Advanced Editorial Professionals @adveds.bsky.social A boutique conference for experienced professionals
Toronto, Canada
November 10-11, 2026
https://sites.google.com/view/icaep/home/
#ICAEP2026
Taylor Gillie Sawyer @taylorgilliesawyer.bsky.social freelance fiction and academic editor martletediting.com | she/they | AuDHD | posts mainly about books, editing, art, languages, and urbanism | Urban Studies PhD | Wikipedia enthusiast | guardian of a chaotic dog | 📍 Barcelona
sabinahblack.bsky.social @sabinahblack.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇲🇺🇩🇪🇫🇷 British copyeditor, proofreader, and translator (German, French, Mauritian Creole) specialising in multilingual and multicultural publications, inclusive books, and works linked to the UK, France, Germany, and Mauritius. 🇬🇧🇲🇺🇩🇪🇫🇷
🔗 www.sabinahblack.com
EL KABONG @weekendsofsound.bsky.social Aging android. Drinks coffee. Feeds cats. Does the Immaculate Grid Red Sox–only.
Carbon-based. Chaotic good. Probably sleepy. He/him/his.
#StetChat @stetchat.com #StetChat is an hourlong live conversation on Bluesky for the #editing community.
💬 Next #StetChat: Oct. 7
📆 1st & 3rd Wednesdays
🕓 4–5 p.m. ET | 1–2 p.m. PT
⏰ #StetSprint
Tuesdays 2–3 p.m. ET
Fridays 3–4 p.m. ET
stetchat.com
Tiffany Arnold, Founder, Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social Musings from Tiffany Arnold, founder of Arnold Editorial Service
Michael J. @vproofy.bsky.social Copy editor, proofreader, sporadic writer, and punctilious dabbler in the Wordiverse.
Amanda Ellison @amandaproofreader.bsky.social Freelance copy editor, proofreader and writer at ellisoneditorial.co.uk. Fan of black coffee, espionage thrillers, and Murphy the still-missed Labradoodle.
Ema@TheClarityEditor @theclarityeditor.bsky.social Editor and plain language advocate. Edits for the social sciences and international development. Based in Bangkok/Tokyo. AmE/Japanese speaker (and some Spanish, German & Thai). Amateur classical singer. https://linktr.ee/theclarityeditor
Jodi Hughes | Freelance Fiction Editor @jodihughesedits.bsky.social 👩🏼💻 Editor. Introvert. Reader. Childfree dog lady.
Former senior editor at HarperCollins.
buymeacoffee.com/jodihughesedits
https://www.jodihughesedits.com/
Sarah @sarahkchasse.bsky.social New Englander, alto, editor. Always learning.
(Also me: @truebluewbb.bsky.social)
linktr.ee/sarahkchasse
@saldmpsmu.bsky.social @saldmpsmu.bsky.social 
Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Wholehearted Writers @wholeheartedwriter.bsky.social Wholehearted Writers LLC hosts quarterly events to support writers' whole selves. Queer and neurodiverse leadership. Come join our community! https://wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
Knowadays @knowadays.bsky.social CPD-accredited, self-paced online courses. Whatever your career goals, Knowadays can help you achieve them!
https://knowadays.com/
Hailey Rogers @haileyrogers.bsky.social Freelance editor, story & game enthusiast, corporate minion by day
Lois Boa @loisboa.bsky.social Copyeditor and proofreader
https://loisboaedits.co.uk/- T @trottski.bsky.social @trottski.bsky.social
Khomotso Moses Leshaba @khomotso87.bsky.social A professional science editor with over 10 years of experience.
Wes Cowley @wes.wordsbywes.ink Academic, technical, and nonfiction editor, specializing in computer science, ML, AI (policy, legal, and technical), economics, finance, math, statistics, and related fields.
Member EFA, ACES
Home: www.wordsbywes.ink
Email: wes@wordsbywes.ink
Jaime Sperling @diedofennui.bsky.social Copyediting, proofreading, cats, running, insomnia. Not necessarily in that order.
