4.29.2008

Craft Talk & Reading: Michael Ryan and Doreen Gildroy (Thurs, May 22)


On Thursday, May 22, PSU Literary Arts Council presents:

Craft Talk: Grammar for Poets
Hosted by Michael Ryan
1 p.m. in NH 407

Reading: Poets Michael Ryan and Doreen Gildroy
7 p.m. in Smith 238

Michael Ryan is an award-winning author of four books of poetry. His essays have appeared in The New yorker and The American Poetry Review.

Doreen Gildroy is the winner of the John C. Zacharias First Book Award from Ploughshares. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares and Slate.

Discussion: Joy Harris, Chelsea Cain & Whitney Otto (Wed, May 14)


PSU Literary Arts Council presents...

"The Ins and Outs of Publishing" with literary agent Joy Harris and authors Chelsea Cain and Whitney Otto

Wednesday, May 14, 6 p.m., Smith 238

Joy Harris is a New York-based literary agent, who has worked twenty-six years in the publishing industry.

Chelsea Cain is the author of six books, including New York Times Bestseller Heartsick. She also writes a weekly column for the Oregonian and reviews books regularly for the New York Times Book Review.

Whitney Otto is the author of four novels, including the NY Times Bestseller How to Make an American Quilt.

Discussion: Novelist Phillip Margolin (Thurs, May 29)


PSU Friends of English presents:

"How to Write a Novel in Your Spare Time" with Phillip Margolin, New York Times Bestselling author of 16 novels and short story collections, including Proof Positive, Lost Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and the recently published Executive Privilege.

Thursday, May 29, 7 p.m., Smith 238

PSU students free. Book signing to follow the talk.

Jobs: Literary Arts (Deadline May 7)

Literary Arts Has Two Job Announcements:

Administrative Assistant
Literary Arts

Literary Arts seeks a dedicated, detail-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal
skills to support an exciting array of literary programs including Portland Arts & Lectures
and Writers in the Schools. For more information about Literary Arts, please visit
www.literary-arts.org.

Responsibilities
• Answer phones and process ticket orders for Portland Arts & Lectures and other
events.
• Assist with visitor reception, mail and other correspondence.
• Attend Portland Arts & Lectures events. Staff box office as needed.
• Provide other administrative support, including mailings, event coordination and
information distribution.
• Provide office management support, including facilitating staff meetings and
managing relationships with service providers.
• Provide support to Writers in the Schools, including editorial work on the annual
student anthology, regular interaction with writers, and assistance with program
schedules and activities as specified by Writers in the Schools Program Director.

Qualifications
• Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to give warm and courteous customer service.
• Excellent people skills. Experience managing staff and volunteers, and general
business operations.
• Familiarity and comfort with information technology and databases. Experience
with relational databases preferred.
• Interest in the literary arts.
• Background in writing or literature and/or professional proofreading experience a
plus.

This is a full-time position with benefits.

Please submit cover letter, resume and references by May 7, 2008 to:
Administrative Assistant
Literary Arts
224 NW 13th Avenue, Suite 306
Portland, OR 97209

No phone calls or e-mails, please.


Job Announcement

Administrative Assistant
Literary Arts

Literary Arts seeks a dedicated, detail-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal
skills to support an exciting array of literary programs including Portland Arts & Lectures
and Writers in the Schools. For more information about Literary Arts, please visit
www.literary-arts.org.

Responsibilities
• Answer phones and process ticket orders for Portland Arts & Lectures and other
events.
• Assist with visitor reception, mail and other correspondence.
• Attend Portland Arts & Lectures events. Staff box office as needed.
• Provide other administrative support, including mailings, event coordination and
information distribution.
• Provide office management support, including facilitating staff meetings and
managing relationships with service providers.
• Provide support to Writers in the Schools, including editorial work on the annual
student anthology, regular interaction with writers, and assistance with program
schedules and activities as specified by Writers in the Schools Program Director.

Qualifications
• Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to give warm and courteous customer service.
• Excellent people skills. Experience managing staff and volunteers, and general
business operations.
• Familiarity and comfort with information technology and databases. Experience
with relational databases preferred.
• Interest in the literary arts.
• Background in writing or literature and/or professional proofreading experience a
plus.

This is a full-time position with benefits.

