Paid gigs/small presses

This section exists as a service to all our artists and writers, and we hope to keep it regularly updated. We’ve received continual requests for information on work in the creative fields, and other markets for our contributors’ work, and people occasionally send in information on jobs, magazines, or people looking for collaborators or co-authors.

Every so often we hear of a paying opportunity for creative work, or a small or specialized press, or a publication seeking new contributors – so we’ll post a few things now and then that seem both legitimate and likely to be useful to the people who are sending work in to Synchronized Chaos.

The writing, art and design gigs will all be paid, and will all allow people to telecommute/work from home. We aim to update our list every two to three weeks or when a surprisingly good opportunity comes along.

The small presses/open markets for submissions will be screened to be legitimate, respectful of the hard work involved with producing art and copy, paying if possible, and genuinely open to new contributions.

Please let us know if you hear of, or know of, anything which might be well-suited for this page! You may comment here or email synchchaos@gmail.com.

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Playwright Lily Sauvage, creator of the SF indie show The Importance of Being Dolly, also seeks a website developer. Again, compensation’s reasonable and negotiable, although she’s a broke artist who appreciates discounts! Please reach her at dartingtrout@gmail.com.

Webdesigner Dominic Justin (offering services at a discount): My pricing starts at $399 for a 3 page standard site, $599 for a 5 page standard site and $199 for a mobile landing page. To see examples of my work please feel free to visit my website below.

Sincerely,

Dominic Justin
9910 Blairbeth Street
Charlotte, NC 28277
(980) 272-4054
www.justintimewebsites.com
www.facebook.com/justintimewebsites

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http://www.lmunet.edu/drafthorse/submissions.shtml

Drafthorse literary journal is seeking submissions for its Summer 2013 
issue.  Drafthorse is a biannual online publication of fiction,
creative nonfiction, poetry, visual narrative, and other media art
where work, occupation, labor—or lack of the same—is in some way
intrinsic to a narrative’s potential for epiphany.  We are interested
in how work, or the absence of it, effects people and communities on an
intimate level.  While we’re open to various interpretations, we expect
the subject to be fundamental to your submission in some way.  Complete
submission guidelines are available online at www.drafthorsejournal.org
or

www.lmunet.edu/drafthorse/submissions.shtml

We are especially looking for fiction, creative nonfiction and visual
art.  Submission deadline for the Summer 2013 issue is April 30, 2013.

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https://conteonline.submittable.com/submit

The editors of Conte, an online journal of narrative writing founded in 2005, announce an open submissions call for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for our nineteenth issue, slated for publication in Summer 2013. Recent contributors include Norman Dubie, Bruce Bond, Andrew Hudgins, Erika Meitner, Bruce Weigl, Robert Wrigley, Sandy Longhorn, Jim Daniels, Nin Andrews, and E. Ethelbert Miller, among others.

Visit for specific guidelines and past issues. We accept simultaneous submissions through Submittable at
https://conteonline.submittable.com/submit

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Subject: Call for Submissions: Ontologica

Ontologica, a Bi-annual literary magazine of art and thought is open for submissions starting 3/1/2013 – 4/30/2013. We will be accepting submissions in Non-Fiction, Fiction, and Art. 

Ontologica aims to present an eclectic mix of prose and art. Ours is a journal of differing perspectives. Readers will be just as likely to encounter the Christian as the Marxist, the relative as the absolute, the liberal as the conservative in the essays we present. We want to offer material that is illuminating, challenging, and, if need be, antagonizing. Above all it must accessible. Accessibility here doesn’t just mean a lack of specialized language, but a writing style that invites the reader in. Work with a philosophical slant is preferred, but not required. What is required is contemporary relevance and, more or less, general appeal. (An essay on the difference between Transcendentalist and Romantic poetry, no matter how well written, will most likely not find a home in Ontologica). Unless you lived a sublimely amazing life, no so-called creative non-fiction or memoirs.

We will include a small amount of fiction, and visual art in every issue. There is no clear-cut definition of what we’re looking for in fiction, though, like non-fiction, accessibility is a good keyword. We want fiction and poetry that moves beyond simple entertainment. In the words of Robert Bly, we want work that punches a hole in the pervading culture of denial: The health of any nation’s soul depends on the capacity of adults to face the harsh facts of the time. Pieces that point to the injustices of the world and reminds us of our own mortality, rather than giving us reason to ignore them, will be greeted here. Genre pieces are okay as long as, like the work of Cormac McCarthy or Robert Heinlein, the story transcends the limitations of the genre. Pieces that treat intense subjects without linguistic finesse or subtlety will not likely appear in the magazine–bring us to the battle lines without blatant preaching, childish whining, or melodrama.

All this applies equally to visual art submissions. Above all the work must have a distinct sense of subject. No ultra-modern, Jackson Pollock slapdashery. This doesn’t mean we want black-and-white photos of your lawn furniture. The art we present must engage our readers, whether through shock or awe. Ontologica wants art that fantastically suggests the possible, or horrifically portrays the actual.

Non-fiction and fiction submissions should be no more than 25 pages in length. Flash fiction is generally discouraged. For art, send between 3 and 5 high quality JPEG or PNG files. Send all submissions as attachments. For more submission information, please see our Submissions page athttp://www.warriorpoetgroup.com/Ontologica/submissions.shtml>. Send all submissions to

ontologicajournalATgmailDOTcom
[ontologicajournal AT gmail.com].

For more information see < http://www.warriorpoetgroup.com/Ontologica>.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Alice Walker famously argued that a”woman is not a potted plant.” Whether we choose our paths or plant our own “seeds of change,” women strive to fit in to the skin we are given. In our own words, writers,teachers, and speakers share their stories of finding themselves through shifts–from great to small.

