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A New Season for The Editors’ Weekly

Thursday June 19, 2025

In 2020, a pandemic furlough prompted me to launch the editing business I’d been researching for some time. By spring 2021, I’d handed in my notice and embraced full-time freelancing. Weeks later, I accepted a volunteer role with The Editors’ Weekly. So in many ways, my time with the blog — first as proofreader, then […]

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Draftsmith: A Purpose-Built AI Tool That Respects the Editor

Thursday June 5, 2025

Editor’s note: Editors Canada has partnered with Intelligent Editing on various occasions, and The Editors’ Weekly received free early access for a reviewer to test Draftsmith 2.0 and share an honest opinion. As an academic editor who regularly writes and speaks about AI’s role in editing, I’d describe myself as a highly skeptical user. I […]

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Why Academic Editors Should Read Getting It Published

Thursday May 15, 2025

On June 6, the academic editing book club will discuss the book Getting It Published, Third Edition: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books, by William Germano. This book club is run by the Academic Editing Special Interest Group, a collaboration of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA). You might […]

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The Editors’ Weekly Welcomes a New Proofreader

Thursday May 8, 2025

Correcting typos, checking links, formatting headings, selecting images, drafting social media posts, uploading content … these are just a few of the ways that the proofreader and social media contributor helps The Editors’ Weekly arrive in your inbox, ready to read. At the end of 2024, proofreader Kay Pettigrew wrapped up her term with the […]

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Connect with Your Editors Canada Branch

Thursday May 1, 2025

When you join Editors Canada, you’ll become a member of a local chapter called a branch or a twig. These groups offer resources, events and a sense of community for Editors Canada members, student affiliates and non-members. What can you expect from your local group? The Editors’ Weekly has invited current and past branch and […]

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Indigenous Editors Circle: Connecting, Collaborating and Celebrating Indigenous Stories

Thursday April 17, 2025

In May 2025, the Indigenous Editors Association (IEA) will welcome 17 Indigenous and 13 non-Indigenous delegates to the first Indigenous Editors Circle since 2017. Foundations of the Indigenous Editors Circle The Circle has a long-standing history. While the first Circle was held in 2014, with subsequent gatherings in 2015 and 2017, its development was preceded […]

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A Proactive Approach to Diversifying Your Editing Business

Thursday April 10, 2025

The great thing about being a freelance editor is that you get to decide the scope of your work. This can also feel overwhelming: How do you know what work portfolio will feel right to you? I recently delivered a webinar for Editors Canada where I explored different methods for diversifying your editing business. I […]

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The Power of Affective Communities in Editing

Thursday April 3, 2025

At conferences, I sometimes wander into sessions without knowing the speaker or topic. This was the case during the 2025 Calgary Teacher’s Convention. (I wasn’t crashing the convention: I’m an educator as well as an editor.) I eschewed the session on my schedule and, by chance, ended up at a talk by Dr. Samra Zafar. […]

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Editing in the Age of AI

Thursday March 20, 2025

It’s March 2025, and in offering to write a piece about AI, I run the risk of becoming outdated as I type. From what I can tell, the response to generative AI’s influence on writing and editing ranges from gratitude for its time-saving measures to annoyance at its errors to outright panic at its potential […]

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An Editor’s First Academic Conference

Monday March 10, 2025

In the first week of 2025, historians swarmed Midtown Manhattan for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), one of the largest associations of historians in the world. While I hold a master’s in modern European history, I’m a relatively new freelance proofreader and copyeditor. I attended the conference hoping to learn more […]

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