Resource: Job-lists for Writer Types

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:

Media Bistro

Bookjobs

Jobs for Poets

Publisher’s Lunch job board

University Presses

Erika Dreifus’s List

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.