Étiquette : Claudette Upton Scholarship

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Letitia Henville

Reflections on Kindness from Early-Career Editors

juin 28, 2022 by Letitia Henville | 3 commentaires sur 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 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 practices, the difficulty in coming […]

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Anne Louise Mahoney

Giving It Up for the Editing Community

novembre 26, 2019 by Anne Louise Mahoney | 2 commentaires sur Giving It Up for the Editing Community

In anticipation of GivingTuesday, Anne Louise Mahoney talks about the Editors Canada awards program and the ways in which it recognizes outstanding editors. Who doesn’t love awards? They offer us a moment to pause and recognize out-of-the-ordinary accomplishments and bask in the reflected glow as colleagues, friends or fans. As editors, many of us work […]

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Letitia Henville

Introducing Editor and Poet Margo LaPierre

juin 25, 2019 by Letitia Henville | 2 commentaires sur Introducing Editor and Poet Margo LaPierre

“Everything’s happening at once,” laughs Margo LaPierre, the winner of the 2018 Claudette Upton Scholarship. She’s chatting with me while her husband refuels their car, three-quarters of the way through their 15-hour drive back home to Ottawa after the 2019 Editors Canada Conference in Halifax. A week before finding out the results of the competition, Margo […]

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Lindsay Vermeulen

One Step at a Time: Journey to a Dream Job

octobre 23, 2018 by Lindsay Vermeulen | 10 commentaires sur One Step at a Time: Journey to a Dream Job

I was shepherded to my first Editors BC meeting by the editing instructor from my publishing diploma, who suggested I join Editors Canada. Maybe “suggested” isn’t the right word — when she heard I hadn’t joined yet, she had the college pay my student affiliate fee, told me which meeting we were attending and went […]

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Heidi Waechtler

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

août 7, 2018 by Heidi Waechtler | 4 commentaires sur On Community and Citizenship: How the Claudette Upton Scholarship Helped Bring My Career Into Focus

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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Anita Jenkins

A Promising New Editor

juin 12, 2018 by Anita Jenkins | 2 commentaires sur A Promising New Editor

Letitia Henville of Vancouver, B.C., is the recipient of the Editors Canada 2017 Claudette Upton Scholarship,* which recognizes promising emerging editors. The “promising” part of the description definitely applies to Letitia. The “emerging” part, not so much: she has hit the ground running. Like many editors, Letitia entered the profession in a roundabout way. In […]

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