
Owner of Satima Flavell's Professional Editing Services
South Australia, Australia

Owner of Satima Flavell's Professional Editing Services
South Australia, Australia
Satima is an academic editor of over ten years' experience and a well-regarded beta reader of speculative fiction. Her performing arts reviews, interviews and articles have appeared in diverse publications including The Australian, Dance Australia, The West Australian, Arts West and Music Maker. She now writes and edits for The Specusphere, an webzine for the speculative fiction community.
Academic editing in a wide range of fields; structural and copy editing of non fiction, especially family histories and local histories; copy editing of fiction, especially speculative fiction.
(Non-Profit; Writing and Editing industry)
March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Edits reviews sent in by readers from Australia and overseas. Writes reviews and articles of interest to the Speculative Fiction community.
(Writing and Editing industry)
1999 — Present (10 years )
I specialise in academic editing (all disciplines) family and local histories, and speculatve fiction. I also write astrological reports.
(Newspapers industry)
October 1990 — January 1995 (4 years 4 months)
Writing dance reviews, interviews and biographical pieces.
BA , Religious Studies; Performing Arts , 1986 — 1991
Graduated (WAAPA 1998) Associate Diploma in Performing Arts (Dance)
Graduated BA (ECU, 1991) majoring in Religious Studies with a Dance minor
Reading, writing and editing fantasy, academic editing. Also Astrology, Belly Dancing, Genealogy, Music (folk, medieval and classical) Shakespeare, Yoga, Meditation
Society of Editors WA, Perth Shakespeare Club, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre, Swancon
Perth Meditation Centre 2007 Teaching Certificate
Book-in-a-Day Awards 2004: Member of winning team, professional division.
Federation of Australian Astrologers 1994: Practitioner's Certificate