Please submit cover letter, resume and references by May 7, 2008 to:
Administrative Assistant
Literary Arts
224 NW 13th Avenue, Suite 306
Portland, OR 97209

No phone calls or e-mails, please.

Contest: Memoir (and) (Deadline Aug. 15)


Memoir (and) Prize for Nonfiction
$500 Prize and
Publication in our Spring 2009 Issue.

Memoir (and) is an up-and-coming journal for the exploration of memoir as “the” genre of the 21st century. We are based in Sausalito, California, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

We strive with each issue to include a selection of prose, poetry, graphic memoirs, epistolary memoirs, narrative photography, lies and more. The editors particularly invite submissions that push the traditional boundaries of both form and content in the exploration of the representation of self, and are especially looking for graphic memoirs. Memoir (and) is available in print in over 600 bookstores in U.S. and Canada, including Borders, Barnes & Noble, Hastings and independent bookstores.

Contest Guidelines

The reading period for the contest is May 1, 2008 through August 15, 2008.

To enter:

Submit 10,000 words or fewer by email or snail mail. A maximum of one prose submission or five poems per person. If you are sending narrative photographic images, please limit yourself to a maximum of ten. If you have a graphic memoir, send a narrative description and we’ll contact you.
Submit a $10 entry fee by check or money order.
Submissions received without the $10 entry fee will be considered for publication but not entered in the contest.
We do not accept previously published submissions; we do accept simultaneous submissions.
We purchase one-time rights and pay with copies.
Pages have a way of becoming separated from each other like lively children. Yet we don’t think the writer’s name should be evident to our judges while reading. Therefore please use the following format:
- On the cover page: your name and contact information, and the entry’s title.
- On every page: the entry’s title.
- All pages numbered and double-spaced.
Be sure to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you want us to write back to you via snail mail about your submission.
Manuscripts will not be returned.
Entries must be postmarked between May 1, 2008 and August 15, 2008.
Send email entries to: submissions@memoirjournal.com. Attachments are okay. Pasting your submission into the body of your email is also okay.
Send snail mail entries to: Memoir Journal, P.O. Box 1398, Sausalito CA 94966-1398.
We read every submission from beginning to end, and respond within approximately sixteen weeks.

4.22.2008

Residency: Blue Mountain Center - Journalism/essay (Deadline July 1)

The Richard J. Margolis Award of Blue Mountain Center is a $5,000 prize, given annually to a promising new journalist or essayist whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom and concern with social justice. The award was established in honor of Richard J. Margolis, a journalist, essayist and poet who gave eloquent voice to the hardships of the rural poor, migrant farm workers, the elderly, Native Americans and others whose voices are seldom heard. He was also the author of a number of books for children.

In addition to the financial grant, the award includes a one month residency at the Blue Mountain Center, a writers and artists colony in the Adirondacks in Blue Mountain Lake, New York.

How to Apply

Applications should include at least two examples of the writer's work (published or unpublished, 30 pages maximum) and a short biographical note including a description of his or her current and anticipated work. Please send three copies of these writing samples. Samples will not be returned.

Send applications to:

Richard J. Margolis Award of Blue Mountain Center
c/o Margolis & Bloom
535 Boylston Street, 8th floor
Boston, MA 02116

Deadline: July 1, 2008

The award winner will be announced in November.

Reading: Journalist/author Sandy Tolan (Thurs, May 8)


Thursday, May 8, 7 p.m.
Smith 238
FREE

SANDY TOLAN

Award-winning international journalist, NPR producer, professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, and author of THE LEMON TREE: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (winner of the BOOKLIST nonfiction book of the year, 2006, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award)

"Through broad sweeps of narrative going back and forward in time, Tolan’s sensitively told, eminently fair-minded narrative closes with a return to that lemon tree and its promise of reconciliation. Humane and literate-and rather daring in suggesting that the future of the Middle East need not be violent." --Kirkus Review

"The Lemon Tree is not only an empathetic look at the struggles of these Holocaust survivors and Palestinian exiles, but a concise history of their competing claims for Israel and Palestine. The story of Dalia and Bashir’s first face-to-face meeting in 1967, and the remarkable four-decade friendship that has followed, illuminate the personal narratives at the heart of the conflict. Their friendship has never been easy, but both believe it is vital to their work to promote peaceful coexistence, which is centered around the house both call home. As Dalia tells Tolan, 'Our enemy is the only partner we have.'" --Mother Jones

4.18.2008

Job: Visiting Professor - GVSU, MI

Visiting Professor, Department of Writing, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

The Department of Writing is seeking to fill several full-time, non-tenure-line positions in Composition and Writing. Our
Visiting Faculty teach 11 or 12 credits per semester (depending on course credits this could work out as either a 3/3 or 3/4 load), mainly first-year or junior-level writing. In addition, we have a particular need for someone to teach Creative Non-fiction and someone to teach Professional Writing courses, including Business Communication and Introduction to Professional Writing.

