Renée Otmar (Distinguished Editor – IPEd, PhD) is a professional editor living on Wadawarrung country. Her experiences spans fiction and creative non-fiction genres, including biography and life writing. Renée writes and produces life stories, teaches, coaches and mentors writers and editors.
Renée’s publications include a family memoir, In Cold Blood: The murder of baby Jordan (New Africa Books, 2007), Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion: A guide for professional editors (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and 2 forthcoming guides on writing/editing trauma narratives (August 2024). Her paper, “Trauma in Publishing” was released in June 2024 in Publishing Research Quarterly.
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Editing Unveiled
In reality, most writing is really editing – and few can do it alone! Hear from book and journal editors, publishers, and literary industry experts about the editor-writer relationship, the purpose and ethics of editing, and everything that goes into revising your writing with rigour.
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