The Northwest Editors Guild's 9th biennial Red Pencil Conference will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2025! This year's theme is Framing Our Future: Perspectives on a Changing Industry. The 2025 Red Pencil conference will explore how editors can play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our industry during this time of rapid change. 

With an inspiring keynote and a full day of sessions led by experts in our field, we'll examine the myriad challenges and opportunities facing editors today. These include the dizzying growth of AI, rising censorship and intellectual property theft, and preserving the diversity and value that is vital to our industry.

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.

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.

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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