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Paid Summer Internship at Adams Media

May 25th, 2010 No Comments

Word’s reached us via an alum of the Emerson MA program that Adams Media in Avon, MA is looking for a paid Summer Media Intern.  A line in the requirements mentions undergrads, but the A.M. HR has confirmed that grad students will be considered, too.  Also (this has more to do with grad students or [...]

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A Coney Island of the Cover Letter

November 26th, 2009 No Comments

If only getting a job was as easy as winning the Coney Island hot dog eating contest. In that case, I’d just have to empty my schedule, grease up my resume and down one cover letter after another all the way to victory. Considering the fact that I’ve sent more than 25 cover [...]

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The Worst of Times: A Guest Post by Alum TJ Dietderich

November 4th, 2009 No Comments

I came to New York about a year and a half ago to start working at Planned Television Arts, an independent PR firm specializing in books. In that short time, we’ve seen a lot of changes. The economy has gone from bad to worse. The publishing industry has been hemorrhaging jobs. We all know someone [...]

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New Summer Internship: at Nicholas Brealey Publishing

June 29th, 2009 No Comments

This just in from Nicholas Brealey, an independent trade press in Boston!  Internships here have set up Emerson alum superstars such as Jen Olsen, Joy Uyeno, and Emily Wood for great careers in trade and educational publishing, so I encourage anyone looking for a step up in the form of a publishing internship to check [...]

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Internships @ a Literary Agency!

May 22nd, 2009 No Comments

Need a summer internship? Want to see how manuscripts are acquired by agents, from inside the walls of an esteemed literary agency? Then check out this great opportunity:
Internships at Kneerim and Williams
The editorial internship program offers college students and graduates a unique opportunity to be involved in the agency’s evaluations of book projects [...]

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Welcome to Vernacular’s New Home!

March 17th, 2009 1 Comment

Do you ever go to your best friend’s house, or website, or blog, and think, “Is something different?”  The walls are painted, the furniture reorganized?  Well as you can see, we’ve found a new home at www.vernacularlit.com, so I’m going to get really arrogant for a second and say that you may want to update [...]

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‘Tis the Season…For Internships!

December 16th, 2008 2 Comments

Though I may not act like it, this is my favorite time of year.*** With the Boston local weather forecasts predicting a wintry mix for rest of this week (and not the Harpoon 12 pack kind); Christmas and Hannukah just around the corner (and my bank account feeling the damage!); and the last [...]

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The Resume as Creative Nonfiction

December 13th, 2008 No Comments

Our economy is in pretty sad shape. You don’t need me to tell you that. As Julie Bogart, recent Emerson MFA graduate says in this week’s Weekly Dig, “if you haven’t been laid off yourself, you know someone who has been.”Well, my temp job is as secure as it will ever be. [...]

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This Week in Publishing: Internship Season

August 28th, 2008 No Comments

This week, our proverbial phones have been ringing off the hook with new and exciting internship opportunities! (by phones, I clearly mean about five email addresses… but I might buy a big red one, just to see if Hilary or Barack will come over to my house and answer it.) ANYway, “why do an [...]

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This Week in Publishing: Summer Jobs, Summer Reading, Summer Snark

August 6th, 2008 No Comments

Openings:By summer jobs we mean, of course, that it is your job this summer to find a job. Here are a few new opportunities.
Da Capo Press is offering a Publicity Internship this fall. About the Publicity department:“The Da Capo Press publicity department consists of a VP Senior Director of Publicity, Associate Director of Publicity,Publicity Manager, [...]

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