We are seeking submissions for an anthology that will focus on stories about major life shifts regarding unspoken needs, social change, community, and defining self. This book will be written by and for women about change.

Submissions can be short stories,essays, plays and poems. 3,000 word maximum.

Submit to

musewritecommunityATyahooDOTcom

musewritecommunity@yahoo.com by June 1. 2013.

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The Indian River Review is currently soliciting submissions for its third issue scheduled for publication in late spring/summer 2014. The theme for this issue is “Technology,” and we plan to take a very broad view of this theme. As man moved from an oral to a literate culture, technology has affected the way we communicate and live. At one time, even the simple number 2 pencil was a technological advancement. From quills to computers, from knitting needles to the Mars Rover, technology comes in many forms, and we would like to explore this concept in our third issue. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2014. Genres include short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, critical essays, black and white photography, and book reviews. Please go to this link at the journal’s weblog for submission details:
http://theindianriverreview.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/call-for-papers-issue-number-3/

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Call for submissions & cash prize: Mason’s Road Online Literary Journal
http://www.masonsroad.com/submissions/

We are now accepting your best fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, and craft
essays. Issue Seven’s theme is POINT OF VIEW, and we are looking for unique
and arresting takes on this topic.

Our submissions period runs for through April 1, 2013. There
are two ways to submit to Mason’s Road. You can submit for free any time during
our submissions period, and your work will be given thorough consideration for
publication. Or, you can submit with a $10 fee, and your work will also be
considered for our Mason’s Road Winter Literary Award, which includes
publication and a $500 prize to the best entry we receive. Go to
www.masonsroad.com/submissions for more information and to send in your work.

In our current issue, we feature work by renowned artist Colleen Browning, interviews on craft with poet Carol Ann Davis, fiction writers Karen Osborn and Rachel Basch, and memoirist Jerald Walker. We are proud of the excellent array of work we selected from over 500 submissions, including the poem, “Gregory,” by author Sylvia Byrne Pollack, which won our annual Mason’s Road Literary Award. Visit www.masonsroad.com to check out all of the current issue’s works.

Sponsored by the Fairfield University MFA in Creative Writing Program, Mason’s Road is an online literary journal with a focus on the lifetime learning of the writing
craft. It is run by the program’s graduate students and its goal is to be both
educational and inspiring.

Submit today! Good luck!

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Devilfish Review, an online quarterly magazine, is looking for
submissions of fiction and flash fiction. We prefer speculative
fiction and fantasy, but will read anything. Please take a look at our
archives and About pages to see if your work will be a good fit.
Submissions are read on an ongoing basis. Previously unpublished work
only, please. Simultaneous submissions are fine. Our website is
www.DevilfishReview.com and submissions can be made at

DevilfishReview.Submittable.com

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You got a poem or two or three sitting around? 

Send them to The McNeese Review for consideration!

We are looking for poetry for our blog

http://mcneesereview.com/blog/

Send to nbarriosATstudentDOTmcneeseDOTedu

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> Greetings!
> Watershed Review, California State University, Chico’s publication is now
> accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual art
> (January 15th through March 31st)! Please kindly forward this email to any
> faculty and students that may be interested in submitting their work. Better
> yet, we are asking no submission fee!
>
> Watershed Review, formerly called Watershed, has previously published works
> from John Gardner, Raymond Carver, William Stafford and Denise Levertov, and
> seeks to publish imaginative works that push past the expected metaphor,
> that challenge us to engage and question accepted structure, that augment
> time-honored forms of writing and consider what comes next.
>
> For more information on submitting, please visit us at:
> https://watershedreview.submittable.com/submit.

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The Lake Region Writers Network has a call for manuscripts for Lake Region Review No. 3. 

They seek quality fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by writers in Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas, especially from those with a personal connection to this region. Your submission does not need to be grounded in this region, though we admit a fondness for seeing it represented in creative and engaging work. For additional information, go to

http://lakeregionwriters.net/lake-region-review/

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The editors of Snail Mail Review are now seeking submissions for their 6th 
issue. Submissions are open until June 30, 2013. We would love to receive a
submission from you. We accept all genre in Poetry and Fiction. There is No
Pay for accepted submissions. Contributors will receive a complimentray copy as
payment. No online submissions will be accepted unless it is from overseas. If
you are interested in submitting, please send 3-5 poems of not more than 35
lines and/or 1-7 pages of fiction to:

Snail Mail Review
c/0 Christine Chesko
1694 Augusta Pointe Dr.
Ripon, Ca. 95366

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With its Ninth Issue just published today, H.O.D. (A Handful Of Dust)
http://hofd.wordpress.com is once again calling for your submissions.

ISSUE 10 WILL PRIMARILY FOCUS ON VIOLENCE AS A THEME. WE WANT
POEMS THAT FOCUS ON PRE-VIOLENCE, POST-VIOLENCE, and ALL THE ACTS
IN BETWEEN.

SUBMISSIONS NOT TOUCHING ON THIS THEME MAY BE
HELD INDEFINITELY.

Are you a poet? Submit 3-5 poems (3-5, not 1-2) in the body of an
e-mail addressed to: h.o.d.submissionsATgmailDOTcom No attachments.
Any submission outside of these simple guidelines will be subject to
deletion without reading.

Are you a short-short-short fiction writer? Submit your sub-250-word
story in the body of an e-mail to: h.o.d.submissionsATgmailDOTcom No
attachments. Read an issue or two to see just what length we’re
looking for. Any submission outside of these simple guidelines will
be subject to deletion without reading.

