Welcome!
We hope you’re enjoying your membership in the Guild. This page is meant as a central spot for links you might need as a member. If you have any questions about membership or services, please don’t hesitate to let us know.
Please Note: Our job board has changed! We’ve transitioned to a primarily email-based system run on Google Groups. If you want to either receive job emails OR view listings on the group page linked above, please email info@edsguild.org with the subject line “Job Board.” For emails, you will have the option of receiving all emails or receiving a digest of emails.
Upcoming Events
These are just a few of the Guild events coming up in the near future. For a full list, please check our calendar!
Are you an Editor of Color? Would you like to meet up with your fellow Editors of Color in a welcoming, intimate, online setting?
Jesi Vega, former president of the Northwest Editors Guild and a Puerto Rican Jew from the Bronx, holds a monthly Zoom coffee hour for editors who identify as Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color.
This event is open to both Guild members and non-members. Please spread the word to any Editors of Color you know. You can register for free on the event page, or logged in members can find the login details here. If you have any questions, please email info@edsguild.org for information or to be put in touch with the host.
Are you a developmental editor, or interested in developmental editing? Join us for an informal chat about this fun and fascinating variety of editing.
This event is free and open to all editors. To receive the Zoom information required to attend this meeting, please register for free at the event page, or (members only) go to this page.
If you have any questions, please email info@edsguild.org to be put in touch with the host.
This coffee chat centers people who work as editors and are living with disability and/or chronic illness. It is open to everyone. The idea was partly inspired by an active peer group currently hosted by the Society of Authors. This Monday's online coffee chat will be a social event with no set agenda.
This event is free and open to all editors. To receive the Zoom information required to attend this meeting, please register for free at the event page, or (members only) go to this page.
If you're in or around the North Seattle area, please join us on Wednesday, October 2, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. for an in-person happy hour on the Halcyon Brewery patio in Greenwood (map / website). Seating is available at this location on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no cost to attend; attendees pay for any food or beverage they wish to enjoy.
All interested editors are welcome! Registration is not required, but it helps us plan ahead.
If you have any questions about this event, please email the host, Michael Schuler, at michael@bergerplusschuler.com.
The Near North Editors normally meet on the first Tuesday of every month (except months where the first Tuesday is a holiday). This month's meeting will be held on Zoom.
This event is free and open to all editors. To receive the Zoom information required to attend this meeting, please register for free at the event page, or (members only) go to this page.
If you have any questions, please email info@edsguild.org to be put in touch with the host.
Join members Lee Hornbrook and Lynn Post for a discussion of the ins and outs of memoir editing!
This event is free and open to all editors. To receive the Zoom information required to attend this meeting, please register for free at the event page, or (members only) go to this page.
If you have any questions, please email info@edsguild.org to be put in touch with the host.
Join us for our "Editors Helping Editors" meeting. Bring your problems, big and small, as well as your thinking caps. We'll work together to solve event-goers quandaries and questions, which could range from common questions like how to find clients in a particular field (say academic editing) to more situation-specific issues like why a particular macro isn't working in Word.
This event is open to all editors, and will not be recorded. Our topic for May will be adjusting your sails when business winds shift.
To receive the Zoom information required to attend this meeting, please register for free at the event page, or (members only) go to this page.
If you have any questions about this event or questions you would like to send the group ahead of the meeting, please email info@edsguild.org to be put in touch with the hosts, Melissa Haskin and Beth Hutchason.
The Far North Editors meet every second Wednesday from 11:15am to 12:45pm.
If you are interested in joining them online, please register for free on the event page. Logged in members can find the invitation here.
Come meet up with fellow scholarly (and academic) editors in the humanities! We will be sharing a virtual happy hour from 5 to 6:30 p.m., sharing insights and discussing relevant topics. Bring your burning questions and your collaborative spirit.
This event is open to members only. To receive the Zoom information required to attend this meeting, please register for free at the event page, or (members only) go to this page.
If you have any questions about this event, please email info@edsguild.org to be put in touch with the host, Elena Abbott.
This coffee chat centers people who work as editors and are living with disability and/or chronic illness. It is open to everyone. The idea was partly inspired by an active peer group currently hosted by the Society of Authors.
This event is free and open to all editors. To receive the Zoom information required to attend this meeting, please register for free at the event page, or (members only) go to this page.
Getting started with us, or need to spruce up your online presence? Check out this handy how-to document to get the most out of your profile on the Guild’s website, and don’t forget to link to the Guild with these logo graphics available for use on your site or email signature.
Mentoring Program
Interested in becoming a mentor, or mentoring a new editor?
Learn more today!
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