MarketWise: A Career in Academic and Literary Editing
Event Start Date: October 09, 2018 12:30 PM
Event End Date: October 09, 2018 2:00 PM
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MarketWise: A Career in Academic and Literary Editing
A Working Lunch with Kim Robinson-Walcott
October 9 | 12:30 PM
Dauer Hall 215
Please rsvp to aulanow@ufl.edu and rosenber@ufl.edu by 30 September to reserve lunch and indicate dietary restrictions
Dr. Robinson-Walcott will discuss her career as an editor of academic journals and books as well as of literary manuscripts. She will also provide advice for scholars submitting manuscripts.
Kim Robinson-Walcott, Ph.D., is editor/head of Caribbean Quarterly, University of the West Indies, Mona. She is also the editor of Jamaica Journal, published by the Institute of Jamaica. She worked as a fiction and general trade editor for many years and worked closely with the Jamaican author Anthony C. Winkler on most of his novels. Her publications include the scholarly work Out of Order! Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing (University of the West Indies Press, 2006), Jamaican Art (Kingston Publishers, 1989, 2011) which she co-authored, The How to Be Jamaican Handbook (Jamrite Publications, 1988) which she co-authored and illustrated, and the children's book Dale's Mango Tree (Kingston Publishers, 1992), which she also illustrated. Her scholarly articles, book chapters, short stories, and poems have been published in a number of journals and anthologies. A second illustrated children’s book and a short story collection are forthcoming.
Open to the public and Co-sponsored by the Department of English, George A. Smathers libraries, and Center for Latin American Studies