Editor: Penny Hanley
Penny Hanley’s Creative Company
Tel: 0430 102 488 Email: penhanley@gmail.com
PhD in Communications, University of Canberra, 2009; BA (Hons) in English Literature, ANU, 1985
Services
- Editing—Substantive editing, literary editing, copy editing, proofreading
- Other services—Plain English rewriting, ghost-writing. Also liaison with graphic designers, photographers, IT people etc. to ensure a publication, on the web or hard copy, looks as perfect as it can.
- Subject fields—Environment, local politics, women’s issues, health, infrastructure, town planning, social sciences, ‘hard’ sciences, Indigenous Australia, art exhibition catalogues, the arts, film preservation, biography, fiction.
- Media—Strategic reports, newsletters, magazine supplements, signage, website content, e-books.
Specific projects
Penny Hanley has conducted interviews with
writers, filmmakers, women and Indigenous people for newspaper interviews and
radio programs. Her film criticism has been published in local arts magazines
and she has reviewed films for ABC Radio National and 2XX stations. She has had
recent experience in media monitoring, media releases, speech-writing and
editing an online journal. She has done many media interviews for her own books:
Australian Local Government Association (co-authored and edited) (2010) Women in Politics: Showing the way in 2010. Canberra: ALGA.
Garnaut, R. and Song, L. (Eds) (2003) China: New Engine of World Growth. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press.
Mazur, N. (2001) After the Ark? Environmental Policy-Making and the Zoo. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press.
Gleeson, B.J. and Low, N.P. (Eds) (2000) Government for the Environment: Global Problems, Ethics and Democracy. London: Palgrave.
Troy, P.N. (Ed.) (1999) Serving the City: The Crisis in Australia’s Urban Services. Sydney: Pluto Press.
Example of a paper written by Penny Hanley: ‘Wild Things: embracing the unexpected’, The Australian Association of Writing Programs ‘And is …’ papers: proceedings of the 12th conference of the AAWP, edited by Jen Webb and Jordan Williams, Nov. 2008.
Penny Hanley’s latest book, 'Creative Lives', personal papers of Australian writers and artists, commissioned by the National Library of Australia, was published in 2009, and was awarded a five-star rating (‘an exceptional book of the very highest quality, regardless of genre’) and 'Top Pick' by October Bookseller & Publisher. She has published non-fiction on youth unemployment, women, the cinema and creativity, 85 book reviews, and a novel ('Full House', Simon & Schuster, 1993). Fifteen of her short stories have appeared in national and international journals, with two stories short-listed for prizes. She has had more than ten years’ experience editing social scientists’ writing, and more than 25 years’ experience of editing in general, freelance and for particular institutions.