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Help Wanted: Book Review Editor for Prime Number Magazine. Must have a portfolio of published reviews. The position (which is unpaid, like all of our editorial positions) entails curating and/or writing book reviews and interviews for our quarterly online publication. Expressions of interest should be sent to:

CliffATPrimeNumberMagazineDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

along with copies of or links to published reviews AND a brief statement of your book review philosophy.

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Princeton University invites applications for the Hodder Fellowships:

The Hodder Fellowship will be given to writers and non-literary artists of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the 2015-2016 academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, performance artists, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have "much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts"; they are selected more "for promise than for performance." Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the "studious leisure" to undertake significant new work.

Next deadline: The 2015-16 academic year fellowship application process is now open. The deadline for applications is September 15, 2014. The job posting is listed on Princeton University's Human Resources website under job requisition number 1400347

Please note that if you have already submitted an application for the Hodder Fellowship, updates and changes can no longer be made to your application.

Questions? Email:

ysabelgATprincetonDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

The appointment of the Hodder Fellows will be made in January 2015.

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The Sun is hiring!

We’re searching for an Associate Publisher to direct business operations, finance, and personnel. We also have openings for a Manuscript Editor and an Editorial Assistant. All three positions are full-time and based in our Chapel Hill, North Carolina, office. Click the job titles below for details. (No e-mails, phone calls, faxes, or surprise visits, please.)

Associate Publisher

Manuscript Editor

Editorial Assistant

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Midway Journal is seeking an editor for creative nonfiction.

We are a journal that meets in the middle: of geography, of coasts, of experience. As a middle ground, we also consider ourselves a place of border crossing, of interrogation and opening of voice.
 
Please send a letter of interest, including details on why you would be a good fit for Midway Journal as well as any relevant experience to:

editorsATmidwayjournalDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Visit our website to learn more about the journal and its aesthetics.

Additionally, we are open to submissions until the end of May!

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The Sun is hiring!

We're searching for an Associate Publisher to direct business operations, finance, and personnel. We also have openings for a Manuscript Editor and an Editorial Assistant. All three positions are full-time and based in our Chapel Hill, North Carolina, office. Click the job titles below for details. (No e-mails, phone calls, faxes, or surprise visits, please.)

Associate Publisher

Manuscript Editor

Editorial Assistant

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We need a full-time Associate Publisher to direct business operations, finance, and personnel at The Sun, a nonprofit, ad-free magazine in its forty-first year of publication. This position is in our editorial office in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The job requires a head for business, a heart for all that The Sun represents, and experience as a compassionate, skillful manager. We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and an appealing work environment. Click here for details.

If you’re not interested in this position, will you please help us spread the word? 

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Title:	Director of digital marketing & editor of webzine
Description:	Melville House is looking for a strong writer/editor emanating spunk to edit our renowned MobyLives blog and to manage our website and ecommerce efforts. Duties include management of all aspects of our website and creative participation in our online marketing campaigns, including: • entering and maintaining data, as well as supervising tweaks, updates, improvements and redesigns of the website; • creating and supervising website promotional campaigns, as well as larger internet campaigns; • writing for, and being the managing editor of, MobyLives; • managing our online sales program; • raising the company's profile. This is not an entry-level job. Salary between $35-45K, depending on experience, plus benefits.
Requirements:	This is a marketing position first and foremost. Editors with no marketing experience, and/or no experience with website maintenance, should not apply. Seriously. Don't do it. Experience at a book publishing house preferred. If you know our list, you're way ahead. Beyond that, candidates must: • have strong writing, verbal, and data management skills; • be able to get under the hood of our website's programming; • have a high level of comfort with WordPress, Photoshop, and InDesign; • possess the ability to keep a lot of balls in the air at once; • be self-motivated and well-organized; • work well under deadline pressure; • enjoy working in a fast-paced, deeply collaborative and creative environment; • have a sense of humor, for God's sake; • give a damn about independent publishing; • feel the future is an exciting place they can influence.
Company:	MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING
Location:	Brooklyn, New York
How To Apply For This Job:	Send a resume, writing samples, and cover letter to: pubassistATmhpbooks.com. (Change AT to @). Cover letter should be addressed to publisher Dennis Johnson and explain your appropriateness for the position and familiarity with the company.

