So you want to look for a job in publishing … but where do you look? When Jensen Beach, writer & teacher, asked this question on behalf of his students, the Facebook hive came back with some answers:
The Submishmash Newsletter usually includes some job listings, too.
As one of the commenters noted, an internship is a good way to make yourself more competitive for these jobs. To land an internship (which will almost certainly be unpaid), you might think about contacting local literary-type organizations—presses, literary magazines, writers’ organizations, bookstores, reading series—to volunteer your time and talents. Internship opportunities abound, but let me point up a great one, if you’re in the Indy area and you have a free summer: Indiana University Press takes on summer interns, and if I was in college, that’s where I would spend my summers.