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On Editing an Editor: Brenna Bailey-Davies and Genevieve Clovis in Conversation

September 21, 2023 | Filed under: Brenna Bailey-Davies, Genevieve Clovis

Editing an author calls for a blend of sharp-eyed clarity, cheerleading and hand-holding. What if the author is also an editor? As part of a series of blog posts featuring conversations between author-editors and their editors, The Editors’ Weekly asked two editors to reflect on their experience of working together. …

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On Editing an Editor: Margaret Kingsbury and Laura Bontje in Conversation

June 14, 2022 | Filed under: Laura Bontje

Editing a first-time author calls for a blend of sharp-eyed clarity, cheerleading and hand-holding. What if the author is also an editor? As part of a series of blog posts featuring conversations between author-editors and their editors, The Editors’ Weekly asked two editors to reflect on their experience of working …

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On Editing an Editor: Leslie Vermeer and Frances Peck in Conversation

March 8, 2022 | Filed under: Frances Peck

Editing a first-time novelist calls for a blend of sharp-eyed clarity, cheerleading and hand-holding. What if the novelist is also an editor? As part of a series of blog posts featuring conversations between author-editors and their editors, The Editors’ Weekly asked two editors to reflect on their experience of working …

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A New Editing Community Emerges: Neurodivergent Editors

May 10, 2022 | Filed under: Miriam Bergeret

The pandemic has tested our mental health time and again and taken it to its limits. It has also led to more open conversations about prioritizing mental health, especially on social media. In particular, this period has been difficult for people who identify as neurodivergent (ND) — people who have …

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Inner Editor: My Big Editing Adventure

July 30, 2019 | Filed under: Virginia Durksen

The big adventure isn’t always in the story. Sometimes it’s in the editing. A few years ago I spent the morning with two classes of junior high students to talk about how to give editing feedback to each other. They were writing adventure stories. Part of their assignment was to …

Book Review | What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

October 17, 2017 | Filed under: Ellie Barton

What’s not to like about What Editors Do? This collection of essays traces the role of book editors from acquisition to publication and samples niches like editing genre fiction and working with self-publishing authors. What’s more, the 27 contributors represent a “who’s who” of American publishing: Betsy Lerner, Carol Fisher …

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THE INNER EDITOR: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice

January 8, 2013 | Filed under: Virginia Durksen

  As a young reader, I liked writers who tactfully addressed the “gentle reader.” Perhaps I enjoyed the ironic wink suggesting that writer and reader are both in on creating the story. Indirectly or directly, good writers invite the reader to trust the unfolding tale, just as they find a …

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The Other Kind of Editorial Cartoon

September 14, 2023 | Filed under: Iva Cheung, Laura Bontje

There are certain feelings that every editor is bound to experience: the joy of making a great catch, the frustration of dealing with a difficult project, the excitement of taking a selfie with a favourite punctuation mark — wait, maybe not that last one. That is, unless you’re Bespectacled Editor, …

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Letter from the Editor: Write for The Editors’ Weekly

August 24, 2023 | Filed under: General EAC, Laura Bontje

Happy summer, readers! The Editors’ Weekly is taking a break for the rest of August. It’s time to enjoy the last weeks of summer — and of summer reading! Have you read any great books lately? This summer, I set myself a goal of reading only Canadian literature, and it’s …

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Editing for Accessibility: Basic Best Practices

August 10, 2023 | Filed under: Tali Ijack

Accessibility is the lack of obstacles to obtaining, attaining or retaining something. The Accessible Canada Act, established in 2019, aims to identify, remove and prevent barriers that cause the exclusion of all persons, especially disabled persons, from various necessary aspects of life. Information and communication technologies have been identified as …

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