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Reflections on Kindness from Early-Career Editors

June 28, 2022 | Filed under: Letitia Henville

For this year’s Claudette Upton Scholarship, my fellow judges — Lenore Hietkamp and David Johansen — and I selected as our question for nominees’ reflection, “How might kindness be part of the editor’s career?” We chose this question for a number of reasons: our own current thinking about our business …

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Safety and Respect: A Look at Editors Canada’s Workplace Harassment Policy

In March, the Canadian Labour Congress released findings from a national survey on workplace harassment. It was the first of its kind …

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On Editing an Editor: Margaret Kingsbury and Laura Bontje in Conversation

Editing a first-time author calls for a blend of sharp-eyed clarity, cheerleading and hand-holding. What if the author is also an editor? …

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Practical Ways to Help Ukraine from Canada

Tanya Mykhaylychenko, a regular contributor to The Editors’ Weekly, grew up in Ukraine and witnessed the first weeks of the war in …

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Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards: Part 3

Past, Present and Future — One Editor’s Perspective This is the final post in a three-part series about my thoughts and experiences …

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Amy J. Schneider: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Amy J. Schneider has …

Jen Campbell

An Interview with Jen Campbell, Editors Canada Conference Keynote Speaker

Jen Campbell is a bestselling author, award-winning poet and disability advocate. She has written 10 books for children and adults, spanning nonfiction, …

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A New Editing Community Emerges: Neurodivergent Editors

The pandemic has tested our mental health time and again and taken it to its limits. It has also led to more …

Lorina Stephens

An Interview with Lorina Stephens, Editors Canada Conference Keynote Speaker

Lorina Stephens didn’t start her career in writing and publishing. She has been a manager and bookkeeper for companies as diverse as …

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Three Ways Long-term Clients Make Freelancing Less Stressful

A lot of creative professionals become freelancers because it gives them the freedom to work on projects they enjoy, make their own …

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