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The Northwest Editors Guild is a professional association for U.S. editors of the written word. Based in the PNW, with events for editors everywhere. Sharing editing news, events, #StetPet assistants, and a well-dressed pencil mascot. www.edsguild.org
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Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social · Nov 25
Are you regretting missing the #EdsGuild2025 Red Pencil Conference? You're in luck! You can still purchase access to presentation recordings, available for a full six months. Get all the available videos or select a package that fits your needs at an affordable price.

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Four images of people giving presentations or posing and smiling surrounded by colorful borders. Text: Missed Red Pencil? It's not too late! Visit edsguild.org/virtual-purchase. Access all the videos or the ones most relevant to you at an affordable price: All Recordings (13 videos): $100; Grow Your Business Pack (6 videos): $60; Develop Your Editing Skills Pack (6 videos): $60; Deep Dive Into the Industry Pack (6 videos): $60. Recordings available through May 8, 2026! Red Pencil Conference 2025 Framing Our Future: Perspectives on a Changing Industry. Northwest Editors Guild logo. #EdsGuild2025.
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Missed the #EdsGuild2025 Red Pencil Conference last fall? It's not too late to learn! You can still purchase packs of recordings from the conference that are available to watch at your convenience until May. Find out more at www.edsguild.org/virtual-purc...
Four images of people giving presentations or posing and smiling surrounded by colorful borders. Text: Missed Red Pencil? It's not too late! Visit edsguild.org/virtual-purchase. Access all the videos or the ones most relevant to you at an affordable price: All Recordings (13 videos): $100; Grow Your Business Pack (6 videos): $60; Develop Your Editing Skills Pack (6 videos): $60; Deep Dive Into the Industry Pack (6 videos): $60. Recordings available through May 8, 2026! Red Pencil Conference 2025 Framing Our Future: Perspectives on a Changing Industry. Northwest Editors Guild logo. #EdsGuild2025.
January 21, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Learn the basics of how to #edit for simple, clear, yet compelling #language—transforming technical information into reader-friendly content.

Watch @edsguild.bsky.social's webinar "Intro to Plain Language" by @bykristenmclark.bsky.social for FREE:

www.edsguild.org/intro-plain-...
Intro to Plain Language with Kristen Clark — Northwest Editors Guild
All purchases final: we are unfortunately not able to offer returns at this time.
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January 20, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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All types of editors are welcome at the Guild's regular monthly virtual meetings! All free to attend, most open to all editors, registration required.

📖 Dev Editing Happy Hour, 1/20, 5 pm Pacific
🍻 Copyediting & Proofreading Fiction Happy Hour, 1/21, 4 pm Pacific

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#GiantPencilFanClub
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January 20, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Did you miss @bykristenmclark.bsky.social's "Intro to Plain Language" presentation earlier this week? Lucky you—the video is now available for *everyone* now through 3/10 (after which it becomes a Guild-member-only video). Learn about this important topic today!

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Intro to Plain Language with Kristen Clark — Northwest Editors Guild
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January 17, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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Learn Chicago's preferred way to use abbreviations, honorifics, en dashes, semicolons and more in this month's @chicagomanual.bsky.social Q&A.
chicagomanual.bsky.social The Chicago Manual of Style @chicagomanual.bsky.social · 7d
Q. “Do the speaker or the characters have any faults?” Or “Does”?
Q. En dash or hyphens in “time clock punching employees”?
Q. Can you have a footnote 1 with no 2?

We answer these and other questions about Chicago style in the January Q&A at CMOS Online. cmos.style/QandA
A white, scarf-wearing Samoyed dog races down a groomed trail on a red and black snowboard and announces the January CMOS Q&A.
January 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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Meet Kona, #StetPet editorial assistant of WA Guild member Christal Brown.

