2009 Orion Intern Position

Orion magazine is accepting applications for Editorial Internship for 2009. This is a twelve-month position, commencing in January 2009. The Editorial Intern will be exposed to all aspects of producing a high-quality, bimonthly publication at an award-winning nonprofit publication. The Intern is expected to work a forty-hour week. The position pays an after-tax stipend of $1,000/month, or $1,500 if the intern holds a relevant post-graduate degree (this may include natural sciences as well as literature and journalism).

The Orion staff is small and functions in a collaborative manner. The Editorial Intern will assist in basic administrative tasks such as mail management, correspondence with readers and contributors, photocopying, the taking of meeting minutes, fact checking, evaluating unsolicited submissions, proofreading, and tracking down information. The intern may be given responsibility for elements of the magazine’s content if, in the judgment of senior staff, such responsibility is appropriate. Recent Orion interns have gone on to jobs in media (including Orion), in social activism, and to graduate school.

Please become familiar with the magazine before you apply. Submit in hard copy a résumé, letter of interest, three unedited writing samples, and three references (with contact information and annotation regarding their relationship to the applicant), to be received at Orion no later than November 15, 2008. A selection will be made by December 15. Address applications to:

Harlan C. Clifford
Executive Editor
Orion Magazine
187 Main Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230

Promising candidates will be contacted by phone and may be asked to come to Orion for an interview at their own expense. Please, no phone calls or e-mails.