IPEd announces Rosie shortlist

The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie.

The shortlisted editors are:

• Bronwyn Mitchell for Wetlands of Queensland (Queensland Museum)
• Emma Rafferty for Dinner with the Schnabels (Toni Jordan, Hachette)
• Cathy Vallance for The Way of Dog (Zana Fraillon, UQP).

Honourable mention:

• Kathryn Tafra, Tea, War & Crocodiles: Tales from an extraordinary life (Ferdinand Brockhall, self-published).

IPEd chair Ruth Davies said the judges were highly impressed with this year’s submissions, based on both the quality of the finished work and submissions from the editor, author and publisher about the editorial process and work of the editor.

‘This award recognises editors who are a true asset to the profession as well as to writers and readers—editors who have championed and nurtured an author’s writing so that it can provide the best possible reader experience, resulting in the best possible publishing outcome,’ said Davies.

The biennial award honours the editorial contribution of the late Rosanne Fitzgibbon and recognises a dedicated editor who has helped an author deliver the best possible outcome on a fiction or nonfiction publication. The winner of the 2021 Rosie was Johannes Jakob.

The winner of the this year’s Rosie, who receives $4000, will be announced at an online awards event as part of the 11th IPEd Editors Conference at an awards ceremony on 3 May.

The 2023 IPEd conference runs from 2-9 May. For more information, see the conference website.

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