This year we’ve curated a lineup of cutting-edge sessions for editors in every stage of their careers. This year, we will have an increased focus on vital skills to navigate the editing industry including AI tools, project management software, marketing without social media, mindful time management and diversity and inclusion best practices.
Featured Sessions
Our conference sessions will explore a wide range of topics, including the following:
- Letitia Henville will lead Content Marketing: How to Develop, Craft and Circulate High-Value Content Without Using Social Media. Participants in this session will come away with strategies to form their own marketing plans without relying solely on ever-changing social media platforms.
- Amber Riaz will lead Switching Style Sheets: Some Suggestions to Help You Stay Sane When Switching Style Guides, which explores the different Englishes freelance editors often work with and provides suggestions for keeping track of the many variances.
- Zanne Klingenberg will lead Neurodivergent Editing: Accommodating Yourself and Others, where attendees will learn new strategies for accommodating our neurodivergent selves, coworkers and clients.
- Mudita S will lead Accepting AI: Leveraging ChatGPT to Become a Better Editor, a session for sharpening editors’ AI skills.
- Iva Cheung will lead Advocating for Editing: A Guided Discussion. Attendees will explore how we can establish a presence in policy making to raise awareness of the benefits and necessity of editing as a tool of democracy, history and accessibility.
Visit the conference website to see all of our conference sessions and speakers.
Editors Canada Strategic Plan
This year, we will also be welcoming Editors Canada’s strategic planning team to give a session on the future of Editors Canada as Canada’s leading professional association for editors.
Sneak Peek: Editors at a group workout?
This year, in the spirit of holding a Vancouver conference, we will be offering attendees a chance to connect over a workout class. Stay tuned for more information!
Speed Mentoring
Our famous speed mentoring sessions will be back in full force for this year’s conference! This is a great opportunity for early to mid-career editors to consult industry leaders on navigating a career in editing. It’s a great way to build your network and learn more about the editing community.
Visit the conference website to see all of our conference sessions and speakers.
Accommodation
Please be aware that hotel and AirBnB accommodation in Vancouver is expensive and books up early, especially during the summer tourist / cruise ship season. We advise booking your room as early as possible.
Find a roommate
This year, the conference committee has organized a discord group where attendees can meet potential roommates for the duration of the conference.
Join the discord group to get started on finding a roommate for this year’s conference.
Hotel Discount Codes
1. Delta Hotels Vancouver Downtown Suites
This hotel is next to the conference venue.
2. Coast Coal Harbour Vancouver Hotel by APA
Located at 1180 W Hastings St, this hotel is a 13 minute walk to the conference venue.
3. Blue Horizon Hotel
Located at 1225 Robson St, this hotel is a 22 minute walk to the conference venue.
4. Holiday Inn & Suites Vancouver Downtown
Located at 1110 Howe St, this hotel is a 22 minute walk from the conference venue.
Visit the conference website for more information on accommodations and navigating the area around the conference venue.
Show your employer that you’re invested in building your skill set
Are you a full-time editor interested in attending the conference for professional development? We’ve put together an email template that you can share with your employer, outlining the benefits of attending this skill-building conference. The editing industry is seeing major shifts with the emergence of AI, changing diversity and inclusion best practices, and new professional editorial standards. Reach out to your employer about attending Editors 24 so you can expand your skill set and enhance your performance at work.
Registration
This year’s conference, Editors 24: Present Progressive, will take place from June 21 to 23 at the Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. Network with editors, writers, communication professionals and small business owners from a wide range of fields. Sign up now to get a head start on planning your conference experience!
This year, we are anticipating a fuller return to in-person conferencing. Editors Canada is committed to hosting a safe and healthy conference and sanitation stations will be available outside of all session halls and at group events.
Early-bird pricing
Our early bird pricing is available until April 25, 2024. Spaces are limited, so sign up now to secure your spot.
Promo Codes
Student Affiliates: STUDENTAFFEAC24
Partner Orgs: PARTNEREAC24
Prices
● Editors Canada members: $399 ($499 as of April 25)
● Partner organization members: $399 ($499 as of April 25)
● Student affiliates: $249
● Non-members: $599 ($699 as of April 25)
Keynote speakers
Editors 2024 is delighted to announce two amazing keynote speakers.
Amber Riaz (she/her)
Amber Riaz works part-time at the Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank as an Editorial Assistant, where she supports the publishing team in preparing reports for publication and performing other administrative duties as needed. In addition, Amber edits academic books, journal articles, and dissertations/ theses mostly in the humanities and social sciences through her own freelance editing business—A4 Editing. Amber is a member of Editors Canada, the current chair of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, and a volunteer project coordinator for the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)–Vancouver. She is passionate about matters of inclusion and diversity as they apply to the publishing industry and works hard to keep up with discussions about conscious language and its use in manuscripts. In her spare time, she loves to read fiction, knit, hike, and experiment with fusion cooking.
Adrienne Montgomerie (they/them)
“An awesomer of hard words” is how Adrienne describes themself. You probably know them as SciEditor, or the one who tells you to raise your rates, that perfection isn’t scientifically possible, and that there’s an easier way through MS Word. Or maybe you know them as an avid sea kayaker or hand feeder of blue jays and wild turkeys. Adrienne has been a freelance editor of technical materials like manuals and textbooks in the so-called hard sciences, maths, and software since 1997. Since 2012, they’ve been teaching privately and in editing programs at major universities, including Simon Fraser! Adrienne won both the Virag and d’Anjou awards, and is a certified copy editor hailing from the traditional lands of the Huron Wendat, Ojibwe and Haudenosaunee peoples at the eastern tip of Lake Ontario.
Conference theme
Presenting the theme of the 2024 Editors Canada conference: Present Progressive: Passion, Precision and Purpose.
The pervasive stereotype is that editors are pedantic, pretentious and perhaps even pugnacious pencil pushers. This conference committee plans to protest this presumption by presenting programming that promotes the pleasure, pride and personal connection our work brings, while also plunging into professional development to future-proof our proficiency. Please pack your puns, peers! We’ll prepare the party.
Brought to you by the letter P and our 2024 conference chairs.
Want to sponsor Editors 24?
Interested in reaching editors, writers, communication professionals and small business owners? There are plenty of sponsorship and advertising opportunities at Editors 24. Please send an email to sponsorship@editors.ca for more information.
Join the conversation
We can’t wait to see you in person this June. Join our Facebook group or follow us on X (Twitter) @EditorCon and @ReviseursCon for updates about the conference program. Be sure to use the hashtag #Editors24 and #Reviseurs24 to let us know you’ll be there!
Thank you to our generous sponsors!
