Events

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February 21, 2015: Eight-Step Editing with Jim Taylor

What: EAC-BC professional development seminar
When: Saturday, February 21, 2015, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Where: Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel, 1133 W Hastings Street | map

Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned editor, a would-be writer or a supervisor of others’ writing, this course will help you make your words work better.

Using a step-by-step process, the program identifies the most common factors that become obstacles for readers. It not only helps recognize the problems, it shows quick and simple techniques for fixing them. Professional editors tend to make these corrections intuitively. Eight-Step Editing helps them ensure they haven’t overlooked some crucial readability factor in their zeal to track down spelling or punctuation inconsistencies. Novice editors often suffer from paralysis. Eight-Step Editing gives them a starting point that doesn’t depend on subjective assessments of a manuscript’s worth. Freelance writers can use the Eight-Step process to improve their own materials before submission, enhancing their chances of acceptance. Business writers, trapped in traditional formulas from the filing cabinet, will benefit from a fresh vision for writing prose that can persuade and motivate. At the same time, supervisors and administrators who approve letters and reports will understand better what to look for.

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April 25, 2015: PubPro 2015

What: PubPro 2015—Third Annual Unconference for Managing Editors and Publication Production Specialists
When: Saturday, April 25, 2015, 9:30 am–4:30 pm
Where: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver | map
Co-hosts: EAC-BC, SFU Publishing Workshops of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing

Whether you’re called managing editor, production editor, editorial coordinator, publications director, project manager, editor-in-chief, or any number of titles, you do any or all of the following:

  • Work in-house for an organization that creates publications
  • Manage an editorial and production team of in-house staff and freelancers
  • Hire freelancers, including editors, writers, designers, and indexers
  • Develop project schedules
  • Create or work to project budgets
  • Shepherd projects through the production process

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January 24, 2015: Building a Successful Editing Business with Peter Moskos

What: EAC-BC professional development seminar
When: Saturday, January 24, 2015, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Where: Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel, 1133 W Hastings Street | map

For many editors, working as an individual freelancer or in-house editor is just the ticket. For others, the idea of growing an editing business holds strong appeal. Using a series of discussion scenarios, we’ll start the workshop by looking at how you run and handle work overload in a single-person business. We’ll then explore possible expansions from a simple partnership to an incorporated company with employees. As part of our journey, we’ll stop to learn how to estimate costs for an editing project and how to prepare a proposal for editing work. These are abilities every freelance editor needs. We’ll also consider what’s wrong when you are doing more work but taking home less money. Whatever your business goal, you’ll find strategies for making your editing business succeed and molding it to a lifestyle that suits you.

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January 21, 2015: Editing for the Ear: A Speech Writer’s Perspective

What: EAC-BC monthly meeting
When: Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 7:00–9:00 pm
Where: Welch Room, 4th floor, YWCA Health + Fitness Centre, 535 Hornby Street, Vancouver | map
Cost: Free for EAC members; $10 for non-members; $5 for students with valid ID. Registration at the door.

Join well-known Vancouver speech writer Colin Moorhouse for a one-hour workshop on writing and editing speeches. He will discuss the six key elements of writing an engaging speech and cover issues such as the nature of the event; the oratorical skills of the speaker; and matters of story, language, humour, and interest. He will also provide insight on where the editor can play a crucial role in polishing a keynote speech for final delivery to the client.

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December 6, 2014: EAC-BC Holiday Party

What: EAC-BC holiday party
When: Saturday, December 6, 2014, at 7:00 pm
Where: The Railway Club (back room), 579 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver

Don’t miss your chance to party with fellow word lovers!

Bring a friend—the more the merrier!

door prizes | deliciously affordable food & drink | casual dress | no cover fee*

*If the Railway Club is charging cover that night, just mention that you’re with EAC.

Please RSVP online.

Have questions or party game suggestions? Email roma@talksciencetome.com.

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Branch Meeting: November 19, 2014

What: EAC-BC November meeting
When: Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 7:00–9:00 pm
Where: Welch Room, 4th floor, YWCA Health + Fitness Centre, 535 Hornby Street, Vancouver
Cost: Free for EAC members; $10 for non-members; $5 for students with valid ID. Registration at the door.

Access to information: The role of editors
As editors, our job is to make sure that the material we’re editing is as accessible as possible for its intended audience. But what do we do if we’re editing for an audience we’re not familiar with? What challenges do different groups of readers face, and what can editors do to make reading material more accessible to all audiences? Join us for a panel discussion with three speakers representing a wide range of readers.

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Communication Convergence: October 5, 2014

What: Communication Convergence
When: Sunday, October 5, 2014, 1:00–5:00 pm
Where: VSO School of Music, 843 Seymour Street, Vancouver
Cost: $50 for professional association members, $60 for non-members, and $30 for students and retired professionals

EAC-BC is co-organizing this event with Community Plain Language Services Corp.; the Society for Technical Communication, Canada West Coast chapter; and the Professional Writers Association of Canada, Vancouver chapter.

EAC-BC members Frances Peck, Joe Goodwill, Iva Cheung, and Elizabeth Rains will be participating in the panel discussions.

Check out the program or the Facebook event page for more details, and register online.

Branch meeting: October 15, 2014

What: EAC-BC October meeting
When: Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 7:00–9:00 pm
Where: Welch Room, 4th floor, YWCA Health + Fitness Centre, 535 Hornby Street, Vancouver
Cost: Free for EAC members; $10 for non-members; $5 for students with valid ID. Registration at the door.

Forks in the Road: Dictionaries and the Radically Changing English-Language Ecosystem

By at least one objective measure of use, English is set apart from all other languages today. UBC’s Stefan Dollinger will look at recent geopolitical changes influencing the language and the use of English as a lingua franca among non-native speakers, which raises questions of ownership and discrimination between “errors” and linguistic innovations. Stefan will focus on whether these novel uses have been, or should be, addressed in the Oxford English Dictionary and the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles.

Word buffs and linguistics lovers, don’t miss this exciting discussion of dictionaries and the changing realities of English.
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Word Vancouver: September 24–28, 2014

What: Word Vancouver
When: September 24–28, 2014
Where: Vancouver; various venues
Cost: Free

Word Vancouver is Western Canada’s largest celebration of literacy and reading. Free events will be taking place September 24–28 at various venues throughout the city.

EAC-BC will have a booth on Sunday, September 28, in Library Square.

EAC member Michelle van der Merwe will give a presentation on freelance writing for magazines on Sunday, September 28, at 12:10 p.m., in the Vancouver Public Library’s Peter Kaye Room.

Check out the complete schedule or the program guide for more information!

June 9: Something Fierce fundraiser

What: Fundraiser for Carmen Aguirre, author of Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
When: 730-10PM, June 9, 2014
Where: 3102 Main Street at Heritage Hall, Vancouver
Cost: $20-500, or  make a donation

Carmen Aguirre, author of the national bestseller Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, which won CBC’s Canada Reads in 2012, was owed $60,000 in royalties when D&M Publishers when bankrupt later that year. She never received any of that money. Carmen makes her living as a writer and an independent theatre artist. Whatever is raised through this campaign will go directly to her.

You can attend in person or donate online. Online donors will be thanked by name during the evening’s program. The live event portion of the night features readings and performances by Carmen other guest artists.