Events
The Editorial Freelancer’s Exit Strategy: Mid-Career Actions to Set You Up for a Great Retirement
September 17, 2026
ACES Society for Editing conference
Co-presented with Rachel Fudge
Learn how mid-career freelance editors can maximize their peak earning years while protecting against burnout, creating sustainable work practices that support both immediate financial needs and long-term security.
Leading an Interdisciplinary Journal
September 22, 2026
Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
Discover the challenges and opportunities of editing interdisciplinary journals, from peer review and workflow management to audience and community building.
Collaborating Across the Editorial–Indexing Handoff
October 6, 2026
Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Improve the editorial–indexing handoff, including what information should move between the two stages, how to flag issues that impact both, and how to handle late-stage author changes that affect the index.
Understanding Book Contracts, Royalties, and Rights
October 14, 2026
Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
Understand the key terms of scholarly book contracts, including royalties, subsidiary rights, permissions, and publishing obligations.
Editing Interdisciplinary Scholarly Book Proposals
October 20, 2026
Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Learn how to edit interdisciplinary scholarly book proposals, develop productive solutions with authors, and offer informed guidance grounded in the current publishing landscape.
Writing a Crossover Scholarly Book
November 10, 2026
Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
Understand the key terms of scholarly book contracts, including royalties, subsidiary rights, permissions, and publishing obligations.
New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Tools
November 17, 2026
Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Discover new editing and indexing tools, including new macros that speed up cleanup, project management apps to keep you on track, and analog solutions to organize your business.
Editorial Goal Setting for 2027
December 8, 2026
Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Celebrate your 2026 editorial successes and set strategic goals for 2027 professional growth.
The Problem of Fit in Scholarly Publishing
February 9, 2027
Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
Understand the key terms of scholarly book contracts, including royalties, subsidiary rights, permissions, and publishing obligations.
How a Great Index Helps Your Book
March 2027
Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
Learn how scholarly book indexing improves discoverability, accessibility, and readership, and what authors should know about the indexing process.
The Role of Design in Scholarly Publishing
April 6, 2027
Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series
Discover the role of typography, layout, covers, and digital design in making scholarly research more accessible and impactful.
Past events (abbreviated)
2026 events
Working Productively with an Editorial Team
- January 20, 2026
- Speakers: Miranda Baur and Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series
- Watch the video
Making Friends with Your P&L
- January 21, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program
Crafting a Successful First Book Proposal
- January 30, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Macro-Level Cohesion for Edited Collections
- January 27, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Developmental Editing for Anthropologists
- February 5, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Community of Writing Fellows, Society for the Anthropology of Work and the Anthropology of Work Review
Navigating Peer Review on Your First Book
- February 10, 2026
- Speakers: Elizabeth Ault, Shaun Vigil, and Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series
- Watch the video
Building Digital Safety Nets for Your Editorial Business
- February 18, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program
Editorial Business System Backups and Redundancies
- February 25, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Publishing in a Series for Your First Book
- March 2, 2026
- Speakers: Jennifer C. Nash, Adrienne Shaw, Chris Barcelos, and Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series
- Watch the video
WTF Is Word Doing?!
- March 17, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Writing Contracts without Breaking into a Cold Sweat
- March 18, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program
Ink Under Siege: How Scholars and Editors Are Keeping Critical Work in Print
- April 11, 2026
- Speakers: M. Gabriela Torres (Feminist Anthropology), Alyssa Napier (Columbia University Press), Naja Pulliam Collins (University of California Press), Suzanna Walters (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society), and Cathy Hannabach
- SPARK's Future World Changers in the Academy conference
Marketing Your First Book
- April 13, 2026
- Speakers: Allison Means, Cameron Ludwick, and Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series
- Watch the video
Getting Paid through US University Vendor Systems
- April 21, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Crafting Coherence in Multi-Author Books
- April 22, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program
Editing and Indexing for Multilingual Authors
- May 13, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
WTF Is Word Doing?!
- May 20, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program
Writing and Publishing an Interdisciplinary Book
- May 27, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Wichita State University
New and Favorite Editing/Indexing Resources
- June 9, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Sources That Save the Day
- June 10, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program
When to Query vs. When to Fix
- July 7, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Time Tracking, Estimating, and Scoping Projects
- August 26, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Managing Figures in Scholarly Work
- September 8, 2026
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
2025 events
Editorial Project Management Tools
- January 14, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Recent Trends in Scholarly Publishing
- February 4, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
AI and Academic Editing
- March 18, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Supporting Authors with Underdeveloped Manuscripts
- April 8, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Working with Underdeveloped Manuscripts
- May 6, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program
Professional Growth for Mid-Career and Senior Editors and Indexers
- July 8, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Creating Style Sheets That Work
- August 12, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book
- October 8, 2025
- Speakers: Dawn Durante, Dominique Moore, Mike Baccam, and Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series
- Watch the video
Ensuring Legibility in Interdisciplinary Texts
- October 14, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Editorial Business Planning Workshop
- October 15, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program
Crafting a Winning First Book Proposal
- November 10, 2025
- Speakers: Sara Cohen, Alyssa Napier, Noah Springer, and Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series
- Watch the video
Academic Editing and Indexing Tools
- November 12, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Editorial Goal Setting for 2026
- December 2, 2025
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
2024 events
Editing and Indexing Cross-Training
- January 23, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Crafting a Successful Academic Book Proposal
- February 14, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Exploring Indexing Workflows
- February 27, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Editing Crossover and Trade Books by Scholarly Authors
- March 26, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Writing Dissertation-to-Book Manuscript Reviews
- May 21, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Academic Editing and Indexing Tools
- July 23, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Working with (Not Against) an Author’s Voice
- August 21, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Editing Interdisciplinary Scholarly Book Proposals
- September 17, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
What’s New in CMOS 18
- October 8, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Writing Retreat for Arts Research with Communities of Color Fellows
- October 15–18, 2024
- Designed by Cathy Hannabach
- New Orleans, LA
- Hosted by the Social Science Research Council
Editorial Goal Setting for 2025
- December 3, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Optimizing Index Cross References and Double Postings
- December 11, 2024
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
2023 events
Writing Editorial Reports and Manuscript Reviews
- February 7, 2023
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation for Editors and Indexers
- March 9, 2023
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Planning a Successful Non-Academic Job Search
- March 25, 2023
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- University of Colorado, Boulder
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation for Editors and Indexers
- April 28, 2023
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Editors Canada/Editorial Freelancers Association Academic Editing chapter
Planning a Successful Non-Academic Job Search
- May 10, 2023
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Palah Lab, The New School
Onboarding and Offboarding Client Projects
- June 21, 2023
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Navigating US University Vendor Systems
- July 5, 2023
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Are Editorial Agencies Right for You?
