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EMPLOYMENT CATALOGUE 2013/2014

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table of contents
4 | Prologue 5 | Current Staff 6 | Contributors 7 | Engage 8 | Open Positions 11 | Art Correspondents 12 | Blog Editor 13 | Cinema Correspondent 14 | Community Service Liaisons 15 | Human Rights Interns 16 | Layout Correspondents 17 | Legal Correspondents 18 | Marketing & Advertising Correspondents 19 | Poetry & Prose Readers 20 | Social Media Correspondent 21 | Webmaster 22 | Webdesigner

prologue
Please read the below passage if you are interested in applying to join the staff of The Adroit Journal. First, a bit about the publication itself: The Adroit Journal is an internationally-distributed literary magazine with a defined focus on giving emerging writers in high school and college the professional treatment they deserve by featuring their works alongside the works of a myriad of established writers (such as Matthew Rohrer, Dorianne Laux, Ned Vizzini, Garth Greenwell, Edith Pearlman, Bruce Bond, Laura Kasischke, and more). Since inception in November 2010, the journal has received almost 7,000 submissions for consideration, and maintains an acceptance rate of approximately 4%. Each year, the journal constructs a humanitarian feature (2012- Cuba, 2013- Zimbabwe), recognizes undergraduate and secondary writers with the Adroit Prizes in Fiction and Verse, and nominates selected works for the Pushcart Prizes, Best New Poets Anthology, Best of Net Anthology, and Plain China Best Undergraduate Writing Anthology. Current developments (with the help of the University of Pennsylvanias Kelly Writers House) include adjusting to an annual publication plan of two online issues and one print issue, while further sculpting our charitable focus to distribute print copies around the United States with the help of our partner organization the Fill-A-Room Campaign (www.fillaroom.org). The journal is currently staffed by approximately sixty high school and college students from around the world. As the journal continues to expand and assimilate to the global literary world, we have opened our doors to new individuals (expanded now to a category of 24 years of age or younger as of October 1, 2013, the beginning of our reading period) to fill a variety of volunteer positions, all of which are detailed in this catalogue. Please note that experience, while beneficial, is not necessary, and that you can apply for as many different positions as you would like. All applications should be emailed to theadroitjournal@gmail.com according to the specialized guidelines included throughout this catalogue. We will close our application portal on December 1, 2013, but encourage you to apply sooner rather than later, as we will be evaluating applications on a rolling basis. Please email applications separately if applying for more than one position. In the meantime, please feel encouraged to reach out via email (drop us a line: theadroitjournal@gmail.com) if you happen to have any questions, or would like additional information. 4 | THE ADROIT JOURNAL

current staff
Founder/Editor-in-Chief | Peter LaBerge Managing Editor | Alexa Derman Poetry Editors | Ameerah Arjanee, Magen Eissenstat, Katherine Frain, and Talin Tahajian Prose Editors | Elizabeth Ballou, Russell Bogue, and Aaron Robertson Poetry Readers | Samantha Ardoin, Luisa Banchoff, Nora Henrie, Miles Hewitt, Michelle Jia, Caleb Kaiser, Claire Lee, Molly McGinnis, Eliza Moley, Saga Ringmar, Melita Schmeckpeper, Amanda Silberling, and Emma Townley-Smith Prose Readers | Kathleen Cole, Nathan Cummings, Julia Hogan, Kaitlin Jennrich, Rich Larson, Jessie Li, Charles McCrory, Amelia Nierenberg, Aaron Orbey, Roger Pellegrini, Dalia Wolfson, Jackie Yang, and Ashley Zhou New Staff Interns | Maryam Ahmad, Madeline Anderson, Emily Bernard, Noah Dversdall, Adina Lasser, Cheryl Julia Lee, and Victoria White Chief In-Design Correspodent | Danny Rothschild Graphics Correspondent | Kevin Zweerink Chief Art/Photography Correspondent | Lathan Vargason Art/Photography Correspondents | Brannon Dorsey and Jessica Suhr 2013/2014 | 5

