In these final days of 2024, the editors of Editors Canada blogs The Editors’ Weekly, BoldFace, and West Coast Editor bring you an end-of-year wrap-up full of advice, reflections on our many successes and challenges, and book recommendations to add to your already full to-read lists.
Today, West Coast Editor presents part one of this three-part series: introducing readers to the blogs and their editors.
We’re pleased to announce that Editors Canada Conference 2024 will take place from June 21 to 23. The conference will be held at the Harbour Centre campus of Simon Fraser University, and the theme is Present Progressive: Passion, Precision, and Purpose.
How to attend
Registration for the conference is now open, and early bird prices are available until April 25—which is just around the corner. See below for pricing, or visit the conference website for registration, accommodation, and more details. You can also download the PheedLoop app to stay on top of conference updates.
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Written by Karen Smith; copy edited by Katie Beaton
This past June, I flew from British Columbia to Nova Scotia and joined Editors Canada in celebrating the organization’s 40th anniversary conference. It was both my first Editors Canada conference and my first time in Halifax. As a novice conference attendee, I wanted to learn as much as I could at the training sessions. I also hoped to make some new connections in the publishing world. However, as I prepared to fly east, I wasn’t sure what to expect at the conference and whether it would be worth the time and cost to attend. Ultimately, it was an overwhelmingly positive experience, and I was glad to have been part of it. In return, I hope that sharing my experience may give other editors insight into whether attending the conference will be of value to them.
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Behind every great novelist and short story writer there is a great editor. In this seminar, acclaimed author and writing teacher Caroline Adderson will share techniques to help you bring out the greatness in your writers, from dazzling openings to moving endings and the whole story in between, including effective plotting, pacing, and dialogue.
She will also offer advice on the all-important writer-editor relationship.
About the instructor: Caroline Adderson is the author of three novels (A History of Forgetting, Sitting Practice, The Sky Is Falling), two collections of short stories (Bad Imaginings, Pleased to Meet You), as well as six books for young readers.
Her work has received numerous prize nominations, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Winner of two Ethel Wilson Fiction Prizes and three CBC Literary Awards, Caroline was also the recipient of the 2006 Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement.
She lives in Vancouver, where she teaches in the Simon Fraser University Writing and Publishing Program.
Speaker David Harrison asks what it means and what it takes to be a professional in your field—in fact, any field. Are editors there yet?
David will bring you some fresh, first-hand impressions of what EAC is doing at the national level to support editors and help advance the profession. He’ll talk about topics of member interest that are being addressed nationally and ask what you really want your national representatives to be doing on your behalf.
About the speaker: David Harrison is an experienced business and academic editor. He also worked for 20 years in the accounting profession, where he had to explain and defend professional accountants’ interests to lawyers, legislators, and judges. A long-standing EAC-BC member, David was branch secretary in 2010–2012 and is this year’s secretary of the National Executive Council.
