keeping track: The editor’s bag of tools for ensuring clarity, consistency and concision
  • Balancing the elements: Being advocate for the public, the publisher and the author
  • Communicating well: Becoming a diplomat and a choreographer!
  • Question and Answer Session

The Workshop Leader:

Shelley Kenigsberg is a prominent freelance editor, writer and trainer, and proprietor of S K Publishing, which she established in 1998. She is currently involved in training editors, mentoring writers, and editing and writing for trade, corporate, academic and educational, government and private clients.

Shelley is Head of the Macleay Diploma in Book Editing and Publishing and has delivered the course for the past 21 years. She has developed and presented courses for writers centres (Northern Rivers WC, Northern Territory WC, NSW WC, Tasmanian WC, Qld WC); AsiaPacific Writing Partnership; Societies of Editors, Style Council, Institute of Professional Editors conferences, Distance Education for the Open Learning Conference in Australia; writers festivals in Indonesia (Ubud Writers Festival 2004–11) and language and corporate institutes overseas (Indonesia, Japan and South Africa).

Shelley is a founding member of Professional Editors Association (NSW), was President of the NSW Society of Editors from 2001–03, Vice-President in 2004, Chair of the Accreditation Board and active in other national initiatives through the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd). Shelley is a member of the editorial board of the ezine The Fine Print. She was a contributing author to Historica, Global Press, 2007.

 

Date: 15 August 2012

Time: 9.30am – 5.30pm

Venue: National Library Board, Imagination Room, Level 5

 

To register, please click here.

Download the brochure

Enquiries:

clap@bookcouncil.sg

(65) 6848 8290

Writing Your Memoir

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Date: 15 June 2012
Time: 10.00am – 6.00pm
Venue: Agatha Room, NLB Academy, Toa Payoh Public Library
6 Toa Payoh Central, Singapore 319191
Workshop Leader: Jospehine Chia
Fees: S$280 per person (normal rate)

WHO NEEDS THIS COURSE
Most of us have treasured memories that we would like to share with others. They could be happy or painful memories or memories of a way of life that is now gone. Whether you want to record your memoir for your grandchildren or the public, this workshop will show you how to write it in a readable and an entertaining way so that others will find it interesting too.
YOUR WORKSHOP LEADER
Josephine Chia has a successful book of memoirs called Frog Under a Coconut Shell. First published by Marshall Cavendish in 2001. The book went into its second edition ten years later in 2011. It was launched in UK in April 2011. The book is actually about her mother’s Alzheimer and how the family dealt with it. In order not to make it a depressive book, Josephine took the reader back into a time when the mother was healthy, young and beautiful. This period coincides with Josephine’s childhood in Kampong Potong Pasir in the 1950s in colonial Singapore.
Josephine is a Peranakan and is a published author and has an MA in Creative Writing. She lives and teaches both in Singapore and England. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, totalling seven books, published both in UK and Singapore. She has won several writing awards and prizes in UK.

 Introduction
 What is the difference between an autobiography and memoir?
 How do you transform your memories into good, creative prose?
 Rewriting boring sentences into creative, interesting prose.
 The Mantra of writing is: show not tell. Opening Sentences & Paragraph
 Writing the opening sentences of your memoir. (Using your own trigger ie photo, item, memorabilia etc)
 Elements of Story – what makes a story?
 Brainstorming to find your story
 Why must a memoir have dialogue?
 Writing good dialogue
 Setting a scene
 Characterisation & how it affects memoirs
 Reading out & discussion of participant’s First Page of memoirs (Participants are encouraged to submit First chapter of their own memoirs 3 weeks before the workshop to tutor prior to workshop but only First Page to be read out in class. If no one has written any, the time will be taken to write it)
 Publishing possibilities & market info

To register, please visit http://writingyourmemoir.eventbrite.com/.

Download the brochure.

Enquiries:

clap@bookcouncil.sg

(65) 6848 8290

S.E.A. Write Awards 2011: Winner

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The National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) is proud to announce Mr Robert Yeo as the winner of the S.E.A. Write Award (Singapore) 2011.

Robert Yeo, a highly acclaimed poet, playwright and cultural critic, has contributed significantly to Singapore literature. He has published poems, a novel, written essays on cultural policy and edited anthologies on Singaporean writing for general readers as well as for secondary schools.  His collection of plays, The Singapore Trilogy was published in 2001. He was awarded the Public Service Medal in 1991 for “the promotion of drama”.

Currently, he is an adjunct Professor in Creative Writing at the Singapore Management University, after retiring as Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.

The South East Asian Writers Awards, or S.E.A. Write Award, was established to recognise and honour literary excellence in the ASEAN region. Based in Bangkok, the awards are presented   annually since 1979 to leading poets and writers. The ten countries which comprise the ASEAN region are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The uniqueness of this award is that the awardees are selected by their own peers in each of the ten ASEAN countries. The award maybe awarded for a specific work by an author or for lifetime achievement. The categories and types of works include poetry, short stories, novels, plays, folklore and scholarly and religious works. Entries are accepted only from authors who are still living.

Some of the previous winners from Singapore include: Philip Jeyaretnam (2003); Soon Ai Ling (2004); P. Krishnan (2005); Isa Kamari (2006); Rex Shelley (2007); Stella Kon (2008); Chia Hwee Pheng (2009) and Johar Bin Buang (2010).   

A list of other ASEAN winners during this period is available at the NBDCS website at www.bookcouncil.sg/_writers/SEA_write_awards.php

The Award presentation ceremony will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 13-17 February 2012. The winner will receive a commemorative plaque, cash and a week with all expenses paid vacation to Thailand.