a few of our contributors

ADULTS Carmen Adamucci, Susan Aizenberg, Joel Allegretti, John Allman, Mary Angelino, Wendy Barker, Marlin Barton, Ellen Bass, Francesca Bell, Lauren Berry, Bruce Bond, Michelle Chan Brown, NoViolet Bulawayo, Denver Butson, J. Scott Brownlee, Mario Chard, Kim Chinquee, Michael Chitwood, Claudia Cortese, Brandon Courtney, Tarfia Faizullah, Annie Finch, Reginald Gibbons, Dana Gioia, Diane Glancy, Garth Greenwell, Carol Guess, Carolyn Guinzio, Michael S. Harper, Terrance Hayes, Rick Hilles, Richie Hofmann, Chloe Honum, Rochelle Hurt, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, Laura Kasischke, Blake Kimzey, Andrew Kozma, Keetje Kuipers, Dorianne Laux, Gregory Lawless, Sydney Lea, Lyn Lifshin, Matt Mauch, Kyle McCord, Jill McDonough, Kirk Nesset, Edith Pearlman, Emilia Phillips, Siobhan Phillips, Kevin Pilkington, Charles Rafferty, Doug Ramspeck, Matthew Rohrer, Kate Schapira, Ed Skoog, Virginia Slachman, Jane Springer, Matthew Thorburn, Michael Tyrell, Ned Vizzini, Jeremy Voigt, William Walsh, Joe Wilkins, Phillip B. Williams, and many, many more! YOUTH Matthew Adelberg, Elizabeth Ballou, Yasmin Belkhyr, Camara Brown, Haeyeon Cho, Kathleen Cole, Emily Sheera Cutler, Alexa Derman, Brannon Dorsey, Alina Grabowski, Katiuscia Gregoire, Stephanie Guo, Michelle Jia, Caleb Kaiser, Emily Knott, Alicia Lai, Rich Larson, Charles McCrory, Molly McGinnis, DaShawn Mosley, Phoebe Nir, Jacob Oet, Kathleen Radigan, Amber Rambharose, Danny Rothschild, Jessica Schroer-Smalley, Rachel Stone, David Talley, Talin Tahajian, Emma Townley-Smith, Lathan Vargason, Lucy Wainger, Shelley Whitaker, Victoria White, Jules Wood, and many, many more! Six Plain China: Best Undergraduate Writing Anthology of 2013 inclusions.

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*engage

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OPEN POSITIONS 2013/2014
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open positions
Art Correspondents | Team of artistically-driven individuals responsible for evaluating, discussing, and soliciting visual art and photography submissions for publication in online issues and the annual best-of print anthology. Blog Editor | Communication-minded individual responsible for communicating with contributor and staff alumni to organize and distribute relevant postings, interviews, articles, and features via our blog (theadroitjournal.tumblr.com)between two and three posts per week, ideally. Existing posts include conversations with current staff members, as well as literary and artistic snippets. Potential features include a contributor of the week series (with a recording of him/her reading his/her Adroit poem), throwbacks from Adroit archives, and additional content to showcase the talents and breadth of our staff and contributor communities. Prior experience with journalism or blogging is preferred. Cinema Correspondent | Individual responsible for satisfying the journals cinematic needs, mainly the annual Adroit staff community About Us video. Community Service Liaisons | Team of community service driven individuals responsible for serving as links between The Adroit Journal and our partner charity the Fill-A-Room Campaign (www.fillaroom.org) in order to orchestrate and oversee the distribution of our print annual Best-of issue to Fill-A-Rooms regional hubs, currently located in Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, New York City, Berkeley, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.

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open positions continued

Human Rights Interns | Team of humanitarian-minded individuals passionate about global social justice and responsible for assembling and coordinating our annual human rights feature for inclusion in the publications winter online issue (2012-Cuba, 2013-Zimbabwe, 2014-?). Layout Correspondents | Team of individuals responsible for assisting our current Chief InDesign Correspondent in laying out and preparing the annual best-of print issue for publication. Legal Correspondents | Team of legal-minded individuals with legal knowledge and/or experience responsible for preparing effective and journal-specific contracts for distribution to contributors and related bodies. Marketing & Advertising Correspondents | Team of business-minded individuals responsible for constructing and executing plans to sustain/increase the capability, following, effect, and global presence of our issues and related programs. Will likely include monthly meetings (possibly virtual, depending on geographic locations of correspondents). Poetry & Prose Readers | Ever-growing team of individuals responsible for evaluating youth and adult submissions of poetry and prose in a timely manner through Submittable, our submission client. Staff readers are heavily encouraged to read submissions more than once in order to reach the maximum understanding. Readers are required to fill certain submission quotas, and participate in conferences/discussions over various social media at the discretion of the poetry & prose editors, or the editor-in-chief. 2013/2014 | 9

open positions continued

Social Media Correspondent | Communications-oriented individual responsible for relaying relevant and helpful information about contributors, staff, and the journal itself in order to better spread the mission and values of the journal. Applicable social platforms include Facebook (our main social media venue), Twitter, and Mailchimp (our email subscription blast service). Webmaster | Individual responsible for inputting web content as needed into the website model assembled by the webdesigner. This position can be filled by the webdesigner, or by an alternate student(s). If applying for webdesigner as well, please indicate your additional interest in the webmaster position supplementary to your application for the webdesigner positiontwo separate applications are not necessary. Webdesigner | Individual responsible for design and construction of a functional website (via Wix, Wordpress, or custom coding). Extensive examples and details can be provided upon request. We will attempt to respond to all applications in under two weeks. Feel free to inquire to theadroitjournal@gmail.com if you have not heard back after two weeks.

