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Movie Review: Genius

Tuesday July 12, 2016

Genius is a movie about the relationship between writer Thomas Wolfe and editor Maxwell Perkins and is based primarily on A. Scott Berg’s biography, “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius” (Riverhead Trade). Perkins worked for Charles Scribner’s Sons for over 30 years. Like Canada’s Ellen Seligman, Perkins was an exacting editor. Like Seligman, his meticulous attention […]

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Virginia Durksen

Myth: It Takes a Certain Personality to Become an Editor

Tuesday March 25, 2014

Any profession draws certain personality types to it more readily than others. But just as there’s no single lawyer or doctor or teacher type, there’s more than one editor type. Editors come in all sorts. Editors can be achievers, caretakers, managers, control freaks, idea generators, intellectuals, entrepreneurs — and are often a bit of everything […]

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A Puzzling Process

Tuesday October 10, 2017

Like editing, solving puzzles is often a solitary endeavour. But not always! On the second Tuesday of every month, people get together in pubs across North America, Europe and beyond to solve puzzles at an event called Puzzled Pint. When I started going a few years ago, I never guessed that these entertaining nights out […]

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Amanda Goldrick-Jones

The Student Affiliate Book Club Gets Subversive

Tuesday December 7, 2021

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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From Editing to Writing: An Interview with Stephanie Watterson

Thursday October 16, 2025

This week, we interview Stephanie Watterson about writing and publishing her children’s book, Septopus. Want to be interviewed about your editing work? Contact us. What is your editing background? Back in 2020, during the pandemic, I took a digital and print publications program and from there I did some freelancing. My hopes were to get […]

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The Editors’ Weekly is the official English-language blog of Editors Canada. Editors Canada promotes professional editing for print and online communications. Our members include salaried and freelance editors who work in the corporate, technical, government, not-for-profit, education and publishing sectors. Authors contributing to this blog include many recognized professional Canadian editors as well as some […]

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Anne Louise Mahoney

Giving It Up for the Editing Community

Tuesday November 26, 2019

In anticipation of GivingTuesday, Anne Louise Mahoney talks about the Editors Canada awards program and the ways in which it recognizes outstanding editors. Who doesn’t love awards? They offer us a moment to pause and recognize out-of-the-ordinary accomplishments and bask in the reflected glow as colleagues, friends or fans. As editors, many of us work […]

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Thinking About Grant Editing Services? This Book Could Help

Thursday March 12, 2026

In April, the academic editing book club will meet online to discuss The Grant Writing Guide by Betty Lai. This book club is run by the Academic Editing Special Interest Group (SIG), a collaboration of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA). Picking up The Grant Writing Guide At a time when freelancers compete […]

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Jessica de Bruyn

Carving Out Your Place in Editing

Thursday April 16, 2026

I think we have all heard the adage that every writer’s path to publishing is unique. But the more I work as an editor, and the more I meet fellow editors, the more I realize that we are similarly singular in how we all found our way into the world of words. There are those […]

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