Are you an artist? Submit your beautiful work as low-res .jpegs to:
h.o.d.submissionsATgmailDOTcom We will request higher-res, if we like
the work. BLACK&WHITE photography preferred. Would also like to see
more art (ink and paint).

Are you still reading? AWESOME! We’re looking to fill the next issue
of H.O.D. Issue #10 goes live on June 21, 2013. While there is a theme,
we’re open to any interpretation of this very vague and open theme,
especially in terms of PRE-VIOLENCE and POST-VIOLENCE.
ALL GUTS WITHOUT GLORIFICATION, please.

e-mail: h.o.d.submissionsATgmailDOTcom
website: http://hofd.wordpress.com

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https://unmannedpress.submittable.com/submit

UNMANNED PRESS SEEKS STORYTELLING: SHORT OF THE MONTH

Each month Unmanned Press publishes an original short work of literary fiction by an emerging and/or underserved writer that exhibits literary skill, sharpness, and originality. Selected writers are awarded $250, electronic publication, and an author interview. At the end of the series, an anthology will be published. If you think your storytelling is up to snuff, please follow our guidelines with care.

Submission Guidelines:

• All submissions must go through Submittable
• Cover letter (please include your full name, address, telephone number, and email)
• All submissions must be previously unpublished
• Please only query us with one submission at a time
• We suggest a $3 reading nod (100% optional)

We encourage you to visit our website to get to know us better prior to submitting: www.unmannedpress.com

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Switched-On Gutenberg, a poetry magazine online since 1995, is now accepting submissions for our 2013 issue. We are looking for poems on the themes: 

NO CUTE PETS
and
VELVET ELVIS: BAD ART
Full Submission guidelines at: http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org/guidelines.htm.

Submissions for the next issue will be taken until March 31, 2013.

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“Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose” seeks poetry and fiction submissions. 

Submissions in General:
Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose seeks submissions from everyone of every gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Please include a brief bio & your snail mail address. We only accept submissions through email. We accept simultaneous submissions, but we do not accept previously published work. We prefer Word attachments. We try to read submissions throughout the whole year, & we generally respond in about two months (a bit longer in the summer). All rights to published work(s) revert back to the author. (Please mention first publication in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose if the work is reprinted.)

Poetry Submissions:
To submit poems to Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose, please email us at

redactionsPOETRYATyahooDOTcom

and attach a submission of 3-5 poems into one Word, Wordpad, PDF, or Notepad document (or something we can open) or place the submission in the body of the email.

Prose Submissions:
To submit fiction, flash fiction, or creative non-fiction to Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose, please email us at

redactionsPROSEATyahooDOTcom

and attach one prose piece that is 2500 words or fewer as a Word, Wordpad, PDF, or Notepad document (or something we can open) or paste the submission in the body of the email. You may submit up to three flash fictions at once, but please include them in one document or paste them into the body of the email.

For complete submission guidelines, see:

http://redactions.com/submission-and-ordering.asp

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Prime Number Magazine seeks smart, well-written book reviews that explore the author’s craft and examine where the work fits within current literary trends. We are not seeking reviews that accentuate the negative. Prime Number Magazine’s on-line quarterly seeks four 400-800 word reviews and one author interview of 800-1,200 words per issue. Our print annual seeks one to two review essays,between 2,000 and 3,000 words, which critically examine two or more authors.Our review essays are peer-reviewed, so please send us only your best critical works. Our print annual may also include a longer author interview with a notable writer. Though our print interviews are often conducted by our Prime Number Magazine staff, if reviewers have an interview idea, please pitch us the idea.

ThoughPrime NumberMagazine frequentlyhas books for assignment, we encourage our reviewers to query us if they have a suggested book for review. (Note, unless provided by one of our participating presses and assigned by our staff, all reviewed books are the responsibility ofthe review author to obtain.) Please direct queries or questions concerning book reviews or author interviews to the PrimeNumber Magazine bookreviews editor at
booksATprimenumbermagazineDOTcom
books (@) primenumbermagazine.com.

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Viva Editions will be publishing TOASTS: The Essential Collection of More Than 500 Toasts, Graces, and Blessings. 
The main purpose of TOASTS is to offer inspiration and confidence to those who will be giving toasts. Readers should be able to find toasts that will be appropriate and enjoyable for every occasion. While the book will include several tried and true toasts, the desire is to find new and creative toasts that will appeal to a broad range of readers, including those in their 20s and 30s. TOASTS will be the primary book consulted when a toast is expected at an event.
Viva Editions publishes “Books for Vivacious Living!” and was founded four years ago by Brenda Knight at a pivotal point in time, as the stock market plummeted, the economy softened, and businesses tightened and cut back. Viva focuses on expansion, courage, and joy in life. In short, Viva is about the very best in the human spirit. Please visit them at www.VivaEditions.com
I am co-authoring TOASTS with one of my long-time contributors, Nancy Tupper Ling. While we are seeking submissions for all categories, we are particularly eager to receive submissions for those categories listed in bold. Since this is a book of TOASTS, submissions should be anywhere from 4-6 lines and easy to say out loud. Submit only those selections that can be spoken easily in a group setting. Graces and Blessings should also be short–no more than 10 lines. All Graces and Blessings should be interfaith. We encourage the submission of humorous toasts, too!
The categories will include the following: Adventures, Anniversaries, Art, Award Presentations, Babies, Best Wishes, Birthdays, Bon Voyage Parties, Business Events, Celebrations (general), Charity, Children, Christenings, Class Reunions, Creativity and Imagination, Family, Family Reunions, Fortune & Prosperity, Friends, General Blessings, General Toasts, Good Luck,Graces, Graduations, Gratitude/Joy, Guests, Happiness, Health,Homecoming, Host & Hostess, Housewarming, Inspiration, Love & Romance, Memorial/Funeral Gatherings, Military, New Job, Patriotic Toasts, Retirement, Roasts, Weddings, Wisdom. Plus holiday toasts, including: New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, April Fools’ Day, Passover, Easter, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa.
Submissions must be emailed or postmarked no later than April 30, 2013. For those submitting via email:
Please email no more than three submissions, each as a separate Word document and all inside one email message. If your submissions are exactly what we are seeking, you will be invited to submit more.

