About unfolding Edits
Unfolding Edits was set up by former in-house senior editor Ana Fletcher to demystify the art of editing.
Like most of her peers, early in her career Ana was given training in the essential editorial skills needed for copy-editing and proofreading. But the type of editing she found herself doing day to day looked very different. It involved talking about the ideas at the heart of a project, grappling with a book’s shape and structure, and helping authors find their voice on the page.
Ana was interested in creating more space for editors and agents to learn about editing. In 2024, she established Unfolding Edits to expand the industry’s approach to editorial training and development. She now designs and runs workshops that give everyone who takes part a framework for editing that will serve them for their whole careers.
As Unfolding Edits, Ana also edits fiction and non-fiction titles for publishers and literary agencies, and works with her clients to use those edits as training tools for their junior members of staff.
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About Ana
Ana has edited close to 100 works of fiction and non-fiction by prize-winning and bestselling authors, including Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Jacqueline Crooks, Jarvis Cocker, Tessa Hadley, Jo Hamya, Anthony Horowitz, Howard Jacobson, Daisy Johnson, Ian McEwan, Jeanette Winterson and Evie Wyld.
She spent five years as a desk editor and senior editor at Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House, and two years before that at the independent press And Other Stories.
In her life before publishing, Ana worked as a writer, editor and trainer for the brand language consultancy The Writer, and was part of the International Programmes team at the human rights and literature organisation PEN International.
Ana speaks, reads and occasionally translates from Spanish and Portuguese. She has a BA in English from the University of York, and an MA in Comparative Literature from UCL.