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Reflections on Mentorship

August 16, 2022 | Filed under: Mary Rykov

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. — Lao Tzu The mentor role is ancient and storied. Mentor, in Homer’s Odyssey, is the friend of Odysseus who tutors Telemachus, Odysseus’s son. Athena, disguised as Mentor, steers young Telemachus’s search for his father. Those ancient Greeks did spin good …

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Letter From the Editor

Dear readers, We are on a summer break at The Editors’ Weekly and plan to return to publishing in August. In the meantime, …

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Long Live Long-time Freelancing

My name is Sue, and I’m a long-time, full-time freelancer. While most of the time I’m in the trees of my business, …

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Reflections on Kindness from Early-Career Editors

For this year’s Claudette Upton Scholarship, my fellow judges — Lenore Hietkamp and David Johansen — and I selected as our question …

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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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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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