All submissions must be double-spaced in Times New Roman 12 with all of your contact info single-spaced on the upper left corner.

Use TOASTS as your subject line followed by your last name.

You will only receive a response (along with a permission form) if your submission is given final acceptance for the book.

Email submissions to
submitATfinelinepoetsDOTcom
submit@finelinepoets.com.
For those submitting via USPS, you will receive a response if you enclose an SASE along with your submissions. Please mail submissions to Fine Line Poets, Executive Center #247, 1600 Boston Providence Highway, Walpole, MA 02081.
Payment is one copy of the book for each published selection for non-exclusive rights.
Feel free to forward this Call for Submissions to writers’ groups, friends, and colleagues.

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The Whistling Fire (www.whistlingfire.com) is an online journal now in its fourth year of publication, that aims to showcase a diverse array of styles and voices. We accept poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works. We also welcome experimental pieces. We only ask that your writing is limited in length to 3000 words.Submissions are open year around, new work is published on the site every week.

Please include your name and the type of piece you are submitting in the subject line, authors submitting more than one piece should include them in the same submission. Attachments are permitted (MS WORD preferred). Submit no more than two pieces per month. Pieces that you wish to share should be sent to
whistlingfireATgmailDOTcom

whistlingfire@gmail.com.

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Spry Literary Journal features undiscovered and established writers’
> concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just-plain-vulnerable
> writing.

It’s a journal for people who excel at taking risks, who thrive
> under pressure–for people whose words and rhythms are spry. We are
> currently open for submissions for the second issue, which will be published
> in May.
>
> We accept all short forms of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We also
> challenge you to write sparsely (under 750 words) and submit to our Flash
> category. Submissions are requested in all genres, and simultaneous
> submissions are welcome. We have a strict blind submissions policy, and only
> accept writing through our submissions manager. Our first issue is live at
> http://www.sprylit.com. Please head over to see what we’ve published in our
> inaugural issue, and to start conversations with our authors, poets, and
> staff members. Renowned writer Porochista Khakpour is interviewed in the
> issue as well.
>
> Please visit our submissions manager
http://sprylit.submittable.com/submit
> to submit your work to us.
>
> –
>
> Spry Literary Journal
>
>
> Find us:
> sprylit.com
> sprylit.submittable.com/submit
>
> Friend us:
> facebook.com/sprylit
> @sprylit

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Subject: Call for Submissions: Glass A Journal of Poetry

Glass: A Journal of Poetry (ISSN 1941-4137) seeks poems for its sixth year of publication.  Full information about Glass, including submission guidelines, can be found at our website: http://www.glass-poetry.com

Glass is an online poetry journal that appears two times a year (June and December).  We want to see poetry that enacts the artistic and creative purity of glass. We seek to promote new and established poets by publishing their work. We are not bound by any specific aesthetic; our only mission is to present high quality writing. All styles, forms and schools of poetry are welcome, though easy rhymes and “light” verse are less likely to inspire us. All will be judged on the quality of the content of the poem. We like poems that show a careful understanding of language, music, passion and creativity and poems that surprise us. Previous contributors include Rane Arroyo, Jim Daniels, Lisa Fay Coutley, Sandy Longhorn, Marcus Jackson, and Karen J. Weyant.

This year we will also have two featured theme sections:Rebirth (Spring/Summer 2013) and Great Lakes Poets (Fall/Winter 2013-2014). Full submission guidelines available on our website: http://www.glass-poetry.com

Submissions should be sent to our email address and should include up to four poems pasted into the body of the email. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. We accept submissions between September 1 and May 31.  Full submission guidelines can be found at http ://www.glass-poetry.com.   Please read our submission guidelines carefully.

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We are pleased to announce the opening of our next submissions period! We are
now accepting your best fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, and craft
essays. Issue Seven’s theme is “point of view,” and we are looking for unique
and arresting takes on this topic.

Our submissions period runs for two months: February 1 – April 1, 2013. There
are two ways to submit to Mason’s Road. You can submit for free any time during
our submissions period, and your work will be given thorough consideration for
publication. Or, you can submit with a $10 fee, and your work will also be
considered for our Mason’s Road Winter Literary Award, which includes
publication and a $500 prize to the best entry we receive. Go to
www.masonsroad.com/submissions for more information and to send in your work.

In our just-published issue, we feature work by renowned artist Colleen
Browning, interviews on craft with poet Carol Ann Davis, fiction writers Karen
Osborn and Rachel Basch, and memoirist Jerald Walker. We are proud of the
excellent array of work we selected from over 500 submissions, including the
poem, “Gregory,” by author Sylvia Byrne Pollack, which won our annual Mason’s
Road Literary Award. Visit www.masonsroad.com to check out all of the current
issue’s works.