"I had grand plans to leave my day job, become an editor, and spend more time with my dogs. Not only did he help me envision this goal, but he also became part of my business logo."
Huge dark brown Newfoundland dog, standing upright with his front paws on a desk with editing reference books on it, looking as if he's working at the desk. Huge dark brown Newfoundland dog sitting in an office chair and staring at a computer screen on a desk. Huge dark brown Newfoundland dog with his paws and eyes on a copy of CMOS 17th edition that has many tabs in it. Cartoon of a blond woman in a hammock with a laptop, one large brown dog with a floral lei, two medium black and white dogs, and a small goat wearing sunglasses on a tropical beach. Text: Island Time Professional Services. Island Vibes, Big Dog Energy.
January 15, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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Calling all editors with pets! ⬇️
edsguild.bsky.social Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social · 13d
We're low on #StetPet submissions and we know your animal editorial assistants are out there "helping" you work, so why not send in a photo so your friend can earn all the virtual fame and ear scratches of the online editorial community? See details at edsguild.org/stetpet.
January 13, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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You never know who you'll meet at our virtual editing events! Log on for learning and networking fun. All free to attend, most open to all editors, registration required.

🌷 Far North Editors Meeting, 1/14, 11:15 am Pacific

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#GiantPencilFanClub
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January 14, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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New on the Guild Blog: @manuscriptas.bsky.social takes a look at the look at "Medical Editing: A Guide to Learning the Craft and Building Your Career" by Barbara Gastel, the recent book she says is entertaining and useful to new and longtime medical editors.

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A Review of ‘Medical Editing’ by Barbara Gastel — Northwest Editors Guild
Of all the ways to begin a book on medical editing, a poem would not be my first (or second or third) guess. But here we are. Dr. Barbara Gastel opens Medical Editing: A Guide to Learning the Craft a...
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January 13, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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Reminder: Sign up for Monday's (1/12) "Intro to Plain Language" with @bykristenmclark.bsky.social where you'll learn how to edit for simple, clear, yet compelling language for reader-friendly content.

FREE to attend, open to all editors, registration required at www.edsguild.org/meetings-eve...
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January 9, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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New year, new professional development budget? Lucky you, there's still plenty of time to invest in a video package of sessions from the #EdsGuild2025 Red Pencil Conference and up your learning. The best part? You can watch those videos through May!

Find out more at edsguild.org/virtual-purchase.
Four images of people giving presentations or posing and smiling surrounded by colorful borders. Text: Missed Red Pencil? It's not too late! Visit edsguild.org/virtual-purchase. Access all the videos or the ones most relevant to you at an affordable price: All Recordings (13 videos): $100; Grow Your Business Pack (6 videos): $60; Develop Your Editing Skills Pack (6 videos): $60; Deep Dive Into the Industry Pack (6 videos): $60. Recordings available through May 8, 2026! Red Pencil Conference 2025 Framing Our Future: Perspectives on a Changing Industry. Northwest Editors Guild logo. #EdsGuild2025.
January 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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Meet Sia, #StetPet editorial assistant of NM editor Carly Jackson.

"Someone gave me quite the lecture for having the audacity to leave the house for an hour to go to the gym!"
White and brown dog with black muzzle lounging on a blanket on a bed and looking up at the camera with an "excuse me!" expression.
January 8, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Feel like you're starting 2026 in a fog? Sign up for our free virtual editing events for clear learning and networking goals (and have fun along the way). Most open to all editors, registration required.

🕰 Memoir Editing Group, 1/7, 4 pm Pacific

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January 7, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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Log on one week from tonight (1/12) for "Intro to Plain Language" with @bykristenmclark.bsky.social where you'll learn how to edit for simple, clear, yet compelling language for reader-friendly content.

FREE to attend, open to all editors, registration required at www.edsguild.org/meetings-eve...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Have an all-too-relatable laugh for this first weekend of 2026 courtesy of edibuddy @ivacheung.com's latest cartoon.
January 2, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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What are "winning" strategies for LinkedIn? Join us for next week's Editors Helping Editors (1/8) where we'll discuss. Please send examples of posts you liked to @manuscriptas.bsky.social and Melissa H.

