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Professional Profile

Summary of experience

Writing courses

1997 - Present

Editorial training

2012 - 2019

Publishing studies

2020 -2021

Other training

1997 - 2024

  • Finish Your Draft - Professional Writing Academy (2026)

  • Writing YA - Faber Academy (2024)

  • Writing a Novel - Faber Academy (2023)

  • Creative Writing  A215 - Open University (2007 - started)

  • Start Writing Fiction A174 - Open University (2007)

  • Creative Writing - South Downs College, Hampshire (2004)

  • The Writers Bureau (1997 - started) 

Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP):

  • Editing with Word (2019)

  • Brush Up Your Grammar (2017)

  • Introduction to Fiction Editing (2016)

  • CE2: Copy-editing Progress (2015)

  • CE1: Introduction to Copy-editing (2014)​


Chapterhouse:​

  • Chapterhouse Proofreading and Editorial Skills (2012)


The Better Book Company, Chichester (2007)

  • Trainee proofreader

The Publishing Training Centre (PTC)

A suite of sixteen e-Learning modules:

  • A Commissioning Editor's Guide to Working with Authors

  • Adobe Tools for Editors

  • An Introduction to Marketing

  • An Introduction to Publishing

  • Author Queries

  • Editing Fiction

  • Editing Illustrations

  • Editing References

  • Editorial Style

  • Essential Copyright for Publishers

  • Essential Editorial Project Management

  • Introduction to Proofreading

  • Proofreading PDFs

  • What is Copy-editing

  • Working with Authors

  • Working with Typesetters

  • Running Writing Workshops - Professional Writing Academy (2024)

  • Web Production Skills - South Downs College (2009)

  • Certificate in Education - University of Portsmouth (1997)

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