Sponsored by Fairfield University’s MFA in Creative Writing, Mason’s Road is an
online literary journal with a focus on the lifetime learning of the writing
craft. It is run by the program’s graduate students and its goal is to be both
educational and inspiring.

Submit today! Good luck!

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POSITION OPENING
Managing Editor, Quiddity
(Full-time, salaried, benefits, start date 1 June 2013)
Position Summary
· Manage the production of Quiddity’s international literary journal (print and electronic components), radio program, 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

Essential Job Responsibilities
· Oversee the submission systems (electronic and traditional) and acquisition processes for the print journal reading series, and radio program, including the coordination of query and galley correspondence as well as reading series proposals and contests
· Coordinate and execute all editing and production schedules for the journal, radio, and website; coordinate the production schedule for the public-radio program; coordinate editorial board and staff meetings; support editorial board and staff through production processes
· Advance Quiddity’s subscriber base, listener base, readership, and distribution using established and emerging resources
· 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
· Supervise and mentor student interns and cultivate Quiddity’s internship program, as well as other duties as assigned relative to academic affairs

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
· Teaching experience with potential to supervise internships

Specific Skills
· Must possess savvy graphic design skills and be well versed in user-friendly, multimedia web development and social media
· 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

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

Working Conditions
· Twelve-month position, forty hours per week performed in-office, on-campus

Send résumé or CV and letter of application detailing experience to Quiddity, 1500 N 5th Street, Springfield, IL 62702
Review of applications begins immediately.

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Surreal South ’13

Submissions Link:
https://press53.submittable.com/submit/18548

Surreal South shudders awake again, groaning to be born, and it needs your stories! It’s time for Surreal South ’13, hitting shelves this Halloween. And as with previous editions of the anthology series, Surreal South `13 is looking for stories that take the book title literally: stories that go “beyond the real” and that somehow take on southern setting, origin, or culture.

Our theme: A Surreal Lost and Found

For this edition in particular, we’re looking for stories of impossible finds, or of unthinkable losses.

Show us what happens when, say, a deer hunter guts a whitetail doe to find a live human infant in its womb, or when a single mom finds that her autistic son has been going on nightly tours through Hell with Virgil, or when a small town in Tennessee begins to lose Newton’s laws one at a time. Let your protagonist find something that you never could, or lose something that you’re glad you can’t, and take us along for the ride.

We welcome stories that are horrific, speculative, mysterious, dreamlike, or that draw from any of the various fiction genres, but please note that we aren’t necessarily looking for pieces that are loyal examples of a genre, whether literary, fantasy, crime, horror, or others. What we want is to be disturbed and delighted by good narrative through good prose.

While we’re strict about needing stories that go “beyond the real”—stories that involve the impossible or the supernatural—we’re a little more flexible on the “southern” part of Surreal South. Either the story’s content needs to involve the south, or it can be that the writer is associated with the geographical American south (born, living, spent time in prison or otherwise dallied somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon).

We require non-exclusive print and e-book rights to each story. While preference will be given to new, original work, we will consider work that has been published elsewhere. You must currently own free and clear rights to the piece.

Quick Intro to the Editor, Josh Woods:

The founders and original editors of Surreal South, Laura and Pinckney Benedict, have passed the torch to me, and, to be brief, I am extremely fortunate to receive such an honor and such a magnificent responsibility. My own fiction has appeared in the last two Surreal South editions among other places, and I was Associate Editor for Surreal South ’09. Also, I was Editor of two other anthologies, The Versus Anthology, and The Book of Villains.

OFFICIAL GUIDELINES

Surreal South `13 seeks submissions of prose fiction of 1000 to around 7000 words.

The fiction or the author must be in some manner southern, and the work must contain surreal elements.

Content should reflect the lost or found theme.

Only one submission per writer.

Rights: Submitter must own/control print and e-book rights to the work. All rights remain with the author; Press 53 seek one-time rights to publish the work in print and ebook format for as long as Surreal South ’13 remains in print.

Submission must contain these elements, and these elements only:

a. The story or self-contained novel excerpt of 1000-7000 words.

b. Author bio (no longer than 250 words).

c. Story note relating to the origin of the story and its surreal elements.

d. Information on the publishing history of the story (if applicable).

Submission deadline: May 1, 2013

Notification: Authors will be notified by July 1, 2013

Publication date (e-book and print): October 31, 2013

Compensation: one complimentary copy of Surreal South ’13 and the opportunity to purchase additional print copies (ebook not included) at 50% off the cover price plus shipping for as long as the book is in print.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Golden Key (http://whatwonderfulthings.net)

The Golden Key is a bi-annual journal of speculative and literary writing, inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale of the same name. We seek realist work sensitive to the magical and strange. The fantastical. Slipstream. Fabulist. Gothic. Weird tales. Work that unlocks. Work that restocks. We love writers who see familiar things in unexpected ways, and writers who revel in playing with language.

We are currently accepting unpublished fiction and poetry submissions for Issue #2 Old Things.

Serve up your old tales, emblems, and creatures. Give us old words and customs, ancient stories passed down by word of mouth. We like places that have been forgotten, abandoned things now uncovered. Dust off those inherited grudges, legacies, traditions.

Share something unremembered, or no longer made.

Send us your ancient, your aged, your superannuated. Send us things that bear the marks of time, and those that have survived the ages without change. Send us your worn things, the vintage, the golden, the ancestral …even the primeval.

The submission period for our old things issue is January 1 to March 31, 2013.

Please see our website for further detail on submissions (whatwonderfulthings.net/main/submissions). For journal updates, follow us on Twitter @GoldenKeyLit or Facebook.