Melanie Mallon @melmall.bsky.social Writer/editor in semirural Minnesota trying to reschedule the end times (she/her)
I do not repost images without alt text, and I will not share your substack article. If I do either accidentally, please call me out.
Michael Moore @handle.invalid Medical editor and copyeditor at mooreediting.com | President of San Diego Professional Editors Network sdpen.com/join (he/him)
San Diego Professional Editors Network @sdpen.com San Diego Professional Editors Network: An organization of professional editors and writers (from all over the world) who love words, print publishing, and online media. President: @michaelmoo.re.
Join SD/PEN today at sdpen.com/join.
Jamaal D. Pittman @jamaaldpittman.bsky.social ACES Board of Directors. The Copy Editor’s (Life)Style Guide. Screenwriter. Scholarship cofounder.
Pristine Clarity @pristineclarity.bsky.social Offering plain language training, editing services, and strategic communications consulting. (Owned by @bykristenmclark.bsky.social)
Gillian Hamnett (she/her) @gillianhamnett.bsky.social Proofreader & copyeditor for Simon & Schuster and Canongate
Editor of commercial fiction and memoir
Book sales and publishing consultation
Freelancing as Dark Sky Pages, based in Wigtown – Scotland's National Book Town 📖📚🌠🌌
Lesley Cameron @editmapleridge.bsky.social Editor and plain language advocate. Interests include (in no particular order) global development, language, history, science, law, and art(s).
Ruben Spruijt @spruijt.bsky.social VP Product & Field CTO, product, customers, strategy at Dizzion. 3 x start-up acquisition. Microsoft MVP, NVIDIA NGCA, ex-Citrix CTP & VMware vExpert, Christian, Dutch
Marc Bernstein @marcbernstein261.bsky.social MSc Politics & BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy & History Birkbeck University of London, Civil Servant From & live in London Uk. politics History & intl affairs, Culture, Jewish life, Soccer. Also on here to make friends. Straight Single & Jewish
siah @siah-scotland.bsky.social Disappointed idealist.
That Word Chat @thatwordchat.bsky.social That Word Chat is an online chat show featuring people and things lexical, hosted by @editormark.bsky.social.
Website: thatwordchat.com
YouTube: bit.ly/ThatWordVideo
Diane Kilbane @djkproof.bsky.social Proofreader. Professional member of the CIEP.
Read more historical fiction than is probably good for me.
Did a Classics degree <cough> years ago.
The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) @the-ciep.bsky.social The UK’s only chartered body for the editorial profession. Championing excellence. Supporting growth. Connecting professionals. Shaping the future. https://www.ciep.uk/directory.html
Shirley Rash Editing @shirleyrashediting.bsky.social Editor | History Buff | True Crime Enthusiast | Library Associate | Tarheel in the Ozarks
shirleyrashediting.com
European Association of Science Editors @easeeditors.bsky.social EASE is a global community of professionals with diverse skills and experiences across the many editorial roles involved in academic publishing.
https://www.linktr.ee/easeeditors/
#JournalEditorial #ScienceEditing #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing
Jenn Rossiter @jbrediting.bsky.social Freelance editor and grant writer supporting academics and non-profits 🇨🇦 🐈⬛ ☕️ jennrossiter[dot]com
(she/her)
Chris Wright @milktwosugars.bsky.social Product manager, no-code-er, guitar jangler, photo snapper, motorcycle zoomer, snowboard rider, poker player, home cook and dog wrestler.
Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social Flea markets mostly, bits of art, music. Oh, and books, I like books | https://linktr.ee/graham.holliday
@robbinswriting.bsky.social @robbinswriting.bsky.social Business copyeditor/copywriter, tree hugger, recovering smarty pants. (Please don’t feel like you have to follow me back—I am not that interesting.) Instagram: @RobbinsWriting
Bella Moss Foundation @bellamossfnd.bsky.social Non profit charity helping people and pets with resistant infections.