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New literary journal called Blue Lyra Review is currently open for Fall & Spring submissions. We are an online journal but we will print an annual best-of issue. beginning Dec 2013.

Our aim is to bring together the voices of writers and artists from a diverse array of backgrounds, paying special homage to minorities including Jewish writers and those from communities that are historically underrepresented in literary magazines.

Profits earned from this will be donated to the charities listed on our Web Site.

You can submit poems, nonfiction, fiction, artistic images, or translations through Submittable.

Nonfiction:
We’re interested in 500 – 4,000 word (maximum) personal essays, memoirs, creative non-fiction which have a strong story at its core, and where the author shows up on the page with passion, a personal stake, or meaningful reflection. Sorry, but essays over 4,000 words will not be reviewed. We are open to all topics but are especially interested in nature- or Jewish-oriented pieces. Make sure your submission has your contact information (name, address, phone number, email) on the attached (brief) cover letter ONLY. Please do NOT have any identifying information on any page of your submission except the cover page!

Poetry:
While poetry is full for issue 1.2, please begin submitting for Spring issue 2.1! Whether narrative or lyrical or experimental or prose poetry, we are simply looking for something that moves us. Please attach 3-5 poems at a time in a single file with a .doc, .docx, or .pdf extension, and put your name and poems in subject line (Silverman – poems). Don’t send just one poem unless it’s a long poem (more than three pages). We want to get a sense of your style as a writer, and one poem is not enough to do this. Make sure your submission has your contact information (name, address, phone number, email) on the attached (brief) cover letter ONLY. Please do NOT have any identifying information on any page of your submission except the cover page! Type the titles of your poems, separated by commas, in the Title box.

Fiction:
The most important thing is that it needs to be based more on truth than experimentation for experimentation’s sake. It can be light or it can be serious, but for it to be worthy, it must reflect life, with some fundamental human idea. Fiction should be organic and natural, and accept its premise (whatever it may be) without a wink or a nod. We’re currently looking for works that thrum on all cylinders and that are confident in a unique way. We’re interested in solid stories with weight, regardless of length (anywhere from 200 to 7,500 words). Send your submissions in .doc or .docx format with your contact information (name, address, phone number and email address) on your (brief) cover letter. Please make sure that you put the word count on the first page of the submission or in the cover letter! Please do NOT have any identifying information on any page of your submissions except the cover page. You may submit 1-3 micro pieces, but any pieces 500 words or longer must be submitted alone.

Translations:
We are looking for translations that read as if they were originally written in English, rather than as "translations." We especially prize translations that "honor" the music of the original text. In addition, translators should choose poems of high literary merit. We consider previously unpublished translations of poetry from any language. Submissions should include 3-6 poems, and should include both the original and the translation. Biographies of both the author and translator should be included in a cover letter, as well as a short paragraph on the process of translating these particular poems and/or why this particular author was chosen. Translators are expected to have acquired copyright permission to publish (online and in print) the original poems, if they are not in the public domain, BEFORE submitting.

Simultaneous submissions to other literary journals are okay, but please do not send more than one submission until you have received a response to your first submission.

Send original, unpublished material only.


JOB OPENING: We are looking for a web editor and copy editor—hopefully a Web & Copy Editor rolled into one to manage layout, fix any problems that arise, and add post content (poetry, nonfiction, art, fiction, interviews, etc.) for each issue, as well as to maintain the website (keep information up-to-date). After the web editor receives the content to add to the website, we hope he/she can accomplish this within 2 week time frame with issues being released 3 times per year.

If a candidate is talented and ambitious and would like to revamp the web design, that is welcome (but not necessary). This, like all positions here are volunteer positions.

Qualifications:
**Some HTML knowledge preferred.
**Must have done web editing in some capacity before. We use WordPress for our website. It’s pretty easy. We are not married to this and would be open to change.
**Must be fairly good at grammar and formatting.
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Application Materials:

**A very brief letter explaining your past experiences editing and designing websites with any links to websites you’ve worked on in the past.
**Send all application materials to:

 bluelyrareview(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @ in sending email). Put “Web/ Copy Editor Position” in the subject line of your email.