Application screening begins May 1. Appointments begin August17, 2008. Send cover letter and C.V.(no writing samples are needed at this time) to Professor Dan Royer, Chair, Department of Writing, Lake Ontario Hall, Allendale, MI 49401. Mail hard copy only. Do not email electronic documents.

For questions about this position, contact Professor Dan Royer,(royerd@gvsu.edu) Chair of the Search Committee.
See website for complete details on this position: www.gvsu.edu/writing.

4.16.2008

Contest: Juked Fiction and Poetry (Deadline - Aug. 1)

The 2008 Juked Fiction and Poetry Prizes

Winner in each genre receives $500 and publication in our upcoming print
issue, Juked #6.

Final Judges: Mark Winegardner (fiction) and Angela Ball (poetry)

Submission Deadline: August 1st, 2008

Entry Fee: $10

Fiction: one story per entry, no length requirement

Poetry: up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry

Send all submissions to:
Juked
110 Westridge Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32304

Complete guidelines at: http://www.juked.com/prize/

About our judges:

Mark Winegardner was born and raised in Bryan, Ohio. His books, which
include The Godfather’s Revenge, The Godfather Returns, Crooked River
Burning, That’s True of Everybody, and The Veracruz Blues, have been
translated into more than twenty languages and sold almost two million
copies worldwide. They have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List
and in best-of-the-year lists by The New York Times Book Review, the New
York Public Library, The American Library Association, Entertainment Weekly,
USA Today, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, The Los Angeles Times and The
Chicago Sun-Times. In 2004, Cleveland Magazine named Crooked River Burning
the best book ever written about Cleveland. His work has appeared in such
magazines as Doubletake, GQ, Men's Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The
Oxford American, Playboy, Ploughshares, Story Quarterly, and TriQuarterly.
He is the Burroway Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing
Program at Florida State University.

Angela Ball is a prize-winning poet and author of numerous books, including
Quartet, The Museum of the Revolution: 58 Exhibits, Kneeling Between Parked
Cars, and Possession. Her most recent book, Night Clerk at the Hotel of
Both Worlds (University of Pittsburg Press, 2007), was winner of the 2006
Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, awarded by the Association of Writers and
Writing Programs. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as The New
Yorker, Partisan Review, New Republic, Field, Denver Quarterly, Colorado
Review, Chelsea, Ploughshares, Boulevard, Poetry, and Grand Street. Her
work was included in Best American Poetry 2001, and she has represented the
U.S. at the Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, and the Colombian
International Poetry Festival, Bogotá. She has received grants from the
Mississippi Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is
a mainstay on the faculty at the Center for Writers at the University of
Southern Mississippi.

Odd (But Paid) Writing Opportunity


Common Ties 20 Questions Project

We pay $50 for any answer we accept and more for (optional) artwork. Answers to our 20 Questions are ideally 50 words or less. To get going, please go here. All submissions should be emailed to CT20Questions@gmail.com.

We suggest you review our home page first to see answers we have already published, as well as our orphans page to review answers we have purchased but that still need artwork.Please keep in mind:

1. Answers must be true to the best of your knowledge.
2. Answers must be pasted into your email, not attached.
3. You may submit multiple answers at once.
4. Answers should be 50 words or less; we make occasional exceptions.
5. Answers submitted with art may have a greater chance of acceptance.
6. Answers may be written as prose or poetry.
7. Optional information includes the time/location of your answer.
8. Submissions will be reviewed within four weeks.
9. We only reply to those whose answers we wish to buy.
10. We require writers to sign a contract, confirm their answer is true, and provide their name and address for payment. Common Ties does not share this information.

