News, events, tips and updates from Editors Canada
In this issue:
- TRAINING: Don’t miss our final webinars of 2025!
- TOM FAIRLEY AWARD: Submit your nomination
- CONFERENCE: Submit a session proposal!
- HAVE YOUR SAY: Membership consultation on President’s Award nominations
- MEMBER DISCOUNTS: Save 60% on the Literary Review of Canada
- ACADEMIC EDITING: Upcoming events
- CAREER BUILDER: Hub update
- THE EDITORS’ WEEKLY: Market your skills while sharing your knowledge
- PUBLICATIONS: New formats of Professional Editorial Standards now available
- MEMBER NEWS: A round of applause!
- NEC: Notes from your national executive council
1. TRAINING: Don’t miss our final webinars of 2025!
The fall season is coming to a close, and so is our fall webinar season. You still have a chance to catch a live webinar with us this year by checking out our December sessions:
- December 2: Editors as the Premium Option: Finding and Serving High-Value Clients Post AI (Catie Phares)
- December 4: Between Worlds, With Care: Conscious Editing from a Métis Perspective (Délani Valin)
Don’t miss out—use your 40% off member discount before the year ends! Register now on our webinars page, where you can also find past recorded webinars on topics like copy editing, marketing your business, self-care strategies and much more.
Plus, plan ahead for professional development in 2026 with SFU
Our friends at Simon Fraser University Continuing Studies offer a wide range of flexible online courses for professional communicators. Register now for courses beginning in January, including:
- Technical Writing and Editing
- Writing and Editing for the Web
- Introduction to Public Relations
- Strategic Communication
- Plain Language Principles
- Research, Analysis and Information Design
2. TOM FAIRLEY AWARD: Submit your nomination
It’s our time to shine
Editing might be an invisible art, but that doesn’t mean great editors should hide in the shadows. Help us shine a spotlight on editing excellence by submitting a nomination for the 2026 Tom Fairley Award.
The $2,000 grand prize will be presented to the winner at Editors Canada’s national conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on May 22, 2026. In recognition of their outstanding editorial performance, the finalists will also receive cash awards of $500 each. These cash prizes are made possible by Editors Canada and its generous donors.
The deadline to submit your completed nomination form is Friday, January 30, 2026.
Please spread this message far and wide. Nominees don’t have to be members of Editors Canada and self-nominations are encouraged.
For complete nomination instructions and other information about the award, visit the Tom Fairley Award page.
More than books
Editors know that the fine art of editing extends beyond books and print media. While the Tom Fairley Award has been awarded to many outstanding book editors since it was created in 1983, we encourage nominations for a variety of written projects. Whether it’s a magazine, a corporate or government report, software documentation or a book, we want to hear about it. When it comes to editing, the variety of material is limitless!
3. CONFERENCE: Submit a session proposal!
The 2026 Editors Canada conference committee is now accepting session proposals!
The theme of Editors26 is Editing in the Age of Misinformation. Sessions may be offered in English, French or both. Sessions will be one hour long, including time for introductions, breakout discussions or other activities, and Q&A.
To apply, please fill out and submit a session proposal form. All completed proposals must be received by Friday, January 9, 2026.
Conference registration is free for speakers!
Never been a speaker before? If you have an idea you’d like to explore, please don’t disqualify yourself based on presentation experience. We’d love to hear from you! Feel free to share this call for speakers with your other networks as well.
If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please email info@editors.ca.
Editors26 will take place Thursday, May 21, to Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Dalhousie University’s downtown campus.
For more information, visit our conference website.
4. HAVE YOUR SAY: Membership consultation on President’s Award nominations
We’re collecting the opinions of Editors Canada members and student affiliates about the number of supporters required for President’s Award nominations.
Learn more about the President’s Award consultation.
The deadline to complete the poll and to submit feedback by email is Friday, December 12, 2025.
Thank you for taking part in this consultation! We’re excited to see where the discussion leads.
National Executive Council
Editors Canada
5. MEMBER DISCOUNTS: Save 60% on the Literary Review of Canada
With over 250 reviews per year, the Literary Review of Canada covers everything from history, fiction, science and politics to health, economics, poetry, culture, philosophy and biography. Plus, in every issue you’ll enjoy poetry from seasoned and emerging writers.
Subscribe now for one year—that’s 10 issues—for only $35!
Visit the member services section of the website to get this special offer for Editors Canada members and student affiliates.
