Subject to change.
Wednesday, March 27
3 – 7 p.m. Registration
5 – 6:30 p.m. Education Fund Spelling Bee
Thursday, March 28
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Registration
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Vendor Trade Show
9 – 10 a.m. Opening General Session
10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Breakout Sessions
11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Networking Lunch
6:30 – 9 p.m. Opening Night Reception
Thursday Breakout Sessions
10:30 - 11: 30 a.m.
Developmental Editing of Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
Save time and your sanity: Increase your efficiency with Microsoft Word
Editing for Readability
Internal Style Guides
Invest in quality: Five Ways to Elevate Editing in Your Organization
From the Failure Files: Learning from (Big) Mistakes
Copyediting in the Government During a Crisis
1:30 - 2: 30 p.m.
A Farewell to Ibid: Editing Footnotes
Intelligent Rule-Breaking
Is This Resource Reliable 2.0
Getting the Math Right
Maximize Your Time: Growth and Balance for Your Freelance Editorial Biz
Social Media 101
3 - 4 p.m.
Edit Sober: 55 Tips That Make Editors Better
Slack hacks and other tips for managing digital workflows
Raging Silence: Confronting Death in the Written Word
The Serious, Serious Comma: Legal Cases Featuring Serial, Non-Serial, and Nonexistent Commas
Ways Words Get Made
Language: Barrier or Bridge?
Hard News, Joyous Cynicism: What did editing used to mean, and why does that matter now?
Friday, March 29
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Vendor Trade Show
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Registration
9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Breakout Sessions
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Lunch on your own
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Super Session
4:30 – 7 p.m. Silent Auction
6 – 7 p.m. Reception
7 – 9:30 p.m. Banquet
Friday Breakout Sessions:
9 - 10 a.m.
Joining the Profession — Basics of Editing (and Proofreading)
Women who Manage
Beyond Editing: Coaching Writers
Small Changes, Big Difference
Art & Science of Digital Editing
Plain Language 2.0 for Editing: Clarity with Style
Handling Distressing Content
10:30 - 11: 30 a.m.
Be the Helvetica of Ergonomics
The Tycoon's Secret Werewolf Bride: Copyediting for Romance Novels
Creativity as Core Competency
Holy $%#@: Religion and Conscious Language
How to Identify and Deal with Red-Flag Clients
When to Use Bad English
Editing at the speed of news: Producing top-quality videos for social
1 - 2 p.m.
Recipe Editing Workshop
10 Bad Things Good Editors Do
What’s new in the 2019 AP Stylebook?
Be BOLD! Making Your Own Opportunities
Professional Editorial Standards and Certification
Headline Hoopla
Genre Copyediting: Bridging the Bifröst between Author and Reader
Saturday, March 30
8 a.m. – 2 p.m. Vendor Trade Show
8 a.m. – 2 p.m. Registration
9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Breakout Sessions
11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m. Lunch on your own
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Closing General Session
3:30 p.m. Explore Providence!
Saturday Breakout Sessions:
9 - 10 a.m.
Jimmy's World (registration required)
Editing Children's Books
How to Check Consistency and Enforce Your House Style: Using PerfectIt for Faster and Better Results
Whether you have 1 idea or 10, help revise the AP Stylebook’s numbers guidance
The Plagiarism Police: Why Should Editors Care about Attribution?
Beyond SEO: How to Use Links for Style and Clarity
Hey Guys: Navigating Gendered Language and Avoiding Unconscious Bias
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
How to Edit Marketing Copy
Butchering Copy: Cut away the Fat, Bone and Gristle for Leaner Text
Grammar Is Power
Beyond Readability Formulas: The Editor as an Advocate of Whole Text and All Readers
Utterly Correct: A Conversation with Benjamin Dreyer
Working with Survey Data: Best practices for Editors and Fact Checkers
How to Get Hired (or Fired) as a Freelance Book Copyeditor
1:15 - 2:15 p.m.
Understanding Your Freelance Pricing Feedback Loop
Choosing the Right Words
We Contain Multitudes: Examining Alternative Career Choices Using Universal Skills of Editors
Copyediting and Corpus Linguistics
Google Fact-Checking