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Introducing the Career Development Hub

Thursday March 5, 2026

Have you heard? Editors Canada has launched a subsite called the Career Development Hub (the Hub), a user-friendly webpage for members that collects career-building resources for all types of editors, in all industries and at all stages, whether student affiliate or advanced. In this post, Alex Benarzi, Lynne Melcombe and Holly Vestad explain how the […]

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DISPATCHES 2: What’s in an Internship?

Tuesday April 2, 2013

When I enrolled at Ryerson in the fall of 2011, I took as many editing courses as I could. Copy editing, proofreading, grammar, substantive editing…. The more courses I took, the more I loved working with words. After years of university, here I was, finally surrounded by people who thought exactly as I did. People […]

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Editors and Self-Publishing Authors

Tuesday June 25, 2013

As editors, we must break out of our anonymous shell and shout our virtues loudly and clearly for writers to hear. We’ve all heard the stories: a few authors who self-publish do extremely well, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, while the majority have little success, bringing in less than $500 all told. […]

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Lessons Learned From Eminem, David Ogilvy and a Sex Hotline

Tuesday April 29, 2014

It all started respectably enough. Publishing courses at Ryerson, EAC workshops and conferences, the Banff Book Editing Workshop. I’ve had rock-solid editorial training. So what have a rap artist, an ad man and a sex hotline taught me about writing and editing? Some pretty useful things, it turns out. Eminem: Write and edit like a […]

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Why Reading Is a Great Hobby for an Editor/Writer

Tuesday June 10, 2014

The biographies of skilled communicators often reveal a lifelong, serious reading habit. I don’t think this is a coincidence. I have read constantly and voraciously since the age of five, and I give that habit (addiction?) a lot of the credit for the writing and editing skills I have developed. Reading makes you smart Those […]

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Editing Goes Global: A British Perspective

Tuesday August 11, 2015

I still vividly remember my first experience of an editorial conference. I came away with a very strong sense of belonging and of being part of a community. I probably learned some useful facts or techniques, but more importantly I was able to have discussions with colleagues and make strong connections with a number of […]

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Attending Conferences at Home and Abroad? Aye!

Tuesday July 11, 2017

For editors, industry conferences are like chicken soup for the soul. Editing can be a lonely profession, but combining learning with camaraderie is a spirit-boosting elixir. Many of us are still brimming with ideas and newfound confidence following June’s 2017 Editors Canada conference in Gatineau. Such learning and networking need not stop with membership in […]

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Comfort Zones

Tuesday November 14, 2017

This past August, the much-anticipated arrival of my Chicago Manual of Style v. 17 was overshadowed by the arrival of my first child. My due-in-September baby decided she was more Leo than Virgo, and made her appearance in the world a month early. Her little body wasn’t quite prepared for the outside world, and we […]

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Editorial Self-Care: Managing Life Changes

Tuesday April 2, 2019

As editors, we tend to comfort ourselves by thinking that we have everything under control, because what is editing? It’s controlling the words. But control is an illusion. Style guides change. Our lives change. Life changes greatly affect the quality of our editing and our lives. What life changes might you expect? Your financial situation […]

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