The Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence, established in 1983 and presented annually by the Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC), recognizes the editor’s often invisible contribution to written communication. The cash award of $2,000 is made possible by grants from EAC and several publishers: HarperCollins, Random House of Canada, Breakwater Books, Orca Book Publishers, UBC Press, Madison, the C. D. Howe Institute, New Society Publishers and the University of Calgary Press.

Editing – the art of ensuring that a writer's words and meaning can be understood by intended readers – is seldom routine. Yet the best editing is inconspicuous in the final work. For the reader, the work must bear the stamp of its creator, not its editor.

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