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Virginia Durksen

The Inner Editor: Introvert, Know Thyself

Tuesday November 8, 2016

Just after parlour games went out of fashion, but before Facebook, a self-employed editor might have used her idle hours for professional developments and introspections of various sorts. In particular, one such editor might have noticed that her clients had entire Human Resources departments dedicated to circulating questionnaires to help people realize who they were […]

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Margaret Sadler

The Weird and the Wonderful: The Art of Selecting Clients

Tuesday January 24, 2017

What do you do when a clearly weird and off-balance writer asks for your professional services? “Run!” is the response I got from several editor colleagues, and that has been my gut reaction, too. Such projects can often feel particularly intriguing. And sometimes there’s a sense that good money is there. But then the warning […]

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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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Mourning the Demise of Newsroom Copy Editors

Tuesday February 16, 2016

I was fortunate to get my initial on-the-job training in journalism in the days when writers worked with desk editors, copy editors and proofreaders. At least three sets of eyes perused every story after it had been written, and sometimes four or five. Three or more brains worked on massaging and polishing copy and checking […]

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Heidi Waechtler

On Community and Citizenship: How the Claudette Upton Scholarship Helped Bring My Career Into Focus

Tuesday August 7, 2018

I received the Claudette Upton Scholarship* in 2012 at a critical point in my career path: I was nearing the completion of my Master of Publishing coursework at Simon Fraser University and preparing to move from Vancouver to Toronto to take on a summer editorial internship at McClelland & Stewart. Looking back, six years later, […]

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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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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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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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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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