THE EDITORS' WEEKLY

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Suzanne Bowness

Long Live Long-time Freelancing

July 5, 2022 by Suzanne Bowness | 7 Comments on Long Live Long-time Freelancing

My name is Sue, and I’m a long-time, full-time freelancer. While most of the time I’m in the trees of my business, once in a while I zoom out to the forest and think about how different my way of working has been from that of other people. For 20 years, I’ve been the only […]

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Letitia Henville

Reflections on Kindness from Early-Career Editors

June 28, 2022 by Letitia Henville | 3 Comments on Reflections on Kindness from Early-Career Editors

For this year’s Claudette Upton Scholarship, my fellow judges — Lenore Hietkamp and David Johansen — and I selected as our question for nominees’ reflection, “How might kindness be part of the editor’s career?” We chose this question for a number of reasons: our own current thinking about our business practices, the difficulty in coming […]

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Lynne Williams

Safety and Respect: A Look at Editors Canada’s Workplace Harassment Policy

June 21, 2022 by Lynne Williams | Leave a Comment

In March, the Canadian Labour Congress released findings from a national survey on workplace harassment. It was the first of its kind in Canada and revealed that 7 in 10 workers have experienced some form of harassment at work. The study’s researchers also found an increase in online harassment since the start of the pandemic, […]

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Laura Bontje

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

June 14, 2022 by Laura Bontje | 2 Comments on On Editing an Editor: Margaret Kingsbury and Laura Bontje in Conversation

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 together as critique partners. Laura […]

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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

Practical Ways to Help Ukraine from Canada

June 7, 2022 by Tanya Mykhaylychenko | 1 Comment on Practical Ways to Help Ukraine from Canada

Tanya Mykhaylychenko, a regular contributor to The Editors’ Weekly, grew up in Ukraine and witnessed the first weeks of the war in February and March. In this post, she shares her experience and recommends resources that can help people learn more about Ukrainian culture, the latest news and ways to donate. Many of you may […]

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Berna Ozunal

Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards: Part 3

May 31, 2022 by Berna Ozunal | Leave a Comment

Past, Present and Future — One Editor’s Perspective This is the final post in a three-part series about my thoughts and experiences as they pertain to Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) and my ongoing work with the Editors Canada standards committee. In Part 2, I asked how PES might help us prepare for the […]

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Amy J. Schneider

Amy J. Schneider: An Editor’s Top 3

May 24, 2022 by Amy J. Schneider | 1 Comment on Amy J. Schneider: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Amy J. Schneider has been a full-time freelance copyeditor and proofreader of fiction and non-fiction and the owner of Featherschneider Editorial Services since 1995. Since 2012 Amy has written articles and presented in-person and online sessions on […]

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Chantelle Behrens

An Interview with Jen Campbell, Editors Canada Conference Keynote Speaker

May 17, 2022 by Chantelle Behrens | Leave a Comment

Jen Campbell is a bestselling author, award-winning poet and disability advocate. She has written 10 books for children and adults, spanning nonfiction, poetry, short stories and picture books. She reviews books on BBC Radio, is the books editor for TOAST Magazine, has an iTunes top 100 podcast called BOOKS WITH JEN and runs a YouTube […]

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Miriam Bergeret

A New Editing Community Emerges: Neurodivergent Editors

May 10, 2022 by Miriam Bergeret | 2 Comments on A New Editing Community Emerges: Neurodivergent Editors

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 differences in brain structure and […]

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Aerin Caley

An Interview with Lorina Stephens, Editors Canada Conference Keynote Speaker

May 3, 2022 by Aerin Caley | Leave a Comment

Lorina Stephens didn’t start her career in writing and publishing. She has been a manager and bookkeeper for companies as diverse as a civil engineering firm, Faberge of Canada, and her own custom glass installation company. She has also created and sold historically accurate clothing patterns and has explored other arts such as sculpture, printmaking […]

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