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Heal Thyself: How Editors Edit Their Own Writing
Saturday, March 26, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:20 pm
Every writer needs a good editor—even writers who spend their days working as editors themselves. But writers who are also editors still edit their own work, with the possibility of a unique double vision, even across mediums and genres. Five editor-writers will share the insights, tricks, and challenges they encounter when turning their editing eyes on their own writing, offering complications and alternative to the advice we all give and receive.
Participants
Jaime Green is a freelance writer and editor. She is associate editor of Future Tense, a project of Slate, New America, and Arizona State; and series editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Her book on how we imagine aliens, The Possibility of Life, will be published in 2023.
Jess Zimmerman is an editor at Quirk Books and the author of Women and Other Monsters.
Nicole Chung is the author of All You Can Ever Know, which was a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a contributing writer and editor at the Atlantic and has written for the New York Times Magazine, TIME, GQ, and others.
Kendra James was a founding editor at Shondaland.com and is currently the managing editor for StarTrek.com. Her writing has been published widely in places like Elle, Cosmopolitan, espnW, Lenny Letter, Vox, and more. Her debut, Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School, is due early 2022.
Matt Ortile