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Hodder Fellows

The Hodder Fellowship will be given to writers and other artists of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the 2013-2014 academic year. Hodder Fellows may be writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, performance artists, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have "much more than ordinarily intellectual and literary gifts"; they are selected more "for promise than for performance." Given the strength of our applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the "studious leisure" to undertake significant new work.

Hodder Fellows spend an academic year at Princeton, but no formal teaching is involved. Fellowships cannot fund work leading to the Ph.D. You need not be a U.S. citizen to apply.

Label each item on-line and/or mailed with your name and genre (ex: writer/fiction, writer/playwright, visual artist, etc.)

Submit on-line. Submit a resume, a sample of recent work 3,000 word writing sample, and a project proposal of 500 to 750 words.
Submit via mail (if applicable):
a DVD of ten minutes of performance; 20 visual images.

Programs Office/Hodder Fellowship
Princeton University
Lewis Center for the Arts
185 Nassau St.
Princeton, NJ, 08544

Deadline: November 1, 2012

10-month Stipend: $68,000

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Weave Magazine is a bicoastal literary organization and print publication committed to showcasing a diverse collection of established and emerging voices. We are looking for positive, self-motivated individuals who ascribe to Weave's ideals of community and diversity. Preference will be given to those who are committed to representing marginalized voices (ie: women, ethnic/racial minorities, LGBT, etc). Collaborative people who enjoy being compensated with food, hugs, and issues of Weave are especially encouraged to apply.

We are currently accepting applications for:

-Managing Editor
-Design Editor
-Event Coordinator

More info about each position can be found here.

Applicants must be located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Interested parties can email a CV/Resume and cover letter to
weavezine(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @)

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Leap year's here again and we have a February 29th! One extra day this year to achieve our writing goals. I'll take all the extra days I can get. :)

In my February 8th A Writer's World newsletter (sign-up at the right sidebar), I mentioned about the rhythm of freelance writing.



You have some work, you don't have any work. You have so much work you need to subcontract some of it out.

 This can be the nature of freelancing.

Preparing for a recent project, I cleared my calendar for February and learned a valuable lesson. When you focus on a project, task, article, or whatever, you can accomplish more than if you dabble here and there in your groups, social networking, emails, and so on.

I actually felt free, not having to touch base with my writing groups, not having to  promote on the social networks, not having to read all my emails. It was liberating and a time freeing sensation, even though I was hard at work on a ghosting job.

I did though, in preparation for clearing my calendar, write a two articles, prepost my Twitter posts for the month, preposted my blog post for here and my guest posts at Writers on the Move and 4RV Publishing, and preposted my newsletter emails, all at the very beginning of February. I think it took me two days to do all this, but the rest of the month I was relatively free, aside from my work.

But, now that I'm not so pressed for time, I'm not sure I'd do all that preposting again unless it's absolutely needed.

My writing coach, Suzanne Lieurance, is always advising to keep specific days for specific projects. This seems to be the best strategy. Pick one day a week for preposting your blogposts, guest posts, tweets, and so on. And, to stay in touch with your groups and read informative emails (this is a good learning tool), set a timer for at most one hour a day. Use the rest of your day to be productive.

I was debating whether to go back to the three posts a week and have decided it's worth the extra time involved. My stats are pretty good and I wouldn't want to rock the promotional boat. :) So, I'll be posting 3 days a week. The only change will be that Fridays will be guest post days, rather than Wednesdays,  and Wednesdays will be 'link day,' or bits of writing or marketing tips day. Wednesdays will be short and sweet.

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Until next time,

Karen Cioffi
Award Winning Author, Ghostwriter, Freelance Writer, Editor, Marketer

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http://www.karencioffiwritingandmarketing.com/p/karens-books.html

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Last week, I wrote about considering business writing as part of your freelance career--especially with the number of magazines and newspapers folding. I talked about external and internal opportunities and about contacting businesses and letting them know about your services.

