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Letter from the Editor
Thank you for expressing interest in The Oxford American's
internship program.
The Oxford American is a general-interest magazine from and
about the South. We are based in Conway, Arkansas, and just a jaunt away from the beautiful Ozark
mountains.
The Oxford American's internship program provides a hands-on
learning experience. Interns take part in all aspects of magazine
production and editing.
The duties of an intern may include line-editing, fact checking,
researching, proofreading (before we go to press, each page of the
magazine is read innumerable times by staffers), answering phones,
generating article ideas, monitoring the progress of certain projects,
helping with the day-to-day business operations, assisting with advertising
or circulation or publicity campaigns, participating in the planning
of issues, fulfilling subscription or back-issue orders, putting in
corrections, evaluating manuscript submissions, learning how to operate
Quark (the software program most publishers use), and much more. Few
internship programs offer opportunities as extensive as The OA's.
Previous experience is not a prerequisite. We simply want to attract
people who are dependable, motivated, thoughtful, detail-oriented,
and passionate about journalism, literature, and magazines. An enthusiastic
intern working at his or her top capability is, even in the relatively
short term of an Oxford American internship, able to make truly
meaningful contributions to the magazine.
We are confident that interns will leave the program with a fresh
and useful understanding of magazine editing and production and, provided
they are up to the challenges of doing first-rate work, they will
also leave with an important addition to their résumés.
In applying for an internship, please send us a letter outlining what you
hope to gain from the experience and what you think you could bring to the
magazine. Please also mail us: a résumé (if you haven't already done so),
writing clips (if possible), and the time period (and the hours) you would
like to be here (we do recommend that to learn all that you can, you apply
for a full-time, six-month term).
Thank you for your interest.
Sincerely,
Please write to:
OXFORD AMERICAN
Attn: Internship Program
201 Donaghey Avenue
Main 107
Conway, AR 72035
Or e-mail: oamag@oxfordamericanmag.com
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