Greg Ioannou is the founder and president of Colborne Communications, which since 1977 has provided a complete range of writing, editing, training, and publishing services to book, magazine, government, and corporate clients. He is also the publisher of Iguana Books, a Toronto-based ebook publisher. He was a founding member of the Editors’ Association of Canada, and has served four terms as the Association’s president.
Greg has taught courses and workshops in a wide variety of writing and editing skills, including: estimating editorial costs; plain language; rewriting; structural editing; copy editing; proofreading; grammar; editing fiction; manuscript evaluation; author-editor relations; copyright laws; eliminating bias; and on-screen editing.
Greg has taught editing courses for George Brown College since 1986 and for Ryerson University since 1990. Since 1982, he has taught many dozens of workshops and seminars for the Editors’ Association of Canada (in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Kingston, and Vancouver). The two most recent were “Editing eBooks” and “When SEO and Editing Wreck Each Other,” both of which were at the 2012 EAC Conference.
He has also given workshops for the American Medical Writers’ Association, the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Professional Writers’ Association of Canada, and the Canadian Authors’ Association, and the Manitoba Editors’ Association; at the University of British Columbia; and at Victoria, Humber, Centennial, and Sheridan colleges.
He has given workshops on writing and plain language for many branches of the Ontario government, for several corporations, and for various writers’ and editors’ groups and conferences. As well, he has led over 60 Plain Language workshops for staff writers at the City of Toronto.