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Introducing Editors Canada’s Virtual Training Day

Join us for Editors Canada’s Virtual Training Day! This is a conference-style day-long event with curated training and networking to enhance your editing skills and keep you competitive in the job market. Training Day sessions will be available for individual purchase at regular member and non-member pricing. The full Training Day package includes exclusive access to our networking sessions, as well as a discounted rate for the full day (when compared with purchasing individual sessions). 

Save the date

This event will be held virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, from 8:45 a.m., ET to 5:45 p.m., ET. All training sessions will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event. 

Schedule

8:45 a.m. – 9:25 a.m., ET
Good Morning Wellness Networking

Have a coffee and chat with your colleagues about some of your most relaxing or energizing morning routines. 

9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m., ET 
Roundtable: Finding Work with Letitia Henville, Marion Soubliere and Lara Hinchberger

Are you struggling to find work in the current job market? Join us for a four-part roundtable about finding freelance, in-house and government work as an editor. 

Finding freelance work (20 mins): Letitia Henville will present her tips and tricks for finding freelance editing work, focusing on new freelancers and established freelancers seeking work in the short, medium and long terms.

Finding in-house work (20 mins): Lara Hinchberger will present no tricks, but a few tips for finding in-house work! This will include some resources for making contacts, building skills and investigating publishing adjacent experience.

Winning Government of Canada contracts (20 mins): Marion Soublière will explain how sole proprietors can sell directly to the Government of Canada—no matter where they are in Canada or whether they offer bilingual services.

Audience Q&A (30 mins): All three presenters will take questions from the audience.  

11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., ET
Webinar: Strategic Pricing in the Changing Market with Erica Machulak

Thinking and talking about money takes practice. Most emerging freelancers and independent consultants struggle with deciding what to charge, negotiating their rates, and aligning their value with their values. As businesses grow, neither services nor client needs remain static. This webinar is designed to help editors decide what they want, ask for what they’re worth, and use pricing as a point of entry to build strong client relationships and a sustainable business model.

1:15 p.m. – 1:40 p.m., ET
Good Afternoon Challenge Networking 

Join us for a post-lunch regroup and connect with your colleagues about some of the challenges you’ve recently faced in your editing career. 

1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m., ET 
Panel: Running an Editorial Agency with Erin Brenner, Janet MacMillan, Aalap Trivedi and Crystal Watanabe 

Have you ever considered starting your own editing agency? Would you like to work with an editing agency and wonder how that works? Join this introductory session with seasoned editing agency owners to learn more. Erin, Janet, Aalap and Crystal will each give a brief presentation on their agency model and then there will be time for questions.

3 p.m. – 4 p.m., EDT
Webinar: Using AI Tools Without Letting Them Use You with Emily Faubert

Generative AI is often presented to editors as just another new tool—a way to write faster, edit more efficiently and meet client demands in an increasingly competitive landscape. But what do we find when we look closer?

This webinar will explore how generative AI intersects with global systems of extraction, inequality and power consolidation—and what editors must consider in response. From the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials to the physical labour and land use that sustain the AI infrastructure, we’ll go beyond the hype to examine Generative AI’s full ethical footprint.

Rather than focusing on how to use AI tools, this session will ask:
1. Who benefits from AI’s efficiencies—and who bears the cost?
2. What does editorial judgment look like in a system built to scale content, not nuance?
3. How can editors resist becoming silent partners in extractive systems?

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Identify the hidden labour, resource use and data extraction practices behind mainstream generative-AI tools.
2. Articulate the ethical tensions of editorial work on AI-generated content.
3. Recognize extractive or bias-reinforcing patterns in AI-generated language.
4. Develop a personal or client-facing framework for responsible AI engagement.

This is a call to critical consciousness for editors navigating the generative AI era—to sharpen our technical and ethical skills.

4:05 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., ET
Good Day Ultimate Networking

For your last networking session, talk to your colleagues about what you see next for your career. What do you want to change about your current work life, whether it be a direct career development or a complementary personal development? What is a new skill you’ve learned recently that will help you in that transition?

4:35 p.m. – 5:35 p.m., ET 
Webinar: Practical Accessibility for Editors with Sonya Poller

In this hands-on, thought-provoking webinar, editors will explore how everyday editorial decisions impact accessibility and how small changes can make a big difference. Participants will engage in an interactive “spot the barrier” activity, identifying and correcting accessibility issues in real-world examples. We’ll dive into the power of plain language as a tool for inclusion, challenging participants to simplify complex content without losing meaning. Finally, we’ll introduce practical accessibility tools and checkers that editors can start using immediately, building a personalized accessibility toolkit to integrate into their workflow. This session will empower editors with the awareness, skills and resources to make their content clearer, more inclusive and truly accessible for all.

Scroll down to the Training Day Presenters section to learn more about our speakers. 

Pricing 

Editors Canada Virtual Training Day Package

Members: $179
Members of partner organizations: $179
Non-members: $299

Note: If you are a member of a partner organization, please email info@editors.ca with proof of membership to access our member pricing. 

Members of the following associations pay the Editors Canada member rate.

• ACES: The Society for Editing
• Association of Registered Graphic Designers
• Canadian Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters Council
• Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec (OTTIAQ)
• Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
• Indigenous Editors’ Association
• Northwest Editors Guild
• Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd)

Individual sessions

Our networking sessions are exclusively available to Training Day registrants. The training will be sold as individual recorded sessions at the prices listed below as part of our regular 2025–2026 webinar lineup. 