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Editors Daniel Westover and William Wright seek submissions of poems for The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins,an anthology of poems that somehow engage the English poet who lived from 1844-1889 and whose innovative poetics brought him fame long after his death.

It is our contention that Hopkins’s poetry has influenced poets of succeeding generations at least as much as the high modernism that is often held up as the dominant forerunner of contemporary poetry and that poets continue to respond to his poetry’s beautiful strangeness, spiritual themes, and groundbreaking uses of language and sound.

We seek a broad range of submissions: poems that mention Hopkins or respond to specific Hopkins poems, poems that engage with Hopkins’s ideas directly, poems that stylistically derive from Hopkins’s poetics, and even excellent pastiches of his work.

There is no reading fee. All submissions must be sent as e-mail attachments to
westoverATetsuDOTedu
westover@etsu.eduand

vercimberAThotmailDOTcom

vercimber@hotmail.com in one of the following formats: MS Word 1997-2003(.doc), MS Word 2007/2010 (.docx); Rich Text Format (.rtf); or Portable DigitalFormat (.pdf). Please include a short (75-100 word) bio as a separateattachment in one of the above formats. Any questions should be directed toWilliam Wright, at

vercimberAThotmail.com

vercimber@hotmail.com.

Deadline for submissions is JUNE 15, 2013.

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The editors of Revolution House Magazine are currently reading submissions of poetry, nonfiction, short stories, flash fiction, and graphic stories for our fourth issue,due late spring/early summer 2013. 

Peruse previous issues and submissions guidelines here http://revolutionhousemag.com/.

Like us onFacebook (https://www.facebook.com/RevolutionHouse) and follow us onTwitter (http://twitter.com/revhousemag) to stayup-to-date on Revolution House news.

Revolution House doesn’t care if you have a hundredpublication credits or if this is your first attempt. Send us yourpoems, your stories, your moments of shining truth, and we will treat them as we want our own to be treated: with respect and compassion. Send us the work that moves you, for better or worse.

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Call for Art & Writing Submissions: Star 82 Review

Star 82 Review is a new art and lit online and print-on-demand quarterly that is
looking for your best original work and lyrical language. The idea of making the
familiar strange and the strange, familiar is of particular interest. Categories
include flash, postcard lit, art post images, and erasure texts. Fiction,
creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, comics, short dramatic scenes, and all art
media will be considered. Got art or text from 6-1000 words?
Please see
www.star82review.com
http://www.star82review.com/>
for details and online submission information.

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After an 18 month hiatus, Tattoo Highway, an online journal of prose, poetry and art, is now reading for TH/23: “Lazarus” 

Deadline, May 15 2013.

http://www.tattoohighway.org

GENERAL GUIDELINES: Our tastes are eclectic. We like fresh, vivid language, and we like stories and poems that are actually about something — that acknowledge a world beyond the writer’s own psyche. If they have an edge, if they provoke us to think or make us laugh, so much the better. We strongly suggest reading a previous issue or two before submitting.

While we particularly welcome poetry and short “screen-reader-friendly” prose or cross-genre pieces (< 1000 words), we do on occasion publish longer work. We encourage submission of photographs and original graphics.
All readings are “blind” (authors’ names and other identifiers are removed). Writers may submit up to 5 poems, prosepoems or flash fictions (500 words max), or 2 longer prose pieces. While we prefer to see work that has not been previously published, we do consider work that has appeared in small-circulation print journals. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know promptly if you place a piece elsewhere.

HOW TO SUBMIT: Email submissions to
submissionsATtattoohighwayDOTorg

submissions(at)tattoohighway.org, as Rich Text Format (RTF) attachments or as plain text in the body of your message, and with TH23 in the subject line. Send graphics in .jpg format.

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Pahto’s Shadow—the annual, student-run, online literary journal of Heritage 
University—seeks submissions of quality prose, poetry, essays, and photography 
for its 2013 issue. Returning in digital form after a six-year hiatus, we are
excited to showcase both emerging and established writers from the northwest and
beyond. Our submission window is open through April 7 with publication
scheduled for late-Spring. Send stories and essays up to 5000 words, and up to
5 poems as Word-compatible attachments to
pahtoshadowATgmailDOTcom

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Conclave: A Journal of Character is open for submissions for Spring, 2013. 

Conclave is a bi-annual print journal that focuses on character-driven writing in short stories, flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, prose poems and photographs. Issues appear every spring and autumn. We select six of our best works each year to be nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Pieces should focus strongly on character. For further information about what character means to us, please visit www.conclavejournal.com
You may read our submissions guidelines at:
http://www.conclavejournal.com/submissions/submissions.html

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Cairn Press LLC will have a submission period from February 1 through March 31. We seek remarkable, completed,fine-tuned fiction manuscripts. We look for prose that rises off the page,characters that infect our dreams, stories that alter us. If you have anovel that can only be identified as literature, has taken you years towrite and is quite good, then please send a kind email toeditor@cairnpress.com with “submission” in the subject line. Wewill need a one-page query and the opening 20 pages attached as.doc/.docx/.pdf/.rtf files in order to consider the work. Please see our submission guidelines for more information.

Thank you,
Angie Brown
Cairn Press
Acquisitions Manager
Associate Editor
abrown@cairnpress.com
520.300.0507

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Online Journal Seeks Current Events Poetry
http://www.newversenews.com

THE NEW VERSE NEWS covers the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from all over the world.

The editors update the website every day or two with the best work received. What’s best? A genuinely poetic take on a very current and specific news story or event.