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art correspondents
Team of artistically-driven individuals responsible for evaluating, discussing, and soliciting visual art and photography submissions for publication in online issues and the annual best-of print anthology. APPLICATION COMPONENTS Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion, and experience with the areas of composing, studying, evaluating, and sharing (publication/awards/etc.) art/photography/etc. Feel free to discuss other topics as you feel appropriate, as well as any specific connections, measures, or initiatives you might have (or aspire to have) with The Adroit Journals staff community. Art Sample of, at most, four works. Please include multiple works in the same document. UPLOAD www.adroit.submittable.com/submit/8227/ Title of Submission: Art Correspondent Application. We will respond within a week (time permitting), potentially with an opportunity to comment on submissions as a reader. The editors will then re-convene and discuss your application with this supplemental sample.

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blog editor
Communication-minded individual responsible for communicating with contributor and staff alumni to organize and distribute relevant postings, interviews, articles, and features via our blog (theadroitjournal.tumblr. com)between two and three posts per week, ideally. Existing posts include conversations with current staff members, as well as literary and artistic snippets. Potential features include a contributor of the week series (with a recording of him/her reading his/her Adroit poem), throwbacks from Adroit archives, and additional content to showcase the talents and breadth of our staff and contributor communities. Prior experience with journalism or blogging is preferred. APPLICATION COMPONENTS Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion and experience with the areas of blogging/communications, social media (specifically experience with Tumblr, as that is our blogging platform), and journalistic/informal writing. Journalistic/Informal Writing Samplemaximum of three journalistic/informal writing articles or presentations, maximum of twelve pages double spaced. Substitutes such as creative nonfiction or analytical/personal essay can be accepted in lieu of journalistic/informal writing if such samples are not available or produced at this time. SEND Attach Adroit Statement and Writing Sample to email as .doc files, and send to theadroitjournal@gmail.com with subject line Blog Editor Application: Last Name, First Name.

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cinema correspondent
Individual responsible for satisfying the journals cinematic needs, mainly the annual Adroit staff community About Us video. APPLICATION COMPONENTS Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion and experience within the disciplines of cinematic arts and/or cinema studies and theory. Cinematic Arts Samplemaximum of three produced/edited/shot cinematic works. Please note, if you have a specific cinematic speciality (e.g. animation), we encourage you to share this talent with us. You may either share website links (i.e. Vimeo or YouTube) or attach the videos to an email. SEND Attach Adroit Statement and Writing Sample to email as .doc files, and send to theadroitjournal@gmail.com with subject line Blog Editor Application: Last Name, First Name.

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community service liaisons

Team of community service driven individuals responsible for serving as links between The Adroit Journal and our partner charity the Fill-A-Room Campaign (www.fillaroom.org) in order to orchestrate and oversee the distribution of our print annual Best-of issue to Fill-A-Rooms regional hubs, currently located in Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, New York City, Berkeley, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. APPLICATION COMPONENTS Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion, and experience with the areas of community service, civic engagement, and communications. Feel free to discuss other topics as you feel appropriate, as well as any specific measures or initiatives you might introduce if selected as a community service liasion. SEND Attach Adroit Statement to email as .doc file, and send to theadroitjournal@gmail.com with subject line Community Service Liaison Application: Last Name, First Name. *Adroit Statement for this position can also apply to Human Rights Intern. Please email applications separately with shared cover letter.

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human rights interns

Team of humanitarian-minded individuals passionate about global social justice and responsible for assembling and coordinating our annual human rights feature for inclusion in the publications winter online issue (2012Cuba, 2013-Zimbabwe, 2014-?). APPLICATION COMPONENTS Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion, and experience with the areas of human rights, civic engagement, and communications. Feel free to discuss other topics as you feel appropriate, as well as any specific measures or initiatives you might introduce if selected as a human rights intern. SEND Attach Adroit Statement to email as .doc file, and send to theadroitjournal@gmail.com with subject line Human Rights Intern Application: Last Name, First Name. *Adroit Statement for this position can also apply to Community Service Liaison. Please email applications separately with shared cover letter.

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layout correspondents
Team of individuals responsible for assisting our current Chief InDesign Correspondent in laying out and preparing the annual best-of print issue for publication. APPLICATION COMPONENTS Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion, and experience with the areas of publication and (layout) design, specially with regards to InDesign. Feel free to discuss other topics as you feel appropriate, as well as any specific measures or initiatives you might introduce if selected as a layout correspondent. InDesign Layout Samplemaximum of two .PDF documents of originally constructed InDesign projects that you feel showcase your familiarity and ability with regards to navigating and utilizing InDesign. SEND Attach Adroit Statement and InDesign Layout Sample to email as .doc files, and send to theadroitjournal@gmail.com with subject line Layout Correspondent Application: Last Name, First Name.

