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A Proactive Approach to Diversifying Your Editing Business

Thursday April 10, 2025

The great thing about being a freelance editor is that you get to decide the scope of your work. This can also feel overwhelming: How do you know what work portfolio will feel right to you? I recently delivered a webinar for Editors Canada where I explored different methods for diversifying your editing business. I […]

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Kaitlin Littlechild

Editing With the Seasons: Indigenous Storytelling and the Rhythm of the Land

Thursday December 11, 2025

Written by Kaitlinn Littlechild on behalf of the Indigenous Editors Association In Indigenous communities, storytelling is not just a method of sharing knowledge — it is a living relationship. Stories are shaped by land, language, kinship and the cycles of the natural world. There is a time and a place for certain stories. To authentically […]

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Zoom, Zoom: Rev Up Your Editing

Tuesday June 21, 2016

How quickly can you edit and still do a good job? In another life I was an editor for a financial and business news service, and I was amazed at how quickly reporters and editors could churn out thousands of words, yet maintain high standards. I believe you can learn to write and edit rapidly; […]

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A Day in the Life of a Communications Manager: Marianne Grier

Tuesday June 1, 2021

Writing and editing career paths can take many directions. In this new “day-in-the-life” series, experienced professionals share their personal experiences and various roles related to writing, editing and communications. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email The Editors’ Weekly. What is your job? I’m an operations manager for communication and […]

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From In-House to Freelance: How Editing Changes When You Leave the Building

Thursday September 11, 2025

When I first moved from in-house editing to freelancing, I assumed the work would feel about the same — editing is editing, isn’t it? I quickly learned I was wrong. The foundation is the same, but almost everything else shifts: the writers you collaborate with, the expectations on your time and even the way you […]

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What’s an editor to do?

Tuesday February 19, 2013

Virginia Durksen recently stated in her blog post The Inner Editor: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice that an editor must “respect the writer’s voice and suggest only those changes that serve the writer first, and then the writer’s reader.” Certainly I agree; it’s a big mistake to indiscriminately apply a standardized style so firmly […]

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Read and Discuss: Elements of Indigenous Style, Second Edition

Thursday March 13, 2025

Next month, the academic editing book club will host Warren Cariou, the lead editor of the revised Elements of Indigenous Style, for a 60-minute Q&A. This book club is run by the Academic Editing Special Interest Group, a collaboration of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA). I was thrilled to have the opportunity […]

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Mentors

Tuesday October 8, 2019

Throughout my career, I’ve been influenced by many mentors. When I was first hired right out of graduate school, Meredith, the experienced editor I was replacing, spent six weeks working alongside me introducing me to the principles, techniques and subtleties of editing both a scholarly journal and my first book manuscript. As we reorganized the […]

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Interview with Cherie Dimaline

Tuesday May 16, 2017

On Saturday, June 10, Métis writer and editor Cherie Dimaline will kick off the 2017 Editors Canada conference with a keynote address. Conference co-chair Suzanne Purkis interviewed Cherie about writing, editing and some of the challenges facing Indigenous writers in Canada. 1. Does your experience as an editor influence your approach to writing? If so, how? […]

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Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Donna L. Dawson

Tuesday April 13, 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. Donna L. Dawson is the winner of […]

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