See the website at http://www.newversenews.com for guidelines and for examples of the kinds of poems THE NEW VERSE NEWS publishes. Then paste your submission and a brief bio in the text of an email (no attachments, please) to

nvneditor@yahoo.com>

OR

nvneditor@gmail.com

Write “Verse News Submission” in the subject line of your email.

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Composite {Arts Magazine} is now accepting submissions of fiction and creative nonfiction for its Spring and Summer 2013 issues, themed The Wild and Pattern respectively. 

The deadline for Spring 2013, The Wild is February 18, 2013. The deadline for Summer 2013, Pattern is May 20, 2013.

Submission guidelines, along with the full theme statement, is available on our website:

http://compositearts.com/submit

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Subject: Call for Submissions: Compressed Fiction, CNF, and Poetry

https://matter.submittable.com/submit

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is looking for, as you might guess, “compressed creative arts.” We accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, mixed media, visual arts, and even kitchen sinks, if they are compressed in some way. Work is published weekly, without labels, and the labels here only exist to help us determine its best readers.

Our response time is generally 1-3 days. Also, our acceptance rate is currently about 1% of submissions. We pay writers $50 per accepted piece and signed contract.

Beginning January 15, 2013, we will again be open for compressed poetry, compressed prose fiction (including prose poetry), and compressed creative nonfiction. We will close submissions on April 15, 2013.

The reader for your submission is, during this round of fall submissions, the managing editor.

Please be sure to submit in the correct category; we’ve been receiving several fiction submissions in the creative nonfiction category. Word count alone doesn’t create compression, so we ask that you also consider why this piece works for a journal obsessed with what’s compressed. With the writer’s permission, we publish the “best of lists” from the cover letters on our blog, along with the writer’s name, picture, and link (of the writer’s choosing).

For all submitters, we aren’t as concerned with labels—hint fiction, prose poetry, micro fiction, flash fiction, and so on—as we are with what compression means to you. In other words, what form “compression” takes in each artist’s work will be up to each individual. However, we don’t publish erotica or work with strong, graphic sexual content.

In short, we want to fall in love with your work. That might happen in the way we’ve fallen in love with work we’ve previously published, or it might happen in a way we have yet to experience. Maybe reading that other work will help in knowing whether you should send your work to us, but in truth, such a thing might not be discoverable.

https://matter.submittable.com/submit

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The Quotable is accepting submissions of flash fiction, short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art. 

The Quotable is a quarterly print & online publication and will accept submissions during the following reading periods:

December 1 – February 1 : Spring Issue
March 1 – May 1 : Summer Issue
June 1 – August 1 : Fall Issue
September 1 – November 1 : Winter Issue

Unless otherwise noted, each issue will be centered around a theme and a quote.

WE ARE CURRENTLY OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 9

The theme is Day & Night

“The day has eyes; the night has ears.”
~Scottish Proverb

We accept only original unpublished work. Fiction and non-fiction contributors are limited to one submission per reading period. Poetry and art contributors are limited to three submissions per reading period. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that you notify us immediately should your work be accepted elsewhere.

We prefer double spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman (or similarly readable font). To ensure fairness, The Quotable has a blind submissions process. Remove all identifying information – name, email address, etc. – from your manuscripts. We will decline any manuscript that contains the author’s information. Cover letters should include your name and a brief bio to be used in the event of publication.

We only accept submission through our submissions manager:

To see general guidelines visit our Submittable page: https://thequotablelit.submittable.com/submit

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Arroyo Literary Review is a print-based publication produced annually by students and alumni of California State University, East Bay. Each issue reflects the creative diversity found in the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene, while bringing together material from an international array of poets, writers, and artists.

Arroyo began with an investigation: faculty and students sought to establish a magazine capturing the spirit and diverse voices of the Bay Area while attracting writers from across the country and a national readership. What they discovered, however, was a void. Bigger presses seemed to ignore the dynamics of California culture, while smaller presses had predicated themselves on niches. With the opportunity presenting itself, those same students built the school’s first literary magazine from the ground up, eventually releasing the premiere issue in Spring of 2009.

Since then, that tradition of motivation and commitment has been passed on to each proceeding incarnation of the review. The editorial staff remains dedicated to showcasing both new and established writers from the West Coast and beyond, hoping to connect the magazine’s audience with the unique qualities that make the Bay Area literary and art scene so special.

We are seeking fiction, flash fiction, poetry, essays, and translation for our sixth issue. Open reading period from December 1 to May 31. No e-mail submissions. Please see our website for submission guidelines:http://www.arroyoliteraryreview.com

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Valparaiso Fiction Review, which has just released its Winter 2012 issue, is now seeking works of short fiction for its upcoming Summer 2013 issue. VFR publishes two editions a year, in December and in May, and it features fiction from established or emerging writers. Authors are invited to read the current issue and to examine guidelines for submitting work to the online submission manager at the following:

http://scholar.valpo.edu/vfr/

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Call for Submissions: Quickly
Submit to Quickly at http://quickly.ws

Quickly, a new electronic quarterly literary journal, is reading for its October issue and beyond.

The inaugural issue included new work by Molly Fuller, Sammy Greenspan, Susan Grimm, Bob Kunzinger Kirk Nesset, Mahalia Shoup, Dawson Steeber, Mary Weems, and Brian R. Young. Established and emerging writers are equally welcome.

Quickly is dedicated to publishing exciting work not limited by genre, and selected regardless of status or hierarchy. Our only criteria is that the work be 703 words or less and be astonishingly well written. Beyond that, it is unbound.

Simultaneous submissions accepted. No previously published work. Electronic submissions only through the submission manager. Visit the website for information and submission guidelines.