Cheers,
Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
Editor | Common Ties

4.15.2008

Internship: WeoGeo (Deadline May 1)

Internship Opportunity at WeoGeo

Student Major(s) Desired: School of Business Administration – Marketing Track, Geography, English (all grades levels considered; prefer Juniors and Seniors)

Company Name: WeoGeo -- http://www.WeoGeo.com
Job / Internship Title: Blogger
Location: 2828 SW Corbett Ave, Suite 135 Portland, OR 97201 (one mile from PSU bookstore - map)
Application Deadline: 5/1/08 or until position is filled

About WeoGeo:
With the help of Amazon's breakthrough web services (specifically EC2 and S3), WeoGeo creates a one-stop web based marketplace for mapping. It supplies surveyors, engineers, cartographers, and scientists with the ability to conveniently store, search, and exchange high-resolution CAD and GIS mapping products. Map authors easily list their data for sale. Researchers quickly find the data they need.

Position Description & Qualifications: The position entails creating unique content blog posts for the WeoGeo corporate marketing blog.

The topics will cover mapping and geographically related content. WeoGeo will provide initial story leads/topics. Through the course of the internship, the student may be given the opportunity to suggest topics. Format of posts will likely focus on interviews/profiles of local and regional mapping companies and information pieces.

Environmental/Geography course work is ideal but not required. Also desirable is marketing and/or journalism coursework, but it too is not required.

Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate ability generate clear, concise, interesting blog posts .

Start Date: As soon as possible
Hours per Week: Flexible, to start 8-10

Compensation: Base pay plus bonus pay which is dependant on production
Company Contact Information: To apply, email resume, cover letter and two writing samples to:
David Kohler, PhD, dkohler@weogeo.com

4.14.2008

CALL FOR PAPERS WINNERS!!!


The judges have made their decisions and the winners of the second annual CALL FOR PAPERS contest are…

Nonfiction:

FIRST PLACE – Michelle Blair, post-bac student, "Bend in the Road," memoir, (the following is an excerpt)

"… As I leaned out over the cage, I felt the truck lurch forward. I looked up to see Bart, the driver, in the long side-view mirror squinting his small blue eyes and smirking at me through his brown goatee and mustache. The job itself was never challenging enough to keep these guys occupied. For his part, Bart added interest by popping the clutch each time I leaned out to drop a cone. I responded with a quick glare toward his mirrored reflection, then hung on tighter and resolved not to lose my balance. After several similar jolts, Bart realized he wasn't going to knock me off the truck. The engine groaned as he switched gears. The pavement moved faster beneath my feet. I grabbed cones and hurled them onto the roadway. Eventually, I couldn't match Bart's pace and cones starting spinning off in all directions, toppling into the construction zone and out toward moving traffic. Bart slowed to a stop, still smirking in the mirror, and next to him in the truck cab, I could hear Old Man Jack's coarse laugh and Colgate's higher pitched chuckle. I quickly learned that being in the female minority meant I had to work a whole lot harder than the men to even have them consider treating me as an equal…"


SECOND PLACE – Kyle Cassidy, first-year nonfiction student, "Hunting Andy Sorenson," memoir

"…Andy was a slow runner. In PE class it took him upwards of fifteen minutes to finish a mile. He wasn't overweight or lazy, simply inhibited by his legs, which were long and thin and constructed with the solidity of noodles. At any given time they were prone to tangle around one another and send him falling to the ground where he would yell loudly as he rolled into a high-jump pit or stack of hurdles. Not particularly fast or particularly slow and being prone to fits of laughter and farting on the track, I ran an average seven-to-nine-minute mile. Shaun was more focused and built for speed. He could run it under six. I had no doubt that on the unpredictable terrain of the steppe we would catch Andy before he reached the safety of suburbia…"


THIRD PLACE – Kathy Haynie, second-year nonfiction student, "Three Ways of Looking at a Blackberry," collage essay

"… The air in the kitchen wraps itself around me in a steamy, sticky blanket. Spilled sugar on the floor makes the bottoms of my shoes squeak as I walk from stove to table, cradling the hot jars of blackberry jam. The pot on the stove bubbles like some weird mud pot. The ding! of the timer. The hiss of the steam. The fragrant blackberries, cooking themselves into jam…"


Fiction:

FIRST PLACE – Kathy Haynie, second-year nonfiction student, "Halcyon Days"