We educate on infection control and safe use of antibiotics .
Visit our website
Www.thebellamossfoundation.co.uk
AJ Enterprises @ajentscotland.bsky.social Public affairs consultant working with business & education and the written word. Produce informedscot.bsky.social Posts by Angela Gardner, Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP
Above The Law @abovethelaw.com Covering the legal industry from law school to the Supreme Court.
Sign up for our newsletters: https://abovethelaw.com/subscribe.
Send your tips to tips@abovethelaw.com.
Greg Ioannou @gregioannou.bsky.social Worked on over 4,000 books (edited, ghost-written or published), 30+ board games (edited and playtested), and corporate and government docs. I was the first member of Editors Canada and the Editors' Association of Earth. And I collect stamps & records.
Guido Ricci @ruidoricci.bsky.social Copy editor from Buenos Aires
(twitter.com/ruidoricci, instagr.am/ruidoricci)
Aisha "Ash P" Panjwaneey @ashpreads.bsky.social #Muslim #BIPOC #Editor of safe-for-work fiction and nonfiction.
CB and GN editor in the making.
#RevPit Editor
EFA Ambassador
Get in touch 👇🏻
https://www.ashpreads.com
Cindy Reeh @creeh.bsky.social Global health editor in Seattle.📝☔️ Rainier Editing LLC
www.rainierediting.com
#amediting #copyediting #copyeditor #editor #scicomm #globalhealth #publichealth
Pilgrim Spirit Communications @pilgrimspirit.bsky.social Everyone has a story. What's yours?
Pilgrim Spirit Communications offers freelance services in writing, editing, proofreading, and publishing to help you tell your story.
Eloquenti 🧪✍️📚 @eloquenti.com Supporting researchers and authors with professional editing 📝 grant writing 💰 manuscript proofreading👩💻 book editing📚 medical writing✍️ scientific consulting👩🏻🔬 author services 📖
👉Visit www.eloquenti.com
Katherine Kirk @geckoedit.com A hopeless semantic. Copyeditor, line editor, proofreader, book formatter, tentacle counter. (she/her). www.geckoedit.com
linktr.ee/kirkldk
🦎🏳️🌈🧠🌶️🖖🏻💙📚👀✍️🔥 #amediting
Typos inserted deliberately in posts so you can practice your editing skills, totally.
Shari Miranda @shari-miranda.bsky.social she/her
PNW 🌲
Copyeditor/Proofreader 📝
Indoor Cycling Instructor 🚲
Kristen M. Clark (she/her) @bykristenmclark.bsky.social Government editor | plain language writing coach and trainer | owner and founder of @pristineclarity.bsky.social | award-winning former journalist. (Opinions my own.)
@nthchapter.bsky.social @nthchapter.bsky.social 
Dr. Jaequellin @jackiecinmht.bsky.social Biology nerd (Berkeley MCB PhD 2011). Former NH state rep. Mom x 3.
All opinions here are only my own.
Go Sox, abolish ICE, and free Palestine.
Richard Sheehan @richardsheehan.bsky.social Freelance copy-editor and proofreader. I also play a mean guitar when I get the time. Lifelong Leicester City season ticket holder.
Kelly Ann @kellyannj.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Photographer, and Occasional Artist
Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social Grammar Girl. Podcaster. Author of seven books about language. Quick and Dirty Tips founder. Bad skier. she/her http://linktr.ee/grammargirl
#AmWriting The 9/8 GG podcast
#AmReading When We Were Real (Gregory)
Erica Mito @emito.bsky.social 
That Pete Darby Vibe @voiceoverpetedarby.com IT Support, Boardgames, RPG's, Acting, writing, talking, opinionating. See me at UKGE 2026, usually on the Hilton Desk.
Susan Fitzgerald @susanfitzgerald.bsky.social Editor, researcher, writer, linguist. Lover of language, tea, and chocolate.