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6. ACADEMIC EDITING: Upcoming events
Coffee Chat
Monday, December 8, 2025, at 4 p.m., PST / 7 p.m., EST
Topic: Accessibility
Join us for a stress-free chat with colleagues to exchange practical tips, strategies and tools for accessibility in editing. Take a short break and gain actionable insights you can apply immediately to your next project.
Hosted by Carla Morris and Dawn Jones
To register, email academic.editing@editors.ca
Book Club
Get ready to deepen your professional expertise with our 2026 Academic Editing book club lineup! Connect with fellow academic editors, writers and educators to learn new approaches and exchange insights that will advance your work and professional growth. Now’s the perfect time to grab a copy and get reading! Event details will be announced soon.
- February: The Copy Editor’s (Life)Style Guide – Maintaining Your Joy (and Sanity) in a Rapidly Changing Profession by Jamaal Pittman
- April: The Grant Writing Guide – A Road Map for Scholars by Betty Lai
- June: They Say / I Say by Gerald Graff & Cathy Birkenstein
- September: Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers by Laura Portwood-Stacer
- November: Academic Writing as if Readers Matter by Leonard Cassuto
We welcome anyone who wants to write blog posts and/or lead discussions. Email edit@jennrossiter.com if you’re interested!
7. CAREER BUILDER: Hub update
The career builder committee is excited to share an update on the progress of the Career Development Hub (the Hub), a project that’s been in the making since 2021. Built on the previous “Find work” page on the Editors Canada site, the Hub is a comprehensive, members-only space aiming to create a refreshed, user-friendly, and one-stop destination for our members to build a career in editing. The web page will bring together a wide range of internal and external resources, including webinars and training materials from Editors Canada, blog posts from The Editors’ Weekly, and curated links to career and job-related sites. We are in the design phase now and should have more updates for you soon about its launch. Keep an eye on your inbox!
Join the team
The career builder committee is looking for a volunteer to help keep the Career Development Hub updated! Tasks include monitoring the suggestion box, sourcing new and relevant material, occasionally verifying the hyperlinks and more. No web development experience required. If this sounds interesting, please contact the chair, Holly Vestad, for more information.
8. THE EDITORS’ WEEKLY: Market your skills while sharing your knowledge
Want to increase your online visibility? Write an article for The Editors’ Weekly in 2026! Maybe you have a niche we haven’t covered before, or you tried something new in your practice, or you just have something about editing you love to discuss. We want to hear it. Submit your idea any time to blog@editors.ca!
9. PUBLICATIONS: New formats of Professional Editorial Standards now available
Microsoft Word and EPUB formats of the 2024 edition of Professional Editorial Standards are now available! These new formats join the PDF and web versions of the Standards. Visit the Editors Canada website to download them for free now
Publication of the new formats is intended to support accessibility initiatives, and the EPUB format was developed using the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP) accessibility template.
The standards committee welcomes feedback related to these formats at standards@editors.ca.
10. MEMBER NEWS: A round of applause!
Carla DeSantis, Editors Toronto member, editor, translator and indexer, has a joint publication in production with Brepols, forthcoming in January 2026: Folchinus de Borfonibus, Divisiones et Memorialia, ed. Harald Anderson, Carla DeSantis, and Claudia Pagliari, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 201A, Brepols. This volume is the critical edition and study of Folchino dei Borfoni’s medieval Latin divisions and summaries of classical authors, and the second volume (CCCM 201A) of this grammarian’s medieval teaching texts. Carla is the sole author/editor of the first volume (CCCM 201), Cremonina (Grammatica, orthographia et prosodia).
Editors Canada Member News is where we share information about members and affiliates who win awards, publish books and make their mark in other important ways.
Do you have an achievement you’d like to share? Are you excited about a new project or opportunity that has come your way? Let us tell the world all about it! Please send your stories to the member news coordinator.
11. NEC: Notes from your national executive council
The 2025–26 national executive council (NEC) met for the first time on Sunday, October 5, 2025. This meeting combined the standard September and October agendas. Updates were given on all projects and the discussion centered on filling vacant roles and the upcoming member consultations on the Strategic Plan and President’s award procedures.
With these consultation procedures underway, we would like to remind members of the importance of providing feedback. This is your chance to have your say!
Editors Canada relies on the work of our valued and dedicated volunteers. If you would like to help out, the following positions are open:
- Director, Volunteer relations
- Member, Honorary life membership evaluation committee
Please reach out if interested!
The next NEC meeting is Sunday, November 30, 2025. Updates from the meeting will be shared in an upcoming e-news bulletin.
Kaitlin Littlechild
President
The national e-news update is produced on behalf of the national executive council by the national office.