Please join us for our traditional beginning-of-the-year genre roundtable meeting, featuring virtual tables (breakout rooms) where editors can discuss their work in literary fiction, genre fiction (including mystery, SFF, etc.), memoir/biography/poetry, self-help and health/fitness, expositional nonfiction (business, journalism, academic, technical, science), and cookbooks. 

This event is free to attend and open to all editors, guests, and/or members of related fields. It will not be recorded.

Topic: Genre Roundtable Meeting
Time: Jan 13, 2025 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Interested in serving on the Northwest Editors Guild's volunteer board of directors? Want to sit in on a meeting and see how things work? 

Monday, December 9 is an open board meeting, where the NW Editors Guild board of directors invites you to attend, meet the board members, see what happens at a board meeting, ask questions about board service, and potentially sign up to be part of the 2025 Guild board. 

We welcome you all, and hope to see you there!

Topic: Guild Board Meeting
Time: Dec 9, 2024 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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The Northwest Editors Guild is led by a volunteer board of directors. Every year, editors just like you give freely of their time to keep the Guild running for all of us… and we need volunteers who will help the Guild move into 2025 and beyond!

Interested in serving on the Guild’s board but not sure what it entails? Join us at this informal meeting so that you can learn more about board service.

This event is free and open to members only, and will not be recorded. Board membership is restricted to those who have been a Guild member for at least one year.

Topic: Board Recruitment Meeting

Time: Nov 19, 2024 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Get out of your comfort zone a bit and join us this month for a presentation about indexing by member Daniel Heila!

Daniel Heila is an editor/indexer at Best-Ever Edit in Eugene, OR. He completed the UC Berkeley Extension Professional Editing Sequence in 2014 and the UC Berkeley Extension Introduction to Indexing course in 2019. In addition to his editing work he writes fiction and occasional arts criticism and is a chamber music composer.

Most of his recent work has involved line editing and/or book doctoring with a NYC developmental editor. His focus is on YA speculative novels, although he has edited memoirs and LGBTQ+ fiction. Mr. Heila was also the editor of Key Words the quarterly journal of the American Society for Indexing from 2022-2024.

In indexing, his specialty subject areas are arts/performing arts and humanities, music classical/pop, gardening/agriculture, and home food preserving. Recent projects have included a biography of an African mbira player, a music theory/theology text on twentieth-century modern music and literature, and an activist memoir. He has worked with University of Chicago Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Julliard School of Music press, and multiple independent publishers both traditional and hybrid.

This event is free and open to all editors, and will not be recorded. If you have any questions, please email info@edsguild.org to be put in touch with the host.

Topic: November Member Meeting: Indexing
Time: Nov 11, 2024 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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This month we're going to be expanding our professional connections through speed networking! Speed networking is a little like speed dating, but for business: the goal is to make as many good connections as possible. Putting together a list of other editors to refer work to? Want others to know about your specialty so they can refer clients to you? Just want to meet other editors in the Guild? Come ask and answer questions in a structured format that facilitates all of the above!

Topic: September Member Meeting: Speed Networking
Time: Sep 23, 2024 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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The Northwest Editors Guild is led by a volunteer board of directors. Every year, editors just like you give freely of their time to keep the Guild running for all of us… and we need volunteers who will help the Guild move into 2025 and beyond!

Interested in serving on the Guild’s board but not sure what it entails? Current and past board members will be holding board recruitment events throughout September and October so that you can learn more about board service.

Join us for these informal events on any of the following dates:

September 17, 4–5pm
September 19, 5–6pm
October 8, 5:30–6:30pm
October 22, 5pm–6pm
October 23, 3pm–4pm

You can also attend our open October board meeting on Monday, October 14, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. PT to see how board service really works!

If none of the above dates works for you and you have questions that our board service FAQ doesn’t answer or just want to talk more about the requirements of board service, please email info@edsguild.org.

Please join for an informal, virtual gathering, where we can converse about volunteer service for the board.

This event is open only to members, and will not be recorded.

Topic: Board Recruitment Happy Hour
Time: Sep 19, 2024 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Get wordy with a Word Games Chat!

Your veteran Capitol Hill Coffee Hour hosts, Dana A and Roberta K, would love to play word games with you online on Monday, October 2, noon to 1 p.m. PT. This event is free, and open only to Guild members.

This time, we’ll be playing collaborative crosswords using the in-browser Planet Crossword game on the hovercats.gg website (we might try other games in the future). Feel free to check out the website beforehand (go to https://hovercats.gg/about to watch a video), but you can easily join in on the day with a link we’ll provide during the chat. 

Note: You will need a computer to participate. The crossword app won’t work well on a phone. 

You play crosswords as a cat in space, and chat while you play. What’s not to love?

If you have any questions about this event please email Dana A at dana@lastpassediting.com. 

Topic: Word Games Chat

Time: Oct 2, 2023 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Phone-based Zoom details have been omitted here, since a computer is required to fully participate in this event. The crossword app being used does not work well on a phone.

In the spirit of many retail stores that are displaying Halloween items already (and because we don't have an October member meeting), let’s talk about the creepy side of editing and share a few scary stories! Join us for a discussion of the worst typos and misspellings, the scariest unintended meanings, and the wildest awkward phrasings that you’ve ever run into as an editor. We look forward to seeing you there!

This event is open to all editors and will not be recorded.

Topic: September Member Meeting: The Spooky Side of Editing

Time: Sep 14, 2023 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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The Guild board of directors needs you!

The NW Editors Guild board of directors is seeking candidates for the 2024 board of directors, and we’re in critical need for volunteers to keep our Guild running.

You don’t need to have previous board service experience, and you’re not required to be a seasoned editor. The only requirement is that you’ve been a member of the Guild for one year, that you enjoy being a member of this excellent organization, and that you're willing to abide by the expectations of Guild board members and work to keep the Guild running smoothly.

Please join for an informal, virtual gathering, where we can converse about volunteer service for the board.

This event is open only to members, and will not be recorded.

Topic: Board Recruitment Meeting

Time: Sep 06 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Meeting ID: 810 5667 4622
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The Guild board of directors needs you!

The NW Editors Guild board of directors is seeking a few more candidates for the 2023 board of directors, and we’re in need of volunteers to keep our Guild running.

You don’t need to have previous board service experience, and you’re not required to be a seasoned editor. The only requirement is that you’ve been a member of the Guild for one year and that you enjoy being a member of this excellent organization.

Moreover, you can pick the role that you want and decide your own time commitment - this is a volunteer role.

Please join for an informal, virtual gathering, where we can converse about volunteer service for the board. If you are not able to attend this date, other sessions are available at the following dates:

Hope to see you there!

Topic: About the Board Social Hour

Time: Dec 13 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Are you new (or new-ish) to the Guild? If so, please join us for an informal discussion about all the awesomeness that the Guild has to offer, how to navigate the website, and how to make your experience as a member personalized, interactive, and fun. Moreover, come to meet your fellow editors and members!

Topic: Welcome to the Guild Coffee Hour

Time: Jul 28, 2022 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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