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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

Starting Your Editorial Blog

Tuesday December 1, 2020

Your editorial blog is an excellent tool to attract new clients, maintain relationships with existing or past clients and optimize your website for search engines. Before you start blogging, consider these two starting points: Your blog is not about you; its purpose is to answer your clients’ questions and offer valuable information. Once you develop […]

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Developing the Next Generation of Canadian Readers

Tuesday February 16, 2021

My son’s middle-school language arts teacher initiated a reading project earlier this year. The task was simple: choose a book to read with an adult and talk about it. I’m on board with the assignment. Despite my efforts, there are a few entertainment systems vying for my son’s attention. When he chose me as the […]

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Suzanne Bowness

Teaching Editing

Tuesday March 9, 2021

Explaining your craft can help clarify editing for both newcomers and clients It’s one thing to have fantastic editorial skills, to know through years of reading, then training, then working, when a sentence sounds right or a piece flows nicely. But if you’re looking to take your communications to the next level, challenge yourself to […]

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Addressing Ableism in Editing: An Interview with Amanda Leduc

Tuesday March 30, 2021

Amanda Leduc’s essays and stories have appeared in publications across Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews, U.K., and is the author of the non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Coach House Books, 2020) and the novel The […]

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Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with James Harbeck

Tuesday August 17, 2021

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently 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, S. Robin Larin shares the committee’s interview with […]

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Editing Medical-Legal Reports: An Interview with Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa

Tuesday October 19, 2021

Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa is a freelance writer and editor who specializes in editing medical-legal assessment reports. These reports comprise opinions of medical experts that are used in a legal claim context. At the Editors Canada conference on June 13, 2021, Jahleen presented “Editing Medical-Legal Reports: A Big Little Niche.” Recently, editor Merel Elsinga interviewed Jahleen to […]

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Jennifer D. Foster

The Benefits of Mentorship

Tuesday November 23, 2021

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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Rosemary Shipton

Editing in the Time of Covid

Tuesday January 11, 2022

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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Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Naomi Racz

Tuesday February 22, 2022

This is the final post in a series of interviews that the Editors Canada student relations committee completed last year with Editors Canada award winners. This month, S. Robin Larin shares the committee’s interview with Naomi Racz (Cumberland, B.C.), who was the winner of the 2020 Claudette Upton Scholarship. (This interview has been lightly edited.) […]

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