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Freelancing While Parenting Young Kids

May 25, 2023 by Laura Bontje | 7 Comments on Freelancing While Parenting Young Kids

Laura will be co-presenting “Introduction to Picture Book Editing” at Editors 23: Editors in Real Life, taking place from June 17 to 18 at Toronto Metropolitan University. Conference registration is limited, so reserve your spot now! Do you want to know the trick to keeping it together when freelancing with young kids? So do I. […]

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Your Editors Canada National Executive Council

May 18, 2023 by Heather Buzila | 4 Comments on Your Editors Canada National Executive Council

Editors Canada is a federally incorporated not-for-profit organization with around 1,300 members from Canada and around the world. There are several acceptable governance options for not-for-profit organizations; in the case of Editors Canada, it is governed by a national executive council (NEC) made up of several directors. I’d like to offer a refresher (or an […]

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Leading a Team in a Corporate Workplace

May 11, 2023 by Gael Spivak | 1 Comment on Leading a Team in a Corporate Workplace

I’ve been leading a small team of writers and editors since 2014. Here are some tips I’ve figured out over that time. Play to people’s strengths Let people do what they enjoy and are good at (as much as possible). In my workplace, writers and editors are usually assigned subject areas. That makes sense, in […]

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Letter from the Editor: A Temporary Step Back

April 13, 2023 by Beau Brock | 1 Comment on Letter from the Editor: A Temporary Step Back

Dear readers of The Editors’ Weekly, As managing editor of the blog, I wanted to inform you that I need to take a temporary hiatus from this role for personal reasons. I hope to resume this role as soon as possible. In the interim, we are finding a substitute who can ensure the posts are […]

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Easter Hiatus

April 6, 2023 by Beau Brock | Leave a Comment

Happy Thursday, everyone! We are taking a short break for the long Easter weekend. We will be back next week with a new post, so stay tuned! We hope that those of you out east who experienced the ice storm on Wednesday are safe and sound. ___ The Editors’ Weekly is the official blog of […]

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Social Media Content Management for Self-Employed Editors and Writers

March 30, 2023 by Tanya Mykhaylychenko | Leave a Comment

For self-employed editors and writers, knowing how to manage your social media content is a key ingredient for growing and maintaining your clientele. The following are some factors that need to be taken into consideration, regardless of the platform. 1. Know your audience(s) This one is obvious. Questions start coming up when you have several […]

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Combining Careers, Part Two: Rewards — Financial and Other

March 23, 2023 by Kate Merriman | Leave a Comment

In the first part of this series, I described the circumstances that led me to vocational discernment. The parish in which I was serving could not afford a full-time priest. Was there another career that I could combine with Anglican ministry? Vocational discernment revealed the intriguing possibilities offered by editing. With a mixture of trepidation […]

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Editing Indigenous Writing: A Nuanced Partnership

March 16, 2023 by Suzanne Methot | 13 Comments on Editing Indigenous Writing: A Nuanced Partnership

A lot of Indigenous writing is under-edited, because many non-Indigenous editors don’t feel like they have a way in to the text and are scared of making a mistake. Other times, it can be over-edited, because the editor has shoehorned the story into a format that reflects European values and beliefs. Some Indigenous writers are […]

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Encouraging Coworkers to See the Benefits of Editing

March 9, 2023 by Audrey Jamieson | 10 Comments on Encouraging Coworkers to See the Benefits of Editing

Working as an in-house editor often means you will be editing the work of untrained writers. You may come across colleagues who don’t want to be writing in the first place, so how do you convince them that your editing services are valuable? Sometimes you can’t. Sometimes people reject edits and say, “Scrap the whole […]

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Meeting “In Real Life”: Conference 2023

March 2, 2023 by Suzanne Bowness | 1 Comment on Meeting “In Real Life”: Conference 2023

Raise your hand if you’ve missed meeting in real life (or IRL, as the social media specialists say it). Me too. That’s why we decided to dip our toes into the world of in-person conferences after two years of virtual success, planning a two-day event to be held June 17–18, 2023, at Toronto Metropolitan University […]

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