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Coury, Simon

Simon Coury

Based in: Greystones, Co. Wicklow

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Telephone: 085 159 5732
Educational qualifications

BA in English, Cambridge University
MA in English, University of York

Training and professional development

Rewriting and Substantive Editing, Publishing Training Centre, 2018; Practical Mark-up of PDFs, Society for Editors and Proofreaders, 2017; Editing in Word, Publishing Training Centre, 2015.

Languages

French (good reading level)

Experience

Thirty years’ experience as a freelance editor; five years’ experience as a teacher of English at secondary level and EFL; co-writer of Leaving Cert poetry textbook.

Services offered

Copy-editing, fiction editing, academic editing, educational editing, proofreading, structural editing, project management, indexing, reader’s reports

Media

Books, journal articles, website text, theses

Subject areas

Education, fiction, literature, theatre, archaeology, history

Clients include

Educate.ie, Educational Company of Ireland, Cork University Press, Dublin Review, Dendro.dk, Peter Lang, Blackstaff Press, Mercier Press, Routledge, Pan Macmillan, Pallas Athene, Oxford University Press

Examples of work undertaken

Education: Editor, New Geography in Action, Educate.ie, 2018; Editor (later writer), New Discovery (Leaving Cert. poetry textbook), Edco, 2014–19; Editor, Geoplanet, Edco, 2016;

Academic: Copy-editor, Imer, Peasants and Prayers, PNM (Denmark), 2017; Copy-editor: Copy-editor, The Frozen Saqqaq Sites of Disko Bay, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2017; Vallely, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Cork University Press, 2010

Fiction: Copy-editor, Broderick, Jack and Adam books, 2016–18; Proofreader, Dublin Review, 2017–18

Indexing: Walsh, The Pedagogy of Protest, Peter Lang, 2007; Balzano, Mulhall & Sullivan (eds), Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture, Macmillan 2007

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