Upcoming Webinars

Working with survivors of trauma requires sensitivity and understanding. As an editor guiding authors through their trauma-laden writing, it’s important to create a safe and supportive environment and to lead with compassion. This webinar draws from firsthand experience and trauma-informed principles to help editors understand the personal impacts of trauma and learn how to foster […]

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The Accessibility Standards Canada (ASC) Plain Language Standard began its development in 2020 and had many significant changes after its public review in 2024. ASC released the standard on October 13, 2025, International Plain Language Day. Iva Cheung and Laura Edlund, both Editors Canada members and members of Plain Language Association International (PLAIN), have been part of the ASC Plain Language Standard technical committee since it began […]

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Contracts are an important part of a freelance business because they lay out the plan for how and when you’ll get paid and help ensure that you and your clients are on the same page. Contracts also give you protection if something goes awry with a client. This session will cover the reasons to use […]

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A well-worded funding proposal can secure thousands or even millions of dollars for tech start-ups, established companies, research institutes and other STEM-focused organizations. This creates big opportunities for editors with a knack for turning complex ideas into clear, persuasive arguments. And no, you don’t need an advanced degree in engineering to add STEM proposals to […]

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Content marketing is a long-term marketing strategy that enables freelance editors to foster potential clients’ awareness of, understanding of, and trust in their skills. In this session, Letitia will draw on her experience writing the advice column “Ask Dr. Editor” for the magazine University Affairs to support academic editors to develop compelling pieces of content […]

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A research assistant for the three-year project The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernist Dance (2025) offers pointers for crafting alt-text for complex images. Photographs of dance from the mid-20th Century modernist period offer distinct challenges of description, meaning, and inference that descriptive alt-text can support. We will walk through these challenges using several example images published […]

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In this age of information overload and AI-generated content, protecting yourself means more than strong passwords—it requires a new kind of digital literacy. This session focuses on how to stay informed (and sane) in a world where the lines between fact, opinion, and fiction are increasingly blurred. Deconstruct AI Hallucinations & Bias: Understand why LLMs […]

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Your editing skills may bring in the work—but it’s your systems and processes that keep your business running smoothly. This webinar will help you take control of your admin, time and finances so you can focus more on words and less on chaos. Whether you’re new to freelancing or ready to tighten up your backend […]

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Medical expert witnesses help the court by producing reports that paint a clinical picture of an individual at the centre of a legal case. But these reports often need thorough editing and fact-checking to ensure that they are clear, credible and compelling. This webinar offers 10 practical tips for editors working with expert witnesses to […]

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There’s so much more to inclusive storytelling than conscious language. Two developmental editors will walk you through considerations, strategies and approaches to help you strengthen inclusivity at the story level and support authors in creating more inclusive fiction.   Presenters Tanya Gold (they/them) is a book editor, French to English translator, educator and literary omnivore. They’ve […]

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The book editing industry is highly competitive, whether you’re aiming to work in-house or as a freelancer. Most editors come from similar backgrounds: a degree, advanced studies in editing or publishing, and literary experience through writing or working with festivals and magazines. With the rise of AI, the editing skills you’ve spent years honing might […]

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Many editors are already seeing a drop in the amount of editing and proofreading work available because clients are turning to AI tools instead of human editors. This session will help editors explore other kinds of work that build on their existing skills and experience—work that AI can’t do. Editors at all stages of their […]

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A developmental editor offers a writer a valuable outside perspective on their writing. One key skill a developmental editor of fiction should have is the ability to read a draft and identify its emerging themes. Knowing what themes underpin the different elements of a story can help a writer to decide what belongs and what […]

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For editors who are looking to start freelancing part-time or to shift into a full-time career as a freelancer, this webinar provides an overview of the basics of setting up a business, identifying a niche and reaching out to clients. Based on Sue’s new book The Feisty Freelancer, this webinar covers the first year of […]

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Are you worried about AI’s impact on your editing career? You’re not alone. But while many editors either avoid AI entirely or wonder if they should use it for editing work, there’s a third path that’s both ethical and profitable. In this practical session, award-winning editor and business owner Erin Brenner reveals how to leverage […]

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If you love art, storytelling and wearing many hats, comic editing might be for you! And comic anthologies in particular offer editors the opportunity to collaborate with writers, artists, colorists, letterers and more—all while using editorial and project management skills. In this webinar, we’ll discuss the steps of editing a comic anthology from story curation […]

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Ce webinaire de 90 minutes présente un survol clair et pratique des meilleures approches en  accessibilité numérique et communicationnelle.   En continuité avec le webinaire « Rendre les documents accessibles et inclusifs », il met l’accent  sur l’application concrète des principes d’accessibilité dans la rédaction, la structuration et la  diffusion de contenus. Les participant·es apprendront comment […]

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Editing poetry requires a whole different toolkit and often a subtler, more generative and expansive approach than when editing other genres.  While it may seem like there are fewer rules and conventions when it comes to poetry, or that poems’ inner workings are too mysterious to confidently edit, the fact remains that there are good […]

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Creative non-fiction (CNF) borrows techniques from fiction to tell true stories in a captivating way. But writing fact-based stories poses challenges that writing invented stories doesn’t pose. Lynne Melcombe covers perhaps the biggest and most important of these challenges, finding the narrative arc, in another Editors Canada webinar. But narrative arc is not the only […]

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