But Craigslist (www.craigslist.org) is also full of business writing opportunities. The hope is that you find one, get your resume in quickly before the other one hundred writers, do a great job, and the business hires you again. I have applied for Craigslist jobs before--some have worked out; some have not. Once, I received a phone call from a business owner who was looking for writers who could write on a variety of subjects for his event planning business. While he quickly interviewed me and I translated his heavy New York accent, he told me he received over one hundred resumes for that job. So, the competition is tough, and you have to be quick on Craigslist. Let’s talk about some tips on using Craigslist, so you don’t get lost in the shuffle.

•    Many of the large cities that you first see listed on the Craigslist home page have the most job openings for writers—even telecommunicating jobs. Use the local angle, though, to make yourself more desirable to an employer. For example, if you live near Chicago, search for jobs there first and mention your location in your first response to the job ad.
 
•    Click on your state and find your city on the list. I live in Missouri; so when I click on my state, I am taken to a page that lists several medium- and large-sized cities. I look at the jobs in those cities first and again mention that I am a local writer or editor. If I am familiar with the business, I will also mention that in my first e-mail.
 
•    Don’t answer ads that are general and don’t give much information about the business. These are often ads for sites that want you to subscribe to them to view jobs or make a very small amount of money for a very large amount of work.
 
•    On Craigslist, if it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. It won’t hurt you to answer ads like this if you are not sure if they are legit or not (and everyone has different goals for their careers), but don’t waste a lot of time on them. With Craigslist, I usually put a couple sentences about myself, attach my resume WITHOUT my address (just my phone number and website), and send it. If the company is legit, then they will get back to you.

With Craigslist, it is a good idea to set aside one or two hours once a week to look through ads and respond to them. Start with your state, and then move on to bigger cities such as New York and Los Angeles. Look for ads from businesses, so you can develop a relationship with them and

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PRODUCTION MANAGER, QUIDDITY

POSITION SUMMARY
~Manage the production of Quiddity’s international literary journal (print and electronic components) and website, upholding all quality, calendar, and budgetary expectations; manage and advance the distribution of Quiddity’s international literary journal and public-radio program through traditional and emerging venues
~Part-time (24 hours per week) with the potential for teaching courses—which would include an additional stipend at the qualifying adjunct pay rate—in the Writing and Publishing and Communication Arts degree programs

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
~Oversee the submission systems (electronic and traditional) and acquisition processes for the print journal and reading series, including the coordination of query and galley correspondence as well as reading series proposals and writing and book/video trailer contests
~Coordinate and execute all editing and production schedules for the print journal and website; coordinate the production schedule for the public-radio program; support editorial board through production processes
~Advance Quiddity’s subscriber base, listener base, readership, and distribution using established and emerging resources
~Supervise and mentor student interns and cultivate Quiddity’s internship program
~Perform the layout for the journal’s interior print pages and its electronic format(s), design covers and promotional materials, manage web design, and expand web content
OTHER FUNCTIONS
~With the approval of both the division chair and the supervisor, may teach courses in the Writing and Publishing and Communication Arts degree programs for an additional stipend at the qualifying adjunct pay
rate

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS
~MA, MFA, or MSc in Creative Writing, English, Communications, or related field
~At least one year of experience with a print publication or journal of national distribution
~At least two semesters’ teaching experience at the university level with potential to supervise internships and teach the following courses in the Writing and Publishing Program:
Editing for Publications
Layout and Design for Publications
Writing Colloquium—Person in Community
Research Writing
Introduction to Creative Writing
Introduction to Literary Analysis
Modern Literature
LITR/COMM Applied

SPECIFIC SKILLS
~Must be graphic-design savvy and be well versed in user-friendly, multimedia web development
~Proficiency in web design software and CSS, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Audition (or similar software) Outlook, Excel, Access, File Transfer Protocol
~Exceptional reading, writing, and proofing skills
~Outstanding professional communication skills
~Established track-record of organizational management and follow-through
~Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
~Ability to work outside of regular business hours when necessary
~Ability to work as part of a collaborative team

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
~Supervise and mentor undergraduate student interns enrolled in Quiddity’s internship program

Twenty (20) hours per week performed in-office, on-campus, and be scheduled during regular business hours to correspond with schedules of student interns and fellow editorial board (faculty/staff) members; four (4) hours per week may be performed off-site.

