Social Media Giant Seeks Everything From Content Curators to Editorial Assistants Upworthy’s hiring! We’re looking for 10 full-time, kick ass curators, some biz dev people, and soon to be posted, copy editors and editorial assistants. So if you have the research and story-sleuthing skills of a journo but live and breathe Internet, memes and funny colloquialisms, this is a great job for you. Also, Upworthy is a fantastic place to work for. You can work from anywhere and we have amazing benefits. You’ll also have very smart and clever co-workers who will make you laugh… Read Article →

Atlantic Media Fellowship Atlantic Media is a nationally-recognized, award-winning, and digital-first media enterprise whose flagship publications — The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive — are among the most influential media outlets in America.  Drawing upon its expertise and best practices, Atlantic Media has also recently launched three new businesses: Atlantic Media Strategies, an in-house marketing services agency, Quartz, an all-digital global news publication, and Defense One, a site dedicated to covering the people and forces shaping the future of U.S. defense and national security. Atlantic Media is growing, evolving, and causing major disruption in… Read Article →

Prof. Rooney Reads at the Poetry Foundation’s Open Door Series The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long reading features two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. She is the author of the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs (Counterpoint, 2010) and the poetry collection Robinson Alone (Gold Wake Press, 2012). John Wilkinson is a British poet who chairs the… Read Article →

Local Author Seeking Intern Gioia Diliberto is the author of five books – two novels and three non-fiction – and a play, and she is seeking a detail oriented intern to help her prepare a manuscript for publication. The book is a biography of the fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, which will be published by HarperCollins at the end of 2014. Duties include archive research, fact-checking and footnote assembly. An interest in history and the arts, though not necessarily fashion, would be helpful. To Apply If you’re interested in applying to this internship please send… Read Article →

Chicago Women in Publishing Gathers Publishing Entrepreneurs and Trendsetters From bloggers to enhanced ebook publishers, these are the newest publishing-related businesses you need to know about in 2014! Join us as our panelists share the latest in publishing technology: JinJa Birkenbeuel, Founder of Birkdigital, a digital publishing company Josh Fisher, Founder of Appoet, an organization with a GPS-enabled magazine app Zack Price, Founder of Digital Book Network and Blog Into Book, a specialty ebook publisher Rob Walsh, Founder of Scholastica, a publishing platform for academic journals Date Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Time 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. 6:00 to… Read Article →

Industrial Supply Company Looks for a Multitasking Copywriter McMaster-Carr, an industrial supply company that’s been around for more than 100 years, is looking to add smart, talented individuals to our catalog publishing team. As a Print Developer for our 3700 page catalog, you’ll write about a variety of products, ranging from hand tools, pipes and pumps to electrical supplies and precision linear motion components. You’ll have the task of taking difficult, inconsistent, and often technically intimidating information and turning it into clear, benefit-oriented copy that is useful to a wide range of customers. To be… Read Article →

Modern Luxury Publication Seeks an Experienced and Dynamic Editor-in-Chief Chicago Social Magazine, a Modern Luxury publication, seeks an experienced and dynamic Editor-in-Chief/Group Editor. The multi-faceted position will develop and oversee the magazine’s luxe content focusing on trends, fashion, home, real estate, art, design, society, events, profiles, dining, wine/spirits, etc. The position will also oversee the special interest magazines under the CS umbrella as group editor. The role includes managing an editorial budget, story ideation, crafting editorial lineups, building and maintaining community relations, managing a large freelance team and editorial staff, as well as editorial work… Read Article →

Publisher Seeks Romance Writer to Join Team Blackbird Publishing is a bootstrapped and profitable, Chicago-based, digital publishing startup focused on producing engaging and dynamic stories in the Contemporary Romance and New Adult genres. We solely distribute content through digital platforms like Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and Barnes & Noble NookPress. Since our founding in 2012, our titles have sold over 180,000 copies. We have produced multiple Kindle Bestselling titles as well as a USA Today Bestseller. We are looking for talented and ambitious full-time writers to join our in-house writing team. Your main job responsibility… Read Article →

Biweekly Business Insurance Magazine and Website Seek Copy Editor Business Insurance, a biweekly news magazine and website covering risk management, commercial insurance and employee benefits, seeks a Copy Editor to edit stories for magazine edition and daily news items for the website. Candidate will work closely with copy desk chief, reporters and other editors to edit breaking news, analytical news stories and feature content. In addition, successful candidate will proof pages, write headlines and photo captions and carry out other production work for the website and magazine. Requirements: Candidate should have firm understanding of AP… Read Article →

Join past Nelson Algren Short Story Award winners in kicking off the 2014 contest with a stimulating evening focusing on the process of creative writing.  Tribune literary editor Elizabeth Taylor will guide the discussion with previous winners.  There will be ample opportunities for questions about writing challenges and conundrums. January 27th,  $20, 7 p.m. Tribune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago Printers Row Members: Enter the promotional code “FreeTicket” and use your membership number to redeem your free member ticket. Buy Tickets

CCLaP is currently accepting three types of manuscripts for possible publication: –Full-length commercial novels or works of creative nonfiction, 60,000 to 120,000 words total; –Novella-sized manuscripts of the same type, 20,000 to 40,000 words in length; –And individual stories and essays for inclusion in our monthly magazine, ideally 5,000 to 10,000 words (although shorter and longer submissions are accepted as well). All books are published in an electronic version released under a Creative Commons license and a “pay what you want” scheme (including a free version), as well as a trade paperback printed by Lightning… Read Article →

A Chicago Humanities Festival Gary Shteyngart is the unlikely offspring of Anton Chekhov and Judd Apatow. His new memoir, Little Failure, takes us from his Lenin-loving, ratty-fur-overcoat-wearing childhood in Russia to the triumphs and catastrophes of his Queens adolescence. Shteyngart will be joined in conversation by Aleksandar Hemon, another brilliantly funny immigrant who found his calling as an American writer. We are proud to partner with Unabridged Bookstore to offer hardcover copies of Little Failure as part of book & ticket packages. If you purchase a book & ticket package, you will pick up your… Read Article →

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