Last chance for the 2025 Red Pencil Conference call for sessions! Applications are due on April 7.
Red Pencil Conference 2025 | Framing Our Future: Perspectives on a Changing Industry
November 8, 2025
Lynnwood Event Center and online
The Northwest Editors Guild is looking for professionals from the editing industry and beyond to share their knowledge, insights, and experience with 250+ attendees at the 2025 Red Pencil Conference. We're looking for a broad spectrum of session topics this year, whether it's editing skills, industry insights, conscious language, or business essentials. We need sessions aimed toward advanced and beginner editors. And don't be afraid to suggest an interactive panel or workshop—we want to hear all your ideas!
The deadline for submissions is April 7, 2025. The selection committee will review all applications and let speakers know in May. Learn more and apply on our blog.
The Northwest Editors Guild blog team had the fabulous opportunity to chat recently with Madeleine Vasaly, editor, proofreader, and author of The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style. We’re excited to share with you everything we learned from that discussion in our latest blog post.
Do your clients need help dragging their style guide into 2025? Member Beth Chapple shows us how to help clients implement style changes from the 18th edition of CMOS.
Red Pencil Conference 2025, Framing Our Future: Perspectives on a Changing Industry
November 8, 2025
Lynnwood Event Center and online
Join us for an engaging and interactive conference where you’ll hear insider perspectives on the editing industry. There will be sessions for new and advanced editors, multiple networking opportunities, a buffet lunch, and an inspiring keynote to bring the day together.
Tickets will go on sale in the summer of 2025.
Did you miss our November Member Meeting, Indexing with Daniel Heila? Never fear, the video recording is now available! It will be accessible to the public for one month starting from today, and then available only to Guild members from then on.
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