EDITING SKILLS WEBINAR: EDO BOOK CLUB SET TO HOST JIDE OGUNLANA
Edo Book Club, an initiative of Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW) has set aside July 20th, 2022 to host one of the leading Nigerian Editors, Jide Ogunlana. He will be speaking on the “Keys to Effective Editing”.
A statement issued by the organizer of the webinar said the event would take place via Whatsapp by 8:00PM.
According to the statement, “Editing Skills Webinar is designed for those whose job requires them to proofread and edit their own or others’ written work. Those new to the skills will gain a working ability to proofread, including knowledge of the marks and techniques. Experienced proofreaders will benefit from this course as a refresher.”
“Intending participants will learn the principles of plain language editing, practice in an enjoyable group environment, and receive immediate feedback on your progress. Through group corrections, individual practice and discussion, you’ll come away with the confidence to proof and edit even the most important documents.”
JIDE OGUNLANA
Jide Ogunlana is a Novelist, Editor, Playwright and Professional Publisher. Two of Ogunlana’s plays, Verbal Violence and Clash of the Gods have been successfully staged in the Arts Theatre, now Wole Soyinka Theatre, of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and they are being read in some higher institutions like The Polytechnic, Ibadan. One of his short stories and some extracts of his stories have also been published in some editions of ANA Review of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).
He has taught Literature and the English language in some government schools in Oyo Statefor some years and in three countries outside Nigeria at all levels of education including the university level at the National University of Lesotho.
Ogunlana is a multiple award winner of children’s literature. His storybook, Primrose and the Kidnappers (published by Lerato Book Publishers)won the 2018 ANA Prize for Children’s Literature and his A Girl Called Corona Sofia (published by Learning Solutions Specialty Publications Ltd) won the same prize again in 2021. Many of his books have been approved for school use in the current lists of books of Oyo State Ministry of Education.
Some of JideOgunlana’s published works are: Primrose and the Kidnappers, Awesu in a Strange House, A Girl Called Corona Sofia, From Marriage to Prison (A Collection of Short Stories), Two Plays of Verbal Attack, Teach Yourself English for Junior Secondary Schools. He also published some books under pseudonyms and they are: Esin Amope – a Yoruba play (Asamu Adebisi), The Adventure of Three Wild Boys (Wale Adewale),The 3rd of March and Out of This World (Wale Adewale).
As an editor, he worked with Evans Brothers (Nig. Publishers) Ltd for some years before founding his own publishing company where he now works as a publisher, a writer, a rewriter and an editor. While workingwith Evans Brothers as a Senior Editor he was involved in various works of great writers both locally and internationally. As an independent editor, he has edited outstanding works of many popular Nigerian writers such as the prose works of Dr Wale Okediran, the Secretary General of Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) and a former Member of the House of Representatives, the biography of a former governor, the prose work of Diipo Fagunwa, the only surviving child of D.O. Fagunwa and the autobiography of Prof. Samuel Olusegun Ayodele, a renowned Nigerian professor of English.
Jide Ogunlana also organises training on writing, editing and publishing on a regular basis at his office complex at the University of Ibadan campus.
