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Tracey Anderson

Writing Coaches and Writers — “A Beautiful Synergy”: An Interview with Tanya Gold

Tuesday May 18, 2021

Tanya Gold is a book editor, writing coach, translator and literary omnivore. She’s been in publishing about 20 years and has worked on all kinds of cool books. These days, she works on fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry. It has been suggested that she reads too much for her own good. This might be true. […]

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Editing for Accessibility: Basic Best Practices

Thursday August 10, 2023

Accessibility is the lack of obstacles to obtaining, attaining or retaining something. The Accessible Canada Act, established in 2019, aims to identify, remove and prevent barriers that cause the exclusion of all persons, especially disabled persons, from various necessary aspects of life. Information and communication technologies have been identified as areas that need to meet […]

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Collaborating on a Webinar: Two Editors’ Perspectives

Thursday October 12, 2023

Katherine Morton and Letitia Henville’s webinar, “Working with Other Editors: What, Why and How,” will be presented live on October 24, 2023; the recording will be available for purchase shortly thereafter. Have you ever wanted to deliver an Editors Canada webinar but felt uncertain about taking the leap? You don’t have to leap alone — […]

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Proceed to Editors 24: Present Progressive!

Thursday March 14, 2024

A reminder… The secret’s out! Canada’s premier editing conference will be taking place in just a few short months in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. If you’ve missed the emails, Facebook invites, billboards and pointed notes left on your doorstep, please consider this your official invitation. The conference will be held from June 21 to 23 at […]

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Connect with Your Editors Canada Branch

Thursday May 1, 2025

When you join Editors Canada, you’ll become a member of a local chapter called a branch or a twig. These groups offer resources, events and a sense of community for Editors Canada members, student affiliates and non-members. What can you expect from your local group? The Editors’ Weekly has invited current and past branch and […]

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Are Book Editors an Endangered Species?

Tuesday January 29, 2013

In December 2012, the world was supposed to end, the U.S. was expected to fall off the so-called fiscal cliff, and some commentators had already pronounced Canadian publishing dead or nearly so. As we know, the world did not end, and the U.S. has avoided plunging over the fiscal cliff, at least for the time […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: What’s Translatable, What’s Not?

Tuesday July 21, 2015

If any of you copywrite, edit or translate for federal clients, you’ll know that most department, agency, union and attraction names have official translations. Department of National Defence Canadian Media Guild Canadian Museum of History National Gallery of Canada National Arts Centre Citizenship and Immigration Canada Royal Canadian Mounted Police ministère de la Défense nationale […]

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Virginia Durksen

Revisiting the Inner Editor: December Is the Cruellest Month

Tuesday November 28, 2017

Last year, we published this post on the freelancer’s holiday blues. This year, we’re following up with our readers. Have you implemented any of these ideas? Do you have other tips for avoiding the holiday lull? When projects disappear in other months, the freelance editor adjusts her schedule and cash flow projections and stoically reminds […]

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Inner Editor: My Big Editing Adventure

Tuesday July 30, 2019

The big adventure isn’t always in the story. Sometimes it’s in the editing. A few years ago I spent the morning with two classes of junior high students to talk about how to give editing feedback to each other. They were writing adventure stories. Part of their assignment was to find a magazine photo on […]

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Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Amanda Lewis

Tuesday July 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. Amanda Lewis (Vancouver, British Columbia) received the […]

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