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legal correspondents
Team of legal-minded individuals with legal knowledge and/or experience responsible for preparing effective and journal-specific contracts for distribution to contributors and related bodies. APPLICATION COMPONENTS Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion, and experience with the areas of legal studies. Feel free to discuss other topics as you feel appropriate, as well as any specific measures or initiatives you might introduce if selected as a legal correspondent. Legal Writing Samplemaximum of three legal documents (preferably contract-based or contract-related) that you feel showcase your legal familiarity and ability. SEND Attach Adroit Statement and Legal Writing Sample to email as .doc file, and send to theadroitjournal@gmail.com with subject line Legal Correspondent Application: Last Name, First Name.

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marketing & advertising correspondents

Team of business-minded individuals responsible for constructing and executing plans to sustain/increase the capability, following, effect, and global presence of our issues and related programs. Will likely include monthly meetings (possibly virtual, depending on geographic locations of correspondents). APPLICATION COMPONENTS Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion, and experience with the areas of marketing, advertising, communications, and collaboration. Feel free to discuss other topics as you feel appropriate, as well as any specific measures or initiatives you might introduce if selected as a marketing & advertising correspondent. SEND Attach Adroit Statement to email as .doc files, and send to theadroitjournal@gmail.com with subject line Marketing & Advertising Correspondent Application: Last Name, First Name.

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poetry & prose readers

Ever-growing team of individuals responsible for evaluating youth and adult submissions of poetry and prose in a timely manner through Submittable, our submission client. Staff readers are heavily encouraged to read submissions more than once in order to reach the maximum understanding. Readers are required to fill certain submission quotas, and participate in conferences/discussions over various social media at the discretion of the poetry & prose editors, or the editor-in-chief. APPLICATION COMPONENTS Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion, and experience with the areas of reading, studying, evaluating, and sharing (publication/awards/etc.) creative writing, either poetry or prose. Feel free to discuss other topics as you feel appropriate, as well as any specific connections, measures, or initiatives you might have (or aspire to have) with The Adroit Journals staff community. Writing Sample of, at most, four poems (maximum of six pages) or two prose selections (maximum of twelve pages double-spaced). Please include multiple works in the same document UPLOAD www.adroit.submittable.com/submit/8227/ Title of Submission: Poetry Reader Application or Prose Reader Application. We will respond within a week (time permitting), potentially with an opportunity to comment on submissions as a reader. The editors will then re-convene and discuss your application with this supplemental sample.

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social media correspondent

Communications-oriented individual responsible for relaying relevant and helpful information about contributors, staff, and the journal itself in order to better spread the mission and values of the journal. Applicable social platforms include Facebook (our main social media venue), Twitter, and Mailchimp (our email subscription blast service). APPLICATION COMPONENTSATION COMPONENTS: Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion and experience with the areas of blogging/communications, Mailchimp, and social media (specifically experience with Facebook and Twitter). SEND Attach Adroit Statement to email as .doc files, and send to theadroitjournal@gmail.com with subject line Social Media Correspondent Application: Last Name, First Name.

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webmaster
Individual responsible for inputting web content as needed into the website model assembled by the webdesigner. This position can be filled by the webdesigner, or by an alternate student(s). If applying for webdesigner as well, please indicate your additional interest in the webmaster position supplementary to your application for the webdesigner positiontwo separate applications are not necessary. APPLICATION COMPONENTS Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion and experience maintaining a website. Feel free to include links to examples of a website(s)/blog(s) you maintain, or have maintained in the past. Also, you are encouraged to discuss any and all website-related skills and languages that you might know or might be currently learning (e.g. CSS, HTML, etc.). SEND Attach Adroit Statement to email as .doc files, and send to theadroitjournal@gmail.com with subject line Webmaster Application: Last Name, First Name.

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webdesigner
Individual responsible for design and construction of a functional website (via Wix, Wordpress, or custom coding). Extensive examples and details can be provided upon request. APPLICATION COMPONENTSATION COMPONENTS: Adroit Statement (maximum two pages double-spaced) articulating your history, passion and experience creating a website. Feel free to include links to examples of a website(s) or blog(s) you have created. To perhaps get a better idea of our current Wix format, visit our current website at www.adroit.co.nr. SEND Attach Adroit Statement to email as .doc files, and send to theadroitjournal@gmail.com with subject line Webdesigner Application: Last Name, First Name.

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thank you for your interest!

We look forward to seeing what you have to say. Questions? theadroitjournal@gmail.com