Begin Your Copy Editing Career Today
Writer’s Digest is proud to offer our Copy Editing Certificate Program. This course will provide training for aspiring copy editors in order to give them practical and marketable workplace skills. As a student in this certification course, you will progress from the fundamentals of grammar, form, and composition to advanced copy editing skills.
Students who complete all the assignments and pass the comprehensive test will receive documentation from Writer’s Digest of their completion of the Copyediting Certificate Program. The lessons run for ten weeks, and there are an additional two weeks in which students have the chance to pass the final test.
If you want more online education, see the full list of WDU courses here.
Memoir and Personal Essay Writing Virtual Conference
Writer’s Digest University is pleased to present a one-of-a-kind online event for memoirists and essayists! On April 13, 2024, our Memoir and Personal Essay Writing Virtual Conference will provide expert insights from FOUR award-winning and bestselling memoir and essay authors. Spend the day learning techniques for honing your craft from four different published authors, then (if you choose) pitch your memoir or essay via query letter to a literary agent specifically looking for material in the memoir and essay genre. The agent will provide you with a personalized critique of your query—and maybe ask to see more.
Listen or Watch the Newest Episode of the “Writer’s Digest Presents” Podcast!
In March 2022, managing editor Moriah Richard held a roundtable with three debut authors in our debut authors episode—one of those authors was Mazey Eddings.
Now, Eddings is set to publish Late Bloomer, her fifth book in two years; an impressive feat for any author! Here, editor-in-chief Amy Jones and managing editor Moriah Richard catch up with Eddings two years into her publishing career to discuss how her writing has changed, how her perspective on publishing has changed, and her advice for other authors!