Ready to free yourself from the tyranny of genre? Submit to Quickly at http://quickly.ws

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Subject: Call for submissions: Lunch Ticket
http://lunchticket.org

Antioch University Los Angeles creative writing MFA program’s biannual publication Lunch Ticket is accepting submissions for its second issue. Lunch Ticket supports Antioch’s mission of social justice, but we welcome all quality work, regardless of theme. We are currently accepting fiction and poetry, and are especially looking for creative nonfiction, writing for young people and visual arts submissions. Visit Lunch Ticket’s website for more information.

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Conclave: A Journal of Character is open for submissions for Spring, 2013.

Conclave is a bi-annual print journal that focuses on character-driven writing in short stories, flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, prose poems and photographs. Issues appear every spring and autumn. We select six of our best works each year to be nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

While we have no specific theme, pieces should focus strongly on character. It is helpful if Springtime submissions have a springtime feel and autumn submissions have an autumnal or holiday focus, but artists should feel unlimited in their scope. For further in-depth information about what character means to us, please visit www.conclavejournal.com

We are looking for poems, stories, and photographs.

Please do study the guidelines at:
http://www.conclavejournal.com/submissions/submissions.html
and you may submit through our online manager at:
http://conclavejournal.com/submissions/submgr/
We never charge a fee.

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The Boiler Journal seeks work that makes readers blood boil. We publish poetry, short fiction, and short memoirs on a quarterly basis. We have published authors such as Bruce Bond, Cynthia Cruz, Kevin Pilkington, Marina Rubin, Howie Good, Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, Thomas Lux, Tim Suermondt, and others. Visit

http://www.theboilerjournal.com/guidelines/

for more details.

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UNMANNED PRESS SEEKS STORYTELLING: SHORT OF THE MONTH

http://unmannedpress.submittable.com/submit

Each month Unmanned Press publishes an original short work of literary fiction by an emerging and/or underserved writer that exhibits literary skill, sharpness, and originality. Selected writers are awarded $250, electronic publication, and an author interview. If you think your storytelling is up to snuff, please follow our guidelines with care.

Submission Guidelines:

• All submissions must go through Submittable
• Cover letter (please include your full name, address, telephone number, and email)
• All submissions must be previously unpublished
• Length is up to the author (don’t offend us by sending a novel or one sentence)
• Please only query us with one submission at a time
• We suggest a $3 reading nod (100% optional)

Deadline: Aim well. Submissions are open year round.

We encourage you to visit our website to get to know us better prior to submitting: www.unmannedpress.com

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OVS Magazine:

We are looking for well crafted poetry, and black and white art. Send us your art, your poetry, and even your art that goes with your poetry, and all you have poured into it! We want to hear from everyone. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t published before, or if you are an old pro. It doesn’t matter to us how many galleries you have hung in. We just want great work that makes us feel what you are expressing.

We will be reading for our Winter 2012 issue until Dec.15th, however we read year-round. Our Winter featured poet is Liz Ahl! For more information visit our site, ovsmag.com

http://ovsmag.com/~ovsmag/index.php?id=65

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IMPACT magazine: Bold. Authentic. Engaged — Where Faith, Culture & Gay Life Intersect!

IMPACTmagazine.us is planning to launch online in September 2012, and we’re looking for contributors.

Trendy, edgy, pop culture meets genuine faith meets gay-life. That’s what we’re looking for. In the world, engaging the world, impacting the world. Politics, real life, love & sex, family life, living green, health & fitness, food, culture, arts, music, travel, mission, ministry.
“There’s more to being Christian than just church. There’s more to being gay than just sex.”

Wanna pump out your views on faith in the real world, new music, news, politics, food, … whatever bites you?
Got a great short story or powerful poetry you want to share with the world?

See our submission guidelines at http://impactmagazine.us/about-2/write-for-us

And send your masterpieces to <submissions(at)IMPACTmagazine.us> (replace (at) with @)

Also see the “About” section on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IMPACTmagazine.us

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We are currently accepting submissions for the winter issue of California Quarterly. Please send 3-5 unpublished poems with name, address, telephone number and email on all pages. No bios needed. Poems under 50 lines work best, but exceptions can be made. At this time submissions are accepted by regular mail only. Send to CQ Editors, PO Box 7126, Orange, CA 92863

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Muze Magazine (muzemagazine.com) is a new online magazine looking for young, energetic and bright writers for all of our content areas. This would include, but is not limited to men’s style, entertainment, lifestyle, pop-culture, sports, tech, and humor.

http://muzemagazine.com

You will write articles under your own byline for Muze magazine and get full credit! You will write articles in one or several content areas of Muze Magazine. You will operate relatively independently in researching, and writing articles, and will be assigned writing assignments and will interact and be under the supervision of the Managing editor. While Muze Magazine is headquartered in Madison, WI, writers and editorial assistants will be located all over the country. All interaction, collaboration, online meetings, etc. will be accomplished through online means, e.g, shared projects documents, web conferencing, etc.

You should enjoy writing and be good at it! Sounds obvious I know. But you should also have a sense of humor, not take yourself too seriously, be creative, and be able to reflect an attitude or a point of view in your writing. Familiarity with the basics of blogging would be great but not necessary. You should be familiar with the basics of social media and the online world, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. Some basic familiarity with image editing and manipulation also helpful, i.e., downloading, re-sizing, cropping, etc. But we can teach you all that as well. Basically we are looking for bright writers who want to work on something new and use this opportunity to develop their writing skills and learn something. Those who wish to and are qualified will have an opportunity to come along for the ride.

• Location: Online position
• it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
• Compensation: no pay

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