Date Posted: Monday October 3, 2016 News type: Awards , News release
Greystone Books associate publisher receives Karen Virag Award Toronto, October 3, 2016—Nancy Flight of Vancouver, BC, is the winner of the inaugural Karen Virag Award, which recognizes exceptional efforts by an individual or organization to raise the profile of editing in their community. The award is named for a highly accomplished member of the Editors’ Association […]
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Date Posted: Saturday October 1, 2016 News type: Member news
Editors Manitoba member Melody Rogan has won first place in the Marie Barton Postcard Fiction Award held by The Writers’ Collective of Manitoba and the Winnipeg Free Press.
Date Posted: Wednesday September 21, 2016 News type: Members-only news , National e-news update
News, events, tips and updates from Editors Canada In this issue: 1. TWIG NEWS: Edmonton and Manitoba twigs are official!2. ONLINE SPECIAL MEETING: Registration closes Friday, September 233. CERTIFICATION: Happy 10th anniversary!4. TRAIN ONLINE: 2016–17 Editors Canada webinar schedule announced5. WEBSITE: A new editors.ca is coming this fall6. VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH: Roma Ilnyckyj7. GET INVOLVED: […]
Date Posted: Thursday September 1, 2016 News type: Member news
Penelope Mavoungou (Editors Quebec/Atlantic Canada) has written Polygamiques, a collection of short stories published in 2015 by Éditions Doxa in France.
Date Posted: Monday August 1, 2016 News type: Member news
Karen Autio (Editors British Columbia) has won the 2016 Word Award for best children’s novel for her book Kah-Lan the Adventurous Sea Otter. Editors Toronto member Marnie Lamb has had her first novel accepted for publication. The History of Hilary Hambrushina, a young adult novel, will be published by Iguana Books this fall. For further information and to purchase an advance copy, […]
Date Posted: Thursday July 28, 2016 News type: Association , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, July 28, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) is pleased to announce the appointment of communications manager Michelle Ou as interim executive director of the association through November 1. The appointment follows the resignation of executive director Patrick Banville effective August 12. “We are sad to see Patrick go, but are grateful […]
Date Posted: Thursday July 28, 2016 News type: Association , Members-only news
Dear members and student affiliates, I am writing to let you know about changes at the national office. On Thursday, July 21, Patrick Banville called to tell me that he is resigning as executive director of the Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada). He is sorry to be leaving the association, but has been offered […]
Date Posted: Tuesday July 19, 2016 News type: Members-only news , National e-news update
News, events, tips and updates from Editors Canada In this issue: 1. KAREN VIRAG AWARD: Deadline for nominations is July 312. STUDENT RELATIONS: Supporting the next generation of editors3. MEMBER SERVICES: Protect yourself and your ability to earn an income4. PUBLICATIONS: Editing Canadian English, 3rd edition and Editorial Niches5. CERTIFICATION: Confessions of a pilot tester6. VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH: […]
Date Posted: Friday July 1, 2016 News type: Member news
Mary Newberry (Editors Toronto), a freelance indexer and editor residing in Toronto, is the 2016 recipient of the Ewart-Daveluy Indexing Award. The award was presented at the joint conference of the Indexing Society of Canada and American Society for Indexing in Chicago, IL, on Thursday, June 16, 2016. This award honours Mary’s indexing of The Letterbooks of […]
Date Posted: Tuesday June 28, 2016 News type: Members-only news , National e-news update
News, events, tips and updates from Editors Canada In this issue: 1. CONFERENCE 2016: A Correction Connection wraps in Vancouver2. AGM: Minutes and summary coming soon3. VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH: Tom Vradenburg4. CERTIFICATION: Your questions answered5. MEMBER SERVICES: Exit survey and request for feedback6. PARTNERSHIPS: Increased discounts for Editors Canada members7. MEMBER NEWS: A round […]
Date Posted: Wednesday June 22, 2016 News type: Association , Members-only news , National executive council
The current national executive council (NEC)’s term is drawing to a close at the end of June. What a year it has been! At its final quarterly meeting on June 9 in Vancouver, the NEC discussed a number of projects that are in the works this year: the new branch and twig tool kit, the […]
Date Posted: Monday June 13, 2016 News type: Awards , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 13, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has presented 4 national awards, including $4,500 in prize money, to 10 recipients. The ceremony took place at the association’s awards banquet on Saturday, June 11, at the Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites in Vancouver. The Editors Canada awards banquet is an annual celebration […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 13, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced that Lesley Peterson of Florence, Alabama, is the winner of the 2015 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. Peterson was awarded the $2,000 prize for her work on The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R by Ernest Robert Zimmermann, […]
