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Jasmine Peteran

Book Review: Networking for Freelance Editors

February 8, 2022 by Jasmine Peteran | 2 Comments on Book Review: Networking for Freelance Editors

For many of us out here in the freelance world, networking can feel like a chore. But Networking for Freelance Editors: Practical Strategies for Networking Success taught me two key things that turned a chore into a worthwhile challenge. For starters, activities I’m already doing willingly and regularly can become effective networking tactics with the […]

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Berna Ozunal

Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards: Part 1

February 1, 2022 by Berna Ozunal | Leave a Comment

Past, Present and Future — One Editor’s Perspective This is 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 1, I’ll give some historical context of PES and discuss my involvement with PES and […]

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Lucy Payette

January Is Mentoring Month: How Are We Doing?

January 25, 2022 by Lucy Payette | 4 Comments on January Is Mentoring Month: How Are We Doing?

In a nod to mentoring month, a movement formally recognized in the U.S. and gaining traction in Canada, let’s reflect on mentoring in the editing industry. Much has been written about mentoring in The Editors’ Weekly over the years, including the most recent post by Jennifer D. Foster on the benefits of mentorship, stories of […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Maxie Bai Martin

January 18, 2022 by Becky Heaman | Leave a Comment

The Editors Canada student relations committee completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, Becky Heaman shared the committee’s interview with […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Editing in the Time of Covid

January 11, 2022 by Rosemary Shipton | 8 Comments on Editing in the Time of Covid

As we enter 2022, it’s time to ask how editors have fared during the pandemic and what lies ahead. When the world as we knew it suddenly shut down in March 2020, we feared for our health and our livelihoods, uncertain what might transpire. How have we done? For most editors, it seems, work continued […]

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Lucy Payette

Searching for the Positive Side of Change

December 21, 2021 by Lucy Payette | 2 Comments on Searching for the Positive Side of Change

Many of my conversations of late have started with “I would have thought by now we would be … ” or “I’m not sure what the next few months will bring ….” This past year has been called many things: the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle, the second year of COVID. Whatever you call this […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Iva Cheung

December 14, 2021 by Becky Heaman | 1 Comment on Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Iva Cheung

The Editors Canada student relations committee completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, Becky Heaman shared the committee’s interview […]

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Amanda Goldrick-Jones

The Student Affiliate Book Club Gets Subversive

December 7, 2021 by Amanda Goldrick-Jones | Leave a Comment

The brand-new student affiliate book club chose Carol Fisher Saller’s The Subversive Copy Editor (2nd edition, 2016) as its first book for discussion. We were intensely curious — especially those in the club who are early-career editors — about what “subversive” editing meant. In October, we met online to review “Part 1: Working with the […]

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Support for Editing and Publishing on Giving Tuesday

November 30, 2021 by admin | Leave a Comment

Written with files from Zofia Laubitz, Editors Canada awards coordinator. Today is Giving Tuesday. Described as the “opening day of the giving season,” it is a time when charities, companies and individuals rally for their favourite causes. It’s a perfect time to consider supporting the editing community. Ways to support the editing community Support editors […]

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Jennifer D. Foster

The Benefits of Mentorship

November 23, 2021 by Jennifer D. Foster | Leave a Comment

Being a freelance editor and writer is — more often than not — a solo experience, and participating in mentorships can help ease the sense of isolation many of us experience. That’s one of the reasons I became a mentor a decade ago. I’ve been mentoring novice and/or transitioning editors via Editors Canada since 2012, […]

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