Events calendar

Making Tax Digital – what does it mean for you and your business? What do you need to do to stay compliant? And how can you make the transition smooth (and stress-free)? This webinar aims to clarify what Making Tax Digital involves in practice, highlighting its record-keeping and reporting obligations, and to encourage early preparation to avoid disruption and ensure compliance with HMRC's new digital tax regime. The webinar will take place on Friday 19 June from 2pm to 3.45pm BST.

This virtual learning course draws on insights from neuroscience to explore how communication is perceived, processed, and responded to at a neurological and behavioural level. Designed for experienced editorial professionals, the course will help you strengthen your professional relationships and increase the impact of your work. Weekly sessions will take place from 10.00 to 11.30am BST.

Whether you work in traditional publishing, with self-publishing authors, or across a mix of editorial projects, this session, taking place on Friday 3 July from 2pm to 3pm BST, will offer useful context about the publishing industry that you can use to inform your own work.

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.

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.