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The Editing Essentials Test Tested: Unlock Your Editing Career

April 5, 2022 | Filed under: Merel Elsinga

You have just embraced editing as your new career. You have some editing experience, just not the five years recommended to sign up for an Editors Canada certification test. How can you convince prospective clients or a potential employer that you do have editing skills? The certification steering committee has …

Introducing Editor and Poet Margo LaPierre

June 25, 2019 | Filed under: Letitia Henville

“Everything’s happening at once,” laughs Margo LaPierre, the winner of the 2018 Claudette Upton Scholarship. She’s chatting with me while her husband refuels their car, three-quarters of the way through their 15-hour drive back home to Ottawa after the 2019 Editors Canada Conference in Halifax. A week before finding out the …

A Promising New Editor

June 12, 2018 | Filed under: Anita Jenkins

Letitia Henville of Vancouver, B.C., is the recipient of the Editors Canada 2017 Claudette Upton Scholarship,* which recognizes promising emerging editors. The “promising” part of the description definitely applies to Letitia. The “emerging” part, not so much: she has hit the ground running. Like many editors, Letitia entered the profession …

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