Conference call: editors of the world, unite

 

Those among you who are grammar and usage mavens (you know who you are) may be interested in the forthcoming Editing Goes Global, an international conference of editors hosted by the Editors' Association of Canada and the Professional Writers Association of Canada June 12 - 14 in Toronto at the Metro Convention Centre.

Keynote speakers will be Carol Fisher Saller, editor of the Chicago Manual of Style's online Q&A and the author of The Subversive Copy Editor and Katherine Barber, the former editor-in-chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary and author of Only in Canada You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language and Six Words You Never Knew Had Something To Do With Pigs. Other presenters from the U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and of course Canada.