Storyteller’s next chapter is a career in editing FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 13, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced that Lindsay Vermeulen of Vancouver, British Columbia, has been awarded the 2015 Claudette Upton Scholarship. The scholarship was presented at the association’s annual awards banquet in Vancouver on June 11, 2016. This scholarship is a $1,000 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 13, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced that Sandra Gravel of Québec City, Quebec, is the recipient of the 2016 Lee d’Anjou Volunteer of the Year Award. Gravel is the driving force behind the Programme d’agrément en révision linguistique – Réviseurs Canada (PARL), the country’s first French-language editing proficiency program. Gravel has […]
Date Posted: Thursday June 2, 2016 News type: Certification , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 2, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) is pleased to announce that nine editors have earned new professional certifications. This year, Editors Canada recognizes six new certified copy editors and three new certified stylistic editors. Since the launch of its landmark professional certification program in 2006, Editors Canada has awarded 245 […]
Date Posted: Wednesday June 1, 2016 News type: Member news
Editors British Columbia member Nancy Flight is the editor of Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and a Scattershot World by Brian Brett, which recently won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. She also edited That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away by Lorimer Shenher, which was a finalist for the same award. Both […]
Date Posted: Tuesday May 31, 2016 News type: Awards , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, May 31, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced the finalists for the 2015 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. The Tom Fairley Award recognizes an editor’s outstanding contribution to a work published in Canada in English or French in the award year. The $2,000 grand prize will be presented at […]
Date Posted: Friday May 20, 2016 News type: Members-only news , National e-news update
News, events, tips and updates from Editors Canada In this issue: 1. CONFERENCE: Registration ends May 272. TRAINING: Editors Canada webinars are here!3. VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH: Meagan Dyer4. GET INVOLVED: Volunteer opportunities to boost your resumé5. CERTIFICATION: Pursuing certification this year? Consider studying in a group6. PARL: French-language proficiency testing info sessions7. MEMBER NEWS: […]
Date Posted: Sunday May 1, 2016 News type: Member news
Editors Ottawa–Gatineau member Stacey D. Atkinson has published her second novel, Letters from Labrador. It’s based on a true story about a British nurse who moved to northern Labrador in the 1970s to be a midwife and who now struggles to keep her memories alive as she lives with Lewy body dementia. You can purchase the book directly […]
Date Posted: Thursday April 21, 2016 News type: Members-only news , National e-news update
News, events, tips and updates from Editors Canada In this issue: 1. CONFERENCE: Get involved and make the most of the conference2. VOLUNTEERS OF THE MONTH: Joanna Bandziorowski and Anne Godlewski3. EXTERNAL LIAISON: New discounts for partner conferences and online training4. CERTIFICATION: Spotlight on the proofreading test5. MEMBER NEWS: A round of applause!6. MEMBER SERVICES: […]
Date Posted: Monday April 18, 2016 News type: Association , Members-only news , National executive council
Your national executive council met in Toronto on April 9–10 for our first quarterly meeting of 2016. What did you talk about? We’ve been working on a number of projects since September, so this meeting gave us a chance to see where things stand and what needs to happen next. Here are some of the […]
Date Posted: Wednesday April 6, 2016 News type: Association , News release , Partners
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, April 6, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) and the American Copy Editors Society (ACES) are pleased to announce a new national partnership between the two organizations. This collaboration will elevate the status of both organizations by expanding training and development opportunities. Members of Editors Canada can participate in ACES webinars and online training […]
Date Posted: Friday April 1, 2016 News type: Member news
On March 17, Alain Lafond, an author from the greater Montreal area, launched his latest book, Le forgeron du destin, the third and final installment in his supernatural thriller series. Sophie Pallotta (Editors Quebec/Atlantic Canada) had the pleasure of editing this book, and of presenting the author at the launch, as a friend and close collaborator. Along with […]