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Are you an in-house editor thinking of striking out on your own? Are you considering a career change and want to know if becoming a freelance editor is right for you? In this panel, three freelancers specializing in the written word will share their experience, provide feedback, and offer advice on starting (or maintaining) your freelance business. Topics to be explored include: the benefits and hazards of working for yourself, finding work and getting paid, professional development, work-life balance, and networking. Attendees will be given the opportunity to ask questions of the panellists.

	Before starting her freelance editorial business, Rachel Stuckey worked as an in-house developmental and production editor. She now provides a wide range of editorial services, primarily in educational publishing—both print and digital media. Rachel is the past chair of the Toronto branch of the Editors' Association of Canada and currently serves on the national executive council. Currently, she is planning to take her freelance work on the road and travel the world.
	Alison Kooistra is an independent editor, writer, and consultant, and the vice-chair of the Toronto branch of EAC. She built a thriving freelance business without having worked in house (and she will tell you how). Her clients include publishing companies, self-publishing individuals, non-profit organizations, and municipal and provincial government bodies. She has co-authored two grammar exercise books for grade-school students, two local histories, an anthropology Master's dissertation, a policies and procedures manual for an affordable housing complex in Regent Park, and many, many reports.
	Jaclyn Law is a writer and an editor with over 15 years’ experience. For four years, she was a researcher and copy editor at Chatelaine. She was also the managing editor of Abilities for four years. Since becoming a full-time freelancer at the end of 2006, Jaclyn has worked with a wide variety of consumer publications, websites, non-profit organizations and companies. She has given workshops about copy editing for the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association and Canadian University Press, and she was the copy editing instructor for the Summer 2011 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Jaclyn is the president of PWAC Toronto Chapter.

Saturday, February 4
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Registration - $150 members, $180 non-members (HST extra)
Early Registration (by January 28) - $120 members, $145 non-members (HST extra)
Northrop Frye Hall Room 007
73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Victoria College, University of Toronto