The Creosote Journal is seeking an editorial intern for the Fall semester of 2011. The right person will have a vision compatible with the magazine and be eligible to receive college credit. The editorial intern will have the following responsibilities:
- * Help solicit and review submissions of writing.
- * Write regular features, reviews, and blogs for the online journal.
- * Help plan and edit the forthcoming 2012 print edition.
- * Attend bi-weekly editorial meetings.
- * Proofread using (a) common sense and (b) Chicago Manual of Style (if you don’t know it, that’s okay, but be willing to learn it)
- * Other tasks, including conducting and transcribing interviews, internet research, etc.
- * A limited amount of promotional activities, i.e. social media and email marketing
You won’t be expected to get anyone coffee, hang around an office or do boring menial tasks. But you will be expected to give your all to the work, take initiative, and respond to email promptly. This is an ideal opportunity for someone self-motivated, independent, inspired, obsessed with reading, writing, cities, art, ecology, film, and literature (or whatever else you’re inexhaustibly curious about). You know it’s ridiculously hard to make a living as a writer and editor, but you’re dead-set on doing it anyway.
This is a hands-on internship. If you just want a ground-floor glimpse of the corporate publishing mothership, this is not for you, and that’s fine! But if you do want to actually write, earn some bylines, and get some real editorial experience, then let’s talk.
About us: The Creosote Journal is a new literary and culture magazine. Our mission is to document arts and letters in the contemporary West, highlighting innovative writing, thought, and design, with an emphasis on intersections of culture and place. We want to explore what makes the modern West and California unique, with a spirit as broad and free-ranging as its wide open spaces and thriving dynamic cities. How do our ideas of the West need to be updated in an era of urbanization, rapid communications, mass immigration, and ecological crisis? Broadly regional, we treat geography as inspiration, not limitation. We want to find and highlight the voices—novelists, journalists, artists, filmmakers, and designers—who are pushing forward with stories and ideas for our time.
Please respond by emailing aurora@creosotejournal.com