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At Reed Words, we make brands and businesses stronger through language, developing messages that meet the moment and helping organizations tell powerful, distinctive stories. We work on every aspect of brands’ verbal identities, from naming, to tone of voice, to packaging copy.
This fall, we’re offering one apprentice the chance to learn the ropes by working in our New York office.
Prolific New York Times bestselling author of middle grade fiction and screenwriter seeks a part-time assistant for writing/personal assistant duties. Job entails help with research, story development, editing, social media, and scheduling, as well as household tasks like errands and cooking. Hours are approximately 2-7pm on weekdays. Rate is $20/hour for 25 hours a week. W4, no benefits. Must have a car and live in Los Angeles (mileage reimbursed). Email resumes to sgibbs.asst@gmail.com.
About the Opportunity
826 Boston seeks a dynamic and creative leader to serve as the Out-of-School Time Programs Director. We are seeking a candidate with a strong command of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles and approaches, who can build on the current strengths of the Out-of-School Time (OOST) department, including engaging students in meaningful writing opportunities, supporting students’ social-emotional development, and creating authentic student leadership pathways.
About the Opportunity
The Poetry Foundation is seeking a full-time assistant editor. The assistant editor is responsible for helping the editorial team produce monthly issues of Poetry on schedule while maintaining the high standards of both the contents and format of the magazine. This role has administrative and editorial responsibilities and reports to the senior editor.
The Poetry Foundation is a hybrid workplace. This position will be in-person at our Chicago offices three days per week, with the option to work from home two days per week.
The Objectives You Will Meet
The National Book Foundation (NBF) is seeking writers or other literary professionals who have experience working with young people to serve as Teaching Artists for BookUp, a free, after-school book club-style program for middle-school students. This 24-session program meets regularly once per week for 90-minute sessions, plus two Saturday half-day field trips. Participants select up to 10 books to read each year, engage in book club-style discussions and creative response activities, and interact with the local literary community through field trips and other events.
The Production Manager plays a crucial role in overseeing the costing and scheduling for all CRP frontlist and backlist titles. Success in this role requires ensuring that all books are produced on time and within budget, whether it is a brand-new A-list hardcover anticipated to make the New York Times bestseller list, a reliable backlist title that consistently sells to a niche market, or a Print-On-Demand (POD) title that extends the longevity of a classic text.
This role will be managing the two national wholesale accounts (Ingram and Bookazine) as well as AWBC/Books-A-Million. This is a high-profile position that requires an experienced, knowledgeable National Account Manager with strong communication and organization skills, detail-oriented, data- driven, and passionate champion for books. The National Account Manager is responsible for managing IPG’s overall relationship with these national accounts and coordinating internal cross-department initiatives that help further their sales growth. This position reports to the VP, Sales
Amplify Publishing Group (APG) is a leader in the hybrid publishing space with more than twenty years of experience acquiring, producing, marketing, and distributing books. Passionate about ideas and voices that need to be heard, APG is known for launching nonfiction books that start engaging and timely conversations.
Location: Remote
Job Type: PT, Contract
Reports To: Executive Editor
About Callaloo Literary Journal: Callaloo is a premier literary journal that publishes original work by and about writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide. Callaloo offers an engaging mixture of fiction, poetry, critical articles, interviews, drama, and visual art.
The Paris Review is seeking a senior editor to work with the magazine’s editor and managing editor on prose for the quarterly print magazine and to help with editorial projects across the Review’s platforms. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the sensibility of the preeminent literary journal in the U.S. by discovering, developing, and editing new writing by the most exciting authors of the day.
The Wisconsin Historical Society Press is seeking a Sales and Marketing Manager to join our team! This is a full-time position with excellent benefits.
The Department of English and the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University are conducting a search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, tenured Associate Professor or Full Professor. Candidates are expected to have a record of distinguished publication, including two completed books of fiction. Of these, both may be published, or one may be published and the second not yet published but under contract.
The Managing Editor of the Iowa Review will manage publication of the literary journal The Iowa Review (TIR), including editing manuscripts; supervising design, production, and printing; supervising student staff and interns; and working with staff to coordinate website, social media, and other publicity efforts. This position is also responsible for the day-to-day management of TIR’s office, including supervision of 4 graduate student editors and hiring and supervision of 4 undergraduate interns.
The College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University is searching for a Chair of the Department of English who is ready to lead a large, innovative department into new opportunities. The successful candidate must be able to articulate a vision for a land-grant Department of English at an R1 university.
The Department of English at St. Olaf College invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position in Writing and Digital Studies at the Assistant Professor level to begin August 2025. The ideal candidate should have expertise in texts and technologies, digital rhetoric, and journalistic writing.
