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Lessons from the Big Buddha

Tuesday August 6, 2019

A recent family adventure took me to Phuket’s Big Buddha. As the name suggests, this marvel is a giant Buddha stretching 45 metres into the sky, overlooking the Andaman Sea. One of the top tourist sites on the island, the Buddha sits peacefully on his mountaintop, his white Burmese jade marble body glinting in the sun. […]

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Illustration of a long-haired person sitting on a stack of oversized books, smiling as they look into an open book displaying an image of Saturn.

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Heather Romanowski

Four Tips for Editing Science Fiction

Thursday January 16, 2025

Science fiction has been around for more than a century and has continued to evolve decade by decade. From Dragonriders of Pern to Gideon the Ninth, there is a robust science fiction industry, which is a lot to take in. It can be pretty daunting to step into a space with so much going on. […]

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Alvaro Miranda

An Editor’s First Academic Conference

Monday March 10, 2025

In the first week of 2025, historians swarmed Midtown Manhattan for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), one of the largest associations of historians in the world. While I hold a master’s in modern European history, I’m a relatively new freelance proofreader and copyeditor. I attended the conference hoping to learn more […]

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Several books on a dark surface, one labelled “English”, with a Canadian flag and large A, b, c, and z letters off to the side. (Copyright: monkographic © 123RF.com)

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Natalia Iwanek

Multilingual Editing: Hybridity, Non-Normativity and Resistance

Thursday February 5, 2026

Picture the scene A then-young, future editor happily plays in a park with their caregiver, both recent arrivals from a distant political-economic system in the midst of collapse. The word “Canada” in cursive proudly extends across their brand-new sweatshirt. “Speak English,” a nearby voice shouts. And so, a lifelong deconstruction of language, of difference and […]

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Melva McLean

An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 1

Tuesday July 15, 2014

Novelist’s Boot Camp Travel Writing Boot Camp Dissertation Writing Boot Camp Resume Writing Boot Camp Children’s Picture Book Boot Camp Okay, STOP. Right there! Seriously? What could be less suited to boot camp than a kid’s picture book? What’s next? And when did the words “boot camp,” i.e., “a military training camp for new recruits, […]

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General EAC

Summer Reading/Listening Series 2021: Part 2

Tuesday July 20, 2021

Some of the best book and podcast recommendations come from fellow editors. In a continuation of our summer series, we’ve asked two more members of our blog committee to share their latest picks. Sue Bowness Sue is the director of communications for Editors Canada, a freelance writer and editor at Codeword Communications and a part-time writing professor […]

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Anne Louise Mahoney

Learning to Love Style Sheets

Thursday November 9, 2023

As a copy editor, how do you feel about creating a style sheet for each project you work on? I’ve found myself in each of these camps at various times, depending on how busy my work schedule is, how complex the project is, how confident I’m feeling and what clients expect. With practice, though, I’ve […]

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General EAC Laura Bontje

Goodbyes and Hellos: Changes to Our Editorial Team

Thursday July 4, 2024

It’s been many years since I was in school, yet July still feels like a time of transition — a month where one grade has ended and a new one is on the horizon. So it seems fitting that we’re celebrating this year’s “graduating class” of Editors’ Weekly team members in July and welcoming our […]

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Suzanne Schaan

The SME and Me: Navigating an Edit with a Subject Matter Expert

Thursday May 7, 2026

The first publishing company I worked for had an in-house newsletter that included photos from sales meetings, recipes, updates on the company baseball team (the Weasels) and random pieces on diverse topics. One of my contributions was titled something like, “How to impress at cocktail parties.” (Unfortunately, I can’t find the original; I hope the […]

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Kristina Lundberg

Rising Above the Plateau: Mid-Career PD for Editors

Tuesday January 22, 2013

Every fall I struggle with the professional development plan I’m required to submit to my employer. My first decade in editing was brimming with formal and informal professional development, and my professional growth was steep. Fourteen years into my career, how can I rise above the PD plateau and continue to grow? Of course, in editing there’s […]

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