At a Glance Month Course Venue Date & time Book January InDesign New Horizons Day 1: 18 January Day 2: 26 January 9.30am 5.00pm February Academic Workshop Royal Irish Academy 24 February 9.00am 2.30pm Life Cycle of the Book Irish Writers Centre 7, 14, 21, 28 https://www.eventbrite.ie/o/ February publishing-ireland-inassociation-with-the-irishwriters-centre-supported-bywords-ireland-7576876449 March Introduction to Editing TBC 22 March Book Jackets & Blurb Writing TBC TBC May Photoshop New Horizons Day 1: 2 May Day 2: 9 May 9.30am 5.00pm Meet the Editorial Freelancers TBC 5 May 2.00pm 4.30pm Marketing & Publicity Royal Irish Academy 11 May 2.00 4.30pm September Legal Issues TBC 22 September, 10.30am 4.30pm November Adobe Illustrator New Horizons 9:30-5pm PUBLISHING IRELAND TRAINING SCHEDULE 2017 January 2017 InDesign Attendees from 2015: The course was well-structured and the step by step approach very helpful Fantastic great central location and excellent facilities. Excellent. I only had the basics of InDesign so there are many new things to learn! Adobe InDesign is a professional desktop publishing application that lets you create page layouts, creative print media, and other digital publications faster and more efficiently. InDesign is built for designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers. Adobe InDesign also allows you to create e-books and other digital publications, and it easily adjusts for multiple page sizes, screen sizes, and orientations. It is a great tool for designers, advertisers and publishers to master.
This is a two-day workshop. Venue: New Horizons, Great Strand Street, Dublin 1 (just off the Italian Quarter) Date: 18 January and 26 January 2017 Time: 9.30pm 5.00pm Cost: 200 per day 400 for two days (**PI Member discount); 275/ 467 for two days (**PI Associate Member discount); 300 per day/ 510 for full course (Non-Member) February 2017 Academic Publishing: From Proposal Writing to Promotion This workshop will provide PhD students and postdoctoral researchers with practical guidance on all stages of academic publishing: from picking the right publisher, to peer review, funding and making their work accessible and visible. The panel will have representatives of both small and large academic presses in Ireland and the UK, and Irish academics from two of the leading universities who have published widely nationally and internationally. Guest speakers will include Timothy Wright, Chief Executive, Edinburgh University Press, Ms Noelle Moran Executive Editor, UCD Press, Professor Gerardine Meaney, Professor of Cultural Theory, UCD School of English and Dr Philip Coleman, School of English, Trinity College Dublin. All welcome! Venue: Royal Irish Academy Date/Time: Friday, 24 February 2017, 9am to 2.30pm How much? 5 unwaged, 10 waged E: stephanie@publishingireland.com to reserve a place, book early as spaces are limited.
The Life Cycle of the Book Seminar Series Presented by PUBLISHING IRELAND in association with the IRISH WRITERS CENTRE and supported by WORDS IRELAND The Life Cycle of the Book is a seminar series that will take you through the process of a book s creation from the writing process and getting published to what publishers do and reaching the reader. Venue: The Irish Writers Centre Dates: Tuesday 7, 14, 21 and 28 February Time: 6.30pm 8.30pm Tickets: Per session 10 Member/Associate Member; 15 Non-Member. For all four sessions 45 Member/ 50 Non-Member Book your ticket today by going to Eventbrite March 2017 Introduction to Editing A half-day workshop covering the basics of copy-editing aimed at entry-level staff, fledgling editors and students. Helena King, professional fiction editor will be speaking at the event. Other speakers TBC. Venue: TBC. Date: 22 March Time: TBC
April 2017 Book Jackets and Blurb Writing This panel-led workshop will give helpful advice on how to market your list using effective blurbs, eye-catching jacket design and how to work both with print and online design products. Venue, Date and Time: TBC May 2017 Photoshop: From Basics to Advanced Layering! Control your workflow using Images for print and the web. You will work with layers, vectors, batch processing, advanced image effects and video editing. This is a two-day workshop. Venue: New Horizons, Great Strand Street, Dublin 1. Date: 2 May and 9 May 2017 Time: 9.30am 5.00pm Fee: 200 per day/ 350 for two days (**PI Member discount); 275/ 400 for two days (*Associate Member discount); 300 per day/ 510 for full course (Non-Member); 150/ 190 (Student Discount) To book your place, contact *Places on the course are limited so booking early is advised.
Meet the Editorial Freelancers An informal networking event where publishers can meet members of the Association of Freelance Editors, Proofreaders and Indexers (AFEPI Ireland). The association s members offer a wide range of skills proofreading, editing, indexing, project management, typesetting, re-writing across a variety of genres fiction, memoir, biography, cookery, educational, business, academic. The aim of this event is to help publishers identify and select the right freelancers for their projects from a pool of qualified, experienced professionals. This is a great chance to talk face-to-face with editorial freelancers from all over Ireland. They will bring along CVs and business cards for interested publishers to take away with them. Date: Friday, 5 May 2017 Time: 2.00pm 4.00pm Venue: TBC (Dublin city centre) Marketing and Publicity Workshop Attendees from 2014 Workshop: I enjoyed the format and how casual it all was. Thanks! Excellent combination of people from the impressive to the accessible Join Catherine Ryan Howard (other speakers TBC) for our Marketing and Publicity Half-day Workshop which will give publishers and an insight into how to promote both their books and their company in order to reach a wider audience. Venue: Royal Irish Academy Date: 11 May 2017 Time: 2.00 4.30pm
September 2017 Legal Issues for Publishers with Andrea Martin Explore legal pitfalls with Andrea Martin and other speakers for a day-long workshop on copyright, libel, defamation, privacy and the stickier aspects of using social media in today s rapidly changing technological climate. Andrea is one of Ireland s most experienced media and entertainment lawyers and advises leading publishers, artists and content providers in the world of film, television, radio and digital media. She has particular expertise in defamation, privacy and pre-publication advice. Andrea is the author of a very successful guide to media law for non-lawyers, Quick Win Media Law: Answers to Your Top 100 Media Law Questions. Email: to book your place. November 2017 Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard vector graphics software, used worldwide by designers of all types who want to create digital graphics, illustrations and typography for all kinds of media: print, web, interactive, video and mobile. Venue: New Horizons, Great Strand Street, Dublin 1. Date: 3 November 2017 Time: 9.30am-5.00pm Fee: 80 (Member); 87 (Associate Member); 100 (Non-Member); 65 (Student). COURSES COMING SOON! Keep an eye on our Newsletter for more details! FICTION EDITING NON-FICTION EDITING MEET THE GRAPHIC DESIGNERS: SPEED-DATING