Uh-oh. Is it just us, or does this sound like a potentially perilous idea? Brian Joseph Davis, writing in The Globe and Mail‘s In Other Words blog, points to an event taking place on July 4 at Toronto’s Scream in High Park, in which a panel of editors, including Stuart Ross and Coach House Books’ Alana Wilcox, will each take a crack at editing a piece of writing by a “well regarded” anonymous author. Live. In real time.

Writes Davis:

Edits will be compared. An identity will be revealed and hopefully feelings will be hurt just enough for it to be funny, but not so much for the scars to be permanent.

This experiment might result in a pleasant conversation between colleagues, or the literary equivalent of a UFC cage match. Quillblog is now torn: while abhorring confrontation, the latter outcome sounds much more entertaining.