Fall Classes Are Here!

The first classes of fall 2025 are open for registration, and the schedule is packed! Both new and longtime classes are returning with refreshed content, ready to invigorate your editing and boost your career. Register within two weeks of a course being added to the catalog and get a 10% early bird discount — and yes, that's on top of the 20% discount for members.

Don't feel like planning so far ahead? You can register until the very last minute for our July and August classes. Whether you're looking to learn how to edit picture books, use Word macros, or proofread for businesses, we've got the class for you.

Whether you want to study at your own pace or learn with an instructor's direct feedback, the EFA's education program has everything you need to broaden your skill set and client base. As always, our library of recorded webinars is available for immediate viewing, so be sure to check it out for dozens of helpful sessions. 

EFA members get 20% off all our courses, and get many webinars for free. Not a member? Join today.

Just Added

Developmental Editing of Short Fiction: From Flash Fiction to the Novelette
Course begins August 13.

In this immersive course, you’ll embark on a five-week journey into the heart of short fiction editing, explicitly designed for the bustling world of literary magazines, journals, and anthologies. The length constraints of short stories will fine-tune your editing skills, enabling you to help authors drill down and say more by saying less.

Our students say...

I enjoyed the very clear course material and also the instructor's very helpful and thoughtful feedback on the assignments. —D.V.

Val's insights and feedback were incredibly helpful to me. I feel she has a fantastic feel for the content and is able to educate others with ease because of that. —R.R.

Price: $350 for guests, $280 for members
🐦 Early bird discount! Register before June 29 for 10% off.
For more information and to register, click here.

Learning to Love LinkedIn
Webinar airs August 21.

This 90-minute webinar covers how to use LinkedIn effectively, quickly, and professionally as a freelancer, so that you can claim a spot as an authority in your niche, bring in business, and keep your name top of mind for previous clients and prospects.

Price: $60 for guests, $48 for members
🐦 Early bird discount! Register before June 19 for 10% off.
For more information and to register, click here.

Proofreading for Businesses and Ad Agencies
Course begins August 27.

This five-week course will give you everything you need to launch your corporate proofreading career or add to your existing editing business. We’ll cover what skills a corporate proofreader needs, how to get (or sharpen) those skills, what equipment and tools are needed, and much more.

Our students say...

Sharon is gifted at teaching!! Her vast experience is evident. It was awesome to get a glimpse of it through this course. At the end of Week 1, I already felt like I’d received my money’s worth. —J.K.

I enjoyed the practical exercises and the checklists. The Acrobat markup lesson was very good, and I liked how Sharon used the same document to compare marking up the same changes with annotation tools vs. drawing tools. —A.S.

Price: $350 for guests, $280 for members
🐦 Early bird discount! Register before June 30 for 10% off.
For more information and to register, click here.

Introduction to Academic Developmental Editing
Webinar airs September 4.

Freelance developmental editors with the ability to edit academic manuscripts are in high demand, and the work can be intellectually stimulating, personally rewarding, and financially lucrative. 

Price: $60 for guests, $48 for members
🐦 Early bird discount! Register before June 29 for 10% off.
For more information and to register, click here.

Line Editing of Commercial Fiction: Intermediate
Course begins September 10.

This four-week intermediate course builds on a line editor’s foundational understanding of voice and syntactic style, focusing on refining a manuscript to better fit its intended market.

Our students say...

Amber's enthusiasm for the work, in addition to her wide range of experience, shows in every lesson and module. She's incredibly generous with both her time and knowledge, especially when giving feedback on our editing assignments. —A.K.

Amber's warm, deeply thoughtful, and responsive presence online made me want to get involved. Her discussion forum assignments were created in a way that compelled us to interact with one another. —C.R.C

Price: $350 for guests, $280 for members
🐦 Early bird discount! Register before June 30 for 10% off.
For more information and to register, click here.

Editing Children's Picture Books
Course begins September 17.

This essential six-week course will show you how to help your client to produce a properly structured manuscript with a forward-moving plot, essential obstacles, and memorable characters.

Our students say...

I enjoyed the class a lot. The instructor was fantastic, knowledgeable, responsive, warm, and encouraging. —C.E.

Lou's guidance was invaluable. She really helped us understand what was going on and how we should navigate this kind of editing. —A.D.K.

The content is excellent. The pacing is perfect. —C.R.

Price: $350 for guests, $280 for members
🐦 Early bird discount! Register before July 1 for 10% off.
For more information and to register, click here.

Editing Romance
Course begins September 24.

This deep dive into romance will help developmental editors build genre toolkits. All the basics of romance — story beats, tropes, and even the history of the genre — will be covered.

Our students say...

The content was well-organized, the forum questions and exercises were good practice, and Megan's feedback on the summary sheet helped clarify how to practically apply what we were learning. —C.W.

Before I took this course, I was developmental editing romance novels based on intuition, but now I know the terms to use when commenting on my clients' work. —M.A.

Price: $350 for guests, $280 for members
🐦 Early bird discount! Register before July 1 for 10% off.
For more information and to register, click here.

Editing Science Fiction and Fantasy
Course begins October 1.

In this six-week course, you'll become well-versed in helping authors fix issues with worldbuilding and exposition, flat character archetypes, and tropey plots, and you'll learn how to strike a balance in hybrid genres like literary science fiction and paranormal romance.

Our students say...

I enjoyed learning about the nuanced ways to approach editing science fiction and fantasy. As an editor with no professional experience yet, it was great to learn which aspects of worldbuilding, magic and technology were important to focus on during an edit. —C.P.

I loved the focus on actionable feedback and the variety of manuscripts! Overall, I was extremely pleased with the course. —K.T.

The modules were very thorough and gave me a lot of tools to enhance my editing skills in fantasy and science fiction. The feedback on the assignments and the forum discussions were very interesting and helpful. —A.S.

Price: $350 for guests, $280 for members
🐦 Early bird discount! Register before July 1 for 10% off.
For more information and to register, click here.