Antoinette Walker
Trading as: Antoinette Walker Editorial Services
Based in: Rathgar, Dublin 6
Professional memberships
National Union of Journalists (NUJ)
European Medical Writers Association (EMWA)
Plain Language Association International (PLAIN)
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)
Educational qualifications
BA English and Philosophy (Hons)
MA in Philosophy
Teaching English as a Foreign Language Certificate (TEFL)
Registered General Nurse (RGN)
Training and professional development
Adobe InDesign, IACT, 2014;
Editing Onscreen with Adobe Acrobat, IACT, 2013;
Fiction Editing, Publishing Ireland, 2013;
Adult Literacy Training for Voluntary Tutors (Accredited), County Dublin VEC, 2011;
Beyond Simple Editing: Language and Writing (Advanced), EMWA Professional Development Programme, 2010.
Languages
Irish, some French and Czech
Experience
Assistant Editor, Irish Medical Journal;
Senior Editor, Folens Publishers/Blackwater Press;
Patient Education Editor, Irish Cancer Society
Services offered
Writing; rewriting; ghostwriting, editing; copy-editing; proofreading; picture research; writing/editing in plain English
Media
Books, booklets, journal articles, reports, websites
Subject areas
Humanities, medicine/healthcare, education, business and finance, current affairs, memoir
Clients include
Health Research Board; Health Service Executive; Department of Children and Youth Affairs; TUSLA: Child and Family Agency; Irish Cancer Society; SMC Media (Italy); Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; Institute of Administration; Merrion Press; Liberties Press; An Garda Síochána; Microsoft Ireland; Children’s Books Ireland; Department of Education; Irish Development Education Networks; Church of Ireland College of Education; Dublin City University; Trinity College Dublin; CJ Fallon; Folens Publishers; Educate.ie; various self-published authors
Examples of work undertaken
Drugnet Ireland, HRB 2016‒2018; Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children, DCYA 2018; Children’s Literature Collections: Approaches to Research, Palgrave Macmillan 2017; Nutrition Care in Health and Disease, HSE 2017; Results of the Department of Education and Skills Lifeskills Survey, DES/HSE 2015; Children and Young People with Cancer: A Guide for Parents, Irish Cancer Society 2015; Children’s Literature and New York City; Routledge 2014; The Garda Club: A History of Dublin Metropolitan Garda Recreation Club, AGS 2012; The Bicentenary Book, CICE 2011: Wanted Dead or Alive [poetry], AuthorHouse 2007; ‘Most Skilful, Most Devious, Most Cunning’: A Political Biography of Bertie Ahern, Blackwater Press 2004; A Cure for the Crisis: Irish Healthcare in Context, Blackwater Press 2003; Encarta World English Dictionary, Microsoft/Bloomsbury 2000.
As co-author: Liffey Green Danube Blue: The Musical Life and Loves of László Gede, Merrion Press 2016; Baby Eva: An Irish Surrogacy Story, Liberties Press 2012; Unstoppable Brilliance: Irish Geniuses and Asperger’s Syndrome, Liberties Press 2006