Roundtable: Finding work 
Member price: $85
Non-member price: $141

Webinar: Using AI tools without letting them use you
Member price: $42
Non-member price: $70

Panel: Running an editorial agency 
Member price: $60
Non-member price: $100

Webinar: Strategic pricing in the changing market
Member price: $42
Non-member price: $70

Webinar: Practical accessibility for editors
Member price: $42
Non-member price: $70

Training Day Presenters

Roundtable: Finding Work with Letitia Henville, Marion Soubliere and Lara Hinchberger

Letitia Henville (she/her) is a book nerd, bad swimmer and the author of the monthly academic writing advice column “Ask Dr. Editor.” She specializes in editing for faculty members in the health sciences, education, social sciences and humanities, with a special focus on grant applications and tenure and promotion dossiers. She won an Editors Canada President’s Award for Volunteer Service in 2020 and in 2025. Learn more about Letitia at shortishard.ca

Ottawa writer and editor Marion Soublière has worked in journalism, public relations and communications over the years. Her one-woman shop, M.E.S. Editing and Writing Services, began landing Government of Canada contracts in 2008. Clients have included Global Affairs Canada, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Health Canada, Justice Canada, Natural Resources Canada, the Library of Parliament and others. In 2010, she published a book on federal procurement and more recently has blogged about procurement developments at The Editors’ Weekly.

Lara Hinchberger was a graduate student in Medieval History before realizing she wanted to work in publishing. She has been an editor for over twenty years, primarily in-house at what is now Penguin Random House Canada, most recently with Penguin Canada since 2017. She publishes mostly fiction, both literary and genre, and narrative non-fiction that blends the personal with larger issues.

Webinar: Strategic Pricing in the Changing Market with Erica Machulak

Erica Machulak, PhD, is a medievalist turned entrepreneur and the author of Hustles for Humanists: Build a Business with Purpose (Rutgers University Press 2025). As the Founder of Hikma, she leads a social impact startup with a mission to mobilize scholarship for the public good through consulting, capacity building, and storytelling. Over the past five years, Hikma clients have secured $12M+ in funding to create evidence-based resources and tools, inform policies, and craft accessible communications published by Forbes, the CBC and other platforms. 

Panel: Running an Editorial Agency with Erin Brenner, Janet MacMillan, Aalap Trivedi and Crystal Watanabe 

Erin Brenner is the author of The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors, a step-by-step guide that helps editors launch a freelance business and grow it to a sustainable level. Erin offers coaching and webinars to help editors on their journey to a business they love. She is also the owner of Right Touch Editing, an editorial agency that specializes in working with businesses, nonprofits, think tanks, government agencies, and more. Right Touch Editing helps clients reach their publishing goals with proven writing and editing services. Find all the places Erin is online at https://linktr.ee/erinbrenner.

Janet MacMillan (she/elle) is a non-fiction editor and has been editing since 2004. She provides professional editing services to wide variety of clients, including academics, global professional services firms, NGOs, non-profits, and businesses. Her primary fields of work are law and law-related topics (having been a lawyer in her past), international development and aid, modern history, politics, and business. She helps her clients to communicate their message in clear, plain English, ensuring that their work is accessible to their audience. Janet is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading and a member of the international editing collective, Editing Globally.

Aalap Trivedi (he/il) has been editing since 2015, primarily working on scholarly projects in economics, management and history, often working with ESL authors. He also edits technical reports and educational material for the skilled trades and for adult learners. Aalap is an Advanced Professional Member (APM) of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP).

Crystal Watanabe is the owner and lead editor for Pikko’s House, which she started in 2014. After establishing her business, which focuses on fiction, Crystal began her move to an agency-model business less than two years later, and now runs a team of eighteen, including editors, proofreaders, and beta readers. In addition to editing, Crystal is the author of the editing webcomic SimpleMarkup, and in her spare time hosts entertainment podcasts Wires from the Deep and Rom-Com Detectives.

Webinar: Using AI Tools Without Letting Them Use You with Emily Faubert

Emily Faubert (she/they) is a freelance editor and founder of M.L.E. Style Editing. With a background in journalism and community justice movements, they are a PhD student at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. Her research explores how “access” is weaponized in tech to exploit disabled users as data while simultaneously eroding labour and inclusion. Emily’s work sits at the intersection of information politics, media ethics and collective resistance.

Webinar: Practical Accessibility for Editors with Sonya Poller

Sonya Poller is a journalist with over 25 years of international experience in writing, editing, communications and project management spanning non-profit, private and public sector environments. She leads accessibility management for digital products at the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute. Her portfolio includes projects in Canada, Ireland, Germany, Japan and Guatemala. Sonya was editor of CityVoices magazine and is a freelance communications consultant for her company Bamboo Grove Publications.

Show your employer that you’re invested in developing your craft 

Are you an in-house editor interested in attending Editors Canada’s Virtual Training Day? We’ve curated this event to make your skillset suitable for the current job market so it offers invaluable training your employer should know about. You can share this email template with your employer, outlining the skills you can build with the Editors Canada Virtual Training Day.

Sponsor the Editors Canada professional development program 

Interested in reaching editors, writers, communication professionals and small business owners? Editors Canada’s training and development committee offers plenty of collaboration opportunities. If you’d like to learn about sponsorship or partnership opportunities, please send an email to info@editors.ca for more information. 

Volunteer with us 

Interested in becoming part of the action? Join Editors Canada’s training and development committee for an inside look at how we curate, program, host and promote our webinar series. Reach out to webinars@editors.ca for more information on current opportunities.

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