
What We Do
Best Writers and Editors is a Washington, DC-based firm of internationally recognized writers and editors with extensive experience in journalism and more than 120 years on the job. We offer a full range of writing, editing, and marketing services to make your complex content clear.
WRITING
Our accomplished writers take your most challenging and technical material and translate it into clear and elegant prose.
EDITING
Our experienced editors smooth your roughest drafts with rigorous rewriting, careful copy editing, and precise proofreading.
MARKETING
Our experts create content for every phase of the marketing funnel, matching your organization’s tone and finding language that resonates.
Business Communications
You need effective content to explain what you do and why. You are focused on your business goals, or your mission—not on correct word choice and spelling. Let us obsess over language for you. Our accomplished writers and editors work on deadline to make your complex topics clear. We employ our expertise to craft blog posts, rewrite white papers, burnish annual reports, and more.
Government Communications
You need content to convey your work to the public, from fighting COVID-19, to administering Medicaid for the needy, to keeping America safe from terrorists. But you are too busy to worry about proper sentence structure and punctuation. Our team works on deadline to make your complex topics clear. We can fine-tune your documents—proposals, research papers, evaluations, and everything in between—with precise rewriting and editing. Major products in our portfolio include refining policy documents on national issues such as the opioid crisis and formal apprenticeship programs, and local crises such as hunger among vulnerable populations in Colorado.
International Communications
You need precise words to grab readers’ attention in the constantly changing international environment. You are concerned with global crises, not gerunds. Let us make your complex topics clear, on deadline, in brochures, infographics, research papers, and more. Our astute writers and editors have a combined 35 years of working internationally, in 27 countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and South Asia, and throughout the former Soviet sphere. Our work includes perfecting annual reports, drafting blog posts, and energizing website copy.
Creative Communications
You seek to add luster and sophistication to your writing, whether blog posts or poetry. Jack London famously said, “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” We offer help with more delicate instruments—punctuation, tone, and word choice. Our coaching portfolio for individuals and organizations includes editing a book of poetry, helping a retiree write his memoir about surviving brain cancer, teaching creative writing at a retirement community, and coaching a group of entrepreneurs in effective writing to promote their businesses.
Who We Are

Katherine Hutt Scott
FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL
A decade as an international communications specialist and writing coach, following two decades as a reporter and editor.
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Leslie Hunter
ASSOCIATE
More than two decades of writing and editing experience for major international organizations, including the World Bank.
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Glen Justice
ASSOCIATE
Almost three decades as a reporter, editor, and media executive, with expertise in content marketing and digital communication.
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Esther Schrader
ASSOCIATE
Two decades as a national and foreign correspondent and six years writing and editing for international organizations and nonprofits.
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