TO APPLY
Send the following items to the address below.
~A letter of application: in your letter of application, summarize any relevant experience.
~A detailed résumé or CV
~Copies of transcripts: unofficial copies of transcripts are fine at this point. If you are chosen for an interview, official copies will be required.

Attn: Joanna Beth Tweedy, Editor and Host, Quiddity
Benedictine University at Springfield
1500 North Fifth Street
Springfield, Illinois 62702
USA

Please, no phone inquiries at this t

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I have decided to migrate from this personal blog to my Blogger blog, Editing Fast. There is an explanation in the post there with new telecommuting jobs for Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. So from now on please refer to Editing Fast several times a week to find new listings of telecommuting jobs. I just posted [...]

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Today I have a couple of good telecommuting job leads for ya’ll. I hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween. Article Writers Needed Writer and Research Assistant Transcribers Needed Fiction and Non-Fiction Authors Needed Writers Needed for In-Depth Series Newsletter Writer SEO Writer/Link Builder Posted in Telecommuting Jobs Tagged: blogging jobs, freelance jobs, happy halloween, Telecommuting Jobs, writing jobs [...]

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I am feeling spunky this morning, as you can see from the picture to the left. Isn’t that the cutest thing? I guess I’m in the Halloween spirit. I actually carved my very first pumpkin a few days ago. Also, this guy I have been dating is coming over to pass out candy to [...]

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Before I list today’s telecommuting jobs, here is a tip for those interested in corporate housing. The concept is brilliant. Corporations who have employees that travel save a great amount of money, which they will hopefully pass on to said employees, by investing in housing rather than constantly renting motel or hotel rooms. It is [...]

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Here are a couple of really good freelance jobs for you to check out. Please pass the link to this post along if you know of another writer or blogger who is looking for work. Have a great Tuesday! Email Sales Letter Writer Essay and Book Writers Needed Writers and Bloggers, $10 per 1000 page views + ad [...]

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Mary Soon Lee’s list of speculative fiction markets has been around for quite a few years and I decided to visit to see if it was still updated. Last update was earlier this year, but that’s better than many other market sources. I also like the fact that Mary categorizes the markets by how much they pay.

Also do check out her articles about writing speculative fiction, if that’s your genre interest.

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There are very few e-mail newsletters I read for pure fun/enjoyment, and Photojojo (great for anyone interested in photography) is one of them. They’re apparently looking for a writer based in San Francisco. If I lived in SF, I’d be SO tempted to apply.

Anyway, maybe someone out there is interested. Hey…if you apply, do mention me! If you get hired, I get an Eye-Fi!

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Last night I finally caught up with the fifth season of The Wire. Besides having the best writers in television (Richard Price and Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos for gosh sakes!), the show has a dark look at the inside of a contemporary newsroom--full of layoffs, cutbacks, and overworked reporters.

David Simon created the show after he got laid off from his reporting job at a major newspaper (meet him in this essay). His fictional city editor Augustus "Gus" Haynes grapples with small staffs and corporate interests in his newsroom, but the story never discusses how the Internet is killing print outlets around the country. 

Instead of feeling sorry for yourself this season, read this. Here are two examples of journalists struggling to reinvent themselves in this new era, the kind of stories writers need to read right now.

At the Huffington Post, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nancy Cleeland is detailing her struggle to maintain her career after she lost her dream job at the Los Angeles Times. Check it out:

"I'm across the country at an influential Washington D.C. think tank -- the Economic Policy Institute -- puzzling over how to pour two decades of newspaper experience into a new job of translating economic research and policy for a broad audience ... But there's a key difference: My writing now will be unabashedly informed by a point of view."

Then, check out Paul Lamb over at MediaShift Lab, this business technology expert is advising newspapers how to use mobile phone innovations in the newsroom. Read "When Phones Become Reporters." (thanks to Maud Newton for the Simon essay)

 

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