Events calendar

Developmental editing involves evaluating how well everything hangs together across the whole of a text to help the author deliver their message as clearly and effectively as possible. In fiction, the focus is on narrative craft and style or ‘voice’, ensuring cohesion across these in draft texts. This course is suitable for editors who are interested in introducing fiction developmental editing to their services. Weekly sessions will take place from 1pm to 3pm BST.

This is the 9am BST CPD check-in session. CPD check-in sessions are designed to provide a dedicated and focused time and space to pause, reflect and refocus on your professional development objectives and goals for the year. 

This is the 2pm BST CPD check-in session. CPD check-in sessions are designed to provide a dedicated and focused time and space to pause, reflect and refocus on your professional development objectives and goals for the year. 

Language is constantly changing – but who decides what constitutes 'correct' usage? And what role should editors play in shaping, preserving or challenging established conventions? Join us for an open and thought-provoking roundtable discussion exploring how language evolves, what drives those changes and what they mean for editorial professionals.  This session will take place on 16 July from 2.00pm to 3.30pm BST.

This course aims to give an introduction to the process of developmentally editing non-fiction, and is designed for professionals with existing knowledge and experience of copyediting. It is suitable for experienced editors who wish to expand their skillset into developmental editing. Weekly sessions will take place from 2pm to 4pm BST.

This virtual learning course, delivered over four live webinars, including opportunities for delegates to learn from both their tutor and their peers, explores best practices which can be applied to editing at copyediting and line editing levels to ensure professionals are able to produce the best possible publication in the time available to them. Weekly sessions will take place from 3pm to 5pm BST/GMT.

This session, taking place on 14 October from 2pm to 3pm BST, will introduce editors to the academic publishing landscape and provide a practical overview of what academic copyediting involves.

This two-part programme is designed for editorial professionals who want to refresh their awareness of inclusion principles, as well as understand how they can keep up to date with fast-changing language around a range of topics, namely Race & Ethnicity, LGBTQIA+, Gender-identity, Disability and Neurodiversity. Sessions will take place from 2pm to 4pm BST.

This course is designed for fiction editors who are looking to diversify their existing services and offer coaching to authors and clients. Delivered over four live, weekly sessions, the course aims to help you understand what coaching is, how you can adapt approaches to coaching to suit your way of working, and how you can introduce coaching for fiction authors to your services. Weekly sessions will take place from 10.00 to 11.30am BST/GMT.