Welcome back! There’s a lot of opportunities coming up, so here’s a round-up and where to find them: Spring Internships Jobs The Spring English Conference Poetry East 100th Issue New Series: Get a Job in Publishing
Helen Degen Cohen Summer Reading Fellowship RHINO is an award-winning independent national/international print poetry journal based in Evanston, Illinois. Now in our 45th year, RHINO editors look for the best in contemporary poetry, poetry in translation and flash-fiction. We welcome all styles, and value work that is well crafted, reflects passion, originality, engagement with contemporary culture, and a love affair with language. RHINO is seeking one or two promising poets to serve as Helen Degen Cohen Summer Reading Fellows. In addition to a primary responsibility to assist with reading, commentary and discussion of submissions, summer… Read Article →
Media Relations position, Chicago: https://www.builtinchicago.org/job/marketing/media-relations-specialist-make-impact-amazing-startups/24986 Editorial Assistant at Real Simple magazine, NYC: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2421460686 Editorial Assistant at U of Indiana Press, Bloomington: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2427098984
Starting this week and continuing throughout the Spring Term, I’ll be posting advice I’ve gathered from a variety of resources and content—professors, professionals, conversations, books, podcasts, etc. on how to prepare for (and eventually start and succeed in) a career in the publishing industry.
Register for the event here. Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer and artist whose work explores working class lives and landscapes. She will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award for lifetime achievement. As a Chicago native, Cisneros began her career with the 1980 publication of poetry chapbook Bad Boys and her must-read 1984 young adult novel, The House on Mango Street. Her most recent work is 2015’s A House of My Own: Stories From My Life. Cisneros has received many prestigious awards, including the American Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan… Read Article →
The Office of Alumni Relations would like to invite you to join us for a discussion with Dr. Shailja Sharma and Dr. John Shanahan on Asian writers and literature. While earlier Indian fiction in English was associated primarily with magical realism, recent decades have seen a proliferation of genres such as the historical epic (A Suitable Boy, The God of Small Things and the Ibis trilogy), the political thrill (Association of Small Bombs, A Case of the Exploding Mangoes), the police procedural (The Prisoner, Sacred Games, Delhi Crime), political allegory (Red Birds, The Lives of Others), and chick lit (Karachi You’re Killing… Read Article →
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There is no limit on how many pieces you submit, however please note that there is an 8-page limit for each piece. Thank you!
In this 14th year of the Miller Audio Contest, The Missouri Review is excited to announce a reimagining of the competition: the contest is now open year-round and 12 finalists from each of our four categories will be featured throughout 2021 on the new Miller Aud-Cast. At the end of 2021, one winner from among the 12 featured finalists in each category will be awarded $1000. There are a range of entry fees, all of which guarantee a one-year digital subscription to TMR, and each of which may be considered for publication in the Miller Aud-cast. They are seeking recordings… Read Article →
The Missouri Review is excited to announce the re-vamping of the Perkoff Prize, the original benefactor of which, Dr. Gerald Thomas Perkoff, was Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. This year, the contest is open for submissions in fiction, nonfiction and poetry; entries are sought that engage in evocative and compelling ways with health and medicine. One winner in each genre will be published in the Missouri Review and will receive $1000 and publication. As with our Editors’ Prize in the fall, all entries are considered… Read Article →