We have a newsletter! If you are a member of the Guild, we hope you received the most recent issue of our monthly newsletter on the morning of August 1. If you did, great!

If not, don’t despair — it almost certainly got lost in a spam or promotions folder. To receive future issues straight to your inbox, please add info@edsguild.org to your email client’s safe list. Or, if you’d rather view it on our website, you can find this issue and all future issues in the member-only Newsletter Archive (under the news tab in our navigation bar).

We’ll be using the newsletter for Guild news, announcements, and the monthly event round-up, as well as tips and tricks, links, and other fun items, so we hope you will all give it a read every month.

Save the date for Red Pencil—the Guild’s first big event since fall 2019!

What: Northwest Editors Guild Red Pencil Conference 2023: A learning and networking forum for editors, wordsmiths, and publishing professionals

When: Saturday, May 6, 2023

Where: Lynnwood Convention Center

The Red Pencil conference is growing and evolving, and we want you to be a part of it! To learn more about the conference’s goals and theme, its new, bigger location, and other important details, see our conference information page.

The video and presentation slides for our July 2022 member meeting, Conscious Language and the Power of Words with Alex Kapitan, the Radical Copyeditor, is now available on our website. At the speaker’s request it will be available to the public for two weeks only, after which it will be available to members only.

For more fascinating resources on editing and related topics, members can browse the Meeting Videos and Notes page, an archive of meeting videos and notes going back to 2008.

Now that the Guild has announced the date and location for the 2023 Red Pencil conference, the conference planning committee is moving into a new phase of preparations, and we could definitely use the assistance of Guild members with some specific activities. If you are interested in helping us over the next few months with some pressing tasks, would like to get involved more generally with conference planning, or interested in hearing more about what we are up to, please feel free to contact Michael Schuler (michael@bergerplusschuler.com).

Learn more and read the full list of open tasks.

Our friends at the UK’s Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) invite Northwest Editors Guild members to join them for their 2022 conference this September at a special discounted rate.

The theme for their conference this year is 'Editing in a diverse world', and the program will offer sessions on, amongst other things, inclusive and conscious language, working with neurodivergent clients and creating accessible PDFs, as well as the core skills editorial professionals need do their jobs effectively.

Details are available for members only here.

The video for our November 2022 member meeting, The Vital Role of Sensitivity Reading: An Interview with Crystal Shelley and Brittany Yost, is now available on our website.

It will be available to everyone for one month, then it will be available to members only via the Meeting Videos and Notes page, where members can find an archive of meeting videos and notes going back to 2008.

On May 1, 2022, the Guild’s annual dues fee of $65 will increase to $70. Our last dues increase was seven years ago, when the fee went up from $40 to $65, and we are quite purposeful in keeping this year's increase small. As usual, you will receive an automated renewal email a month prior to your membership expiration. Guild members will also soon be able to donate additional funds to support memberships for editors who are unable to pay dues.

These past years have brought immense challenges to the editing world and society at large, and our aim is for the Guild to be financially feasible for all editors. If Guild member dues create a hardship for you, please contact us at info@edsguild.org.

Want to join our Chicago Manual of Style Online Group Subscription? Our group subscription to Chicago Manual of Style Online renews every year on the first of February, and while we’re closed for the first month of the year now, you can still join in later if you want!

Learn more about the group subscription here. (StetPet not included.)

We’ve opened a Spreadshirt shop where you can purchase t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs, and other fun editing swag with our logo, or with the gorgeous t-shirt design created by member Kelsey Klockenteger in our member t-shirt design contest. All orders are 15% off for the first 14 days our shop is open (beginning today, September 14), so be sure to check it out!

Our member-only job board is now an opt-in Google Groups email list! If you are a member of the Guild and would like to view the group or receive emails from it, find out more here (you must be logged in to access the whole page’s content — if you see a form asking just for your email and password please use that to log in!).