Edits by Emily @editsbyemily.bsky.social Freelance business providing editorial services to publishers and creators of educational content, specialising in ELT. #editsbyemily
editsbyemily.com
Carol @carolnordeste.bsky.social Free Palestine , Lula, Brasil e Esquerda and reader.
Interest in Books ( I am a book lover)! Please give me suggestions about reading them.
Alison B @akbea.bsky.social I twist other people's words for money.
http://rewritten.uk
Anything pre-July 2023 is imported from Twitter; I don't have a time machine. Not that I'd tell you about, anyway.
Andrea Kay @yourstruleigh.bsky.social Medical editor for public health, medicine and science texts @ Yours Truleigh Editing. Plays piano.
Carolina VonKampen 📚 Freelance Editor @ #ACESVCON26 @carolinavonkampen.com @ #ACESVCON26
Editor: Books, poetry, query letters, content marketing
Host: #StetChat @stetchat.com
Member: @acesediting.bsky.social
Former history major. Writer? Reader
Fan: #Survivor #JetLagTheGame
🚫 AI
📍 STL
she/her
carolinavonkampen.com
isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social Translator of Czech, Slovak, German & French into English. Literary translator of genre & other fiction, & occasional non-fiction. European, wordsmith, word nerd, foodie, reader, yogi & chocoholic. Childless not by choice. New Glaswegian. She/her. 🦔
Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social 📚 Book Editor, Fr→En Lit Translator, Educator
🍽📖 Working on/devouring speculative fiction, horror, memoir, IF, comics
⭐ Teaching and coaching editors and writers
📘 Faculty @ Emerson's MFA in Popular Fiction
🌈📚 RSM team
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿🪫🇨🇭🎨
🚫gen AI
www.TanyaGold.com
Editors Tea Club @editorsteaclub.bsky.social The Editors Tea Club is a friendly, safe, and welcoming community, centered on the experiences of women, for editors who are women and individuals of underrecognized gender identities. www.EditorsTeaClub.org
Kimberly Laurel @trustybookmark.bsky.social Publish with confidence ✍️ Certified copyeditor + proofreader for indies/presses: send work you're fearlessly proud of into the world | ACES, EFA, PEN (she/her)
Nicole Wayland 🦋🧚🏼♀️ @nicolewayland.bsky.social Owner of Nicole Wayland Editing 💛
Copyeditor & proofreader of children’s, YA, and adult fiction and nonfiction
ACES board member at-large ✨
Ballerina 🩰 | outgoing fae 🧚 | enneagram 6️⃣
Bridgid Mac Seóin @bebetree.bsky.social Air Force emergency management vet, Team Rubicon, Duke GLS/CDS alum, Goucher MFA alum. Watcher of women's basketball and soccer. DDMF and COYGIG!
maumcg.bsky.social @maumcg.bsky.social 
Janet Fretter @janetfretter.bsky.social Writer, editor, general enthusiast.
Literary Laura @literarylaura.bsky.social Writing coach, fiction editor, author. #ACES and #EFA member. Weird fiction writer. #Neurodiversity speaker & ADHDer. Human editing only - no AI involved. I bake spooky treats, powerlift & hike in search of forest groves. www.literarylaura.com
Oliver Shaw @olivershaw.bsky.social Editor and translator | Professor of Spanish for study-abroad programs | Adoptive dad
BreathingAgain @breathingagain.bsky.social Freelance Editor, Dramatist, Medieval Studies. I want time to read, breathe, watch TCM, and walk on the beach.
Trying to forget I used to work in all things DATA.
> 120 days clean from MSM
Wendy @normaloqwendy.bsky.social Editor, plain language wonk, and knitter. Also traveller when that’s possible. Seeking first to understand.
