2:00 pm, ET
11:00 am, PT
Author & Editor
Thursday, November 27, 2025
11:00 am PST / 12:00 pm MST / 1:00 pm CST / 2:00 pm EST / 3:00 pm AST / 3:30 pm NST
60 minutes
Hosted on Zoom
Live captions available
Registration: $20 +HST / Free for TWUC members
Join freelance literary editor and a writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction Margo LaPierre as she describes the relationship between author and editor, including expectations and a list of dos and don’ts for both parties. Hosted by writer, editor, documentary producer Kevin Burns, this webinar runs approximately 60 minutes, including a Q&A period. TWUC members will have access to a recording of the webinar for a limited time. Non-members will only have access to the live event.
Stay tuned. Following the webinar, an updated version of Author & Editor by Margo LaPierre will be published online, as part of the Writers’ How-to Series. Members have free access to the series through the Member Portal (login required).
Margo LaPierre is a freelance literary editor and a writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has been published internationally in anthologies and journals, including in Arc, carte blanche, CV2, The Ex-Puritan, filling Station, Plenitude, and Room. She won the 2021 Room Poetry Award, the 2020 subTerrain Fiction Award, and was awarded the Claudette Upton Scholarship by Editors Canada as well as a SSHRC graduate scholarship. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Tom Fairley Award for Excellence in Editing. She has served on Arc Poetry magazine’s executive and editorial boards since 2019 and is a member of the poetry collective VII. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and a graduate certificate in publishing from Toronto Metropolitan University. She lives as a settler on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land, colonially known as Ottawa. Her second full-length poetry collection, Ajar, was published by Guernica Editions in October 2025.
Kevin Burns is an Ottawa-based writer, editor, documentary producer and former commissioning editor for Novalis. He is author of two biographies: Henri Nouwen: His Life and Spirit (2016) and Impressively Free – Henri Nouwen as a Model for a Reformed Priesthood (2019), which he co-authored with Michael W. Higgins. His award-winning radio documentaries for CBC’s Ideas include: Stalking the Holy; Genius Born of Anguish; and Betrayal of Faith. His current focus is assisting authors with their manuscript development. He is proud member of The Writers’ Union of Canada, Editors Canada, and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society.