"… June afternoons on the central California coast last forever. The sun arcs slowly overhead, gulls wheel and call, the breeze picks up out of the northwest and whips the sand ankle-high along the beach, and whitecaps glisten beyond the breakers. A man sated with sandwiches and peaches, drowsy from a nap on the beach blanket, even a man who hardly knows his own children anymore, may yet be persuaded to roll up his pant legs and wade into the surf. So there stood Fred Tarbox, pants rolled up to the knee, jacket doffed but still wearing his shirt and vest, grinning like an idiot as his daughters in their bathing dresses pranced and splashed in the surf. Helen and Virginia, only one year apart and set to graduate high school together in a year, played and flirted with their father, while Joseph, just a year behind the girls, dove and surfed like a seal in the waves…"


SECOND PLACE – Elizabeth Lopeman, fiction student working on thesis, "Manaccan"

"…In the morning, July sunshine poured onto the octagonal white tiles in the Albia house kitchen. When Jocelyn came in Juliette stood at the counter by an east facing window with half an orange in her hand, eyes closed, as if giving silent consent to the sun to kiss her face. Opening her eyes, she said "Good Morning, Lamb," and then pressed the orange down onto the automatic juicer, the ascorbic scent permeated the kitchen. Jocelyn pulled out a bag of coffee beans from the freezer. Except for the buzz of the coffee grinder and the hum of the juicer they went quietly through their morning rituals.

Around ten am Jocelyn pulled out of the driveway. As she crawled past the gatehouse she saw Ben coming out the front door. He raised his hand as if to stop her. She raised hers as if she understood him to be saying hello, and kept driving…"


THIRD PLACE – Amber Beaman, first-year fiction student, "Eddie's First Story"

"The fan spun around and around. Eddie stretched out his arms and legs, letting his body make a big X on his mother's queen-sized bed.

The coolness from the ceiling fan fell over his body like a crisp and rare Florida snow. He was free, finally. Divorced, officially. Di-vor-ce-d. Eddie mouthed each syllable, letting each dance past his teeth and off his tongue.

His own man.

Single.

A widower. That would've sounded better than divorced. Divorced sounded like his wife, ex-wife, didn't want him anymore. He was only thirty-two, after all, and there was nothing wrong with him…"


Poetry:

FIRST PLACE – Shannon Carson, second-year poetry student/second-time CFP winner, "What Passes for Yes in Hangul Sounds Like the English No"

1.

There is this thing

that happens,
that occurs

in the margins—
a sort of alchemy

of words,
a conspiracy

of language,
and the original

is changed.
One cannot

trust what is given.


2.

Call it tissue

and it means
no regret

Call it regret

and it means
traitorous bitch

Call it what it was

necessarily painful
a mere possibility

a galaxy of blood.


SECOND PLACE – Chris Cottrell, first-year poetry student, “Maui Snow”

carried by tradewind
from the nail
stuck at valley
center
long black ashes fall
from early blue sky
and roll along
the morning breeze
into sticky spider corners
and the cracks
of new hotels

the flat
head spreads
south
into kihei
wailea
into young lungs

sinking yellow haze
follows the long
curls
that spin
through
narrow streets
to crouch
around
the mouths
of doorways
and seep
through hurricane
window slats

long forgotten caramel
on the stove


THIRD PLACE – Patrick Haas, second-year poetry student, “Interlude for Kitchen”

I smashed your hourglass
and watched ants carry time
back through tiny holes in the wall.


Congrats to all the winners and thanks to everyone who participated. We had nearly 40entries! A reading by the winning writers will be announced shortly.

Also thanks to our judges, Brian Doyle (nonfiction), Mariam Gershaw (fiction) and B.T. Shaw (poetry).


About the judges:

Brian Doyle is the author of The Grail: A Year Ambling and Shambling through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World (Oregon State University Press), The Wet Engine (Paraclete Press) and five collections of essays. Doyle's work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's,
American Scholar, Orion and in the Best American Essays anthologies of 1998, 1999, 2003 and 2005. He is editor of Portland magazine, the publication of the University of Portland, in Oregon.

Miriam Gershow's stories have appeared recently in Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, and Gulf Coast. She was awarded a 2006 Oregon Literary Fellowship through Literary Arts in Portland and the 2002–3 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellowship through the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

B. T. Shaw edits the poetry column for The Oregonian and teaches writing and literature at Portland State University and the University of Portland , as well as through writers-in-the-schools programs. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, FIELD, Orion, Poetry Northwest, Seattle Review, and elsewhere. This Dirty Little Heart (2008) is her first book.