Kate Sotejeff-Wilson @katesw.bsky.social Midwife of texts for academics and the arts | KSWTranslations.com from Finnish, German and Polish, editing in English | runs ridgewritingretreats.com | devourer of books | she/ona/sie/hän
The Canadian Content (He/Him) @psychofish77.bsky.social I right the wrongs you write.
Heather E. Saunders @h-e-saunders.bsky.social 🧡 That space-loving, orange-haired editor 🌟Here for edibuddies, space stuff, doggos, sustainability, inclusion & kindness🔸she/they/Mx
Taylor McConnell @taylormcconnell.eurosky.social I get paid to complain about big airports. 🏳️🌈
Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social Jewish romance writer; sci-fi, fantasy, and romance editor; university writing coach; Jane Austen enthusiast
✍✡️📚
Repped by Christina Miller at Nancy Yost Literary Agency
📍Halifax, Nova Scotia
She/her
Find me professionally at www.rookwoodediting.com
EditorMark @editormark.bsky.social Focus: the free exchange of ideas. Editor, writer, ally. Advocate for plain language, journalism, diversity, tolerance. Believes universities, corporations and other institutions should not be arms of the state (i.e., antifascist). Host, That Word Chat.
Kate Callahan (she/her/hers) @katelc.bsky.social Writer, educator, mom, Christian, Trekkie, 🏳️🌈
Philly values tempered by my wife’s Pacific Northwestern diplomacy
Christy Karras @christykarras.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, traveler. Loves the arts, the interesting stuff people do, and the weirdness of words. Dream life: getting paid to know things. She/her. 
Amar jeet @amarjeat.bsky.social 
Marieke Krijnen @mariekekrijnen.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, she/her, at www.mariekekrijnen.com. PhD from Ghent University. Specializes in urban studies, urban and human geography, Middle East studies, political economy, Chicago style. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP.
🚂 fan!
Professional Editors Network @pensite.org Editors, writers, indexers, and others who work with words. PEN is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but we have members located throughout the United States and beyond.
www.pensite.org
Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social 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
James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social Louche left-wing nerd. Words, food, music, beverage alcohol. MA linguistics, PhD theatre. jamesharbeck.com, sesquiotic.com
John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social Retired Baltimore Sun editor, flaneur. Author of “The Old Editor Says” and “Bad Advice.” Kentuckian transplanted to Baltimore. 
Maya Berger (she/her) @mayaberger.bsky.social #ResearchAdmin #GrantEditor #copyeditor & #proofreader.
Creator of #TheEditorsAffairs (TEA).
#CIEP Advanced Professional Member.
#AmEditing, #EroticaEditor, #ConsciousLanguage, #BasicIncome, #UBI, anti-oppression.
https://www.WhatIMeanToSay.com/
Vee White @veewhite.bsky.social Pronouns: they/them
Editing | Writing | Social Justice
Founder LGBTQ+ Editors Association: @LGBTQEditors
www.LGBTQEditors.org
Mentorship program: https://lgbtqeditors.org/mentorship
Plagiarism Survey: https://veewhite.com/plagiarism-survey
William | Edivations @edivations.bsky.social Fiction copy editor with a love for dark fiction, especially of the gothic kind. EFA and ACES member.
Sohini Ghose @sohinighose.bsky.social Editor. Author. Digital collage maker. Travel seeker. Tea lover. Editors Tea Club Events Co-Coordinator. @ACESEditors. EFA social media volunteer. BookFest Windsor programming committee member.
🇮🇳➡️🇺🇸➡️🇨🇦
www.sohinighose.com
Wendy Baldwin - Linguaverse @linguaverse.bsky.social I help academics write (writing retreat facilitator & AcWri trainer) & publish their work (authors' editor, academic translator). Co-founder of WRAP @wrap-net.bsky.social. 🎓 (Psycho-)linguistics 🏠 Donostia-San Sebastián
🌴 https://www.linguaverse.net/links
Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social As a medical editor, language - usage - lexicography - culture - memes - all meet someplace. And that place appears to be my desk.