- August 17, 2023
- Presented by Cynthia Williams and Cathy Hannabach
- Editorial Freelancers Association conference, Alexandria, VA
Editing as Worldmaking: Critical Generosity in Editorial Practice
- August 18, 2023
- Keynote address by Ideas on Fire CEO Cathy Hannabach
- Editorial Freelancers Association conference, Alexandria, VA
- Read the speech
Feminist Futures of Peer Review
- September 25, 2023
- Speakers: Josen Masangkay Diaz, April D.J. Petillo, Dolores Ines Castillo, and Cathy Hannabach
- Watch the video
Fall Refresh: Copyediting Scholarly Manuscripts
- October 25, 2023
- Presented by Rachel Fudge and Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Developmentally Editing Interdisciplinary Academic Book Proposals
- November 6, 2023
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Editorial Self-Assessment: Reflecting at Year's End
- December 4, 2023
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Editorial Goal Setting
- December 5, 2023
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the LGBTQ+ Editors Association Mentorship Program
2022 events
Reference Editing Tricks
- January 24, 2022
- Presented by Rachel Fudge and Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Publishing Your Book During a Global Pandemic
- March 25, 2022
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Juggling Multiple Editorial Projects and Schedules
- July 25, 2022
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Getting the Most Out of Editorial Project Management Tools
- August 17, 2022
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Copyediting AAA Journals
- September 6, 2022
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Introduction to Interdisciplinary Indexing
- October 3, 2022
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of the Ideas on Fire Editorial Professional Development Series
Writing a Successful First Book Proposal
- December 8, 2022
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania
2021 events
Podcasting for Academia
- March 10–April 28, 2021
- Podcast instruction and assessment by Cathy Hannabach
- CEU GmbH–CEU Central European University
Editing Scholarship for Your Colleagues and Yourself
- April 16, 2021
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Stanford University
2020 events
Taking Your Scholarship Public
- September 29, 2020
- Plenary by Cathy Hannabach
- Publication Development Forum
2019 events
A Farewell to Ibid.: Editing Footnotes
- March 28, 2019
- Presented by Sarah Grey and Cathy Hannabach
- ACES Society for Editing conference, Providence, RI
2018 events
Publishing Your First Book
- April 13, 2018
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- University of Michigan
Writing for Research
- April 14, 2018
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- University of Michigan
Breaking into Academic Editing
- April 26, 2018
- Presented by Sarah Grey and Cathy Hannabach
- ACES Society for Editing conference, Chicago, IL
Planning Your Interdisciplinary Job Search
- May 3, 2018
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Yale University
Your Interdisciplinary Writing Superpower
- May 12, 2018
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Cultural Studies Careers Workshop: Academic Editing
- May 31, 2018
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Cultural Studies Association conference, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 events
Mapping Your Spring Semester
- January 11, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
Writing a Successful Academic Book Proposal
- February 27, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
Working Well with Dissertation Committees and Advisors
- March 21, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
How to Organize Your Dissertation Chapters
- April 5, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
Crafting Your Postac/Altac Career while in Grad School
- April 25, 2017
- Presented by Alexandra Sastre, Jenn Polk, and Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
Podcasting and Public Intellectualism
- May 25, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Cultural Studies Association conference, Washington, DC
Cultural Studies Careers Workshop: Academic Editing
- May 27, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Cultural Studies Association conference, Washington, DC
Staying Motivated over the Summer
- May 31, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
Writing Syllabi That Work
- July 5, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
Rock Your First Semester of Grad School
- September 6, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
Working Productively with an Editor
- September 22, 2017
- Presented by Sarah Grey and Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
Using Your Dissertation to Build a Non-Academic Career
- September 26, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Beyond the Professoriate
Podcasting as Public Intellectualism
- October 11, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
Building Your Professional Community
- October 24, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
- November 14, 2017
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- Part of Ideas on Fire’s Interdisciplinary Scholarship Series
2016 events
Rock Your Semester: Writing and Publishing
- April 1, 2016
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- University of Pittsburgh
Freelancing and Editorial Entrepreneurship
- May 7, 2016
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach (panelist)
- Beyond the Professoriate
Make It Work: Doing Cultural Studies Beyond the Academy
- June 2, 2016
- Speakers: Sarah Rebolloso McCullough, Terry K. Park, and Cathy Hannabach
- Cultural Studies Association conference, Philadelphia, PA
2015 events
Thrive Like Cult Studs: Cultural Studies Beyond the Academy
- June 2, 2015
- Panelist and organizer: Cathy Hannabach
Road Maps and Writing Routines
- October 6, 2015
- Presented by Cathy Hannabach
- University of California, Berkeley