4.09.2008

Internships: International Journalism Opportunities


Earn academic credit, gain valuable professional experience, and apply financial aid. All internships are for academic credit on your home campus. The application deadline for fall 2008 is April 15. To learn more about the IE3 Global Internships program, visit our website at http://ie3global.ous.edu.

IRELAND: The Dubliner
Sharpen your journalism skills in the heart of Dublin. Join a small staff in their downtown Dublin office to participate in all aspects of the editorial process - from researching and writing stories to subediting. In exchange for contributing your writing skills, imagination, outgoing personality and computer literacy, you will gain full immersion in all aspects of magazine production: pitching stories, researching, deadline pressures, editing, etc. For more information read the full postion description.

CHILE: Media and Journalism Internship
Intern at one of several English language news agencies in Santiago, Chile. In general, news are taken from the national and local newspapers or internet sites in Spanish and transformed and adapted for the English-speaking user in print, internet and radio formats. Internships are available in sales and marketing, print journalism, radio broadcasting, web site and graphic design, and photojournalism. Open to many majors. Journalism experience not required. 6 months or longer. Language requirement: 3rd year university level Spanish or equivalent; excellent written English. Read the full position description.

BRAZIL: The Information Company
Make your business internship work for you locally and abroad! Based in Seattle, WA and in São Paolo, Brazil, develop your skills in bilateral commercial relations and communications. This is a great opportunity to build local and international business connections. Read the full position description for more details.

GUATEMALA: Asociacion Ajb'atz' Enlace Quiché
Enlace Quiché operates CETEBIs (Bilingual Intercultural Educational Technology Centers) with computers and multimedia equipment to support the training of bilingual teachers and the production of didactic material in 6 Mayan languages. Enlace Quiche teaches with computers, not about computers. There are three intern positions available to collaborate with this innovative organization working to improve the human capacity of indigenous peoples through innovative applications of information and communication technology: Digital Weaver Intern, Educational Curriculum Intern, or NGO Management and Outreach Support Intern. Requires a 6 month minimum commitment. Language requirement: two years of university level Spanish. Read the full position description.
South Africa: Film and Advertising Industry Internships
Interns will be individually placed in a specific company within the film industry, based on their experience and interests. Opportunities include advertising, film production management, television, photography, and post-production work. Read the full position description.

COSTA RICA: Tico Times
The Tico Times is an independent English-language weekly covering news, business, tourism, and cultural developments in Costa Rica and Central America. Internships are available for one writer and one photographer with some writing skills. Position provides solid applied journalistic feature and news writing experience as well as an opportunity to build Spanish speaking, comprehension and listening abilities in a cross-cultural context. Main writing and photographic duties are associated with the features section, but all interns get some news experience as well. May involve interviewing in Spanish and English, writing stories, copyediting for grammatical and contextual errors, taking photos, and gathering research materials. This 4 month internship has set dates and is competitive. Language requirement: 3rd year Spanish. Read the full position description.

IE3 Global Internships is a program of the Oregon University System. Students from participating institutions in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Montana and Utah are eligible to apply. All internships are for credit on your home campus. Financial aid may be applied to the program fee.

Contest: Elsewhere - nonfiction (Deadline July 4)


2008 SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS PRIZE

Elsewhere is pleased to announce that it will soon be reading submissions for the first annual Scott Russell Sander Prize for nonfiction. Sanders will act as the final judge for the contest and write a brief introduction to the winning essay, which we will also be publishing as a limited-edition chapbook. The press and print-run are TBA. In addition, the winning writer will receive an engraved antique compass. The winner will be announced in late fall and will be published in the Winter 2008 issue of Elsewhere. Five finalists will also be published.

NO ENTRY FEE

Final Judge: Scott Russell Sanders

Reading Period: April 1, 2008-July 4, 2008
(From April Fools’ Day to Independence Day)

Guidelines: Submit a creative essay of no more than 8,000 words that deals with place in an integral way. Only one submission per writer. Writers who send more than one essay will be disqualified from the contest.

The essay should be attached to an email as a .doc or .rtf file. Judging is anonymous, so all identifying material should be removed. Include two cover pages, the first one with title of the essay and contact information (name, address, email address, and phone number), and the second one with just the title of the essay.