Free to attend, open to all editors, registration required at www.edsguild.org/meetings-eve...
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January 2, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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We end this year of animal editorial assistants with Banjo and Piper, #StetPets of BC editor @enniscath.bsky.social.

"Banjo did not know what to make of the socks my mum sent me. Meanwhile, sister Piper ‘helped’ us play Scrabble.”
Black and white cat lounging on a chair, staring at a person's foot wearing a cat-face-patterned sock that looks suspiciously like the real cat. Black and white cat crouching in front of a person with the cat's head on a Scrabble board, looking like it's about to pounce at the camera.
January 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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No matter where you are this new year, the Guild has free online events suited to you! Check out what's coming up in January. Most open to all editors, registration required.

📚 Near North Editors Meeting, 1/6, 11 am Pacific
🕰 Memoir Editing Group, 1/7, 4 pm Pacific

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#GiantPencilFanClub
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December 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Join us online 2 weeks from today (1/12) for "Intro to Plain Language" with @bykristenmclark.bsky.social, where she'll discuss editing for reader-friendly content with this free presentation rescheduled from Red Pencil.

Open to all editors, registration required at www.edsguild.org/meetings-eve...
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December 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Meet Harley and Dexter, tiny new #StetPet editorial assistants of MI editor @vampbard.bsky.social.

"Harley and Dexter are StetPets-in-training over at Purple Pen Wordsmithing. They’re working on the desk sit and shoulder perch currently."
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December 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Our virtual editing events are off dashing through the snow, but we invite you to log on in the new year for the gift of free learning & networking! Most open to all editors, registration required.

👓 Scholarly Editors Dev Editing Book Club pt 3, 12/29, 4 pm Pacific

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December 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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“O, beware, my lord kitty of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the Christmas tree 🎄 it feeds on.”

(Iago to Stella, First Folio edition for @edsguild.bsky.social, #Othello )

#CatsOfBlueSky
#amwriting
#WritersOfBlueSky
#cats

Those are some amazing eyes! 👀 🤓
edsguild.bsky.social Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social · Dec 18
Meet Stella, temporary #StetPet editorial assistant of Edmonton editor @jbrediting.bsky.social.

"I'm back from a 🎄 pre-holiday holiday on the West Coast. It rained a lot. A lot a lot. And this little menace 'assisted' with tree decoration. Not foolin' me!"
A tabby cat peering over the edge of a box filled with tree branches
December 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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If you missed the #EdsGuild2025 Red Pencil Conference last month, you're not out of luck—you can still purchase packs of videos from the conference! (And those videos are available to watch until May, so win-win for you!) Find out more at www.edsguild.org/virtual-purchase.
Four images of people giving presentations or posing and smiling surrounded by colorful borders. Text: Missed Red Pencil? It's not too late! Visit edsguild.org/virtual-purchase. Access all the videos or the ones most relevant to you at an affordable price: All Recordings (13 videos): $100; Grow Your Business Pack (6 videos): $60; Develop Your Editing Skills Pack (6 videos): $60; Deep Dive Into the Industry Pack (6 videos): $60. Recordings available through May 8, 2026! Red Pencil Conference 2025 Framing Our Future: Perspectives on a Changing Industry. Northwest Editors Guild logo. #EdsGuild2025.
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Take a look at several 2025 Word of the Year choices, courtesy of edibuddy @ebrenner.bsky.social.

Which one is your favorite?
December 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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On the Guild Blog: Read our recap of the #EdsGuild2025 Red Pencil Conference highlights. And even if you missed the day of the conference, you can still purchase packs of Red Pencil videos, which will be viewable until May!

www.edsguild.org/blog/red-pen...
Red Pencil Conference 2025 — Northwest Editors Guild
On Saturday, November 8, over 300 editors gathered in Lynnwood and online for the Northwest Editors Guild’s 2025 Red Pencil Conference! This year’s hybrid event, Framing our Futures: Perspectives on ...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM