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  • WRAW Union Women’s Conference 2019

    March 5, 2019 / No Comments

    We Are Union has organised the Womens’ Rights At Work program leading up to International Women’s Day 2019. Part of this is the Union Women’s Conference 2019 and I will be attending as part of a six person delegation from MEAA. WHEN: March 05, 2019 at 9am WHERE: CFMEU building 540 Elizabeth St Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia

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  • IPEd 2017

    Screencasting for editors by Malini Devadas and Hilary Cadman

    September 17, 2017 / No Comments

    I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from a session on screencasting. I have screencast before using different software programs and edited videos for Youtube. And I was a bit puzzled as to how all this could be used by an editor for the purposes of editing. Or as part of a business. Part One of the presentation was telling us what screencasting was. And what is wasn’t. Screencasting is basically like taking a screenshot but instead of an image, ending up with video as the result. Video of whatever may be on your screen at that time. I am aware of people using screencasting for gaming purposes to showcase…

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    IPEd 2017: Workshops, whirlwinds and welcome

    September 13, 2017

    Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017

    September 14, 2017
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going?

    September 6, 2017
  • IPEd 2017

    Evolving tools for digital publications: Stephen White’s presentation at IPEd 2017

    September 16, 2017 / No Comments

    This session was really eye opening. Stephen started with the question of what exactly constituted a digital publication. What is a digital publication?  He urged us to think beyond text alone on a page. Digital publications can include maps, atlases and other interactive works online or offline.  But there is a problem with editing such works. While the tools to create and deliver such works exist, there often are no simple functions built into the tools for the ease of editing the information in the work. Information within the works has to be pulled out, edited in other software and pieced back into the work, looked at in context with…

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    Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017

    September 14, 2017

    IPEd 2017: Workshops, whirlwinds and welcome

    September 13, 2017
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going?

    September 6, 2017
  • Blog,  Freelancing,  IPEd 2017,  Writing

    Mentoring writers as an editor and writer

    September 15, 2017 / 1 Comment

    This blog post is intended to be a summary and cheat sheet on my part of the mentoring panel on 15 Sept 2017 at the IPEd 2017 Conference in Brisbane. Proceedings will be published online by the conference organisers so you can always check those out for more information but here are my tips, tricks and my experiences of mentoring writers as opposed to mentoring editors. First, a definition of mentoring and what I mean by it: I don’t mean actively editing a writer’s work but more reading it and discussing how they go about developing the story, how they go through the process and if it’s a business/practice related…

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    Norwich Street Art Warning by MarkHeyBo on Flickr

    Why I am resurrecting my Patreon account

    January 14, 2019

    What is a typical day for a journalist?

    October 16, 2019
    My desk in Phillips cabin at the KSP Writers Centre (c) Marisa Wikramanayake

    Day 3: So many emotions

    May 31, 2018
  • Events,  IPEd 2017

    Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship 2017 Report – Annabel Blay

    September 14, 2017 / No Comments

    Every two years, one lucky editor gets to go on an all expenses paid research trip to work with publishers in the US as part of the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship and this past year it was Annabel Blay. Part of the Fellowship involves speaking at the next IPEd Conference on what the outcome of the research was and presenting a report to IPEd that is made available to all members and the public. Annabel Blay wanted to see what the role of the editor was in commercial fiction in the US and compare it to the role in Australia. In point form below are some of the things she…

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    Diverse and need a writing group?

    October 23, 2016
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going?

    September 6, 2017

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013
  • Events,  Freelancing,  IPEd 2017

    Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017

    September 14, 2017 / 1 Comment

    I’m not necessarily going to write these notes out in order but here is a quick run down of my bootstrapping for a freelancing business. Use tech to bring freelancing work to you: I find that my work comes through being the first person to email someone as soon as an opportunity comes up. I also find it useful to work across time zones. So how do you bootstrap this? And for free? Facebook groups: figure out which group has the most posts for the sort of work you want to do popping up and change its settings so that you are notified by Facebook of new posts popping up.…

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    How do you tell a story?

    February 9, 2019
    Workers in black t-shirts outside a Fairfax building with flags protesting job cuts and the takeover by channel nine as part of the union MEAA's campaign.

    MEAA Update for August 2018

    August 27, 2018

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013
  • Events,  IPEd 2017

    IPEd 2017: Workshops, whirlwinds and welcome

    September 13, 2017 / No Comments

    Today is sort of the first day of the IPEd 2017 conference. Sort of but not quite. There are lots of things that have evolved into traditions over the years with this conference. One of them is the running of workshops the day before the conference actually starts. So today there were workshops on marketing and freelancing and technical aspects of editing. From all accounts they were wonderful – unfortunately I didn’t get to attend any this time around. But I needed that time. I had landed in Brisbane sans business cards. And so after brunch committments, I had to have a catch up meeting with fellow IPEd 2017 panelists…

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    Diverse and need a writing group?

    October 23, 2016

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013

    Freelancing panel at IPEd 2017

    September 14, 2017
  • Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013
    Events,  IPEd 2017

    IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going?

    September 6, 2017 / No Comments

    Yay! I am off to the IPEd conference! And then of course you would ask “Yeah, ok Mari, what does IPEd stand for?” IPED: Institute of Professional Editors. Professional society of editors working either in-house or freelance throughout Australia. Basically, once every two years, somewhere in a state capital, the IPEd conference is set up and run by the local branch of IPEd. In 2013, it was our turn in Perth and yours truly was the IPEd Conference convenor. Yes. There is a video on the about me page. Go watch it. We were cool. In 2015, the IPEd Conference was in Canberra but I could not go. I was…

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    Workers in black t-shirts outside a Fairfax building with flags protesting job cuts and the takeover by channel nine as part of the union MEAA's campaign.

    MEAA Update for August 2018

    August 27, 2018

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013

    The Writing Calendar: June 2016

    June 9, 2016
  • Events,  Updates

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013 / No Comments

    I am really rather excited about the second week of October this year. Why? Well, the week starts on the 6th of October. And at midnight sharp on the 6th of October, I take over the @realscientists account on Twitter. The @realscientists account is curated/run each week by a scientist, science writer, science artist, science communicator, science illustrator… you get the idea. The aim of the project is to get more information about science, all sorts of science, out to the public. And I am part excited, part terrified, part nervous about taking over tweeting about what I do to do with science for a whole week. If you have…

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    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    IPEd Conference 2017 is next week and guess who is going?

    September 6, 2017

    The Writing Calendar: June 2016

    June 9, 2016
    Workers in black t-shirts outside a Fairfax building with flags protesting job cuts and the takeover by channel nine as part of the union MEAA's campaign.

    MEAA Update for August 2018

    August 27, 2018
  • Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013
    Australian Women Writers Challenge,  Book Reviews,  Events,  IPEd Con 2013,  Journalism,  Political journalism,  Projects,  Science journalism,  Updates

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013 / No Comments

    Recovering mostly. The conference is over. But the organisation part of it isn’t. There are accounts to be finalised and even now, still a lot of emails to answer. So let me digress to answer the most often asked question via email now: Conference proceedings will be posted on the website and you will all be emailed to be told when they get uploaded.  But what else have I been up to? Well, I have had a particularly weird and busy time of it and a lot of it has involved writing. So without further ado, here is the list: I have reviewed:  Amanda Curtin’s Elemental which will end up in…

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    Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

    January 25, 2013
    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

    Capering criminally with the challenge: what I read for Australian Women Writers 2013

    January 3, 2014

    Samantha Tidy's The Happiness Jar

    February 20, 2014
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