A cover letter is optional, but the body of your email should include your name, contact information, and the title of your essay. The subject line of the email should read “Sanders Prize Submission” followed by a colon and then the title of the essay.

Previously published essays are not accepted. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable provided that Elsewhere is notified immediately if the essay has been accepted by another journal. If a writer withdraws an essay from the contest, he or she may submit another essay if it is before July 1, 2008.

Submissions can be sent to contest_at_elsewherejournal.org

Job: OH Communications Assistant (Deadline April 30)


Job opening: Communications Assistant OCH seeks an individual to assist the Communications Director/Editor with all communications and publications, including Oregon Humanities magazine. Qualifications for this .5 FTE, salaried position ($17,160 + prorated benefits) include a B.A.; minimum two years experience in publishing, marketing, and/or communications; proven excellence in writing and editing; proficient on Mac-based word processing, desktop publishing, and HTML editing programs; and interest and experience in humanities-based programming. For more information, please download and review the complete job description. By April 30, 2008, interested applicants should send resume, cover letter, two published writing samples, and three professional references to Kathleen Holt at the address listed below. No phone calls please.

4.02.2008

(PAID!) Job Opportunity: GLO Coordinator (Deadline April 18)

GLO NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2008-09 CO-COORDINATORS!

As we move forward with merging WEGO (Writing-English Graduate Organization), EGO (English Graduate Organization) and LAC (Literary Arts Council) into out new student organization, GLO (Graduate Literary Organization), we are looking to fill two co-coordinator positions for the 2008-09 academic year. Both positions require a minimum of 10-15 hours of work per week. The new co-coordinators will officially take office in July 2008. Training will be held prior to start date.

Responsibilities:
• Creating, compiling and tracking announcements/keeping group informed
• Managing and organizing regular meetings with GLO’s four volunteer chairs: Readings, Marketing, Workshop and Student Voice.
• Working with Marketing Chair to update website/blog
• Coordinating beginning of the year Meet and Greet
• Coordinating Call for Papers Contest
• Coordinating Book Sale
• Responsible for attending readings and helping set up with Readings Chair
• Handling all SALP interaction
 Room Reservation
 Hotel Reservation
 Contracts
 Ordering books
 Returning books and depositing money
 Going through the SFC process
 Attending SALP Trainings
 And more…
• Maintaining student listservs
• Communicating with faculty advisor(s) as needed
• Other duties as needed

Requirements:
• Must be a second-year student in PSU’s English or Writing graduate program (one coordinator will be selected from each).
• Must be enrolled and receive a minimum of 5 credits per term to maintain stipend.
• Students who have been disqualified or suspended from PSU for either academic or disciplinary reasons may not be employed during the period of disqualification or suspension.
• Students must be in Academic Good Standing at Portland State University (maintaining a minimum of 2.0 grade point average) and Academic Good Standing within the Graduate Studies and Research Department (maintaining a minimum of 3.0 grade point average).
• Must be willing to dedicate 10-15 hours/week to responsibilities.
• Strong management and communication skills.

Salary: Each coordinator will receive a stipend of $472/month.

If you are interested, please email your resume and a letter stating what you could bring to our new group, a description of your course of study/goals, anticipated graduation date and any leadership/organizational skills you may have to wegocoord@gmail.com. We will be accepting resumes until April 18 and hold interviews the week of April 28.

Residency: Lynchburg College (Deadline May 15)

Lynchburg College
Thornton Writer Residency

Two 14 week residencies, including stipends of $12,000 each, at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia are awarded annually to a fiction writer for the Fall term and a poet for the Spring term.

Creative nonfiction writers, screenwriters, playwrights, and mixed-genre writers will also be considered either term. The writer-in-residence will teach a three-credit writing workshop, present a public reading, and visit a small number of classes. The residency includes housing, some meals, and roundtrip travel expenses. To apply, applicants should submit a cover letter, a published book(returned upon completion of review), evidence of successful teaching, a curriculum vita, and names and contact information for three references by May 15th for the Fall term and July 15th for the Spring term. There is no entry fee. These are the complete guidelines.

If there are questions, please call 434-544-8267. Send complete applications to Thornton Writer Residency, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lynchburg College, 1501 Lakeside Drive, Lynchburg, Virginia 24501. Attn: Ms. Patty Irwin.

Candidate selection is contingent upon a successful background check.
Lynchburg College is an Equal Opportunity Employer